This one is based on the 1980 Alan Parsons Project album "The Turn of a Friendly Card," one of his favorites. It turns out there are enough alternate versions of the songs from this album issued as bonus tracks decades later that it's possible to create an entire alternate version of the album. He calls this "An Alternate Turn."
As is his habit, Mike has created a PDF file to explain his thoughts on this album, complete with photos. So instead of writing more about it here, I'll leave it to you to read the PDF file that is included.
However, on a sad note, it seems I have slowly driven Mike crazy with my slow pace of posting his guest post albums. He has a lot of things to post, and it's hard for me to deal with that and the many, many albums I want to post on my own. So we've decided it's better if he posts most of his stuff through PJ's excellent "Albums I Wish Existed" blog. Hopefully he may still post some things here, if he wants more of my involvement on something, but probably a lot more over there. So please keep an eye out for that soon.
This album is 47 minutes long.
01 May Be a Price to Pay [Early Version, Eric Guide Vocals & Unused Guitar Solo] (Alan Parsons Project)
02 Games People Play [Rough Mix] (Alan Parsons Project)
03 Time [Orchestra & Chris Rainbow Backing Vocals] (Alan Parsons Project)
04 The Turn of a Friendly Card - Snake Eyes - I Don't Wanna Go Home [Eric's Songwriting Diary] (Alan Parsons Project)
05 The Gold Bug [Early Reference Version] (Alan Parsons Project)
06 The Turn of a Friendly Card [Part One] [Early Backing Track] (Alan Parsons Project)
07 Snake Eyes [Early Version, Eric Guide Vocal] (Alan Parsons Project)
08 The Ace of Swords [Early Version with Piano on Melody and Synth Orchestra] (Alan Parsons Project)
09 Nothing Left to Lose [Eric's Songwriting Diary] (Alan Parsons Project)
10 The Turn of a Friendly Card [Part Two] [Eric Guide Vocal and Extended Guitar ... (Alan Parsons Project)
https://www.upload.ee/files/15123464/AlanParsP_1980_AnAlternatTurn_atse.zip.html
I made the album cover art, with Mike's input and approval. I used the artwork of the "May Be a Price to Pay" single. Basically, I just removed the name of that song from the bottom of the cover, and replaced it with Mike's name for this album.
