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THE ALAN PARSONS PROJECT EVE SONGS UPDATE
UPDATE 07 Mar '14: The Sicilian Defence is receiving an official release! The album is set to be released at the end of the month as part of a new Alan Parsons Project boxset, The Complete Albums Collection. Until the disc is released, the album is still "missing". This does not, however, render the album as not missing, as Parsons is notorious for canceling plans for such releases and the announcement may have just been a prank. Although Parsons has said on several occasions that he hopes the album never sees a release, he announced that a Alan Parsons Project box set was in the works and was to contain the album in its complete form, much to the endless groaning of fans. After the fans figured out just how bad the music was, the clamoring stopped. Parsons, as a joke, included a single track on the bonus disc on a reissue of Eve in the 2000s. Fans were clamoring for decades for the album's release. In the end, Arista were so horrified by the results that they stashed it away in their vaults, never to be released. The music was allegedly atonal, inaccessible, and virtually unlistenable. Every track was produced rather lazily and poorly written on purpose as to figuritively raise the middle finger to Arista. The second, titled The Sicilian Defence (named after a move in chess) was a different story altogether. The first of the two albums, Eve, was released as scheduled. Wanting to get everything over and done with, the band decided to record both albums at once.
Their label, Arista Records, however, heavily disagreed and decided to set due dates for the band's 3rd and 4th albums. In 1979, the band was exhausted from constant touring and studio work and wanted a break. The Alan Parsons Project are a British Progressive Rock band that have been around for over 40 years, enjoying moderate success throughout the mid-to-late 1970s, and then again in the mid-1980s with the Ammonia Avenue-era single "Don't Answer Me".
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