01 - Heaven Knows 02 - Tragedy 03 - Fight To Win 04 - Walking On Ice 05 - How Can You Walk Away 06 - Turn Your Heart Around 07 - Avalanche 08 - Give It Up 09 - Ask No Questions 10 - Night Full Of Voices 11 - Hollywood Heart
0:00 01 - Heaven Knows 3:54 02 - Tragedy 8:51 03 - Fight To Win 13:00 04 - Walking On Ice 16:28 05 - How Can You Walk Away 20:09 06 - Turn Your Heart Around 23:52 07 - Avalanche 27:56 08 - Give It Up 32:38 09 - Ask No Questions 36:02 10 - Night Full Of Voices 39:57 11 - Hollywood Heart
Like an old friend of mine I can reminisce of happier times, past lives and loves. I can flip through all of Alan Parsons LPs and recite each and every word by heart....one of my all-time faves. His genius knows no bounds, and when his name is associated with anyone in the music industry, yes its a forgone conclusion there will be music I need to hear! Thanks Alan you have etched yourself on my heart! 🙏❤🎉🌹💋🇦🇺
The Alan Parson's Project is very much a part of the Soundtrack of My Life - first got Tales of Mystery & Imagination back in 1977! I've loved every album!
This it not APP, but his musicians, without A.P. ...... but the sound is the APP sound and in his band was -among others David Paton (Pilot, Camel and other great bands) you should try to find David Paton and his newest release "communications" -its fantastic.
I loved his old stuff, with The Raven, I Robot and the like. I never realized that this album even existed! Thank YOU for posting it. I am crankin my little David Speakers and rockin out as my wife is out of the house! ha
Keats ' ' Colin Blunstone (vocals), Ian Bairnson (guitar), David Paton (bass, synthesizer, backing vocals), Stuart Elliott (drums, percussion), Pete Bardens (keyboards, piano)
A great amout of talent on one killer album. It does feel more like a Camel offshoot as well as Alan Parsons. Thanks 4 the blast from the past and a few FLASHBACKS. I still have the album. WQUNDERBAR!!!
Styx, Alan Parsosns Project and Al Stewart all in one band, as far as style and atmosphere, and with Professor Parsons at the helm. Where has this band BEEN ALL MY PROG MEETS SOUL MEETS FOLK life fer fooks seyk?
This might be the best album I've ever heard...Peter Bardens brought me in but Colin Blunstone kept me on board! EPIC...there is not a bad song on this album they're literally all chart topping hit singles. For anyone claiming this is a "Alan Parsons" album, nope, it's a Keats album. I have the CD and it's kind of depressing to hear the interviews at the end where they try to find excuses for why this album never reached the charts. I hope Alan and the band know it wasn't their fault, they made a masterpiece the world wasn't ready for.
@@terencekent615 we hear great music only in albums, which wroted by Eric. When he left Project, Parsons start to write... Um.. Little bit special music. For me, Parsons is great like sound producer, but no like composer. All (or, the most part) the best songs of TAPP wroted by Eric. That's why i said: Eric Woolfson is the best. Classic composer, who wrote rock songs. Great mix. Its like Mercurys Bohemian Rapsody - opera and rock. Or skandinavian sympho-rock, like Nightwish (don't like them too much, but mix of strong rock sound and symphonic orchestra is very powerful)
Creo que se enmarca en una versión de un CAMEL paralelo de la época de The Single Factor, cuenta con dos de sus músicos tal como son Peter Bardens quien participaría en la gira de este trabajo y David Paton en el bajo
Someone told me another day, "this song sounds old" in a despective manner...Old? Probably but is good music indeed not the f.. crap produced everywhere these days
@@charlesowen5027 Hi. I think it has to be more. Look at songs like "The Year of the Cat" and "Music". So much instrumental parts so characteristic of Alan Parson. What do you think?
The A Sammler album was such a hit and filled with such resplendent work that it gives full credibility to such inane prattle and qualifies you to make such an unsubstantiated and baseless claim.
Esto lo edito Erick Wolfsoon una vez que se separaron el y Alan Parsons, cada quien siguió su camino y esta conmemoración agrupa tanto a los viejos cantantes de todos sus álbumes anteriores, y al propio Erick, pero ya sin la participación para nada de Alan Parsons. Una verdadera lástima que estos dos grandes talentos lo hayan hecho, por eso el propio Parsons hasta la fecha ya participa, porque en España durante la presentación de FREUDIANA los Gachupines le hicieron una fuerte crítica ya que no cantaba ni tocaba absolutamente nada, solo era ingeniero de sonido, todo lo hacía Erick hasta cantar.
Así es, siempre se le dio demasiada importancia a Alan Parsons y fue realmente Erick Wolfson el genio. La muestra es que ninguno de los discos posteriores a su separación de The Alan Parsons Proyect tuvieron éxito. Erick sufría de cáncer, nunca permitió que se supiera. Éste disco es la muestra de su genio.
Eric, un verdadero genio detrás de The Alan Parsons Project, bueno, hasta tuvo la genialidad de unirse con Alan Parsons, y su calidad humana y su humildad, permitieron que su sociedad como grupo, llevara el nombre de Alan Parsons, quien siempre buscaba la notoriedad. La realidad es que se rodearon de músicos y cantantes fuera de serie, y por eso el Proyecto fue un exitazo.
I bought a cassette tape of this album back then (mid-‘80s). I liked it a lot! Especially the tunes sung by Colin Blunstone! I never got to buy a vinyl LP of it. And I never saw a CD of it in the late ‘80s nor in the early ‘90s. At least, it’s here on RU-vid! The band name, KEATS, attracted me (named after the poet, I was guessing) & the fantasy cover art. Colin Blunstone’s & Alan Parsons’ involvement sealed the deal for me!
Today, like after 20 years, I was watching movie "Ladyhawke" from 1985 and its soundtrack led me here. I personally like more hard music than this, but I still love and enjoy spirit of 80's!
How could I have missed this awesome album! Here I am, in January 2018, poking around looking for something more by Alan Parsons Project, and I found it in the Alan Parsons channel here at RU-vid! Awesome!
SAME THING HAPPENED TO ME! WONDERED IF I EVER MISSED ANY APP MUSIC AND FOUND THIS.... LOVE IT... SO GLAD IT'S ON YOU TUBE BUT I JUST ORDERED IT!!! Seen AP twice in KCMO - love him!
Bayfia X I also never heard of Keats, somehow. Which suggests honestly that maybe it should have been forgotten. This RU-vid post is my first exposure. I’m looking here because I bought the LP today after seeing it in a used bin, the instant deciding factor being Blunstone as vocalist! The addition of APP made me buy without hearing. Not sure how I feel so far...
@@philipdavey2766 In 1984 a few members of The Alan Parsons Project got together to do their own album. The band consisted of: Colin Blunstone (vocals); Ian Bairnson (guitars); David Paton (bass); Stuart Elliott (drums) and Pete Bardens (keyboards). Alan Parsons produced and engineered the record and Richard Cottle made a guest appearance on sax and keyboards. The name of both the band and the album was "Keats". It was their only album, though.
Nulla a che vedere con I Robot, Pyramid, The turn of a friendly card, Eve, Eye in the Sky, Tales of mistery and immagination Edgar Allan Poe....questo è un Alan Parson commerciale, di poco conto. Non ci siamo..
Wish this one had a "theme", or something. Obviously this is about "Keats" in the sense of romance, not Romantic, and I kept thinking "thin and spotty" or "erratic" when listening. But I'm just re-imagining the work as Keat's Endymion -- much as APP had a mesmerizing take on Poe's Tales... . It doesn't have to be "pop-gooey" or classical myth, in any case. But that 80s vibe also had me thinking "elevator, Kenny G." more than once.
Interesting. The first song sounds very 80s-ish. Nice to hear Colin in something again besides "Somebody out there" and "old and wise". He always struck me as an excellent singer.
As a long time APP fan going back to Pyramid days, I stumbled upon this Keats project many years after its release. It was a treat to hear more work from Ian, Stu and David as they were APP's core band during most of its prolific and productive era (76-87). For me Keats delivered with Tragedy and Fight to Win, but this album on the whole went pop and flop. They apparently tried for a hit single with Hollywood Heart but Colin's drenched in reverb vocals coupled with a bland mushy pop style, seemed to have taken these talented guys out of their element. Several of these songs had the same vibe of uninspired songwriting and playing. Mr. Blunstone is/was a talented, revered vocalist but I'm not hearing the same "Old and Wise" or "The Eagle Will Rise Again" magic performances anywhere in these songs. IMO, what this band was missing, and what helped give the Alan Parsons Project its deep, timeless songs, was the late great Eric Woolfson and of course writing and instrumental contributions by Alan himself. In short, this is no APP album but I can appreciate their effort and fans of APP should get something to enjoy.
I totally agree with you. When I first heard this album, I thought it was going to be similar to Ammonia Avenue, but melodically speaking, it seemed that these guys wanted to do so many things in this album that they ended up missing the target. Tragedy was one that really threw me off. (4:35 - 4:40) Personally I thought maybe it would get better more into the album, but I felt pretty empty after listening to it. No doubt about it, these guys are talented. But to your point, the input from Eric Woolfson and Alan Parsons is what made them all sound even better. Most APP albums are living proof of that.
Considering that I didn't discover APP in my first foray into prog and classic symphonic rock, but after following the breadcrumb trail of such classic rock acts as Boston, Kansas, Toto, and Journey, I happened upon this album as a circumstance of the latter movement as well as the Stranger Things-inspired retro resurgence. And to be fair, though both you and RED make perfect sense to me looking at it from that perspective (I can't get enough of APP now), this album feels like the natural response to the US rock scene of the time and from the late '70s. It could be that they were just badly timed. 1984 was the time of the great metal and thrash bands, the US more commercial punk scene, and MTV was mingling with men with women's perms and crack addictions... Damn.
@@PhilosopherOfFafoism You're definitely on to something there, badly timed is right. If this album came in between I Robot & Turned of the Friendly Card (with Parsons and Woolfson at the helm), I probably would have loved it better.
Eric woolfson just bringed the musicians together without being involved himself, most of the APP band in 1984 as mentionned on the credits plus Peter Bardens ex-Camel, Alan Parsons then produced the final work of the album.
