Vulture Culture

Alan Parsons Project - Vulture Culture

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Artist: Alan Parsons Project
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Import, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2009-03-03
Music Label: Sony Legacy
Soundtracks:
  1. Let's Talk About Me
  2. Separate Lives
  3. Days Are Numbered (The Traveller)
  4. Sooner Or Later
  5. Vulture Culture
  6. Hawkeye
  7. Somebody Out There
  8. Same Old Sun
  9. No Answers, Only Questions (Final Version)
  10. Separate Lives (Alternative Mix)
  11. Hawkeye (Demo)
  12. Naked Vulture
  13. No Answers, Only Questions (First Attempt)

Music reviews of Vulture Culture

Music Review: Rave review from one of Vulture Culture's Greatest Detractors!
Rating: 5 Stars

Upon my first few listenings of this remaster, I slowly came to grips with the fact that I never really gave the eighth "Project" a fair shake despite all the opportunities to do so over the course of twenty some odd years. By the time it was originally released in the mid-eighties, I had already formed some rather strident views as to what a "Project" was and was not. To a large extent, I think that's why I have been one of Vulture Culture's greatest detractors, but hearing the album remastered as allowed me to look at it again with a far more objective state of mind.

The two biggest hurdles were the absence of Andrew Powell, whose orchestrations would have taken The Same Old Sun to a whole new level, and the presence of a concept that, for the most part, did not leave nearly as much to the imagination as the previous triumphs I Robot, Pyramid, The Turn of a Friendly Card, and, even, Eve did. This was, perhaps, the first (and only) time Eric Woolfson may have painted with too broad a brush.

I think the main problem with the concept behind Vulture Culture is that it applies aggression and opportunism interchangeably in spite of the fact that the two are very distinct from the other. Vultures, themselves, are rather more opportunistic than aggressive, but Vulture Culture seems to use them to symbolize the economic aggression of the West. And, yet, the greatest economic disparities in our world are not between East and West nearly as much as they are between the northern and southern hemispheres.

But all that said, some very, very good music abounds throughout this album. And thanks to Sony's Direct Stream Digital Sampling from the best source tapes available, Let's Talk About Me, Separate Lives, and Days Are Numbers (The Traveller) have never sounded better! But it is the bonus material on this remaster that I found most compelling. How a gemstone like No Answers Only Questions (Final Version) could slip through the cracks and not see the light of day for twenty-three years is completely beyond my comprehension. A folk song of that caliber would have really made me look at the original album in a very different way! Add to that the fact that the best of the three instrumental reinterpretations of the entire albums appears here with The Naked Vulture (Early Mixes). Laden throughout these early mixes is the very witty banter of Lee Abrams that previously only appeared in a heavily edited form on "Let's Talk About Me" back in 1984.

While I would never have given this album the high marks I have here in its original form, this remaster deserves every bit of praise. Not only is there a drastic improvement in the sound quality with this remaster, the bonus material really is something very special. Of all The Project remasters, only the bonus material from Eye In The Sky rivals that which is here. I suppose I will always have some of the same problems with a few of the songs for their over-reliance on pop music convention, but this remaster is an entirely different experience altogether.
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Description of Vulture Culture

Japanese-only SHM-CD (Super High Material CD) paper sleeve pressing of this album. SHM-CDs can be played on any audio player and delivers unbelievably high-quality sound. You won't believe it's the same CD! Includes the same bonus tracks that appear on the EU/US expanded editions. Sony/BMG 2009.

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