The Alan Parsons Project releases its seventh album, Ammonia Avenue, including the singles “Prime Time” and “Don’t Answer Me”. 
With this album, the Project entered a bit of a decline. Largely dictated by demands from their parent label Arista, vocalist Eric Woolfson takes center stage as the predominant voice, moreso than on any other Project album except the later Freudiana. This is not a bad thing, because I quite like Woolfson’s voice, but there is such a thing as too much, especially when it was the norm by this time for the group to use several vocalists instead of focusing on one for most of an entire album. This album spawned the semi-hit “Don’t Answer Me”, a 50’s retro ballad which also became the Project’s first widely-distributed music video – naturally, given the faceless nature of the band, it was animated! Also featured is possibly my favorite Parsons instrumental of all, “Pipeline”.
- Prime Time (5:03)
- Let Me Go Home (3:20)
- One Good Reason (3:36)
- Since The Last Goodbye (4:34)
- Don’t Answer Me (4:11)
- Dancing on a Highwire (4:22)
- You Don’t Believe (4:26)
- Pipeline (3:56)
- Ammonia Avenue (6:30)
Released by: Arista
Release date: 1984
Total running time: 39:58
1994 music review by Earl Green