Ammonia Avenue
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{{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.
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==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
|-
|}
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