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Ohiogal

(31,992 posts) Tue Mar 13, 2018, 05:39 PM Mar 2018

Tonight's Vinyl Selection

I, Robot

The Alan Parsons Project

1977

Parsons borrowed not only the title from Isaac Asimov's Robot trilogy, it's also a concept album exploring themes of artificial intelligence.

Still, for all the above, the music is packaged with some hooks, with just as many elements of restlessness, and change in tempo, which encouraged critics to consider this an art album and not a pop album.

Includes the title song "I, Robot" and the hit "I Wouldn't Want to Be Like You."

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Tonight's Vinyl Selection (Original Post) Ohiogal Mar 2018 OP

Awesome selection TEB Mar 2018 #1

Thank you! Ohiogal Mar 2018 #2

Interesting... pbmus Mar 2018 #3

Yes indeed, I have a Japanese pressing and a SonofDonald Mar 2018 #4

Isn't that John Cleese in the lower right hand corner? SonofDonald Mar 2018 #5

TEB

(12,842 posts)

1. Awesome selection

Reply to Ohiogal (Original post)

Tue Mar 13, 2018, 05:42 PM

Mar 2018

Ohiogal

(31,992 posts)

2. Thank you!

Reply to TEB (Reply #1)

Tue Mar 13, 2018, 05:49 PM

Mar 2018

pbmus

(12,422 posts)

3. Interesting...

Reply to Ohiogal (Original post)

Tue Mar 13, 2018, 06:01 PM

Mar 2018

SonofDonald

(2,050 posts)

4. Yes indeed, I have a Japanese pressing and a

Reply to Ohiogal (Original post)

Tue Mar 13, 2018, 06:14 PM

Mar 2018

DVD Audio disc of this album, one of my fave stoner albums from the 70's, still great to listen to now and then.

Always a Parsons fan, also check out the self titled "Ambrosia", produced and mixed by AP after lending a hand on "Dark side of the Moon".

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SonofDonald

(2,050 posts)

5. Isn't that John Cleese in the lower right hand corner?

Reply to Ohiogal (Original post)

Tue Mar 13, 2018, 06:17 PM

Mar 2018

That's what I've always thought, sure looks like him.

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