 | Don’t Answer MeThe Alan Parsons Project |
Writer(s): Alan Parsons, Eric Woolfson (see lyrics here) First Charted: March 4, 1984 Peak: 15 US, 17 CB, 10 RR, 4 AC, 15 AR, 58 UK, 22 CN, 43 AU, 2 DF (Click for codes to singles charts.) Sales (in millions): -- Airplay/Streaming (in millions): -- radio, 10.1 video, 26.96 streaming |
About the Song:The Alan Parsons Project peaked in 1982 with the song “Eye in the Sky,” their only top-10 hit on the Billboard Hot 100, and its top-10 parent album. They followed it up the next year with a compilation capturing highlights from 1976 to 1982, plus new song “You Don’t Believe.” In 1984, they returned with their seventh album, Ammonia Avenue. The album included “You Don’t Believe” as well as the group’s last two top-40 hits, “Don’t Answer Me” and “Prime Time.” The top-20 ballad “Don’t Answer Me” was a slight departure for the Project in that it was crafted I the style of Phil Spector and his Wall of Sound technique. Eric Woolfson, the only mainstay in the Project other than Parsons himself, handled vocal duties. Lyrically, the song finds the narrator reaching out to someone who is lonely, SF which fit with the album’s concept of social isolation. AMG The “soothing yet destitute wail of Mel Collins’ saxophone presented the song with its perfectly abandoned mood.” AMG A “recipe of subtle keyboards and dusty percussion enhance the song’s romanticism and intensify the desperate plea of Woolfson’s to be heard.” AMG The Dick Tracy style video was designed by Michael Kaluta, who worked on comic books. SF It combined traditional cel animation and stop-motion as well as claymation. It took a 40-man team 23 days to film at a cost of $50,000. WK The band appears in cartoon form toward the end of the video. At the first MTV Video Music Awards, “Don’t Answer Me” was nominated for Most-Experimental Video, losing to Herbie Hancock’s “Rock-It.” Resources:
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