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The Turn of a Friendly Card
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The Turn of a Friendly Card

Album by The Alan Parsons Project

Released November 1980
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progressive rockrockpop rock
4.30
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Tracklist

  • Digital Media 1
  • 1
    May Be a Price to Pay
    4:58
    4.0 ★
  • 2
    Games People Play
    4:23
    4.1 ★
  • 3
    Time
    5:14
    5.0 ★
  • 4
    I Don’t Wanna Go Home
    4:52
    3.4 ★
  • 5
    The Gold Bug
    4:34
    4.6 ★
  • 6
    The Turn of a Friendly Card, Pt.1
    2:44
    4.2 ★
  • 7
    Snake Eyes
    3:15
    4.0 ★
  • 8
    The Ace of Swords
    2:57
    4.0 ★
  • 9
    Nothing Left to Lose
    4:07
    4.4 ★
  • 10
    The Turn of a Friendly Card, Pt.2
    3:21
    4.4 ★
  • 11
    May Be a Price to Pay (intro)
    1:30
    5.0 ★
  • 12
    Nothing Left to Lose (basic backing track)
    4:33
    5.0 ★
  • 13
    Nothing Left to Lose (Chris Rainbow overdub vocal compilation)
    2:00
    5.0 ★
  • 14
    Nothing Left to Lose (early studio version with Eric’s guide vocal)
    3:09
    5.0 ★
  • 15
    Time (early studio attempt)
    4:40
    5.0 ★
  • 16
    Games People Play (rough mix)
    4:31
    5.0 ★
  • 17
    The Gold Bug (demo)
    2:50
    5.0 ★
  • Digital Media 2
  • 1
    May Be a Price to Pay (Eric’s songwriting diary)
    Eric Woolfson
    3:23
  • 2
    Games People Play (Eric’s songwriting diary)
    Eric Woolfson
    3:03
  • 3
    Time (Eric’s songwriting diary)
    Eric Woolfson
    4:03
  • 4
    I Don’t Wanna Go Home (Eric’s songwriting diary)
    Eric Woolfson
    2:09
  • 5
    The Turn of a Friendly Card (Eric’s songwriting diary)
    Eric Woolfson
    3:16
  • 6
    Snake Eyes (Eric’s songwriting diary)
    Eric Woolfson
    3:11
  • 7
    Nothing Left to Lose (Eric’s songwriting diary)
    Eric Woolfson
    2:43
  • 8
    Medley: TOFC / Snake Eyes / I Don’t Wanna Go Home (Eric’s songwriting diary)
    The Alan Parsons Project & Eric Woolfson
    4:29
  • 9
    May Be a Price to Pay (early version, Eric guide vocals & Unused Guitar Solo)
    5:02
  • 10
    Games People Play (early version, Eric guide vocal)
    4:30
  • 11
    Time (orchestra & Chris Rainbow backing vocals)
    4:16
  • 12
    The Gold Bug (early reference version)
    5:06
  • 13
    The Turn of a Friendly Card, Pt.1 (early backing track)
    2:16
  • 14
    Snake Eyes (early version, Eric guide vocal)
    3:19
  • 15
    The Ace of Swords (early version with synch “orchestration”)
    3:00
  • 16
    The Ace of Swords (early version with piano on melody)
    2:38
  • 17
    The Turn of a Friendly Card, Pt.2 (Eric guide vocal and extended guitar solo)
    3:30
  • 18
    Games People Play (single edit)
    3:32
  • 19
    The Turn of a Friendly Card (single edit)
    3:42
  • 20
    Snake Eyes (single edit)
    2:26

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Release credits

  • additional [3], engineer [1-2, 4-10], producer [1-2, 4-10], vocal [3]
  • arranger [2.17, 1.1, 1.3, 1.6], conductor [2.17, 1.1-3, 1.6], orchestrator [2]
  • background vocals [2-4, 9], lead vocals [6-7, 10], vocal [2.17, 1.5]
  • acoustic guitar [3, 5], bass [1.1-7, 1.9, 2.17]
  • lead vocals [1]
  • harpsichord [1.6, 2.17], keyboard [2], lead vocals [9], organ [1], piano [2.17, 1.1, 1.3-4, 1.6-7], vocal [3]
  • acoustic guitar [3, 5, 9], guitar [2.17, 1.1-7]
  • lead vocals [2, 4]
  • drums (drum set) [1.1-7, 1.9, 2.17], percussion [2.17, 1.1, 1.3, 1.5-7]
  • accordion [9], saxophone [5]

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