The Turn Of A Friendly Card (studio album) by The Alan Parsons Project
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The Turn Of A Friendly Card is ranked 3rd best out of 19 albums by The Alan Parsons Project on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by The Alan Parsons Project is I Robot which is ranked number 1533 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 1,130.
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The tracks on this album have an average rating of 80 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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50/100  | 02/29/2024 02:12 | CaptainPain | | 60/100 |
95/100 | 01/31/2024 23:59 | Proto | | 42/100 |
75/100 | 01/11/2024 22:55 | Junomoogmello | | 78/100 |
75/100 | 10/03/2023 05:28 |  Gammarus1979 | | 81/100 |
80/100 | 09/21/2023 23:52 | Skerns | | 79/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 6% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 76.0/100, a mean average of 75.2/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 76.1/100. The standard deviation for this album is 15.1.
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Another excellent album. I think I Robot has the slight edge. 'Games People Play' is a personal favourite.
IlMala 01/23/2022 21:16
Really excellent job and not sufficiently valued. The suite of the album is the peak of APP discography; suggested because is a band definitely to re-value (in my humble opinion)
One of the most underrated albums ever !
AndrewJFisher 04/22/2019 23:09
Very good album, maybe just a little below I Robot. "Nothing Left to Lose" is a particular favourite, I like the change to a brief reggae beat section, then the return to the "Snake Eyes" theme, which the song ends on. I like the instrumental "The Gold Bug" for it's resemblance to Jean-Michel Jarre's "Oxygene Pt. IV". "The Turn of a Friendly Card(Parts 1 and 2)" is very nice too, I like the lyric "And they think it will make their lives easier....for God knows up till now it's been hard".
Sandrof1969 02/17/2018 09:34
Siccome gran parte di questo disco lo conoscevo dalla pre adolescenza non riesco a darne un giudizio obiettivo: troppo forte l'imprinting causato dalle canzoni del lato A ( ma pure da "The gold bug" ), nonostante il loro incedere dance. Il lato B in effetti mi piace meno ma mi sarebbe piaciuto meno in ogni caso, vista la suite della canzone omonima e certe svisate nella musica medievale.
Brilliant and creative album. There isn't a weak track to be found.
Tier List for my preferences of the tracks on this album:
NOTE: 6 is "The Turn Of A Friendly Card" in its entirety.
Top: 1, 2, 5
High: 4, 6
Neutral: 3
Totally addicted to this album. Best they've ever created
timtooky 05/09/2014 18:32
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A complete and utter surprise after the string of meh-tier albums I've heard from these guys.
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