Tuesday, July 19, 2022

Alan Parsons: Top 100 Songs

Alan Parsons (right) & Eric Woolfson (left)

Top 100 Songs

Alan Parsons was born December 20, 1948, in London, England. Early in his career, he worked as an engineer on classic albums such as the Beatles’ Abbey Road and Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon. He also worked with Ambrosia, the Hollies, Pilot, and Al Stewart. He has received 13 Grammy nominations.

In 1976, he launched the Alan Parsons Project with Eric Woolfson (born 3/18/1945 in Scotland). While the group had an ever-changing lineup, Parsons and Woolfson remained constants until 1987. The pair then worked together on Woolfson’s Freudiana project before going their separate ways. Woolfson then focused on musical theater, bringing some of the Alan Parsons Project’s work to the stage. Parsons recorded as a solo artist. Woolfson died on December 2, 2009.

This list also includes the short-lived group Keats which featured neither Parsons nor Woolfson, but was comprised of members who’d worked with the Alan Parsons Project.

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Awards (Alan Parsons/Alan Parsons Project):

Top 100 Songs

Dave’s Music Database lists are determined by song’s appearances on best-of lists, appearances on compilations and live albums by the featured act, and songs’ chart success, sales, radio airplay, streaming, and awards.

DMDB Top 5%:

1. Eye in the Sky (1982)

DMDB Top 10%:

2. Old and Wise (1982)
3. Don’t Answer Me (1984)
4. Games People Play (1980)
5. Time (1980)
6. Damned if I Do (1979)
7. I Wouldn’t Want to Be Like You (1977)

DMDB Top 20%:

8. Let’s Talk About Me (1985)
9. The System of Dr. Tarr & Professor Fether (1976)
10. Prime Time (1984)

11. Stereotomy (1986)
12. Standing on Higher Ground (1987)
13. Don’t Let It Show (1977)
14. You Don’t Believe (1983)
15. Days Are Numbers (The Traveller) (1985)
16. What Goes Up… (1978)
17. The Turn of a Friendly Card Part II (1980)
18. Breakdown (1977)
19. Psychobabble (1982)
20. Snake Eyes (1980)

Beyond the DMDB Top 20%:

21. The Raven (1976)
22. Pyramania (1978)
23. The Never Ending Show (2021)
24. I Robot (1977)
25. Some Other Time (1977)
26. Oh Life (There Must Be More) (1993)
27. Limelight (1986)
28. You’re Gonna Get Your Fingers Burned (1982)
29. Turn It Up (1993)
30. As Lights Fall (2019)

31. La Sagrada Familia (1987)
32. In the Real World (1986)
33. Ammonia Avenue (1984)
34. Can’t Take It with You (1978)
35. Silence and I (1982)
36. I’m Talkin’ to You (1993)
37. Nothing Left to Lose (1980)
38. Freudiana (Eric Wooflson, 1990)
39. Vulture Culture (1985)
40. Siren Song (1993)

41. Light of the World (1986)
42. Sirius (1982)
43. There But for the Grace of God (Eric Wooflson, 1990)
44. May Be a Price to Pay (1980)
45. So Far Away (Alan Parsons with Christoper Cross, 1996)
46. Little Hans (Eric Woofson, 1990)
47. The Same Old Sun (1985)
48. I Don’t Wanna Go Home (1980)
49. Lucifer (1979)
50. Out of the Blue (1999)

51. Heaven Knows (Keats, 1984)
52. You’re on Your Own (Eric Woolfson with Kiki Dee, 1990)
53. The Call of the Wild (1999)
54. Back Against the Wall (1993)
55. Miracle (Alan Parsons with Jason Mraz, 2019)
56. Sooner or Later (1985)
57. Since the Last Goodbye (1984)
58. Day After Day (The Show Must Go On) (1977)
59. Let Me Go Home (1984)
60. Call Up (1999)

61. Dancing on a High Wire (1984)
62. The Three of Me (1993)
63. Brother Up in Heaven (1996)
64. Blue Blue Sky (1996)
65. Money Talks (1987)
66. Uroboros (with Tommy Shaw, 2022)
67. To One in Paradise (1976)
68. Wine from the Water (1993)
69. Hyper Gamma Spaces (1978)
70. You Won’t Be There (1979)

71. You Lie Down with Dogs (1979)
72. I Am a Mirror (Eric Woofson with Leo Sayer, 1990)
73. More Lost Without You (2004)
74. Too Close to the Sun (1996)
75. Beaujolais (1986)
76. Funny You Should Say That (1990)
77. No One Can Love You Better Than Me (Eric Woolfson with Kiki Dee et al, 1990)
78. Separate Lives (1985)
79. Mammagamma (1982)
80. Tragedy (Keats, 1984)

81. Sometimes (Alan Parsons with Lou Gramm, 2019)
82. The Cask of Amontillado (1976)
83. You’re the Voice (1995)
84. Pipeline (1984)
85. The Time Machine (1999)
86. Press Rewind (1999)
87. Children of the Moon (1982)
88. All Our Yesterdays (2010)
89. Fragile (2013)
90. Do You Live at All? (2015)

91. One Good Reason (1984)
92. Somebody Out There (1985)
93. The Tell-Tale Heart (1976)
94. Inside Looking Out (1987)
95. I Can’t Get There from Here (Alan Parsons with Jared Mahone, 2019)
96. Where’s the Walrus? (1986)
97. I’d Rather Be a Man (1979)
98. Closer to Heaven (1987)
99. Fall Free (1996)
100. Too Late (1987)

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First posted 12/20/2019; updated 7/19/2022.
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1 comment:

  1. AnonymousNovember 26, 2022 at 12:21 PM

    Cool list; thanks for compiling it. I was somewhat surprised at the absence of "The Eagle Will Rise Again", from Pyramid, with Colin Blunstone singing. Seems to have fallen under the public's radar!

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