bluefrog wrote:

& wise....Old & Wise, another one of their songs.

One of the saddest and most beautiful songs I have heard in a long long time

 Randy1cleo wrote:
No kidding.  This one made me feel my mortality when I was way too young to think about such things.

Wow!  Talk about a trip back in time (pun intended), I just took.  I bought this album AND cassette when it came out.  Plugged it into the deck of my brand new Mazda RX7 and had it on rotation when I met the lady that I married the very next year.
I've joked ever since that my RX7 was an '80 and my wife was an '81.  That's how I remember our anniversary date.
Hearing this just now, gave me shivers.  Loved this album, loved my car, and still love my wife.  (She's the only one of the three that's still in my life.)

Thanks again, Bill and Rebecca.  For this moment, and all the others you've created, with your great music selection! 

Gosh, I've never heard this before.  Lovely!

Love this album

Such a time-trip! When this came out, after my first major romance was lost, though I had only the faintest inkling of the powers of the emotions and realities faced and conveyed here in this magnificent song, it broke my heart, every time, until I couldn't bear to hear it anymore. Now, as Time and Tide have reigned for more length of my life, I feel that it touches even deeper places than I had back then. I appreciate this wonderful song, and also, the effects. Thanks, RP!

 bluefrog wrote:

I had this on vinyl 40 years ago - who's old?

Outstandingly beautiful 🤩

 BCarn wrote:

Maybe he just doesn't care for the song.  

This song makes me cry like a baby.  

I was lucky enough to attend a fascinating talk by Alan Parsons. It was given in the famous Studio 2 of Abbey Road studios in London where the Beatles, Pink Floyd, and many others made their recordings. Among other things Parsons explained how he had worked in the studio on Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon album. He played us the original 8-track tapes, fading it up and down so we could hear parts you can't hear on the finished album. Priceless.

Not Bad, I liked the Gaudi album, later on.  

 ProjectGemini07 wrote:
  Of Course

Can you find indoor dining (covid or not) that allows smoking?
Maybe a private club, but not any public facilities that I know of.

 bluefrog wrote:

I still have the album that I bought when it first came out....I'm ancient...

This song really channels Rick Wright, I can really imagine him singing this on an early Pink Floyd album. 

Saw Alan Parsons in Concert just before Covid hit in 2020. I was always sure that they were a studio band.  But they were surprisingly good live in this medium sized venue. I remember a great sax player on many of the songs.


Although there was a strange smell floating around the auditorium during most of the concert. The 60's-70's hippies were in full attendance

 bluefrog wrote:
 
Everyone had this cassette.  Cassettes were the new thing!  (put THAT in your floppy port, chipsters)

 ProjectGemini07 wrote:
 
I'm betting you just do not "get" the Alan Parsons Project. Period. Must be too young.

Alan Parsons is a genius- produced 'Dark Side of the Moon' and influenced so much of what we listen to now. I invite you to give the album a listen. This cut has many of his signature mix tricks. OK- maybe not a zesty number but viva la RP diversity. Well played Mr. G.

Welcome to Steak & Ale, would you like smoking or non?

Think we played this at my brother in law's funeral.  Very moving.

Oh Good grief.  Had this album on cassette. 30 freaking years ago.

i. am. so. old.

The kind of music that reminds you of all the good times in life!

Only 3 AP songs on RP, and all rated in the 7's. Time to consider many more!

 More_Cowbell wrote:
 
Yes...
But time
Keeps flowing like a river
To the sea

I'd love to hear more APP on here, I've loved them since I was a tiny kid.

MORE APP PLEASE. There are other really good songs on this album!

What! this just added now?