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 JR>SVI> JR> They say that "it doesn't have to be from the 70's to be a
 JR>SVI> JR> classic"
 JR>SVI>
 JR>SVI> That's true, look at Alan Parsons. Mostly 80's, and still some
 JR>SVI> classics. It even doesn't have to be classic to be progrock, I
 JR>SVI> think.
 JR>Yeah, BUT...some of the stuff they're passing off as 'classic' is really
 MD> jus
 JR>machine-processed pop rock.  But, I guess I can't win.
 MD> IMHO, aside from the very Pink Floyd influened "I Robot", a great
 MD> album, most of parsons' stuff is rather pedstrian, not prog. at all.
What about their first album, _Tales of Mystery and Imagination_?
That's as much Prog as _I Robot_.  Beyond that, though, Alan Parsons
isn't really Prog.  The band's done some great work regardless, such as
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