Ammonia Avenue 1134708 224660850 2008-07-09T21:22:23Z J Milburn Bot 7423137 All Music Guide has now been rebranded to Allmusic {{Infobox Album | <!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject_Albums --> | Name = Ammonia Avenue | Type = [[Album]] | Artist = [[The Alan Parsons Project]] | Cover = The Alan Parsons Project - Ammonia Avenue.jpg | Released = [[February 7]], [[1984]] | Recorded = Mid 1982-Late 1983<br>[[Abbey Road Studios]] | Genre = [[Progressive rock]] | Length = 40:10 | Label = [[Arista Records|Arista]] | Producer = [[Alan Parsons]] | Reviews = *[[Allmusic]] {{rating-5|3.5}} [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:5sx7gjvrj6ic link] *''[[Rolling Stone]]'' ({{{5|2}}}/5) [http://www.rollingstone.com/reviews/album/_/id/301828/ link] | Last album = ''[[The Best of the Alan Parsons Project]]''<br/>(1983) | This album = '''''Ammonia Avenue'''''<br/>(1984) | Next album = ''[[Vulture Culture]]''<br/>(1985) }} '''''Ammonia Avenue''''' is one of the most commercially successful albums of [[The Alan Parsons Project]]. It was the second of the group's three most accessible albums, beginning with ''[[Eye in the Sky (album)|Eye in the Sky]]'' and ending with ''[[Vulture Culture]]''. ''Ammonia Avenue'' was originally intended to be released as a [[double album]] with Vulture Culture's material forming the second record. The [[Phil Spector]] influenced million selling smash- "Don't Answer Me" is generally regarded as ''Ammonia Avenue'''s best song, with the title track a close second. "Prime Time" was a follow up release that fared well in the top 40. "You Don't Believe" was also a minor hit. A [[music video]] for "Don't Answer Me" was produced in 1985, with art and animation by [[Michael William Kaluta|MW Kaluta]]. The title of the album was inspired by [[Eric Woolfson]]'s visit to [[Imperial Chemical Industries]] (ICI) in [[Billingham]] England, where the first thing he saw was a street with miles of pipes, no people, no trees and a sign that said 'Ammonia Avenue'. The album focused on the possible misunderstanding of industrial scientific developments from a public perspective and a lack of understanding of the public from a scientific perspective. ({{Citation | last = Woolfson | first = Eric | title = Albums, Back Catalogue | url = http://www.the-alan-parsons-project.com/albums.html | access-date = 2007-05-28}}) ==Track listing== All tracks written by Alan Parsons and Eric Woolfson #"Prime Time" (lead vocal [[Eric Woolfson]]) – 5:03 #"Let Me Go Home" (lead vocal [[Lenny Zakatek]]) – 3:20 #"One Good Reason" (lead vocal [[Eric Woolfson]]) – 3:36 #"Since the Last Goodbye" (lead vocal [[Chris Rainbow]]) – 4:34 #"Don't Answer Me" (lead vocal [[Eric Woolfson]]) – 4:11 #"Dancing on a Highwire" (lead vocal [[Colin Blunstone]]) – 4:22 #"You Don't Believe" (lead vocal [[Lenny Zakatek]]) – 4:26 <sub>(This track actually appeared first on ''[[The Best of the Alan Parsons Project]]'' released a year earlier)</sub> #"Pipeline" (instrumental)– 3:56 #"Ammonia Avenue" (lead vocal [[Eric Woolfson]]) – 6:30 ==Charts== {| class="wikitable" border="1" cellspacing="2" cellpadding="2" !align="left"|Year !align="left"|Chart !align="left"|Position |- |align="left"|1984 |align="left"|The [[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]] 200 |align="left"|15 |- |align="left"|1984 |align="left"|[[UK Albums Chart]] |align="left"|24 |- |} {{The Alan Parsons Project}} [[Category:Alan Parsons Project albums]] [[Category:1984 albums]] [[Category:Albums produced by Alan Parsons]] [[ca:Ammonia Avenue]] [[it:Ammonia Avenue]] [[pt:Ammonia Avenue]] [[tr:Ammonia Avenue]]