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Alan Parsons Project - I Robot Audio CD

A fair review of the Alan Parsons Project "I Robot" Audio CD. Please note that the below review is the views of the authors, and authors only. You can get a complete list of all Alan Parsons Project reviews here, or go back to the Alan Parsons Project tabs.

Alan Parsons Project Band: Alan Parsons Project
Title: I Robot
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Release Date: 1990-10-25
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: I Robot 2: I Wouldn't Want to Be Like You 3: Some Other Time 4: Breakdown 5: Don't Let It Show 6: Voice 7: Nucleus 8: Day After Day (The Show Must Go On) 9: Total Eclipse 10: Genesis Ch. 1 V. 32

Beautiful Recording quality
It rivals the smoothness of SACD. This is by far the best Hi-res PCM recording I have ever heard. Alan Parsons did a stellar job on recording this one the songs have so many layers that I never heard on the CD release. This is a must have for any audiophile or those just getting started into audio as a hobby.


I-Robot

Oh and this CD is exactly what I ordered. Most robots are not evil or sarcastic like some other robots. The seller is good . . . not evil either.


Alan Parsons Project - Science Fiction Rock
He had also worked on albums by The Beatles and Al Stewart. Alan Parsons was best known as the producer / engineer on Pink Floyd's magnum opus "Dark Side Of The Moon". Along with his songwriting partner Eric Wolfson Parson's formed the Alan Parsons project in 1977 releasing their first album "Tales Of Mystery And Imagination" an adaptation of the works of Edgar Allan Poe. The "Project" had mostly stable cast of musicians with a revolving roster of vocalists. "I Robot" was a concept album about "the rise of the machine and the decline of man" (from the liner notes). This is great stuff and probably one of the band's best albums. It was also the disc that brought them to a level of commercial success with the single "I Wouldn't Want To Be Like You". The album flows together with instrumental and vocal tracks filled with electronics and keyboards that were state of the art at the time. The album really is similar to Pink Floyd in spots especially on the excellent "Show Must Go On". As I have seen others mention this would make a great soundtrack for a science fiction film. Sonically the album still sounds fantastic. The version I have has not been remastered yet it sounds incredible on a good stereo system. The album may sound a bit dated today, but it remains one of my favorite discs of the 70's.


A Still Relevant Classic
If you are too young to know what an LP is, then you should buy this disk to find out what good music is about. Yes, still relevant after all these years and well worth adding to your CD collection to replace that dusty LP. Alan Parsons is a giant in the music industry (albeit mostly as producer), and this is unquestionably the Project's finest hour. .


A Milestone For Seventies Rock...
Among the Project albums, I Robot is arguably the most original and fully realized. Alan Parsons' claim to fame is probably a tossup between producing Pink Floyd's Dark Side Of The Moon, one of rock music's defining albums, and his own impressive catalog under the somewhat deceptive title of Alan Parsons Project (this was more than a bunch of session buddies getting together). With an all star cast of talent, it couldn't help but be successful and stands as one of the more if not most significant rock albums of the late seventies. Every song is insidiously memorable and the album as a whole flows beautifully from beginning to end. Parsons followed this formula on subsequent albums with mixed results. For better or worse, they tended toward predictability even if they were still immensely enjoyable (The Turn of a Friendly Card and Eye in the Sky are excellent albums), but I Robot had the advantage of taking everyone by surprise as did Pink Floyd's masterpiece. On that level it's hard to separate the two. If you own one of them, chances are you own the other. If not, you should.


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