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  • "All you need is wine and good company..."

    Mostly "good company"... :)

  • my fave

  • Hard to believe Alan Parsons just turned 67 last week!!!

  • Yeah Buddy ,,,,,,most Wicked Jamz.....A-P PROJECT 4 Ever oop's now i'm soundin' crazy But It's True

  • APP has a timeless sound , listen 100 years from now and it will still sound fresh and original - the picture of Edgar Allan Poe is a dead ringer for another classic musician, guitar virtuoso "Buck Dharma" Roeser of Blue Oyster Cult in their earlier days - reincarnation maybe ?

  • fav alan parsons song for sure

  • 6 people refused to see the doctor.

  • @kvc4791 They're in serious need of Dr. Tarr and Prof. Fether.

  • @wvlekker 100% agreement there..

  • Steely Dan couldn't touch this album.

  • Be warned people, this ISN'T the original recording of this album. Its the crappy Mercury record company remix. Added guitar solos and obnoxious sounds. Keep it the original and buy the original record. Though, nobody on youtube has the original version. Its a sad day for America and APP fans alike. And yet, nobody noticed this aspect yet

  • @HunterSThompson191 This is the original for this song. I do agree with you about the remastered version. It leaves out things you want to hear and puts things you don't.

  • @HunterSThompson191 You're right, not the original wich I've listened many times.

  • I bought this album and went, you've gotta be kidding! These guys are geniuses! APP hall of fame all the way!

  • This song is exactly why so many of this younger generation are turning back to when music was REAL.

  • @LWayne38 lol no kidding dude, you got that right. So far up their asses it would take a John Deere tractor and 3 proctologists to pull their heads out.

  • Man, they don't do it like this anymore

  • APP Does such a Beautiful job of transferring Poe's writing to music! They have always done so! BTW I was born 01/19.. Same day as Mr. Poe.

  • il est beau il ressemble a thamanou

  • Handsdown Alan's finest outing,that's counting PF!

  • wwhhff! Great collection of music..... we all like it mixed with different songs - - I like it with a bit of Chris Rhea and Derek Miller

  • 6 people got their heads up their ass's

  • and red turn on a red light blackfoot jd blackfoot song of crazyhorse

  • and left turn on a red light blackfoot

  • Had this one on 8-track tape in 1976. Remember wearing this one out. Loved the song and the album....

  • Alan Parsons and Eric Woolfson hit #37 in Billboard, 9-18-76. God bless ya, for postin' it. Thanx! Shalom, Eric, and, RIP.

  • could be a Steely Dan song.

  • @andyboerger Never thought about it, but it does sound a bit like Steely Dan.

  • Just what I needed, thanks.

  • One of the best songs of all time. I'm glad I learned how to play the whole song on guitar, it's simple and fun. :)

  • God I love this album and especially this song. This is my favorite Poe story. I think it totally set the stage for the Mad Hatter's party in Alice and the twist ending of The Cabinet of Dr Caligari. Who cares if they borrowed a bit...both great things that may have come from a superb influence. Love it!!!

  • Absolutly love this song, I wish people my age enjoyed good music like this

  • Absolutely great - adequate translation of Edgar Allan Poe's stories into music.

  • John Miles's voice is the best!!

  • It's a shame APP and the Moody Blues aren't in the R'R hall of fame. What a sham!

  • @999klondike I couldn't agree more. I used to sing to the Seventh Sojourn album when I was in 7th grade. 1972ish. Good to see someone else that appreciates good music of old. OLDIES. I love 'em

  • Glad to find this delightfully peculiar song once more. Thank you and many blessings to you!

  • great song but the message is a very dark one not many would get the real meaning of this song.

  • @zelotalot tar and feather someone? You did not live in the 1800s?

  • @AmandaPanda194 no i didnt live in the 1800s :) but i have read edgar allen poes tales of mystery and imagination.that tells me this song is very dark :)

  • @zelotalot both are indisputable. Peace.

  • this album is wild

    

  • Utterly brilliant - and has been since AP's brain put it all together. Creative doesn't begin to describe every song on this album. One of my top 3 of all time.

  • Edgar Allen Poe was the first guy to solve Olber's paradox!

  • The first few albums of TAPP, pure genuis, engineering marvels, audio love trips,

  • One of their best.

  • This just never gets old!! Thanks.

  • 24 years old here...I learned about APP from my parents. I am the proud owner of a couple of these albums, including this one. Big fan for the new generation!

  • Hard to tell which of his albums were better. I Robot was an engineering marvel but Edgar Alan Poe has to be my favorite. Alan did work for Pink Floyd too.

  • The first and probably my favorite album by A.P.P.....still have the vinyl. Thanx for the up!

  • same school,different times...or tother way around.

  • Parsons captures the insanity of the story. Always one of my favorites.

  • Great Song. Their first hit that I remember on the radio when it came out. One of the best not the worst.

  • Just what you need to make you feel better just what you need to make you feel.

    Just what you need to make you feel better just what you need to make you feel.

  • Crap compared to the rest.

  • I loved this track and wow gee, i still remember ALL the words!

    Great track and in my top 10!

  • Poe's works give me the warm-fuzzies.

  • This was some jammin down the highway music. High school cruisin in my 66 Comet. Joined the Navy just after graduation and this music went with me around the world many times. Brings back good memories of a simpler time.

  • love this track!

    

  • in my opinion... this is the best song they ever wrote... just sayin' :]

  • Thats one damn great album. Rarely heard something that was as fascinating as APP.

  • Libertine62--Did we go to High School and College together ???

    UNL 1976 with this and later in 1977 i-Robot album...and tons of Bob Cigar (Seger) and Allman Bros. and Steely Dan....the OJays, EW&F,Eisley Bros, etc ...where did the music go ?

  • @rwwagsneb - St. Paul Catholic HS (Bristol, CT) class of '80. College? Well I was like Bluto in Animal House "7 years of college down the tubes", but I spent most of it @ UConn.

    Yeah where did all the great music go? The crap that is getting pushed down our throats on the corporate radio airwaves can't suck enough. Music ain't about the music anymore...

  • @Libertine62 You mean mainstream radio ain't about the music anymore.

  • @Libertine62 this is just so untrue. the 60s had its monkees, the 70s had its disco sellouts, the 80s had garbage hair bands. the 90s had pop punk, and now we have this disney channel garbage music. every decade has had terrible money grabbing music & great, thoughtful, emotional music. just because you dont hear it on the radio doesnt mean it isnt there, and looking to the radio is a pretty pathetic way to find music. search fleet foxes, black keys, warpaint, local natives to get you started

  • @cCreaturesMusic Looking to the radio was quite a good way to find music, until all good old music disappeared from radio. I have found pretty many good songs there in the past, not now. The same with MTV which is no more a music channel at all.

  • @memmori1 well if you continue to look to a medium that has been consistently losing any quality it once had for AT LEAST the last 20 years you're bound to be disappointed. the radio is dead

  • damn fine

  • Not recognized enough in the progressive rock stream of music.... classic composite arrangers of music !

  • Great old APP tune. I have not heard this in 30 years. Damn, I miss the 1970s. Thanks much, Libertine62, for uploading and wih quality sound. If only all music on youtube had at least this level of audio quality. Maybe when all youtube videos are finally transcoded into WebM, we will get a major improvement in video and audio quality. Cross your fingers.

  • One of my Favourite APP tunes

  • The vinyl version of this album is much better in my opinion, They added to much stuff to the CD version.

  • @stuffedsonicoh admit it now your a purist

  • Lol my Dad and his friends made sum home made videos about tarr and feather they have a little website XD

  • I bought this album on vinyl and cassette. Old fart that I am, I never looked for the CD. Just another album that defined the 70's for me.

  • Hit #37 in the US (Billboard). How'd it do in the UK? God bless! RIP, Eric.

  • L'intero Album rappresenta un Capolavoro...St***

  • Give me Alan Parsons and Pink Floyd and KEEP THE REST

  • amen to that....... on vinyl of course....

  • alan parson inspired pink floyd. both awsome.

  • @cruelangel7 alan mixed dark side of the moon

  • This is the best Alan Parsons Project album!

  • first and the best...indeed my friend!

  • @larockeramenor ya it is

  • Earth`s greatest achievement is that it produced human beings like Edgar Allan Poe and Alan Parsons.

    I have no words for the feeling!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • @alienremover I noticed that you left my name out of your list. @_@

  • I´ll put you on my list if you`re worth it. Do you like classical horror? Do you feel the real horror in the atmosphere? Are you aware of the Orwellian NWO that`s out to suck your lifeblood? If the answer`s Yes, you`re automatically on my list.

  • Dude your so right!

  • This is the song that hooked me on APP forever! It swings, and it rocks. RIP Eric Woolfson, the under-recognized genius behind the project.

  • I think Tales of Mystery and Imagination is the greatest album of all time.

  • man i have this albums shirt on right now its a pretty sick shirt

  • I just LOVE that AMBROSIA played on Tales of Mystery and Imagination - Edgar Allan Poe. You hear it all in this work. Beatles, Ambrosia, Pink Floyd, as well as Alan and Eric. Genius.

  • love this song

  • Great song from the Mystery & Imagination album, not heard this for many many years. Isn't that John Miles singing lead on this?

  • Yes, as well as Jack Harris singing "Just what you need to make you feel better."

  • Haut de la Garenne began in 1867 as an industrial school for "young people of the lower classes of society and neglected children". ...

    (see recent news)

  • "At the far end of your tether, when your thoughts won't fit together..." classic. Reminds me of cleaning the barracks at Ft. Gordon, GA. December, 1976....must've played this album 500 times that month...good times.

  • I also did my bootmcamp at fort gordon in 1976.....mmmmm do you think?

  • Beautiful song.

  • My favorite Music

    '' Progresive ''

  • Just What I Needed To Make Me Feel...

  • Just What I Needed To Make Me Feel...

  • When progressive rock turned intellectual

  • @batoloco78 progressive rock has always been intellectual...yes...genesis..­.emerson lake and palmer...amazing music and lyrics

  • Excelente, nos vemos. De Argentina. Bye

  • man im always convinced this song is about a taboo source of mental elevation. I mean whhen i get writers block, it always helps to seek attention from Doctor Tarr (Cigarettes) or Professor FeAther (Marijuana) no doubt! see the rat race in a new way!

  • Oh gosh....that's a interesting way to think of it.

  • That's an interesting thought. Have you read the story the song is based off of though? Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether is about mental patients who escaped the asylum and locked up the original employees.

  • i have this lp in vinilo since1983...i love this lp.on of best of parson..tales of mistery and imagination..thanks for posting

  • I remember this was on a cassette in the 80s before it was on the cds lol

  • And those cassettes still play great (provided that they have been looked after). I enjoy going through my cassette collection. Of course, I also have the CDs for my favorite albums...

  • Definetly....I still have my Gaudi and Stereotomy albums. Gaudi plays great but poor old Stereotomy has gone the way of many a cassette. Shelved and put aside as a collectible.

  • Speaking of keeping unnecessary things: I recently (reluctantly) threw away a head-cleaning cassette that I bought in 1986...

  • I can actually remember details of myself at 12 years old buying this 45 record at Musicland.I am 46 now.

  • EINFACH WUNDERSCHÖN

  • Just listen to how complex this song is....vastly underrated.

  • my favorite of Edgar Allen Po and my second favorite Allan Parson song

  • Soundtrack to my teen years.

  • Nice one old pal :-) Long time no hear.

  • Good to see you back bro. I am glad the corporate fascists didn't run you off for good. Been teeing it up at all?

  • It's pretty hard to tee up while having zero income - lol but I have been practicing up with my sand wedge and pitching wedge but now that I am 100% clean and sober I foresee some financial relief and overall happiness is in the very near future :-) Things you could say are looking way up! Peace. Keep in touch brother.

  • ThinkiknowthispoefellaofAnnA

    BellalanandseanThesystemMuah!

  • Yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah

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  • LOL...the song yes, though not really on the video I did. But some people seem to get unnerved by Poe staring at them for 2+ minutes. So it had the effect I wanted. ;-)

  • Un temon espectaculaarrr!!!

  • This is one of a couple of songs from A.P.P which sound similar to Steely Dan. Listen to this track and then listen to Steely Dan- "The Royal Scam" (here on You Tube). Not the same, no but similar IMO. This is a marvelous song thanks for posting!!

  • My pleasure...glad you are enjoying it. 8-)

  • The story is as good as the song, too !

  • agreed....one of the best songs ever

  • one of the best tracks ever

  • Great memories thanks for posting you

    Just made my day thanks again

    Thomas

     Ireland

  • This song is THE BEST OF ALAN THANK you

  • Is this where I came in PJ 2.???

    MAgnifico...musical reprise of  the tormented genius and his chemical predliections to opium and cocaine.. One look at Poe's portrait and one cannot think other than of a dreary and painful life punctuated by crearivity spawned of pain and ecstatic delusion fromhis acquaintence with the Doctor and the Professor.

    Tomi n Utica NY

    Now for super spooky, try to find House of Usher part one.with Orson Wells.Later, PJ2

  • consider the source. try hearing Alone by Basil Rathbone or Vincent Price

    /hat tip EAP

    "a demon in my view"

  • I heard this song on the radio a long time ago and I had a very innate feeling that it had an edgar allan poe inspiration behind it before I knew it was.

  • THIS SONG IS MY SHIT RIGHT HERE!!!

  • O M G!! I haven't heard this in like....forever!! THX! I used to have this LP in 1976...The Raven and this one were my favs...."just what ya need to make ya feel betttah!"

  • cannabi

  • Great !!!!!

  • Alan Parsons probably the best concert I've been to.

    We love your Music, greetings from Colombia, thanks for going to Bogotá.

  • My best friend in H.S. played this album all the time! This was when it first came out! I love this! (and check out the uh "sampling of earlier tracks of the album at the end!)

  • This music is way ahead of it's time...

    People will enjoy this in a hundred years from now.

    TJ

  • a band in full command of his art

    her's 5 stars from morocco

    it's woolfson's idea to put poe's books into music

  • the whole album makes me feel alive, the lyrics, the amazing sound that fits perfectly, just overal they nailed the feeling with music.

  • They opened with this song in around 1997 i believe. I saw them at the Greek Theatre in LA and this was one of my favorite concert moments of all time. It was a total surprise. EAP rules by he way. Quothe the Raven Mr. Poe. You were the man! Go Ravens!!!

  • Sure brings back sweet memories!!!! Thanks for posting..

  • this is such a great song; from the deep-voiced "Just what you need to make to make you feel better" to the finale instrumental with bits and pieces from "dream within a dream and the raven": It almost feels like you were at their party "handing the jug round" ready to be tarred and feathered, so to speak. Help me out Projectologists, wasn't this their first song that cracked the Billboard top 40 ?

  • Fantastic , brought unbelievable memories back ......Especially when half cut...wahaaay

  • My favorite on this LP. I'm a 52 year old black man now but back in the day of 1975-76 in college and room mate with a white brother. He told me check this out. I thought I know I'm not going to like it because I'm an funk r@b guy who doesn't like much rock . Some but not much. Boy was I wrong about.

  • This went no.1 didn't it?

  • Nope! 38th in the US and 56th in the UK. But it's a fantastic album anyway!

  • It wasn't mainstream enough for the average listener-just look at all the so-called 'hits'.

  • didnt hear this for years..

    thx

  • I love this song, thanks for posting!

  • reel to reel rocks, 'specially with Speakerlab Super 7s

  • defintly headphone material in the 70s if you had good reciever rem. thase days still have great rec. on reel2reel man im old lol

  • R2R rules!

    (headphone material ha, ha Damn right!)

  • Even better, I had an old Quad system-headphone's had 2 jacks. Still have the Quad LP...

  • Brilliant!

  • All you need is wine, good company and this album w/headphones!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • HA! big headphone fan here too. Plus it doesnt wake the boy!

  • And you're a kid :(

  • Creative indeed! Check out National Sunday Law by Jan Marcussen sometime. God bless! Guaranteed to cure all ills.

  • Edgar on the keyboards

    BRAVO

  • I love this album one of the greatest. Adore alan parsons, thx for the video!!;)

  • are this band still touring, they are outstanding. ihavent heard this for 20 years

  • the alan parsons project!!!!

    great song

  • Cool Sound

    I like The Alen Parsons Projekt.

    Sorry for my Bad Englisk :-)

  • When I was fourteen or so I listened to this all of the time. Loved it, and the album it came from.

    That is a wonderful picture of Edgar Allan Poe, such haunting eyes.

  • excelencia !

  • alan parsons did a nice take on edgar allen poe...well done

  • Just what I needed to make me feel better...awesome post!

  • WOW! What year is this? I had forgotten all about this song! Fantastic!

  • I presented the Song in class ^^#

    still love it

  • When Jack Harris chants, "Just what you need to make you feel better," another guy sings, "Doo doo doo doo doo doo." The doo-doos in this song are funny.

  • perfecta instrumentacion, fabuloso