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The two instrumental cuts, 'Lucifer' and 'Secret Garden,' sound like out-takes. A much better song, the ballad 'You Won't Be There,' gets a fine vocal performance too (from Dave Townsend), but it's hurt by a Star Wars-size finale more appropriate to the bigger subjects of Pyramid.

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It's not the best song in Eve, but it is the most interesting - because it's the only one free of the double-time intros, choral vocalise, and big, rhythmic electric-piano chords we've heard before in other Parsons albums. 'You Lie Down with Dogs,' with a gritty vocal by Larry Zakatek, is as close to straight rock as anything Parsons has done. The arrangements are not as fresh, and the sound, which seemed so new so recently, now seems repetitive. Musically, though, Eve is a disappointment coming from Parsons and Eric Woolfson, the creators of the classic Pyramid. But it adds a nice dimension to the listening experience, the kind of lightly sketched theme that Alan Parsons fans look for in each of his remarkable mood albums. It's not the most profound concept, the conflict of the animal urgings of sex and the human need for love, and it's not carried through and developed in a literary or operatic way, like 'Evita' or Tommy.

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Eve then moves through a series of male confrontations with a woman's mysteries to a kind of resolution in 'If I Could Change Your Mind,' in which a female vocalist sings of 'Windy shores on melancholy days/ Drifting along with the tide/ And the joys of simple things and ordinary ways.' One face is caught in the callous images of the opener, 'You Lie Down with Dogs' ('Not your only man, just another/ I'm gonna take what I can like any other'). The three astonishingly beautiful women on this album's disturbing cover have faces that turn out, on closer inspection, to be horribly disfigured, and the album's 'concept' is the two faces women show to men (or that men thing women show to men). Stephen Holden, Rolling Stone, 12-13-79. And how much more human can you get than a concept album, concerned with sex? Though Eve offers plenty of sonic grandeur - the forceful melody of 'Damned if I Do,' the Beach Boys-like vocal harmonies in 'Secret Garden' - the lyrics are almost clumsy and sententious enough to give sex a bad name.Įve will make a good demo record for audio equipment. But the more human the theme, the more inappropriate such a style becomes. On 1977's witty I Robot, the Alan Parsons Project's bombastic and synthesized orchestral pop rock proved to be a nifty idiom for exploring man-machine myths. When it's finally Woman's turn to reply - Woman gets only two cuts to Man's four - she's made to whine about being lonely. That about sums up Eve's sexual politics. 'You lie down with dogs, you get up with fleas,' spits another. 'I'd rather be a man than sin my soul like you do,' announces David Paton, playing one of the LP's four male accusers. The year's silliest record by a best-selling act, Eve purports to be a song cycle evoking Woman, yet the portrait thrown up by this 3-D space-rock oratorio is some whory Victorian witch in a leather headdress flicking her garter belt and hissing curses.

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