Listen to The Alan Parsons Project: I Robot, Part 1

[@theheepster]

This Album is in my personal Top 💯List of the best Albums of all time. A perfect Album❤

[@rudolfbecker4313]

Hallo Manfred, alles frisch ? 😆 RPWL plus Sylvan am 28.10. war wieder super ... auch wenn Sylvan nicht Vapour Trails gespielt haben ... und auf dem neuen eclipsed Sampler ist Violent Jasper -- super ... gefällt mir sehr ... Control heisst der Titel 🤘

[@mellotronin54]

Love the Alan Parsons project. Much maligned by many Yacht rock to some . To me classic well written pop songs with a prog tinge. Ian Bairnsons's guitar is always a genius combination of tone and melodic soloing.

[@montag4516]

Eric Woolfson is who actually wrote the music and lyrics and created the concepts to their albums. It ceased being the Project when Eric and Alan parted and went separate ways. The first handful of the Project albums are excellent indeed, my favorite of which is the Pyramid album (1978) dealing with man facing his own mortality,... or feeble attempts to evade it.

[@nightvid3607]

Pyramid is my favorite as well. Really well done record

[@Jim-El]

Pyramid is my favorite from APP also although Eve gives it a run for the money.

[@dolfinpt]

Wow 1977- sophomore/junior in high school..went to a party…plenty of herb and LSD…. Heard this entire album in a basement with black lights and fluorescent lights and posters…playing on stereo-playin pool(billiards lol ), and ping pong-good friends, laughter and THIS album Loudly in the background! Great music for road trip too! ❤

[@gerhardschote8000]

Mein Lieblingsalbum von Alan Parsons

[@MrMondo-xf2ji]

Pat Benatar covered "Don't Let It Show" on her 1979 In the Heat of the Night album.

[@rudolfbecker4313]

I wonder if Jim knows Pat Benatar😅 she is American and her high time was the 80s - if you watched Jim' s favourite albums... as he says, he didn't know much about american music of this period... Pat Benatar has many great Songs, I like her voice and just listened to the album Wide awake in Dreamland yesterday, All fired up is a great opener - it simply rocks😊

[@WooBino.]

Heard this on WNEW FM 102.7 old music from my nite crew days.....

[@jamesgeckle489]

Always my favorite APP LP.

[@yes_head]

The band Pilot form the nucleus (har har) of the musicians backing Parsons and Woolfson on this one. It was the guys in Ambrosia on the debut, and Parsons produced Ambrosia's first album, as well as Pilot's 1974 hit single "Magic". So there was a lot of "you scratch my back and I'll scratch yours" going on.

[@Kmg_24]

I bet plenty of people used Alan Parsons LPs to test their audio systems back in the day. Great production! I've only listened to I Robot and Eye in the Sky myself. Should listen to a few more, I think!

[@ryanr5319]

I actually use a section from 'Endless Dream' off of Talk by Yes. :-) also enjoy the use of the song 'Rejigue(sp?)' by Alan Parsons. Forget the album. Sorta recent. Lol 30 yrs ago? Haha

[@doicounttoo6861]

Coming from Pink Floyd, I started with I robot, then collected all albums from APP. And now you're telling me Steve Harley was one of the singers 😂 something I never realized. Steve Harley and Cockney rebel, one of my other favorites! Sebastian and Make me smile being my all time favorites.

[@janzimny1977]

After being turned on by the I Robot album , I was then on a journey of synth music like Tomita, Pictures at a Museum! Gotta try that one next!!😮😊😊😊

[@richarddobson815]

This was my first listen to this album as well Jim, and I very much enjoyed it. Interestingly, David Paton, Ian Bairnson and Duncan Mackay also played on Kate Bush's first two albums. They were very much EMI's 'go to' session musicians.

[@louise_rose]

The intro to the second track, beginning at 10:34 is so cool: very subtle use of that suspended chord progression, the bassline and the pauses to build up a brooding sense of anticipation/unease:, the feel of something unknown waiting to happen. This could very well have been from the soundtrack to some tv thriller at the time. And it shows what Alan learnt from working with Pink Floyd: they did those kinds of transitions many times.

[@Jim-El]

One of my all time favorite bands. Thank you for this Jim! Fun spin! Their album "Pyramid" is a must listen for you.

[@6lillium]

Big big BIG album! "I wouldn't Want To Be Like You" still a regular part of my playlists..... I was 9 when this came out ,and id recently moved from Idaho to central Washington , which had more population and influence from Seattle radio stations. Music like this had been unavailable to me outside of movies, so I was immediately smitten. This is the time in my life I discovered punk , post punk , electronica( I now had access to record stores that had Tangerine Dream, Mike Oldfield , and JMJ....) and the early rumblings of the coming BHM invasion.....none of which I had access to earlier. Years 10 - 12 really set me up for the 80s. I got to enjoy all of it in ways most of my friends didn't ( some never did , others took a couple decades to catch up 😂).

[@JimNewstead]

Missed your comments Karl, lovely to see you back round these here parts!

[@ronnukowitz7576]

SHAME THEY NEVER TOURED BACK IN THE 1970S WHEN THEY WERE HOT ! THEY WOULD HAVE BEEN SUPER POPULAR

[@doplinger1]

After this album you could go straight to “Pyramid” which I think pairs very well with this and continues the “vibe”.

[@neonchez]

as others have said definitly check out Pyramid next.

[@ryderhyduk]

So excited to see you look at Alan Parsons! Just discovered your channel through your Yes videos and I can’t wait to hear what you think!

[@nightvid3607]

If you do some more APP, i would recommend the albums Pyramid, The Turn of a Friendly Card, Eye in the Sky and Ammonia Avenue. APPs albums are pretty much all concept albums. Strong themese throughout.

[@SpookyLuvCookie]

Fun fact - Alan Parsons set up the mics and amps and cables etc for The Beatles rooftop performance. I Robot is great. I'm a huge fan of "Wouldn't Want To Be Like You" and "Day After Day". Just top class music.

[@SpookyLuvCookie]

... oh, I guess I must mention my favourite under-rated band in the prog fashion, Crack The Sky. If you've not listened then I urge you to.

[@theturtleproject]

love this album

[@merlinscat]

I used to have all these on vinyl such classics my favourite will always be Pyramid

[@giovanniserra2845]

Some other time ❤

[@refitdan]

Pretty sure my dad still has this (and most of the other APP albums) on cassette somewhere.

[@forresthouser5807]

Pre-dates "The Wall" by a couple years, though I wouldn't be surprised if he had heard the beginnings of The Wall by then.

[@reneelyons6836]

LOVE this album. You still got it Jim!! Rock ON!!😍♥🎸🎹🥁🎛🎶🎶

[@JimNewstead]

I still do 🤪

[@reneelyons6836]

Indeed😃❤🎶🎶

[@PeterDAmoreMusic]

Jim, you are a delight to experience these albums with. You made two comments so far about that 70’s studio sound and I love it too. I particularly love so much music from like 76-83. It’s my golden era. Cheers sir!

[@clansome]

I bought the first Alan Parsons Project album "Tales of Mystery and Imagination" which was brilliant. I also bought this as well and remember it well. Trying to remember if it was this album or the next "Pyramid" which I went to the local cinema when I was at Uni to listen to with a lightshow. Have a feeling it might have been "pyramid" now I think about it. Sort of thing we did back in the 70's !!! PS Lead Vocal on Breakdown is Allan Clarke of Hollies fame. Pat Benetar covered "Don't Let It Show".

[@JimNewstead]

Lots of people mentioned Pat Benatar…. I don’t know her stuff so 🤷‍♂️

[@bobcorbin3294]

Another great album cover by Hipgnosis...

[@JimNewstead]

I think Hipgnosis needs its own video series!

[@bobcorbin3294]

@@JimNewstead there is a new documentary on them called Squaring the Circle.

[@JimNewstead]

@@bobcorbin3294 there is?

[@mikepiacentino7273]

Don't let it show was covered by Pat Benatar

[@murdockreviews]

Ooh - the occasional classic. Nice 🙂 can you find the track that was sampled by DJ Shadow? This one, Tales of Mystery and Imagination, and Turn of a Friendly Card are his best for me, followed by 'Eve' and 'Eye in the Sky'. Never really warmed up to 'Pyramid'.

[@JimNewstead]

Thanks Murdock

[@IllumeEltanin]

I agree with Murdock’s selections 💯

[@MaraxisArcanist]

This is well outside my comfort zone, but I'm hanging in there. 😂 Some parts are pretty good, actually. I liked that choral bit too.

[@JimNewstead]

Haha! Good job buddy, good job!

[@erikleenhouts834]

Interesting choice Jim. Not my favourite album of APP, but it has some nice tracks indeed. Their debut Tales and the third album Pyramid is more like it for me. And agreed, it sounds amazing. Thank you ❤

[@JimNewstead]

It was a random choice! I have several others in the collection.

[@mellotronin54]

Check out Pilot the band three of the members are the core of this Paton, Bairnson and Tosh Alan produced them and their hit Magic you can hear the genesis of this there.

[@JimNewstead]

Ok, cool.

[@terencekent3906]

Dont let it show: was covered by Pat Benatar.

[@palantir135]

Good evening Jim, Yes, I do know this album. Bought it in the late seventies. This was my second APP album; the first one was The turn of a friendly card. The first five albums were great, especially the Tales of mystery and imagination by Edgar Alan Poe album; the first album by APP. Don’t mention disco 🤨😅. I hated most of disco. It was when the deteriorating of music began. Cheap mass produced ‘music’ that all sounded more or less the same. Thirteen in a dozen as we say in the Netherlands. I hated punk even more by the way.

[@JimNewstead]

Haha! Well, you have to admit it does have a funky disco feel in places!

[@palantir135]

@@JimNewstead i totally agree. I mentioned that I didn’t hate all of disco 😜. For example I liked I feel love by Donna Summer but that was mainly because of the great synthesizer sounds by Georgio Moroder.; I hope I typed his name correctly.

[@xlerb_again_to_music7908]

Alas, too laid back to me; brings no drama to my soul.... sad