About Alan Parson's I Robot
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Topic: About Alan Parson's I Robot
Posted By: Dellinger
Subject: About Alan Parson's I Robot
Date Posted: July 05 2010 at 21:59
| I've read many times that the album "I Robot" by The Alan Parson's Project is suposed to be about Isaac Asimov's book of the same name. But as far as I've been able to grasp the lyrics, I see no relation between the album and Asimov's book. Anyone could explain the relationship? I think I've read about some other author before Asimov having written a book of the same name, perhaps that's the one the album's based on? Or did Alan Parsons just like the title and did songs thinking about robots? |
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Posted By: Tarquin Underspoon
Date Posted: July 05 2010 at 22:07
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Yeah, I'm not sure it has anything at all to do with the book....
Great album, though. ------------- "WAAAAAAOOOOOUGH! WAAAAAAAUUUUGGHHHH!! WAAAAAOOOO!!!" -The Great Gig in the Sky |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: July 05 2010 at 22:19
From wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Robot_%28album%29 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Robot_%28album%29
------------- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXcp9fYc6K4IKuxIZkenfvukL_Y8VBqzK" rel="nofollow - Duos for fave acts |
It was intended to be based on the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I,_Robot - I, Robot
stories written by http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Asimov - Isaac Asimov , and actually Woolfson spoke with
Asimov, who was enthusiastic about that. As the rights had already 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. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Robot_%28album%29#cite_note-0 - Posted By: Dellinger
Date Posted: July 05 2010 at 22:42
| Well, that seems to explain it all. I should remember, when in doubt, check Wikipedia (and you might just as well get the truth). |
Posted By: himtroy
Date Posted: July 06 2010 at 13:49
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Even though this is barely relevant, I think I Robot is very underrated. A lot of people that listen to prog rock dismiss Alan Parsons as not being very good. I understand why as most of his albums are horrible, but I Robot is pretty amazing, and Turn of a Friendly Card and Tales of Mystery Imagination are both good albums. I Robot was how I got into progressive rock, songs like I Robot and The Voice (that really crazy breakdown in the middle). ------------- Which of you to gain me, tell, will risk uncertain pains of hell? I will not forgive you if you will not take the chance. |
Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: July 06 2010 at 14:36
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I don't really know the book well, but I like the album. One of my favorite of the Parsons's I have heard.
------------- Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened... 
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Posted By: Dellinger
Date Posted: July 06 2010 at 22:03
| I do like many songs of Alan Parsons throughout their discography, but the first two are by far my favourites, up there with the Prog Classics. |
Posted By: esky
Date Posted: July 15 2010 at 16:00
| I Robot did shine over the other Alan Parsons offerings (with the exception of the first). |
Posted By: Chris S
Date Posted: July 15 2010 at 16:10
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Yeah great project that fizzled after Eye in The Sky.
Hard to think Eric Woolfson is no longer among us. ------------- ...As I venture through the slipstream, between the viaducts in your dreams...[/COLOR] |
Posted By: lucas
Date Posted: July 15 2010 at 16:11
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I saw Alan Parsons Project on 1st of june this year in Paris. That was a great show. Hope they will release an album soon. As for the relation between I robot and Asimov's book, I don't have a clue I don't know enough either to decide. ------------- "Magma was the very first gothic rock band" (Didier Lockwood) |
Posted By: moshkito
Date Posted: July 15 2010 at 19:19
Yeah. Looks like Wiki is God ...
Whatever happened to us trusting good ol' PA? ------------- Music is not just for listening ... it is for LIVING ... you got to feel it to know what's it about! Not being told! www.pedrosena.com |
Posted By: WalterDigsTunes
Date Posted: July 15 2010 at 19:26
| Ah yes, PA with its constant use of citations and peer review of statements... |
Posted By: Dellinger
Date Posted: July 15 2010 at 22:44
What? Did he pass away? I had no idea about that. Was it posted on the news section of the forum? I never read it. That would be a shame indeed. |
Posted By: Chris S
Date Posted: July 15 2010 at 23:07
^ Check Wikipedia ------------- ...As I venture through the slipstream, between the viaducts in your dreams...[/COLOR] |
Posted By: Chris S
Date Posted: July 15 2010 at 23:08
------------- ...As I venture through the slipstream, between the viaducts in your dreams...[/COLOR] |
Posted By: Blacksword
Date Posted: July 16 2010 at 04:22
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I really like this album, certainly more than any other APP album I've heard. I read I Robot when I was a kid, and I dont really remember it, so cant say how it relates to the album. ------------- Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy! |
Posted By: yanch
Date Posted: July 16 2010 at 06:39
| Having read "I, Robot" several times, I can say that the APP album I Robot has little or nothing to do with the book, though it is a decent album. |
Posted By: Dellinger
Date Posted: July 16 2010 at 22:46
Have you heard Tales of Mistery and Imagination? That's a really very good album too. I prefer it over I Robot. |
Posted By: scatterplot1
Date Posted: July 17 2010 at 01:04
| APP had awkward moments for me, especially their early days. "Time After Time" still chokes me up sometimes. "Eve" was a throwaway as all the critics of the time said. But "Turn of a Freindly Card" was the jewel. Mostly the 2nd side. I bought that album the week it was released, and when side 2 started, I fell on my bed and melted. "Pyramid" sported the ultimate break-up/divorce song, "Shadow of a Lonely Man". I wonder how much liquor sales peaked at that time! Love the guy. RIP Eric. I did not know until fairly late in Parson's carreer that he played git and sang(a live video of Eye in the Sky). He was a little loose getting started, but I did not know he had those abilities. I figured he was the "sequencer" man and producer. Oh well, finding out crap is fun huh? What is funny is the Pink Floyd story of his start. In their accounts, he was a new kid who was allocated to them to lend a hand in the studio. Funny how he went on to produce Al Stewart and on and on.......He ranks with George Martin in my book. A brilliant guy to be remembered for a long time. |