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The Alan Parsons Project: I Robot (released 01 June 1977)

01 I Robot (6:02)
02 I Wouldn't Want to Be Like You (3:22)
03 Some Other Time (4:06)04 Breakdown (3:50)
05 Don't Let it Show (4:24)
06 The Voice (5:24)
07 Nucleus (3:31)
08 Day After Day (The Show Must Go On) 3:49
09 Total Eclipse (3:09)
10 Genesis Ch. 1 v. 32 (3:28)

The album was intended to be based on the "I, Robot" stories written by Asimov, and Eric Woolfson spoke with Asimov himself, 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 in "I,", and the theme and lyrics were made to be more generically about robots rather than to be specific to the Asimov universe. The cover inlay reads: "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 v.32", follows this theme by implying a continuation to the story of Creation, since the first chapter of Genesis only has 31 verses.

I Robot

The Alan Parsons Project: I Robot