The Alan Parsons Project- You're Gonna Get Your Fingers Burned

[paologattimultimedia]

lovely solo

[tsardooka]

will you be fooled a second time?

[tsardooka]

there is no hope in yesterday, the promise is broken and our children will pay for the interest we've earned without effort. It is not our fingers that shall be burnt. what you now see is only an illussion................

[alberzeta]

lovely song!!!

[alberzeta]

@pauljonze "OLD AND WISE" is awesome! ;)

[pauljonze]

loved this track. had the album on cassette and wore it out rewinding to the end each time to get to this track.

Old and wise plus Eye in the sky great tracks too.

[pauljonze]

loved this track. had the album on cassette and wore it out rewinding to the end each time to get to this track.

Old and wise plus Eye in the sky great tracks too.

[pauljonze]

loved this track. had the album on cassette and wore it out rewinding to the end each time to get to this track.

Old and wise plus Eye in the sky great tracks too.

[tsardooka]

app never plaid live now they're never dead....

[freedumb2003]

STRONG, APP song -- has the feel of Springsteen, but IMHO better executed!

Hard hitting, solid, fun rock. But, as usual the tune and the lyrics are nuanced.

This should have been #1 across the USA and EU!

[Ken5244]

@freedumb2003

Yeah, there's a bit of a Springsteen feel, but I think it sounds even more like early 80s Billy Joel. If he'd written it, this song would've fit in perfectly on Billy's GLASS HOUSES or 52ND STREET album.

I agree it should've been a bigger hit. It was a minor AOR radio hit here in the U.S., but it disappeared too soon. I hadn't heard it in at least 20 yrs before today.

I really dig that cool descending part at 2:27 of the guitar solo. Anyone know who played the solo?

[tepporocks]

The Project's best song by faaaar.

And NO ONE ever talks about it!

Well, we (who are here on the tube) know, obviously, but it should be regarded in the same way as the other rock staples of FM radio.

The problem might be that it's such an atypical song of theirs. There's nothing else in their catalogue that sounds remotely similar, and I don't think people expected them to write rock 'n roll. But Alan himself should have recognized it's potential.

Oh, well...

[Thunda407]

When APP cranked it up they had a GREAT FUCKING ROCK 'N ROLL SOUND. Listen to "The Real World" from "Stereotomy" for another example - then Parsons and Woolfson could do songs like "Sirius/Eye In the Sky" and "Old and Wise" - they were so versatile.

Thanks for posting this!

[HAT884]

hmmmm not one of my favourites. For me this band's classics are "Sirius", "Eye in the Sky" "Games People Play" "Time" "You don't Believe" "Old and Wise"

[Mekkkah]

probably the best APP song

[tomshea69]

This song should be more popular than it is, never hear it on the radio. Oh yeah American FM radio sucks!

[HUTINAK]

sorry folks..FUCK what a great song

how come 18 yrs olds are taking this in like I did... what's goin' on?

[cantforgetyou]

Because now days the songwriters and producers are not that good anymore.

[ppericodelosppalotes]

ah, I still remember when i first heard this, back in the early 80's, and i only was a litlle kid! and it's still p r e t t y good!

[sorasmusic]

I love Lenny's voice

[slimhotknave]

great song,great guitar solo,heard it first on plane to Australia on a loop, pilot kept talking over it!Bought it when I got home to Wales