Try Anything Once

{{short description|1993 studio album by Alan Parsons}}

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{{Infobox album

| name = Try Anything Once

| type = studio

| artist = Alan Parsons

| cover = Alan Parsons - Try Anything.jpg

| alt =

| released = 26 October 1993

| recorded = October 1992 – August 1993

| studio =

| genre = Progressive rock

| length = 59:36

| label = Arista

| producer = Alan Parsons

| prev_title = Freudiana

| prev_year = 1990

| next_title = On Air

| next_year = 1996

| misc = {{Singles

| name = Try Anything Once

| type = studio

| single1 = Turn It Up

| single1date = 1993

| single2 = Wine From the Water

| single2date = 1994 (Europe only)

| single3 = Oh Life (There Must Be More)

| single3date = 1994 (US only)

}}

}}

{{Album ratings

| rev1 = AllMusic

| rev1score = {{Rating|2.5|5}}{{cite web|author=Mike DeGagne |url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/try-anything-once-mw0000107335 |title=Try Anything Once – Alan Parsons |publisher=AllMusic |date=1993-10-26 |access-date=2016-08-19}}

| rev2 = Deseret News

| rev2score = (favorable){{cite web|author=Ray Boren |url=https://www.deseretnews.com/article/327169/TRY-ANYTHING-ONCE-PROVES-PARSONS-HASNT-LOST-TOUCH.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180927203318/https://www.deseretnews.com/article/327169/TRY-ANYTHING-ONCE-PROVES-PARSONS-HASNT-LOST-TOUCH.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=27 September 2018 |title='Try Anything Once' proves Parsons hasn't lost touch |publisher=Deseret News |date=1993-12-21 |access-date=2018-11-18}}

}}

Try Anything Once is the first solo album by Alan Parsons, released in 1993.{{cite book |last1=Larkin |first1=Colin |title=The Encyclopedia of Popular Music |date=2011 |publisher=Omnibus Press}} It was his first album following the split of the Alan Parsons Project.

This album features vocals by Ambrosia's David Pack, Jacqui Copland, former Mindbender and 10cc guitarist Eric Stewart, and Manfred Mann's Earth Band frontman Chris Thompson. The album features completely digital recording and mixing. It was recorded at Parson's first "Parsonics" studio in Sussex England with the orchestra recorded at Air Studios in London.

There is an Easter egg inside the inlay. One of the pictures is a stereogram; when the viewer looks at it correctly, an image of a man and woman upside down will appear, similar to the other pictures in the album's artwork. This image is also on the CD itself.