YMMV / The Alan Parsons Project

• Award-Bait Song: At least one per album: "To One in Paradise", "Don't Let It Show" (from I, Robot), "Day After Day", "The Eagle Will Rise Again", "If I Could Change Your Mind", "Time", "Old and Wise", "I Wouldn't Want To Be Like You" (from I, Robot)...
• Awesome Music:
  • "Sirius" is arguably the Crowning Music amongst NBA fans, due to its use by the Chicago Bulls as their player intro music. Even if you're not a Bulls fan, you do recognize the music. The song even spread to other NBA teams, the NFL, the NCAA and even the Italian soccer team U.S. Sassuolo Calcio.
  • Among fans, there seems to be general consensus that if Lenny Zakatek is singing on a track, it usually means the song in question is going to be good. Commonly cited evidence includes "I Wouldn't Want To Be Like You" (from I, Robot), "Games People Play" and "You Don't Believe".
  • Even some of their more obscure songs, such as "Can't Take it With You" and "La Sagrada Familia," are pretty epic.
• Broken Base: The fanbase seems to have varied opinions on post-Eye In The Sky albums and Eve, Especially Stereotomy.
  • In Stereotomy's case, some may say that it's a weak and filled with 80's pop-themed production., although the other half may say that it's a good Synthpop album.
  • Tales Of Mystery and Imagination: Original or the 1987 remix? Although it is not as prominent as the other arguments due to the 1987 remix being available on most platforms, but the argument is still a thing.
• Epic Riff: "Sirius".
  • "(The System of) Dr. Tarr and Prof. Fether."
  • Also, "You're Gonna Get Your Fingers Burned."
  • As for non-guitar riffs, "I Robot", "Psychobabble", and "Standing On Higher Ground".
• Germans Love David Hasselhoff: They're more popular in the United States than they are in their native United Kingdom.
  • They're also popular in Spain, being the only country Gaudi peaked in and went gold there.
• Genius Bonus: Or rather, Well-Traveled Bonus. The escalators in the cover art for I, Robot are those of Paris Charles DeGaulle Airport as it stood in the 1970s. (The escalators still exist, but you won't necessarily see them if you go through CDG; they're part of Terminal 1, which used to be the whole airport but is now something of a backwater, only operating flights for airlines not connected to Air France. It's rather a weird experience, whether or not you've seen the I Robot cover art.)
  • "Time", about the finitude of life and originally sang by Eric Woolfson, became this after he passed away in 2009. His former teammate Lenny Zakatek recorded a tribute cover.
  • "Genesis Ch.1 V.32", from I Robot. Chapter 1 of the Book of Genesis only has 31 verses.
• Nightmare Fuel: Quite some examples, surprisingly.
  • The "Intermezzo" and "Fall" sections of the "Fall of the House of Usher" suite in Tales of Mystery and Imagination are some rather apocalyptic and scary short orchestral segments.
  • "Total Eclipse", near the end of I, Robot is a creepy orchestral song reminescent of the music heard in 2001: A Space Odyssey.
  • The creepy orchestral part that opens "Lucifer" from Eve.
  • In the middle of "Psychobabble" from Eye in the Sky, there's an unsettling orchestral rise, similar to what's heard in "The Voice" from I, Robot.
  • Due to its atonal nature, some people may find certain parts of The Sicilian Defence creepy, like the beginning of "P-K4" or "Kt-B3".
• Shout-Out: And it's cold In the Heat of the Night...
  • They also have quite a lot of Edgar Allan Poe shout-outs, such as most of Tales Of Mystery and Imagination, The Gold Bug from Turn Of A Friendly Card and Stereotomy being a word taken from The Murders in the Rue Morgue.

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