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Vulture Culture

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Overview
Track listing
Personnel
Charts
Certifications
References

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| name = Vulture Culture
| type = Album
| artist = The Alan Parsons Project
| cover = TAPP-VultureCulture.jpg
| alt =
| released = December 1984
| recorded = May – July 1984
Abbey Road Studios, London
| venue =
| studio =
| genre = {{hlist|Progressive rock|pop rock}}
| length = 37:59
| label = Arista
| producer = Alan Parsons and Eric Woolfson
| prev_title = Ammonia Avenue
| prev_year = 1984
| next_title = Stereotomy
| next_year = 1985
}}{{Album ratings
| rev1 = Allmusic
| rev1Score = {{Rating|2|5}}^[1]
| rev2 = Rolling Stone
| rev2Score = {{Rating|2|5}}^[2]
}}Vulture Culture is the eighth studio album by The Alan Parsons Project, released in 1984 (early 1985 in some countries) via the Arista label.^[3]

Overview

The first side of the LP (CD tracks 1–4) consists entirely of four-minute pop songs, and the second side varies widely, from the subdued funk of the title track to the bouncing "Hawkeye".

At the beginning of 1985, the lead single "Let's Talk About Me" reached the Top 40 in Germany (where the album was No. 1^[4]), in Switzerland (where Vulture Culture was No. 2) and in the Netherlands.^[5] The song features voice-over commentary from Lee Abrams, credited on the album as "Mr. Laser Beam" (an anagram of his name).

Originally, the album was intended to be the second LP of a double album, with Ammonia Avenue being the first. After the discs were split into separate albums, Vulture Culture was given a more modern (for the time) studio treatment with harder-hitting drums and dynamics. "Sooner or Later" was described by Parsons himself as "the third attempt to try and get another hit with the "Eye in the Sky"-esque chugging guitar line – "Prime Time" from Ammonia Avenue was the second, which I thought was a little more successful in that respect."

In the charts, Vulture Culture was a success in continental Europe, often reaching the Top 10,^[6] and in Oceania; whereas it was less successful in North America. It was the last album to be certified Gold.

The song "Hawkeye" is an instrumental but does contain a line from Monica, a woman working at the canteen in Abbey Road Studios. The line she says is: "Only what's on the menu".

This is the only Project album that does not feature the orchestration of Andrew Powell.

Vulture Culture was the last Project album recorded on analogue equipment, and as with the previous two, mixed directly to the digital master tape.

Track listing

All songs written and composed by Alan Parsons and Eric Woolfson.

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| headline = Side one
| extra_column = Lead Vocals
| title1 = Let's Talk About Me
| extra1 = David Paton
| length1 = 4:29
| title2 = Separate Lives
| extra2 = Eric Woolfson
| length2 = 4:59
| title3 = Days Are Numbers (The Traveller)
| extra3 = Chris Rainbow
| length3 = 4:31
| title4 = Sooner or Later
| extra4 = Eric Woolfson
| length4 = 4:25
}}{{Track listing
| headline = Side two
| extra_column = Lead Vocals
| title1 = Vulture Culture
| extra1 = Lenny Zakatek
| length1 = 5:22
| title2 = Hawkeye
| extra2 = Instrumental
| length2 = 3:49
| title3 = Somebody Out There
| extra3 = Colin Blunstone
| length3 = 4:55
| title4 = The Same Old Sun
| extra4 = Eric Woolfson
| length4 = 5:25
}}

Vulture Culture was remastered and reissued in 2007 with the following bonus tracks:

"No Answers Only Questions (final version)" (Woolfson) – 2:12
"Separate Lives (alternative mix)" – 4:18
"Hawkeye (demo)" – 3:18
"The Naked Vulture" – 10:43
"No Answers Only Questions (the first attempt)" (Woolfson) – 2:56

Personnel

Ian Bairnson – guitar
Colin Blunstone – vocals
Richard Cottle – synthesizer, keyboards, saxophone
Stuart Elliott – percussion, drums
Mr. Laser Beam – vocals, speech/speaker/speaking part
Alan Parsons – keyboards, programming, vocals
David Paton – bass, guitar, vocals
Chris Rainbow – vocals
Eric Woolfson – piano, keyboards, vocals
Lenny Zakatek – vocals

Charts

Year	Chart	Position
1985	The Billboard 200	46
1985	UK Albums Chart	40
1985	Canada	25
1985	Norway	9
1985	Spain (AFYVE)	2

Certifications

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References

1. ^{{cite web |url={{Allmusic|class=album|id=r14919|pure_url=yes}} |title=allmusic ((( Vulture Culture > Overview ))) |publisher=www.allmusic.com|accessdate=26 September 2009 }}
2. ^[https://www.rollingstone.com/music/albumreviews Rolling Stone Music | Album Reviews]. Rollingstone.com.
3. ^[https://www.discogs.com/it/The-Alan-Parsons-Project-Vulture-Culture/master/25305 Alan Parsons Project, The – Vulture Culture at Discogs]. Discogs.com (03 February 2018).
4. ^charts.de. charts.de.
5. ^The Alan Parsons Project – Let's Talk About Me. hitparade.ch.
6. ^The Alan Parsons Project – Vulture Culture. dutchcharts.nl.

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