The concept was that long-awaited catalyst for critical oxidation - most of the pen-holding brothers never loved The Project all that much anyway, but at least the previous three albums, with their immaculate execution, never provided them with a strong enough excuse to torpedo them right to the bottom. She lies down with dogs, she's winding me up, she won't be there anyway, so I'd rather be a man, but damned if I do and damned if I don't no matter what.
Move over, Bernie Taupin, tell Mick Jagger the news. Look at the string of song titles from track 2 to track 6: it may be the single longest-running, most expertly and intelligently crafted assault on the female sex ever committed to vinyl.
Song after song after song, Parsons and Woolfson push forward the idea that «getting some» is an understandable temptation, but, in the long run, it's simply not worth it. Then, in 1979, they released Eve, and the people's worst fears came to life. Of course, there is a formal justification - that issue was not of central importance to their concepts - but, after all, neither Edgar Allan Poe, nor Isaac Asimov, nor, least of all, the Egyptian pharaohs were ever above «getting some», neither in their writings nor in their actions. Up until 1979, The Alan Parsons Project had not only exercised a total ban on «love songs», but, in fact, the issue of male/female relationship was almost conspicuously absent from their art as a whole - so much so that it is highly likely that many must have been questioning the nature of the relationship between Parsons and Woolfson themselves. 1) Lucifer 2) You Lie Down With Dogs 3) I'd Rather Be A Man 4) You Won't Be There 5) Winding Me Up 6) Damned If I Do 7) Don't Hold Back 8) Secret Garden 9) If I Could Change Your Mind.
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