The Alan Parsons Project - In The Lap Of The Gods

[swtam]

Beautiful

[vegayaltair1962]

NO SO ODD ,THE GODS ARE STILL PRESENT ...<3:)

[paawit]

Exellent!

[karlmoles65]

The Alan Parsons Project is SO UNDERRATED

[DowdsyProductions1]

For me the fast part ruins this from being the most beautiful song I know. However, it's still a beauty to behold.

[80paura16ciao]

UN VERO CAPOLAVORO.

[Pandoranage4101]

Genius.

[Duckler163]

Why does 2:10+ remind me of Final Fantasy 7. I didn't realize until now they took from AP lol.

[1013shelton]

i liked it better without commercials...someone should start a new music website like utoobe without commercials in video.

[margytomi]

What does the choir say? Que dice el coro?

[grequilio]

@margytomi

"chorus"

xd

y no tengo idea

[elpayot]

This song + LSD and u can talk with the gods

[alexito2209]

recuerdo esta canción en un comercial del VW caribe en los 70's u 80's, no tarde ni una semana en comprar el disco (LP) simplemente increible.

Gracias por subir este video.

[JuanLorenZerimar]

This was excellent...You "see"..

[supergoober50]

I invision warriors marching to war to kill all the bad guys of the World, then they march home and into the arms of the good people where they never have to fight again... Yep this song invokes all sorts of visions..!

[evilfinger66]

I was a infantryman. I`m sick of being sick because of what I have done.If you know what I mean, then say nothing.

[kiwikaboodle]

A great piece and very dramatic, but I too ponder at the question it asks. Where, indeed, is the corned beef?

[recruiter40]

I see the armies from connan , in a grand clash of steal rending flesh. its all good

[astrophonix]

People don't want war. Politicians want war. When the rich make war, it's the poor that die. Politicians are the common enemy of all mankind.

[majepacho]

Hace como 30 años que no escuchaba este tema. Acabo de viajar en el tiempo.

[TheUndert0ker]

beautiful song! i'm new to alan parsons, and i cant say i like them all, but many of them are really damn good

[sherhrtatk]

hahahha

[Rodney2485]

perfect song...thanks

[Anderson0457]

Forver ruined this song.. now everytime I hear the initial horn blast I see "Stop WAR."

[utuberine]

@Anderson0457 Isn't it eerie how influencing visuals can be on song. Has the ability to, like you said, forever change what you originally thought or felt about any piece. I don't watch a lot of these ,(although some are very good), homemade vids for that reason. To whoever makes them though. Keep it up. Appreciate the music and the time and care you have all taken to make YouTube my most used tool on the net.

[derfelcadarn000]

Love this song

[bobdudeaz]

Again thanks you Ms Camelona08....APP always a treat...simply beautiful

[mcalexis]

me encanta......

manuel29

ags, méxico

[pattyvamp]

from a verry close friend

[usm7j]

Remember listening to this while visiting the Chaco Canyon (Anasazi?) ruins in NW New Mexico. Still get goosebumps 30 years later. Parsons has always evoked some very strong mental images with his music.

[Baritone45]

@usm7j You mean Woolfson, Eric Woolfson, the man who actually wrote the music.

[alphabetgreen1996]

@Baritone45 Actually, not quite true. I believe that Alan and Eric shared the writing, but the main force behind their success was Andrew Powell who arranged all the orchestration (they had to use proper orchestras in those days). And if you cast your mind back to Ammonia Avenue, it was the last ever album that he worked on. You'll notice this because the album directly after that, "Vulture Culture" is extremely bland and unmusical, as is "Stereotomy" after that, and "Gaudi" after that.

[Baritone45]

@alphabetgreen1996 Interesting. I really never got into the details back in the day, as it was so hard to read more than the liner notes and I never read Rolling Stone or Tiger Beat (not that the APP would have been prominent there). As a result I had not even heard of Eric Woolfson until a year ago, about 1 month after his death. And you're the first to mention Andrew Powell to me. I am just going on what I've read on YouTube.  Thanks for the input.

[alphabetgreen1996]

@Baritone45 Jesus! I didn't even know Eric Woolfson was dead. Blimey!

[Baritone45]

@alphabetgreen1996 Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but you should really read more comments on APP postings. Isn't the Internet, particularly YouTube, a wonderful resource to learn about the past?

[chojpek]

when I listen this, in the slow part i imagine tne universe then the galaxy then sun and planets, the earth, a city, a concert, until the eye of a person, alan person, in the fast part, until subatomic particules

[DeepestSleep]

....and THEN you dropped acid for the first time. !

[redstone1963]

Outstanding!!

[9azmco]

peace - peace !!!!

[Floydian1384]

Awesome.

This is one of the reasons why I love Progressive Rock.

[davirodr]

Alan Pansons and Mike Oldlfield transpassing the border and they are nearest of nothing of the old mastes compositians. Brave.

[davirodr]

.Alan parsons y mike Oldfield rebasan la linea y estan mas cerca que nadie de los antiguos maestros compositores. Bravo.

[espejitomagico1]

fantastico, un genio alan parson maravilloso trabajo.  cris de uruguay

[KurtisERIK]

With the kettle drums, I always imagined an endless line of soldiers being panned. Then the camera would pull back and you would see a troops on horse back marching through over a desert full of dunes. When the music picks up, they begin to charge and you have a big dust cloud visible in the distance and the thunderclap of thousands of hooves. It sounds like a charge to me.

[wconditi]

Awesome. Thank you. This made my night. :)

[fek2000]

Great posting video to go with the great song by APP.

[nostromusrex]

A political concept. Great job!

[Aqualung1989]

when i think of these words (in the lap of the gods), what i think of is very, very high mountains... i may make a video about that, maybe...

[robew69]

WOW

[urbania70]

Well, not so odd.. Even I have a personal non-Egyptian image which is high mountains (something like the Olympus, give the title). And you put also the mountains! You can read my mind?

[camelona08]

Maybe so :)

I don't think "the Projects" thought about the ancient Egypt when they created this track... The ring bells at the beginning and pyramids don't match, right?

[urbania70]

Well.. my personal image of the intro always was of a christian bell and an arabic muezin so, given the title, I saw the instrumental as something about the universality of religions, which MAY be one of the planes of interpretations actually (see Ammonia Avenue, Ammon-ia means in Hebrew and Arabic "to believe in God" so for AA you get "the way to believe in god").

[urbania70]

BUT Alan said on the official The Avenue fanzine that his image for the song was, can't remember the exact words, the funeral, sealing of the pyramid and fest for its completion. The initial bell was probably intended as a cylindrical or some other type used by ancient Egypt. After all it's performed by a tubular bell.

See more about this on my comment to the video on this same song by Nostromusrex.

[xviisecolo]

Nor was it about about war and peace.

Lap of the gods is about one's fate in the world.

Interesting visual takes though.

[ROULETTEREGIME]

"SAMPLED BY THE ROULETTE REGIME"

[gzzrico]

Beutiful music.Hermosa música

[zandras3ddo]

this is a start to a better world!

[minero73mx]

De la mejor musica que se ha compuesto, gracias por compartirla !

[Pfloydiana]

WONDERFUL!!!THANK YOU.

[JOEneil69]

Peace and Love !

Thank you for sharing your vision of this great piece of APP.

[migabre]

This is an excellent idea, I really like it, te sacaste un diez

[camelona08]

Gracias.

Nunca pensé en el Antiguo Egipto o en las piramides cuando oía esta música, que es de lo que se supone trata el album "Pyramid".

The video would have been better with animated images but... I did my best :)