I Robot [Extra tracks, Original recording remastered]

Alan Parsons Project | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (March 20, 2007)
• Original Release Date: 1977
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Extra tracks, Original recording remastered
• Label: Sony Legacy
• ASIN: B000JLQSW4
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (38 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #323 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
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21 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Superb, August 7, 2007

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raja99 (FL) - See all my reviews

This review is from: I Robot (Audio CD)

Like many people, my primary exposure to the Alan Parsons Project had been strictly their top 40 hits. Shortly after the release of "Eye in the Sky", I was reassigned to an Air Force base in Korea (early 80's). While there, one of the friends I made was a huge Alan Parsons fan and had all of their albums. I borrowed and listened to them all over time, but it was this one, "I Robot", which I found to be a masterpiece. Although all of the Parsons Project albums are concept albums, this one is the ultimate concept album. Most people are familiar with the radio hit "I Wouldn't Want to Be Like You", but that is just one good song on an album filled with great music, that just seems to naturally flow together in the order in which it is presented. "Day After Day (The Show Must Go On)" is one of the most stunningly beautiful songs ever recorded by anyone. "Some Other Time" is good enough to have been a hit single. The production and musicianship are incredible. This is prog-rock at its absolute best.

44 of 49 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Picture a memory of days in your life, April 7, 2007

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Tim Brough "author and music buff" (Springfield, PA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: I Robot (Audio CD)

A musical meditation of the "Rise Of Machine and The Decline Of Man," the second Alan Parsons Project album hit all the notes that "Tales Of Mystery and Imagination" missed. For starters, this was a straight forward rock album, without the debut's classical pretensions. It was also where Parsons perfected his atmospheric instrumentals, opening the album with the (precursor to electronica) title track and then ending with the moody "Genesis Ch 1 V 32." You do get the jarring soundtrack climax of "Total Eclipse," which I always guessed was where man got terminated from the scene.

For an album that dealt with the fall of the human race, "I Robot" is a surprisingly human affair. The slow beat disco of "I Wouldn't Want To Be Like You" and the dance floor paranoia of "The Voice" are anything but mechanical. The ballads of loss, "Don't Let It Show" and "Day After Day (The Show Must Go On)" could be about any typical heartbreak. Even Pat Benatar could spot the drama inherent to "Don't Let It Show," including it on her debut.

It wasn't just the drama and the sci-fi that made "I Robot" so interesting. It was the musicianship. Not as pretentious as ELP and bringing the acrobatics of Yes down to bite size nuggets, Parsons had no difficulty in constructing pop that was progressive, meticulously produced and built up like the studio architect that he is. The Alan Parsons Project recording an album in the period of the seventies this pristine when disco's big boom was steamrollering everything in its path was a pretty bold statement then. Because of Parsons' attention to detail overriding any urge to make music of the moment, "I Robot" still holds up almost 30 years later.

12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Remaster, June 19, 2007

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Old Davy (Jefferson City, MO) - See all my reviews

This review is from: I Robot (Audio CD)

The sound on this new remaster blows away the original Arista cd release, but still can't touch the MFSL version (which is no longer available, and used copies go for $100+). Probably the second best APP album (after Tales Of Mystery and Imagination) this should appeal to fans of Pink Floyd and science fiction.