Turn Of A Friendly Card, The - Alan Parsons Project (The) > Reviews

Advantages: Perfect arrangement, accurate composition
Disadvantages: -

...a great orchestra just to turn immediately to aggressive guitar riffs and a solid beat. „May Be A Price To Pay“ is pure mainstream rock, followed by „Games People Play“, a quite successful up-tempo song which can be found on nearly all Best-Of’s. Here the topic „games“ is varied for the first time: whereas the opening track is about gambling and loss of control, this one deals with psychological games of two ... Read review

Advantages: Arrangements and lyrics
Disadvantages: i don't know

...operas wrote in 1980 " Turn of to friendly card " entirely dedicated to the gambling the cards and the dices. Beautiful is the cover in which one gothic window where it's reproduced a king of diamonds trying to light the black background, with a possible meaning: the gambling can enrich (the window that illuminates) but most of the times send the gambler to the deepest desperation (the black background). The best "songs": "Time" where ... Read review