Alan Parson's Project "I Robot" 200 gram, sealed LP OOP
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Alan Parson's Project "I Robot" is one of the best prog-rock LPs to come out of the seventies.

The Alan Parsons Project
Released June 1977 Recorded January – March 1977 at Abbey Road Studios


Length 41:05

Producer Alan Parsons Professional reviews

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I Robot is a progressive Rock album recorded by The Alan Parsons Project, engineered by Alan Parsons and Eric Woolfson in 1977. Alan Parson was known for his studio work for the Beatles and Pink Floyds Dark Side of the Moon.  It was released by Arista Records in 1977.   It was intended to be based on the I, Robot stories written by Isaac Asamov, 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 reads: "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. Three singles were released from this album: "I Wouldn't Want to Be Like You; "Don't Let it Show;" and "Day After Day (The Show Must Go On)." The LP track "Breakdown" went into heavy rotation on AOR stations and continues to be played on classic rock radio.

All tracks written by Alan Parsons and Eric Woolfson; except "Total Eclipse" written by Andrew Powell
  1. "I Robot" (instrumental) – 6:02
  2. "I Wouldn't Want to Be Like You"  – 3:22
  3. "Some Other Time" (lead vocals: Peter Straker & Jaki Whitren) – 4:06
  4. "Breakdown" (lead vocal: Allan Clarke) – 3:50
  5. "Don't Let It Show" (lead vocal: Dave Townsend) – 4:24
  6. "The Voice" (lead vocal: Steve Harley) – 5:24
  7. "Nucleus" (instrumental) – 3:31
  8. "Day After Day (The Show Must Go On)" (lead vocal: Jack Harris) – 3:49
  9. "Total Eclipse" (instrumental) – 3:09
  10. "Genesis Ch.1 v.32" (instrumental) – 3:28
I have owned a number of different versions of this LP including the Mobile Fidelity Sound Labs UHQR and this Quiex SV-P sounds better than any of the others.  Whether you are a collector or a music lover, this is the only version worth owning.

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