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

...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 ...
...5. The GoldBug 6. The Turn Of A Friendly Card a) Part One b) Snake Eyes c) The Ace Of Swords d) Nothing Left To Lose e) Part Two Summary ------------ Maybe more than on any other album since his debut, Parsons consequently turned to his best skills and talents: accurate composition and arrangement, a conceptual framework, interplay of rock songs with simple back-beat and slow ballads. He introduces various lead-singers again, giving each ...

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...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 the time ...
...closed with title track "the Turn of friendly card" in which it is perceived that "The game never ends when your world depends on the turn of a friendly card" and the beautiful instrumental Ace of Swords mixed up with clear medieval sounds and instruments! The arrangements are very rich and well-treated (don't forget Alan Parsons is the sound engineer of "The Dark side of the Moon" by Pink Floyd. This CD is lowprice and if you want to know more ...

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