četvrtak, 01.01.2009.
Alan Parsons Project - I Robot (1977)(Remaster Edit 2007)
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 albummore… 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...Robert Hoffnung
Codec: mp3
Bitrate: 320 kB/s
Size ca.: 144 MB
Genre : Progressive Rock
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Track List:
01. I Robot (Instrumental) 6.02
02. I Wouldn't Want To Be Like You 3.23
03. Some Other Time 4.05
04. Breakdown 3.53
05. Don't Let It Show 4.25
06. The Voice 5.23
07. Nucleus (Instrumental) 3.22
08. Day After Day (The Show Must Go On) 3.57
09. Total Eclipse 3.12
10. Genesis Ch. 1 V. 32 3.30
11. Boules (I Robot Experiment)(Bonus) 1.59
12. Breakdown - (Early Demo Of Backing Riff)(Bonus) 2.11
13. I Wouldn't Want To Be Like You - (Backing Track Rough mix)(Bonus) 3.29
14. Day After Day - (Early Stage Rough mix)(Bonus) 3.41
15. The Naked Robot (Early Stage Instrumental Mixes)(Bonus) 10.19
