The Alan Parsons Project - I Robot


I Robot is the second album by progressive rock band The Alan Parsons Project,
engineered by Alan Parsons and Eric Woolfson in 1977. It was released by Arista
Records in 1977 and re-released on CD in 1984 and 2007. I Robot is an art rock
album that draws conceptually on Isaak Asimov's science fiction Robot trilogy,
exploring philosophical themes regarding artificial intelligence.


General:

Artist : Alan Parsons Project, The
Album : I Robot
Genre : Progressive Rock
Year : 1977
Label : Arista
Tracks : 10
Playtime : 00:41:08
Size : 94.78 MB
Codec : MPEG 1 Layer III / Lame 3.97 / 320 kbps


Source:

Label	:Arista – ARCD 8040
Format :CD, Album, Reissue
Country :US
Released :Oct 1990


Track List:

01. I Robot (06:01)
02. I Wouldn't Want To Be Like You (03:22)
03. Some Other Time (04:05)
04. Breakdown (03:52)
05. Don't Let It Show (04:24)
06. The Voice (05:24)
07. Nucleus (03:22)
08. Day After Day (The Show Must Go On) (03:56)
09. Total Eclipse (03:12)
10. Genesis Ch. 1, V. 32 (03:24)



Concept:

The album was intended to be based on the I, Robot stories written by Asimov,
and Woolfson actually spoke with Asimov, who was enthusiastic about the idea.
As the rights already had been granted to a TV/movie company, the album's title
was altered slightly by removing the comma, and the theme and lyrics were made
to be more generically about robots rather than specific to the Asimov universe.

The cover inlay read: "I Robot... The story of the rise of the machine and the
decline of man, which paradoxically coincided with his discovery of the wheel...
and a warning that his brief dominance of this planet will probably end, because
man tried to create robot in his own image."

The title of the final track, "Genesis Ch.1 v.32," follows this theme by implying a
continuation to the story of Creation, since the first chapter of Genesis only has
31 verses.

The album cover photo of the band members is of the criss-crossing escalator
tubes in the circular Terminal 1 building of Charles de Gaulle airport outside Paris.
Over this is superimposed a painting of a robot with a stylized atom for a brain.
The original vinyl release had a gatefold-style cover; the inside spread had
printed the lyrics for the non-instrumental selections and a monochrome
photograph of Parsons himself.

The album was recorded and mixed at Abbey Road Studios, London, between
December 1976 and March 1977