HopeForlorn

I've finally cleared the techno industrial out of my system enough to be able to listen to The Essential Alan Parsons Project. Although I didn't remember them the way I did "Eye in the Sky," I've apparently heard "Time" and "Don't Ask Me" before, while I've heard part of "Sirius" played as an intro piece in a few sports things before. Today I mostly listened to disc 2 of the set, which sounds very 70s and mostly lived in a progressive and "yacht rock” pocket as its genre.

The saxophone bits in some places reminded me very strongly of a song I haven't thought about in a while but that takes me firmly back to a place and time when I hear it. If you were alive in 1978 and beyond, you've probably heard it. According to Wikipedia, Billboard described it as having "the most recognizable sax riff in music history." It actually has a great guitar riff too.

It's "Baker Street" by Gerry Rafferty. (And the sax riff was played by a musician named like a Vampire the Masquerade character: Raphael Ravenscroft.)


I hear this song, and suddenly I'm a child in the backseat of a car driving through Long Island.