Label: Universal Music (US), B0009122-02
Style: Progressive Rock, Art Rock, Pop Rock
Country: London, England
Time: 57:04, 63:13
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 360, 375 Mb
Originally simply called The Alan Parsons Project, the album was successful enough to achieve gold status. The identity of The Alan Parsons Project as a group was cemented on the second album, I Robot, in 1977.
In 1987, Parsons completely remixed the album, including additional keyboard and guitar passages and narration (by Orson Welles) as well as updating the production style to include heavy reverb and the gated reverb snare drum sound, which was popular in the 1980s. He also made the end of side A segue into the start of side B due to the remix of the album being released when CD's were commercially available, thus no need to stop playback to change sides. The CD notes that Welles never met Parsons or Eric Woolfson, but sent a tape to them of the performance shortly after the album was manufactured in 1976.
The first passage narrated by Welles on the 1987 remix (which comes before the first track, "A Dream Within a Dream") is sourced from an obscure nonfiction piece by Poe – No XVI of his Marginalia (from 1845 to 1849 Edgar Allan Poe titled some of his reflections and fragmentary material "Marginalia.") The second passage Welles reads (which comes before "The Fall of the House of Usher" (Prelude), seems to be a partial paraphrase or composite from nonfiction by Poe, chiefly from a collection of poems titled "Poems of Youth" by Poe (contained in "Introduction to Poems – 1831" in a section titled "Letter to Mr. B-----------"; the "Shadows of shadows passing" part of the quote comes from the Marginalia.
In 2007, a Deluxe Edition released by Universal Music included both the 1976 and the 1987 versions remastered by Alan Parsons during 2006 with eight additional bonus tracks.
(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tales_of_Mystery_and_Imagination_(Alan_Parsons_Project_album))
CD1 - 1976 Album:
01. A Dream Within A Dream (03:41)
02. The Raven (03:58)
03. The Tell-Tale Heart (04:42)
04. The Cask Of Amontillado (04:28)
05. (The System Of) Dr. Tarr and Professor Fether (04:19)
06. Prelude (05:52)
07. Arrival (02:41)
08. Intermezzo (01:03)
09. Pavane (04:34)
10. Fall (00:52)
11. To One In Paradise (04:39)
12. The Raven - Original Demo (03:27)
13. Edgar - Original Demo of an unreleased track (03:04)
14. Orson Wells Radio Spot (01:03)
15. Interview with Alan Parsons and Eric Woolfson, 1976 (08:33)
CD2 - 1987 Remix:
01. A Dream Within A Dream (04:13)
02. The Raven (03:57)
03. The Tell-Tale Heart (04:39)
04. The Cask Of Amontillado (04:33)
05. (The System Of) Dr. Tarr and Professor Fether (04:21)
06. Prelude (07:01)
07. Arrival (02:39)
08. Intermezzo (00:59)
09. Pavane (04:36)
10. Fall (00:51)
11. To One In Paradise (04:54)
12. Eric's Guide Vocal Melody (09:14)
13. Orson Wells Dialogue (03:08)
14. Sea Lions in the Departure Lounge - Sound Effects and Experiments (02:38)
15. GBH Mix - Unreleased Experiments (05:22)
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