The Best of the Alan Parsons Project [Arista 1983] (1983)

About this title: The 12 tracks that appear on The Best of the Alan Parsons Project include some of their greatest singles, like "I Wouldn't Want to Be Like You" from 1977's I Robot and the inducing "Games People Play" off of The Turn of a Friendly Card. Even though these songs are splendid all by themselves, they seem to lose their conceptual weight when taken away from their original albums. As singles, they do act as a fine representation of how The Alan Parsons Project's music sounds and conveys its mysterious air, but even with a dozen singles on this album there's just too much of their other worthy ... read more

Tracks:

1. I Wouldn't Want to Be Like You [Woolfson/Parsons]
2. Eye in the Sky [Parsons/Woolfson]
3. Games People Play [Parsons/Woolfson]
4. Time [Parsons/Woolfson]
5. Pyramania [Parsons/Woolfson]
6. You Don't Believe [Parsons/Woolfson]
7. Lucifer [Instrumental] [Parsons/Woolfson]
8. Psychobabble [Woolfson/Parsons]
9. Damned If I Do [Parsons/Woolfson]
10. Don't Let It Show [Parsons/Woolfson]
11. Can't Take It With You [Woolfson/Parsons]
12. Old and Wise [Woolfson/Parsons]

Note: This is a general synopsis. Each listing is further described below.