Genesis Ch.1. - Alan Parsons Project

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 author Isaac Asimov’s science fiction Robot trilogy, exploring philosophical themes regarding artificial intelligence. 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.[3][4] 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 ,“ 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. ---------------------------------------------------------- Track listing[edit source | editbeta] All tracks written by Alan Parsons and Eric Woolfson; except “Total Eclipse“ written by Andrew Powell “I Robot“ (instrumental) -- 6:02 “I Wouldn’t Want to Be Like You“ (lead vocal: Lenny Zakatek) -- 3:22 “Some Other Time“ (lead vocals: Peter Straker & Jaki Whitren)[8] -- 4:06 “Breakdown“ (lead vocal: Allan Clarke) -- 3:50 “Don’t Let It Show“ (lead vocal: Dave Townsend) -- 4:24 “The Voice“ (lead vocal: Steve Harley) -- 5:24 “Nucleus“ (instrumental) -- 3:31 “Day After Day (The Show Must Go On)“ (lead vocal: Jack Harris) -- 3:49 “Total Eclipse“ (instrumental) -- 3:09 “Genesis Ch.1. “ (instrumental) -- 3:28 I Robot was remastered and reissued in 2007 with the following bonus tracks:[9] “Boules“ (I Robot experiment) -- 1:59 “Breakdown“ (early demo of backing riff) -- 2:09 “I Wouldn’t Want to Be Like You“ (backing track rough mix) -- 3:28 “Day After Day“ (early stage rough mix) -- 3:40 “The Naked Robot“ -- 10:19 -------------------------------------- for more information please see the following link: (album)