During my military days, a fellow grunt and smoking partner (RIP) ended up at a party of older people (still don't know why we were there) but the owner and his wife a history professor, as it turned out) of the party put this album on, he rolled a couple, passed it around and we all just laid back and listened, no one spoke, now close to the end of 60, I have followed The Alan Parsons Project ever since, thank you for those memories Alan:)

@GodfatherAl102892

7 ай бұрын

Sounds like y’all rolled up to a swinger party.

@stevemartin164

4 ай бұрын

Welcome home soldier..... And thank you so much❤

@WineFi

4 ай бұрын

​@GodfatherAl102892 maybe he did. But my buddy and I could do the same to Hawkwind, Pink Floyd etc and no orgy other than emmerst into the tunes .

And still the raven remains in my room No matter how much I implore No words can soothe him No prayer remove him And I must hear for evermore! MASTERPIECE‼️ APP 🙌🏻

The Raven was a ground breaker in it’s day being one of the first rock songs to feature the newly developed (by EMI) of a device called a vocoder, a voice changer used to distort the vocals to great effect in this track. Love Love Love The Alan Parsons Project!

@chuckkenan308

4 жыл бұрын

You are absolutely right it's the first album to use it,long before Nazareth and others

@crazyvideos5455

6 ай бұрын

AP wrote this song as a tribute TO POE

This album was a big hit with my generation. ☺️

Yep, we were 14 year old stoners and rockers when Alan Parsons was introduced to us. Loved all his work including the next album "I Robot" ..For some reason I also think of Pink Floyd "Wish You Were Here" around this same period in my life. Both high influential albums.

Tales of Mystery and Imagination is a masterpiece start to finish -- especially the proper version with the Orwell voiceover.

@Enigma758

Жыл бұрын

Yes, I definitely agree, but I do think you meant Orson Wells :).

I am a recent fan of APP. I have to say I am blown away by this song.

Alan Parson Project was the best Edgar Alan Poe project.

@philldevil2

3 жыл бұрын

you mean edgar alan po was the best alan parson Project 's Album ?

@marvinmartian7281

3 жыл бұрын

@@philldevil2 Horror! lol!

@marvinmartian7281

3 жыл бұрын

@@philldevil2 i'll leave it like that i've got 13.Yes! lol...Tank you Filip.

Poet's influence on music, gothic literature, modern twists in drama, prove he was a master of not only the macabre but the weight of irony on life

When I first fell in love with The Alan Parsons Project, this was the song. I was very young then. I am old now and have loved so many more since. Thank you, Mr. (or Sir), Alan Parsons.

@johnhunsinger2625

Жыл бұрын

I’m right there with you. An underrated band.

@kdevinturner8778

Жыл бұрын

@@johnhunsinger2625 Alan Parson's ended up OK. So much good musik

Yet another winning tune from APP!!!! This stuff was HUGE when I was in HS in Wyoming. It's good to hear their stuff again!!! Timeless!!

@likehannes5388

2 жыл бұрын

I once had to learn this for my music classes, i liked it so much i come back every year to Hear this masterpiece

@Enigma758

Жыл бұрын

Yup, this album was on constant repeat when I was in my late teens!

...and still the raven,remains in my room,no matter how much I implore,no words can soothe him,no prayer remove him and I must hear for ever more...Uno de los mejores temas de Alan Parsons para mi.

@maximillianvermontsuperbik2624

5 жыл бұрын

The harbinger of mortality.

This song captures the haunted, tortured brilliance of Poe.

@marvinmartian7281

5 жыл бұрын

& nevermore.

@heathercrane5949

3 жыл бұрын

Agree

@Silvermane369

3 жыл бұрын

Yes, it does.

@victorialuong6185

3 жыл бұрын

👍

@bladeofveng

3 жыл бұрын

as great as his stories may be, and i wouldn't be here obviously if i didnt enjoy them, he also married his 13 year old cousin at the age of 27....so...calling him brilliant i feel is a bit of a stretch

And that's Parsons himself on the synthesized voice.

@tonyennis1787

2 жыл бұрын

Legend has it that this was the first time a vocorder was used.

I just want to say "thank you" for the great job you did with this video. The "Tales of Mystery and Imagination" were one of my favourite LPs when I was young.

i heard this as a child and i could never forget that robotic voice,ever

@lovebigbootie69

7 жыл бұрын

Yeah I was 6 when this came out and same here...never forgot the sound of the voice. Edgar Allan Poe was a mad Mfer too! RT

@matthewwash3747

7 жыл бұрын

Freddy Fehn yeah my father showed my this when I was little

@russellsims8197

6 жыл бұрын

Me too

@Veggamattic

5 жыл бұрын

I hear it at a pinball parlour when I was 13 and searched for 6 years before I heard it again.

@potato1674

3 жыл бұрын

This was my favorite song as a child because my Parents heard a lot of Alan Parsons and Pink floid, as well as Genesis and Queen I'm glad to have my parents

I remember so well when this came out. A great time to be alive!! The music has never reached its heighth as it was in the 70's!!

@FieryLittleRaven

10 жыл бұрын

Except for in the 80's lol :)

@GregKelley1956

10 жыл бұрын

you may be right my Friend. Every decade has it's favorites!!!

@FieryLittleRaven

10 жыл бұрын

Your right Greg (y)

@MarkLipka

4 жыл бұрын

*height [Submitted with all due respect because words matter]

@LazyIRanch

Жыл бұрын

I miss the experience of going to the record store the day a new album from my favorite bands was released. I loved that smell of fresh vinyl that wafted from the cardboard sleeve when I carefully cut the shrink wrap. Albums often came with extra goodies, like booklets and posters. I had a Stones album that had a real working zipper on the front! Our larger record stores had free concerts sometimes to promote new bands and albums. But I love music of all eras. There are many excellent modern day artists I love, such as Michael Kiwanuka, Calexico, Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats, and even some Japanese pop music my son turned me on to. I was a teenager in the 1970s, and there was good music, but it's not my favorite era. The 80s music was so different and new (I'm still a punk fan).

Tales of Mystery and Imagination = Best album the Project ever did!

WIKIPEDIA: It was one of the first rock songs to use a Vocoder, developed by EMS, to distort vocals (see KZread video EMS Vocoder). It is also one of the few songs by the band featuring the vocals of Alan Parsons, who sings the first verse through a Digital EMI Vocoder (liner notes). Actor Leonard Whiting performs the lead vocals for the remainder of the song, with Eric Woolfson and a choir as backing vocals. /// For Techies (see Wiki Vocoder). Military / Industrial apps began in the late 1930s.

I ran into a KID, a CHILD this evening as I stepped out for air, and he (Michael) was seriously enamoured of Edgar The Late Alan, musically inclined, recharge and reset, stop and rewind -- Alan, thank you for playing! Thank you Michael for a ride, more conversation than your friends could tolerate and egoboo. (Local Alan, POTUS, not to be confused with Alan Parsons, APP, musical genius.)

I am LOVING the guitar overdubs and fills that Ian Bairnson and Alan went back and added in for the album's 20TH Anniversary Edition, IIRC.

@Clean.Eastwood

7 жыл бұрын

Survivor2002 They're amazing! Actually, they were overdubbed for the 1987's remaster. That's my favourite version of the album.

This album was very popular when it came out. I had to have my own copy and it was one of my most prized albums for years.

This is an essential element to the greatest concept album of all time.

Great Vid for sure, and I have the vinyl on this that I got almost 40 years ago. What a wonderful tribute to Poe... Great job...

@rokyericksonroks

8 жыл бұрын

Yes, it is one of the better vids on YT I've seen lately.

This song has been around for awhile. But i was introduced to it by my 6th grade English teacher when we were studying Edgar Allen poe. And that was back in 2011. To this day it's still one of my personal favorite poems by poe. And one hell of a song by APP.

Leonard Whiting of the 1968 "Romeo and Juliet" movie fame sung the vocals after Alan Parson intro through the voice distorter.

@suzannehall3924

9 жыл бұрын

Leonard Whiting has a beautiful singing voice!

@yiannisclerides9782

8 жыл бұрын

+Ciro Morales and orson wells is the narrator on the beginning of the tales album

@JCCyC

7 жыл бұрын

For the longest time I thought that was Eric Woolfson.

8 years ago you posted one hell of a song. Thank you.

Allen Parsons was playing at the Woodlands warming for Jethro Tull. I let my friend drive and I missed all but Parsons Encore! Never more man!

Brilliant Just brilliant

I was in middle school when this came out. LOVED it - my English teacher let us listen to it in class on album!

I love Alan Parsons Project! Every member of this band has incredible talent! They are so cool to work for too! I wish they would come to St. Louis, Missouri on a regular basis. I will by all the sushi you want guys! Please come hear again soon!

A magical song!

amazing!! great work!!

truly a great song, and an excellent video to go with it. nice work!

The memories of my youth spent listening to APP with my brother and sister. Great job on this video too 🎉

Always one of my favourites...So very Ravenesque.

This song features the band Ambrosia, who's first album was engineered by Alan Parsons. The 1987 re-issue of this song featured added guitar leads.

The Raven. Powerful birds. They know more than we do.

" I'll Always Love 💘you Hayden Panettiere "

The Raven Tales of Mystery and Imagination is the debut album by the progressive rock group The Alan Parsons

@BjavaBbotBme

9 жыл бұрын

***** it was cool weekend, thanks... how was your's?

@BjavaBbotBme

9 жыл бұрын

*****... and to you as well! ;D

Okay, I have to say this is one of the best music videos I've seen on KZread. Usually these user created "music videos" are some crappy, low pixelated google images slapped together and put with a song, but this is superb and far from that. The seamless transition @ 2:50 from the sinister looking raven to the moon behind it was fantastic. Well done.

Happy birthday Mr Poe wherever you are. Fittingly we had a blood moon last night. I hope you were able to toast it in your celestial abode with a glass of your favorite cognac

Awesome video. Great work

THUS QUOTH THE RAVEN...NEVERMORE!! Nuff said.....

Fabulous video to accompany a masterful song!

Excellent video and well said

This is beautiful. My all time favourite song has always been riders on the storm, but I thing this is a pretty strong contender for the title.

A masterpiece !!!!!

I read in the Wiki that actor Leonard Whiting did the singing vocals on this song.

When i buy this album (1976 of course) was almost impossible to find in italy. Nobody know it !!!!!!!!! Great album and Impressive sound quality to listen on the hi-fi.

Excelente video, recién hechecito, aplausos fuertes para The Alan Parsons Project y también para el que hizo el video.

Great, Thank you!

this is so amazing...I know I've heard it before but...this is like a mix of black sabbath and king crimson ....so killer...

this video is very good, i think, Poe saw such a bird when he wrote this poem.......i love ravens!

wonderful video! great job!

Astounding piece of music

Nice job on the video, ...thanks very much for that.

incredible sound quality! my parents and i are big APP music lovers. excellent job on the video!

Love it one of my fv Parsons songs

Absolut fantastic art. Pefect video. Thanks.

@Darkblackgoat

6 жыл бұрын

My all-time favorite.

That. Is a masterpiece.

Happy Birthday Edgar Allan!

one of the greats

sheer brilliance !!

Very good indeed!

Super version of this song!

Wonderful.

Superb!

Great song, I love it! :D

Saw APP live 1990. Only issue,so many singers sang on those hits,he had 2 guys singing who never sanf on any of them. Musically it was great,and i did shake alans hand at the end.

This video is a masterpiece.

" I'll Always Love 'me' Neal Patrick Fry "

❤❤ Der Hohe Rat. Ich freue mich darauf.❤

Alan Parsons é sem dúvida um ícone no Rock progressivo não somente por seus discos, arranjos e tudo mais... Ele é o engenheiro de som responsável por belíssimos trabalhos do Pink Floyd por exemplo e fé outras celebridades também...

Awesome...

Top shelf.

Tommy Shaw said he fooled around with the keyboards and out came Renegade, based on this song. WOW!!!!

creepy and wonderful. I love it!

lm related to the Whitings, came from brightens beach , england, 1800s, lived in muskoka ont, 1868-1930s, cheers, love music, 70s-80s.

I wouldn't wanna be like 15 people .

@cmmtac

3 жыл бұрын

Jaja, it shows you’re a real APP fan.

great!

*** PERFECT !!! ***

great guitar solo!

Die Raben leben viel länger auf der Welt wie die Menschen❤

Hey man, love your videos to all these awesome prog rock bands. You need to do one for "In The Court Of The Crimson King" by King Crimson. I bet it would be spectacular.

@warrior--poet5418

5 жыл бұрын

Jamie Prater has nicked the very tough surface of a dolomite altar which I thought everybody, other than grandma, came to hear.. in the spirit of all acid-rock groups, I shall uphold many long unseen collaborations (as king crimson). to that we must also wish for our Uriah Heep, Alabaster Mushroom and The Machine : starting there.! ~ Thanks If You Will ~

Das tut so gut :-)

pretty amazing for 1976

Great Halloween track!

Took me forever to remember this as a kid..bamm.😃

I was reading a book about secret mysteries schools, and I came across with something that reminded me this song, it is that in the ancient Roman secret relligion Mithraism had six initiatory grades, the first one is called the Raven and its symbol is the caduceus.

This is the beautiful 1987 version. The original from 1976 doesn't have electric guitars at 2:27.

Думаю альбом " Tales Of Mystery and Imagination " (1976г.) можно смело назвать вершиной творчества Алана Парсонса. Созданный по мотивам произведений американского писателя и поэта Эдгара По, он стоит в одном ряду с творениями Genesis,Yes,Gentle Giant и др.

@nataliaivanova9227

10 жыл бұрын

В 80 -ые уехали в Молдавию на соревнования и слушали на берегу Днестра

I agree with Billy Altman's opinion quoted in the description: this album's atmosphere has very little to do with Poe (although "The Fall of the House of Usher" comes fairly close to the story's atmosphere, because in it Poe also presents the past bright side of the family and the manor, only to enhance the terror of the later decadence and madness). However, this doesn't prevent "Tales of Mystery and Imagination" from being an awesome work and a masterpiece of prog rock that I still listen to with delight almost 40 years later. Plus, it made me curious to read Poe, which I hadn't done until then - and then I devoured his works, fascinated by a man who actually did what the "Enterprise" claimed to do: he explored a dark side of the human mind where no man (or woman) had been before, all while using the language and the art of narrative like an absolute genius, The Project wasn't really an innovative group (even though Alan as a sound engineer certainly was), but it did its job so well that it's always a pleasure listening to them.

@dannymcrooster4089

5 жыл бұрын

I red Poe more than once. As a rock group It fulfills the atmosphere of the tales. If its not enought go to the books

Edgar Allen Poe .. passed away drunk and penniless in the streets of Baltimore never knowing how famous he was

We walked the narrow path Beneath the smoking skies Sometimes barely tell the difference Between darkness and light Do we have faith in what we believe? The truest test is when we cannot see I hear pounding feet in the streets below And the women crying and the children know That there's something wrong It's hard to believe that love will prevail It won't rain all the time The sky won't fall forever And though the night seems long your tears won't fall forever

Never more!!!!!!!!!!

Einfach ein toller Titel von Alan Parson

I love the chorus starting at 0:55

This is a great Christmas Song!!!!!!!!! LOL

I had a cool English teacher in middle school who played this for the class.