- progressive rock, rock, pop rock, art rock
- 38 min
- 9 tracks
- Arista
Pyramid is the third album by progressive rock band The Alan Parsons Project, released in May 1978. It is a concept album centred on the pyramids of Giza. At the time the album was conceived, interest in pyramid power and Tutankhamun was widespread in the US and the UK. Pyramid was nominated for the 1978 Grammy Award for Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical.
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Grave, epic, earnest and cool.
- gravecomic
- intimateepic
- earnestironic
- cooloverwhelming
- classical in formformally daring
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Tracks
- 1Voyager2:24
- 2What Goes Up…3:31
- 3The Eagle Will Rise Again4:23
- 4One More River4:18
- 5Can’t Take It With You5:05
- 6In the Lap of the Gods5:30
- 7Pyramania2:44
- 8Hyper-Gamma-Spaces4:19
- 9Shadow of a Lonely Man5:34
9 tracks, 38 minutes.
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- The Alan Parsons Project
- Label
- Arista
- Type
- Album
- Format
- CD
- Country
- DE
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