Ammonia Avenue: Difference between revisions

| artist = [[Thethe Alan Parsons Project]]

| released = 7 February 1984

| recorded = Mid 1982 – Late 1983

| single1date = 1 MarchFebruary 1984<ref>{{cite web|url=https://dutchchartsarchive.nlorg/showitem.asp?interpret=The+Alan+Parsons+Project&titel=Don%27t+Answer+Me&cat=sdetails/greatrockdiscogr00stro/page/616/mode/2up|title=AlanGreat ParsonsRock singlesDiscography|page=616}}</ref>

| single2date = May 1984

'''''Ammonia Avenue''''' is the seventh [[studio album]] by the British [[progressive rock]] band [[Thethe Alan Parsons Project]], released on 7in February 1984 by [[Arista Records]]. The [[Phil Spector]]-influenced "[[Don't Answer Me]]" was the album's lead single, and reached the Top 15 on the US [[Billboard Hot 100|''Billboard'' Hot 100]] and Mainstream Rock Tracks charts, as well as the fourth position on the Adult Contemporary chart. The single also reached the Top 20 in several countries<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://hitparade.ch/showitem.asp?interpret=The+Alan+Parsons+Project&titel=Don't+Answer+Me&cat=s |title = The Alan Parsons Project - Don't Answer Me - hitparade.ch |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120709173023/https://hitparade.ch/showitem.asp?interpret=The+Alan+Parsons+Project&titel=Don't+Answer+Me&cat=s |archive-date=9 July 2012 |url-status=dead}}</ref> and represents the last big hit for the Alan Parsons Project. "Prime Time" was a follow-up release that fared well in the topTop 40, reaching No. 34. "You Don't Believe" was the first single in November 1983, reaching #54 on the Billboard Hot 100 and "Since Thethe Last Goodbye" was a minor hit.

''Ammonia Avenue'' is one of the band's biggest-selling albums, carrying an [[Recording Industry Association of America|RIAA]] certification of gold and reaching the Top 10 in a number of countries.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://dutchcharts.nl/showitem.asp?interpret%3DThe+Alan+Parsons+Project%26titel%3DAmmonia+Avenue%26cat%3Da |title=ArchivedDutchcharts.nl copy- the Alan Parsons Project - Ammonia Avenue |accessdate=2014-05-02 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140527205331/https://dutchcharts.nl/showitem.asp?interpret=The+Alan+Parsons+Project&titel=Ammonia+Avenue&cat=a |archivedate=27 May 2014 |df=dmy }}</ref>

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 read '[[Ammonia]] Avenue', whose portrait was used for the front cover. The album focuses on the possible misunderstanding of [[industrial engineering|industrial]] [[scientific]] developments from a public perspective and a lack of understanding of the public from a scientific perspective.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Woolfson |first=Eric |title=Albums, Back Catalogue |url=https://www.the-alan-parsons-project.com/albums/ammoniaavenue.php |accessdate=28 May 2007 |format=– ^{[https://scholar.google.co.uk/scholar?hl=en&lr=&q=author%3AWoolfson+intitle%3AAlbums%2C+Back+Catalogue&as_publication=&as_ylo=&as_yhi=&btnG=Search Scholar search]} |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090517122705/https://www.the-alan-parsons-project.com/albums/ammoniaavenue.php |archivedate=17 May 2009 |df=dmy }}</ref> This album was the second of three recorded on analogue equipment and mixed directly to the digital master tape.{{citation needed|date=November 2021}}

Music videos for "Don't Answer Me" and "Prime Time" were produced in 1984, the former with art and animation by [[Michael William Kaluta|MW Kaluta]]. The latter video is inspired by [[John Collier (fiction writer)|John Collier]]'s story "Evening Primrose" and features two [[mannequins]], a female and a male one, coming to life and falling in love with each other. About halfway through the video, a street sign for "Ammonia Ave." appears - a reference to the album title.

| extra3 = Eric Woolfson

| extra5 = Eric Woolfson

| extra2 = Lenny Zakatek

| extra4 = Eric Woolfson

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