Eye in the Sky is the first of three albums the Project recorded on analogue equipment and mixed directly to a Sony PCM 1610 digital master tape along with the usual analogue half-inch 30 ips master tape.[7] In 2007, the analogue tape was re-digitised for audiophile formats.
Release
To promote the album in the United States, the band conducted interviews that were aired on NBC during the weekend of Memorial Day. At that time, Eye in the Sky had yet to be released in the United States.[8]
The album itself reached the top 10 in numerous countries, including No 1 in Austria and Germany.[9] The album's title track became the Alan Parsons Project's biggest hit on the US Billboard Hot 100, where it reached No. 3.[10] The album features the instrumental piece "Sirius", which has become a staple of many college and professional sporting arenas throughout North America. It was used by the Chicago Bulls to introduce its starting line-up during its championship years of the 1990s and has seen continued use thereafter.[11]
From contemporary reviews, Ken Tucker of The Philadelphia Inquirer gave the album a one star rating out of five rating, calling it a "hopelessly banal album" with "Paul McCartney-as-manic-depressive melodies and whining vocals would be merely pathetic were it not for Parsons' lyric pretensions".[13]Billboard was complimentary of the album artwork and said that the music was "in the tradition of Pink Floyd's orchestrally and technically perfect pop/rock progressivism."[14]
From retrospective reviews, Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic stated that "this is a soft rock album through and through, one that's about melodic hooks and texture," noting that "with the exception of those instrumentals and the galloping suite "Silence and I," all the artiness was part of the idea of this album was pushed into the lyrics, so the album plays as soft pop album—and a very, very good one at that [...] it adds up to arguably the most consistent Alan Parsons Project album—perhaps not in terms of concept, but in terms of music they never were as satisfying as they were here."[2]
* Sales figures based on certification alone. ^ Shipments figures based on certification alone. ‡ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.
↑"Classifiche". Musica e Dischi (in Italian). Retrieved 28 May 2022. Set "Tipo" on "Album". Then, in the "Artista" field, search "Alan Parsons Project".
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