Label: Ariola Records (Germany), 259 651
Style: Progressive Pop, Soft Rock
Country: London, England
Time: 41:06
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 235 Mb
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.
According to the
band's website, Paul McCartney unintentionally helped to inspire the
song "Some Other Time". When Parsons had asked if McCartney could read a
line of poetry for the band's first album in exchange for a favor
Parsons had previously done him, McCartney replied by saying; "Some
other time Alan, some other time". This gave the band an idea for a song
title.
By pure coincidence, the album was released shortly after
Star Wars came out in the United States. The group acknowledges that
part of the album's success came from it being the only album with a
robot on the cover during a time when robots were suddenly "all the
rage".
The artwork was created by the English art design group
Hipgnosis. The album cover photo features Storm Thorgerson's assistants
in the escalator tubes of the circular Terminal 1 building of the
Charles de Gaulle Airport outside of Paris. The picture was taken
without the permission of the airport management. Over this is
superimposed a painting of a robot with a stylised atom for a brain. The
robot also appears on the label of the record. The original vinyl
release has a gatefold-style cover; the inside spread has the lyrics and
a monochrome photograph of Parsons. The pose and angle of the
photograph echoes that of the robot on the front cover.
(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Robot_(album))
01. I Robot (06:02)
02. I Wouldn't Want to Be Like You (03:23)
03. Some Other Time (04:05)
04. Breakdown (03:52)
05. Don't Let It Show (04:21)
06. The Voice (05:23)
07. Nucleus (03:31)
08. Day After Day (The Show Must Go On) (03:49)
09. Total Eclipse (03:09)
10. Genesis Ch. 1 V. 32 (03:28)
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