Eye In The Sky (Remastered) The Alan Parsons Project

• 1 Sirius (Chicago Bulls Theme Song) 01:57
• 2 Eye In The Sky 04:35
• 3 Children of the Moon 04:49
• 4 Gemini 02:09
• 5 Silence and I 07:17
• 6 You're Gonna Get Your Fingers Burned 04:19
• 7 Psychobabble 04:50
• 8 Mammagamma (Instrumental) 03:34
• 9 Step by Step 03:52
• 10 Old and Wise 04:57
• Total Runtime 42:19

Info for Eye In The Sky (Remastered)

The concept behind this album was related to belief systems, whether they be religious beliefs, political beliefs or belief in luck (as in gambling). Generally the concept is related to the universal idea that there is someone looking down on us all. The expression is also used in military and surveillance contexts.

Eric recalls hearing the ‘Eye in the Sky’ expression used 3 times in one day in different contexts which inspired the title. Firstly, he was in Las Vegas and a friend who was marketing manager of the Tropicana Hotel & Casino and took him to see their surveillance system, a small picture of which is on the inside album cover. This surveillance system was known as the eye in the sky, although these days they are apparently much larger installations. In Eric’s room in the hotel, listening to the news, there was a reference to an ‘Eye in the Sky’ spy satellite which had picked up some military installation and at the end of the same bulletin, the programme went over to the ‘Eye in the Sky’ weather helicopter. So the phrase really stuck! Somebody also pointed out that on the back of a dollar bill, there is an eye in the sky on top of a Pyramid which made an obvious link.

In more general terms, the album is really about belief systems, either political or religious without being in any way judgmental or preaching as Eric is a confirmed, but respectful atheist. There’s also an obvious connection to the gambling theme of the earlier Turn of a Friendly Card album.

The lyric of Old and Wise was particularly inspired by the wife of one of the record company executives who was also a personal friend, who passed away at a tragically early age.

"Eye in the Sky provided the Alan Parsons Project with their first Top Ten hit since 1977's I Robot, and it's hard not to feel that crossover success was one of the driving forces behind this album. The Project never shied away from hooks, whether it was on the tense white funk of "I Wouldn't Want to Be Like You" or the gleaming pop hooks of "Games People Play," but Eye in the Sky was soft and smooth, so smooth that it was easy to ignore that the narrator of the title track was an ominous omniscient who spied either on his lover or his populace, depending on how deeply you wanted to delve into the concepts of this album. And, unlike I Robot or The Turn of a Friendly Card, it is possible to listen to Eye in the Sky and not dwell on the larger themes, since they're used as a foundation, not pushed to center stage. What does dominate is the lushness of sound, the sweetness of melody: this is a soft rock album through and through, one that's about melodic hooks and texture. In the case of the spacy opening salvo "Sirius," later heard on sports talk shows across America, or "Mammagamma," it was all texture, as these instrumentals set the trippy yet warm mood that the pop songs sustained. And the real difference with Eye in the Sky is that, with the exception of those instrumentals and the galloping suite "Silence and I," all the artiness was part of the idea of this album was pushed into the lyrics, so the album plays as soft pop album -- and a very, very good one at that. Perhaps nothing is quite as exquisite as the title song, yet "Children of the Moon" has a sprightly gait (not all that dissimilar from Kenny Loggins' "Heart to Heart"), "Psychobabble" has a bright propulsive edge (not all that dissimilar from 10cc), and "Gemini" is the project at its dreamiest. It all adds up to arguably the most consistent Alan Parsons Project album -- perhaps not in terms of concept, but in terms of music they never were as satisfying as they were here." (Stephen Thomas Erlewine, AMG)

Alan Parsons, Fairlight CMI programming (1,2,8), keyboards & backing vocals (6), Linn drum machine (8)
Eric Woolfson, Wurlitzer (2), piano & organ (10), keyboards (1,3-5,7,9), lead vocals (2,5)

Ian Bairnson, acoustic, electric & pedal steel (4) guitars
Haydn Bendall, keyboards (1)
John Wallace, piccolo trumpet (3)
Mel Collins, sax solo (10)
David Paton, bass, lead vocals (3)
Stuart Elliott, drums, percussion
Chris Rainbow, lead vocals (4) & backing vocals
Lenny Zakatek, lead vocals (6,9) & backing vocals, vocal Fx (9)
Elmer Gantry, lead vocals (7)
Colin Blunstone, ead vocals (10)
Jack Harris, backing vocals (7)
Andrew Powell, choral & orchestral arranger and conductor (1,3,5,7,8), piano (5), brass band conductor (10)
The English Chorale, chorus vocals (3,7)
Bob Howes, chorusmaster

Produced by Alan Parsons

Digitally remastered

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