ALAN PARSONS PROJECT - The Turn Of A Friendly Card (Part 1 & 2) FIRST TIME COUPLE REACTION
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All time favourite rock album. It has stayed with me since I heard it as a 13 year old in 1981 and has transcended its time and is as potent and poetic now as it was 43 years ago.
And RIP Ian Bairnson !
Criminally underrated
Hi. Thank you for this reaction. This is a concept album, dealing with the danger and habits of gambling. The title track is actually a 5 piece suite starting with part one and finishing with part two, with a running time over 16 minutes. So after listening to the whole suite part two is an even more satisfying closer.
Yufri is correct. This album needs to be played beginning with Part 1, then continuing through All 5 parts. Some of AParson's greatest stuff...!!! Thanks for sharing.
Agreed - the suite needs to be listened to as a whole. This is like watching the first and last episodes of a show and nothing in between. lol
The album front to back is a masterpiece.
I agree with your suggestions here, but only to point out that "gambling" is herein a metaphor for taking chances in life....
@@veganm8918Totally agree. And after hundreds of listenings, I swear I still hear new parts each and every time!
I've been listening to this album for 40+ years and part 2 never fails to give me goosebumps.
The favorite album of Alan Parsons himself
Do the whole album. Your reaction was great.
Oh hell yeah, have to play whole album! Each song is like a chapter in a book.
This album is special. I was a big fan of Alan Parsons before this album came out....and this came out and I thought he had taken his production to another level. As you said, Lex, this album sounds and IS "epic".
Yes, do the whole lp. All of the Alan Parsons Project lps are concept and need to be heard beginning to end. You guys are the best!!
The orchestral music that appears on many APP tracks is conducted by Andrew Powell. It is a sign of the identity of this music that reaches the highest degree of excellence.
I really appreciate your reactions to the music 🎶🎵 that has been the soundtrack to my life and times 🤘.
You might like the "Tales of Mystery and Imagination: Edgar Allan Poe" album. The 1987 reissue with additional narration by Orson Welles is spectacular.😮
The original i bought in 1976 has Orson Wells' narration too.
@@Chris-filosifer64 Hello and greetings from the beautiful Pacific NW (North Wet 💯🤣).
I came across my own original 1976 vinyl copy of the "Tales of Mystery and Imagination: Edgar Allan Poe" album the other. I got the chance to give it a listen and Orson Welles' narration is not on it. I have the remastered version with Welles' narration, as well. There are some subtle changes to the musical arrangements in the '87 version as well as additional post production enhancements that make the '87 remixed version a lot more interesting to listen to.
I don't know if it made a difference, but I bought my copy in Glasgow, Scotland. I was raised in Ayrshire, Glasgow is just under an hour away by train. Perhaps the U.S. pressing was different than the U.K. That is quite often the case. I have literally hundreds of albums where the U.S version and the European version have different songs, have the songs in a different running order, etc. Maybe this is one of those?
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Great! You mention Alan Parsons who definitely produced the Project, but please, please never forget also Eric Woolfson who were always the second mind behind this, he is the master composer on this work and the other projects, as well as the singer on many songs, particularly starting from this album . Remember he was the composer of all the great songs in App. Check this. Thanks
Eric was THE MIND behind the Project.
@@florentinosanzpastor9556 So true
Grew up with this album on perpetual play, and the beauty of the music has drawn tears countless times. I got the chills watching you listen to it. This has got to be one of the most beautiful albums ever made. More please.
Yes part 2 is the reprise to the over 16 minute song in 5 parts (part 2 is part 5 🤣). Listening to whole concept albums was normal back in the day of LP's. Cheers guys 😎👍🍁
P.S. RIP Gordon Lightfoot. 🍁If you could read my mind 😢
One of their best albums.
I was fresh stationed in Nevada (USAF) when this came out. This is a great haunting tune.
Part 2 has darker lyrics as the addiction has set in.
You have to do “Time”, which is a touching ballad. That was one of the two singles off this album (the other being “Games People Play”, which has a nice guitar solo). To me, that song was to AP Project what “I Won’t Hold You Back” was to Toto (on the Toto IV album). Both were quintessential ballads done extremely well.
This is a fantastic album. One of the best of APP. The truth is that all APP albums have a very high level, it is worth listening to them all. Especially the stage of the late Eric Woolfson who is the creator of this magic. For me the best of all is Freudiana, although this is signed with his own name, it is also fair that it is so.
It's a brilliant song/series of mini songs when played straight through. High level musicianship as well as a multitude of pop hooks. There is another guitars solo inside the suite that is just as wonderful as that finale.
these 2 parts bookend an entire suite pf 4-5 songs
That was not.a trombone. Thise were horns (French horns). In 1980, when this came ou,t I learned it.without a score and played it all the time. Alan was a big fan of.tje horn. Thank you for doing this. It was a major album for me when I was 16 in 1980.
Very much a concept album, as are most of Parsons' work, and the first 7-8 albums for sure. Would love to hear the full thing on Patreon, or any of his others as well. This isn't just about gambling, but in believing in luck (or fate) to get through life.
Some of their best work is in the rock opera or musical theater style, it has some of the best lyrics and melody.
Chris Rainbow (RIP) had this gentleness to his voice that could turn forceful at the right moment, lulling you in with a soft sentiment, then hitting you with a hard truth, very dramatic.
I especially like the brass and strings on the title track as well.
This album did very well commercially, but it is not a fan favorite. The single "Time" of course is one of their greatest hits, but people buying the album based just on that song were probably disappointed, as Time is the only song that sounds like it does.
There is a lot of disco going on, that turned a lot of FM rock radio stations off, but it did get them AM radio airplay. But of course mainstream radio had no idea how to pigeon-hole this band, so some stuff got played way too much, some never.
Its always a very mixed experience, as the styles shift so wildly. "Games People Play" is such a pop hit, "Time" is such mellow gold like a mystical mantra, and "Snake Eyes" is a jazz rock tune. "I don't want to go home" has got that 70s funk.
"Turn of a Friendly Card" is almost a hymn. A lot of bittersweet in this album, and a slightly sad overall theme, turns some people off, as it is not "good time music" even though it has a lot of uptempo beats mixed in. Sounds all over the place, and it is. Great guitar, both lead and rhythm and excellent piano passages throughout.
Some people put forth that "The Gold Bug" is one of their absolute best instrumentals, despite it being mostly unknown. It does have everything the band is known for all in one, that beat, sax, killer bass line, chorus/orchestra, guitar solos. Its just not long enough, I guess.
APP was my go to music to just check out and get lost in the music as a teenager. APP got me through some really tough times, so glad you guys are enjoying them.
I think " Medieval" is the term you were looking for.🤠👍👍
Tremenda cancion escogieron....de las muchas que posee este genio...felicitaciones 👏👏👏
Definitely do either the full album, or at least the full "Turn of a Friendly Card" suite 🙂
Great arrangement by Andrew Powell (who produced Kate Bush's first album which included Wuthering Heights). After the first track, I was waiting for Snake Eyes, another great track. But all Alan Parsons songs are great. And yes, this is a concept album.
The Alan Parsons project is my favorite band and the more I listen the better the music is ! I would like to suggest dammed if I do and psychobabble and old and wise and silence and I and SOO many others ! Thank you and keep it up !
Ian Bairnson, who played lead guitar on a lot of APP albums passed away about 3 weeks ago...
Wonderful - great album. He had a string of album releases that are some of my favorites; Yales of Mystery & Imagination, I Robot, Pyramid, Eve and then this. Great listening.
Turn of a Friendly Card and the Pyramid album both are worth a total listen .
On this song, it is worth noting the magnificent work of Ian Bairnson and Andrew Powell.
Ian Bairnson was the lead guitarist for Alan Parsons Project until the end, and had a big influence on the band's sound. Unfortunately, he just died less than a month ago.
Ian Bairnson created in 1984 a band KEATS with the other musicians of APP, except Woolfson. The album of the same name, produced by Alan Parsons, is really very interesting and has a family resemblance to those of APP 😊
Andrew Powell is a pianist and conductor who brings this medieval touch to this song. He also produced the first records of Kate Bush (in which Ian Bairnson also played, the guitar solo on Wuthering Heights is him), but also of Chris de Burgh among others. He also composed the music for the medieval-fantastic film "Lady hawke" with Alan Parsons, which is reminiscent of "The turn of a friendly card". 😊
And you should listen to Chris de Burgh's song "Crusader" from the same name album. You'll find a similar sound evoking an epic medieval era thanks to Andrew Powell. This song tells the story of the capture of Jerusalem by the crusaders and then by Saladin. 😊
Other ideas to listening 😉
Talk Talk, "Tomorrow started + Renee" 😊
Barclay James Harvest "Play to the world" and "Gone to the Earth" album😊
Elton John "Funeral for a friend" or "Tonight", "Sorry seems to be the hardest word" 😊
Icon (Wetton & Downes of Asia) "The die is cast" 😊
Mike Olfield "To France + Poison arrows" 😊
OMD "Motion on heart + Statues"😊
Dire straits "Private investigation", "Romeo and Juliet + Love over gold" Alchemy live version 😊
Tangerine Dream "Song of the whale part 2" 😊
Simple Minds "New gold dream" album 😊
Downes Braide Association "Skyscrapers souls" or "Your heart will find the way" 😊
or some songs of Journey, Survivor, Saga, Joe Jackson, Fleetwood Mac, Alphaville (first album), Christopher Cross, Howard Jones (12" album), ... 😃😉
A big thank you and congratulations for your chronicles !!! Your chanel is so great😊 👏👏👏 from France
One of my favourite APP albums, damn that orchestration! Also try 'Gaudi'. APP take on the architect Antonio Gaudi and his work in Barcelona, Spain. Another one is 'I Robot'. Which has such a mix of classical, rock, jazz.
Allan Parsons and NicknLex together ♥️ Perfection
Thanks NicknLex for the reaction, as much as ai like many artists and groups I can get nearly everything I want out of music by listening to the 'Master's' albums. The APP have done a number of concept albums, starting with the first album based on Edgar Allan Poe as you know, and you should definitely play or listen to the whole album of 'The Turn of a Freindly Card' (perhaps his best album although I love all of his albums). Another concept album is 'On Air' about flight. Again thank you for listening to the best Engineer/producer there is! One last sad note is the sad fact that Ian Bairnson the guitarist on most of his great albums passed away recently, and we can only be thankful that we can still listen to him playing onthese wonderful APP albums.
This song is on Side B of the album. It is a 5 part song. You just listened to parts 1 and 5.
Beautiful set! And both guitar solos were fantastic. Great choices! Thanks for sharing!
Great reaction BUT you didn't do the entire Turn Of a Friendly Card Suite!! (on my CD it's one song) This is a multi-part song where every section perfectly segues into the other. You're missing out not hearing the whole thing (especially the instrumental part that leads into Part 2)!
My favourite APP album and song! The preceding song 'The Gold Bug' is an amazing instrumental. The whole album is a classic - spun regularly in my house!
If you don't listen to the entire album, at least check out the suite that is bracketed by the two-part title track. It puts everything into perspective.
I once heard a radio interview with Parsons, who said the concept behind the album isn't just gambling but also taking risks. The gentle and beautiful song Time, he said, could be the thoughts of either a sailor or an astronaut embarking on a journey. "Goodbye, my, love, maybe for forever ..."
I was in the Army at that Time this LP was published. That's roundabout 40 Years ago.. Driving with the car to the Barracks at the Coast spend 4 hours - listening this Album again and again without a Break - and i have no second the feeling to be bored.. 😊
Oh, this one reminds me of college. Thanks for the memories.
Very well done, you's guys. APP is loved by everyone that knows them. Thank you.
Alexia, there's a saying here in Yorkshire - 'Where there's muck, there's brass'. You reminded me of that! It translates as 'Where there's dirt, there's money!' This was a first time listen for me, and I thought it was beautiful. Thankyou for that. Andrew Powell and Ian Bairnson are legends within the Kate Bush cognoscenti xx
I first listened to Alan Parsons Project's music back in the late 80's. I'm 50 and I still have that album on a CD format. "Ammonia Avenue" is one of my favorites. Alan Parsons is from London.
This is soo beautiful and well done music, like most of AP music.
AT LAST!!! Only Parson's Pyramid album is better! Hadn't realized that you've seen Alan live, so great to know.. Now you know why I'm a 'fan'.....This is probably the most Renaissance of their works. That said, "In the Lap of the Gods", from Pyramid, is going to blow your minds. A good amount of APP is also reminiscent of Broadway. Each album has one love song or lament, and they are heartbreaking and beautiful. What a great way to start the day, opening my laptop and coming upon this--with Lex too! Third for me behind these is Gaudi, their final album, then I. Robiot, one song of which you have already reactied to..
There's a better blending of these two song floating around CZcams. It includes some of the instrumentals from the other tracks on side 2. Makes for a smoother transition between the two parts.
As others have noted you really need to listen to all of side 2 as it ties together a whole story. The concept was based on Eric Wolfsons gambling addiction from when he and Parsons moved to Monaco to avoid the outrageous taxes in England.
Such a Great album.
This is an en excellent album. Side 2 is a cohesive suite about gambling, bookended by the two parts of the title track, which works best if listened to as a whole.
I would live you to do the whole album. Both sides are an absolute blast!
I think it's trombones at the end 😉
This is a great album. You two will totally be impressed!!!
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Talking about Renaissance, there are a lot of reactions on CZcams on the song Adagio by Laura Fabian, and covers of it, but in early seventies the band Renaissance also recorded a song, Cold is Being, on the album Turn of the Cards, based upon the Adagio in G Minor by Tomas Albinoni (1671-1751). You could make a magic cards marathon with songs from Alan Parsons of the Turn of a Friendly Card album, the Renaissance song mentioned above, the Steve Hackett album Voyage of the Acolyte (great album, based on Tarot cards, I would suggest Shadow of the Hierophant or Star of Sirius) and Mike Batt's album Tarot Suite (I recommend Imbecile, Lady of the Dawn or Losing Your Way in the Rain).
Beautiful songs from Alan Parsons Project more please, speaking of which #nicknlexrequest Alan Parsons Project To One In Paradise.
Speaking of gambling, I sat at a blackjack table with Alan Parsons for about an hour on Cruise to the Edge last year.
Part 2 was epic French Horn sound. Awesome!!
Great reaction to a GREAT album guys!!!!!!! The Turn of a Friendly Card is a Concept album with its theme focused on the gambling industry and the fate of gamblers, with more than one reference to Las Vegas (e.g. "there's a sign in the desert that lies to west" from the title piece). Musically it's a more melodic and accessible album than its predecessors.
Got to meet Alan Parsons at Chicago Beatlefest back in 2002!!! Super nice guy!!!!!! Big guy too!!!!!! Over 6'1"!!!! Talked about his work on The Beatles' 'Abbey Road' album, Pink Floyd's 'Dark Side Of The Moon', producing Al Stewart's 'Year Of The Cat', and 'Time Passages', sooo many great productions that he was behind!!!!!!! SUPER talented producer!!!!!
I've been lucky to have seen the vocalist, Chris Rainbow live (God rest his, soul), several times, when he also worked with Camel. One of his best live appearances, on both vocals & keys, was DVD'd on the Camel live show "Pressure Points" also available on CD.
He was on a lot of the AP Projects. .
Been a fan of Alan Parsons since my early teens, just saw him in concert in February’23, fantastic as always, always felt this album had an undue influence on me because I listened to this so much, then have spent the last 30+ years working in casinos lol
Love it. Long overdue. But like my viewing - better late than never. Lol 😻 Go to your safe space for a stress-free listen. Great job, Nick n Lex. ❤️🔥
How nice to see you enjoy this.
It feels like background music to a DnD session.
Alan Parsons was also a friend of the late great Keith Emerson😮
Surprised you didn't do the whole Turn of a Friendly Card suite (or that it wasn't recommended to you that way). It's the tracks you did and everything in between them. The whole album is excellent but the suite guys taught really well
The guitarist, Ian Bairnson, who worked on most of the albums in APP's catalogue and Alan Parsons work after APP, died a couple of weeks ago. He was so talented! I love this album!
@Moon Simcoe oh no! First Eric Woolfson, and now Ian. So thankful for his many contributions. Reminiscent of David Gilmour in some ways.
Soy fan de the Alan Parson ! La era de oro desde el 1976 hasta toda la década de los 80 y mas , en 1993 y el álbum en vivo de 1994 , es mi banda favorita junto a Elo, Yes y Pink Floyd... Gracias por compartir su emoción , uds son unos genios , siempre saben captar la emoción este álbum es de 1980 lo tengo en casette, también pirámide
Please please listen to all of it, even a couple at a time. Great all the way thru. Thanks guys!
Great music. Please do the whole album.
la musica hece cosas increibles , no sé ingles , mas alla de 10 palabras , pero escucho este disco completo y sin saber lo que dice , me relaja completamente
There's another album dedicated to the architect Gaudi, it has a Spanish influence
Good advice to live by.
Please do whole album. Love “ Old and wise”.
May I suggest you listen to some tracks from the Try Anything Once album from 1993? The opening 3 tracks 'The Three Of Me, Turn It Up and Wine From The Water' (also Mr Time) are all belters with the usual Parsons production excellence! Great line-up of musicians too....am surprised this album slips by the radar.
Ok Nick and Lex, you are now cooking with gas by reacting to APP. In my humble opinion just the best! Do the full album
You both got it! Love that song too! :) This whole album is a good time. Thanks for this reaction.
The first part does set the theme for the entire album for sure.
It's well worth a listen. It is the only album of them that I own and listen to regularly. Not that I dislike the rest of them but this one was the one I bought on CD and never got around to the rest of them after I'd bought some of them on vinyl and then they were ruined by me accidentally and never replaced them.
Nothing wrong with listening to the rest of them a few at a time and not doing a full album reaction.
The mired stain glass and within that of the jack of juxtapose -
Nick, Lex. There is another video with the whole two parts that actually covers the whole flow of the two parts. This one it's about sixteen minutes.
NickNLex, when you discover what the song is about, the lyrics may make more sense to you, and you will appreciate it more
Thank you 🙏
The late Chris Rainbow !
Here a recording by Jazz pianist Connie Han you may want to listen to titled (Secrets in Anna.) Recomended tracks. Desert Air, Gilgamash and the Celestrial Bull, and Eeshkigal of the Underworld.
Fred Turner of BTO just passed. He was the bassist and one of the Vocalists.
Really Enjoyed this one, #Memory's.
Thank you for a great reaction! Turn of a Friendly Card is a masterpiece of composition, lyrics, and production. "The game never ends, when your whole world depends, on the turn of a friendly card." A great insight whether you are talking about a game of poker or the other risks we face in living each day. It would be great if you could do the whole album, it's brilliant!
In this case it's french horns, but at a certain pitch range trombones can sound quite similar to french horns, so it's not always easy to distinguish. Often trombones support french horns in the lower octave to fatten the sound up. Trumpets and fluegelhorns in comparison sound much brighter. I think the orchestral portions of this album were recorded with an orchestra in Munich, Germany
It wroks beautifully bookending the Turn Of A Friendly Card Suite, which I'm sure you'll enjoy if you listen to the whole thing on or off-camera, or even better yet, the whole album!!
Yes, it is a concept album about gambling (in casinos and in life).
¡Cuídense mucho!
Alan Parsons can do no wrong
Get yourself in front of the best speakers you can get access to, crank the volume, and cue up "In the Lap of the Gods" from *Pyramid*. You'll thank me later, when your heart stops pounding.
It was rather strange listening to these two parts back to back. I've never done that and probably would never choose to because it's part 1 and part 5 of a 5 movement piece. You really should listen to all 5 in sequence. This is a brilliant album, probably my favorite of theirs. The full album is a good idea, since it's a concept album. At the time this came out, a lot of us were album listeners, so there were a lot of concept albums where you were pretty much expected to listen to the whole thing. One of my all time favorite concept albums probably a lot of people don't even know. It's The Day The Earth Caught Fire by the band, City Boy. Their sound was a bit like Queen and ELO on this album. It was a brilliant album produced by Mutt Lange, who produced AC/DC's Back In Black among many other iconic albums from the period.
Yes, indeed. I expected Snake Eyes. Didn't happen. It really doesn't work back to back. We're missing the information in between. OK for us who know, I suppose, it least it gets the music out there.
Great review! try the full album!
Yeah the end of part 1 was going into Snake Eyes, which is actually the second part of the suite. Too bad you didn't do the whole thing, but you didn't know.
One of the most addictive melodies in all of 70's prog. Recommend Camel's Stationary Traveler for a similar eargasm.
This Is One Of My Favorite Albums
The electric guitar solo sounded like Gary Moore
The whole album is a classic! Keep listening!
Do the whole Parsons catalogue.
Was unfamiliar with this one - thanks!
Please reacts on more Alan parsons procect music! my most favorite group.:-)
Guys I love this whole album its a about gambling many great songs Please do the entire record.
I can hear Barclay James Harvest vibes here.
Saludos ❤❤❤❤