The Best of The Alan Parsons Project, Vol. 2

The Best of the Alan Parsons Project, Vol. 2
Greatest hits album by The Alan Parsons Project
Genre Progressive rock
Label Arista
Producer Alan Parsons
Eric Woolfson
The Alan Parsons Project chronology

Gaudi
(1987)
The Best of the Alan Parsons Project, Vol. 2
(1988)
The Instrumental Works
(1988)

The Best of the Alan Parsons Project, Vol. 2 is a 1988 greatest hits compilation by The Alan Parsons Project. All tracks written by Alan Parsons and Eric Woolfson.

Track listing (CD edition in USA and Canada)

  1. "Prime Time" (single edit) (from Ammonia Avenue) – 3:48
  2. "Let's Talk About Me" (single edit) (from Vulture Culture) - 3:37
  3. "Standing On Higher Ground" (single edit) (from Gaudi) - 4:22
  4. "Stereotomy" (single edit) (from Stereotomy) - 4:26
  5. "Don't Answer Me" (from Ammonia Avenue) - 4:10
  6. "Limelight" (from Stereotomy) - 4:38
  7. "I Robot" (from I Robot) - 6:00
  8. "What Goes Up... " (from Pyramid) - 3:24
  9. "Days Are Numbers (The Traveller)" (single version) (from Vulture Culture) - 4:08
  10. "Ammonia Avenue" (from Ammonia Avenue) - 6:32
  11. "The Turn Of A Friendly Card, Pt. 2" (from The Turn of a Friendly Card) - 3:20

Track listing (CD edition in Europe)

A different track list was issued in the CD compilation for Europe, where it was named "The Alan Parsons Project – Limelight (The Best Of Vol.2)":

  1. "Limelight" - 4:38
  2. "The Same Old Sun" (from Vulture Culture) - 5:24
  3. "Ammonia Avenue" - 6:30
  4. "Mammagamma" (from Eye in the Sky) - 3:34
  5. "Since The Last Goodbye" (from Ammonia Avenue) - 4:34
  6. "I Robot" - 6:02
  7. "Prime Time" – 5:03
  8. "Hawkeye" (from Vulture Culture) - 3:48
  9. "The Turn Of A Friendly Card, Pt. 1" (from The Turn of a Friendly Card) - 2:40
  10. "Silence and I" (from Eye in the Sky) - 7:22

Track listing (LP edition in Spain)

The compilation was named "The Alan Parsons Project – Limelight (The Best Of Vol.2)" in Spain's LP edition, the same name as the European distribution, but it contains the same tracks than standard American CD edition (tracks 1 to 6 on side A, tracks 7 to 11 on side B) plus an extra track at the end of side B.

Side A:

  1. "Prime Time" – 5:03
  2. "Let's Talk About Me" – 4:22
  3. "Standing On Higher Ground" – 5:01
  4. "Stereotomy" – 7:15
  5. "Don't Answer Me" – 4:11
  6. "Limelight" – 4:39

Side B:

  1. "I Robot" – 5:38
  2. "What Goes Up... " – 3:31
  3. "Days Are Numbers (The Traveller)" – 4:02
  4. "Ammonia Avenue" – 6:30
  5. "The Turn Of A Friendly Card, Pt. 2" – 3:21
  6. "La Sagrada Familia" (from Gaudi) - 8:44