The Alan Parsons Project- I Robot

[watchtrillions]

How to begin? The openiong of this piece speaks to a soul........

...and speaks to order......

...yet longs for freedom...

[watchtrillions]

Modern Beethoven.

[watchtrillions]

Soul moving.

[dawnql]

Brilliant! Takes you to another dimension when listening to it in complete darkness.

[4yules]

headphone music

[kyguy70]

love this song! my older brother got me listening to this,one of my all time favs. its changes like 7 different times through the song.

[polyestershorts]

Many miles under my belt playing this over and over.....

[movchok]

heheh, 5 people have glitchy mouse or poor mouse control skills )

[CORVETTE1982]

Way ahead of it's time.

[Bacopa68]

I wonder why Sagan didn't use this in Cosmos.

[SuperMrMustard]

simply perfect

[tw0569]

Alan Parsons is a musical genius!!!

[lakeguild]

@tw0569 Couldn't agree more. Absolute genius.

[ClassicTVMan1981X]

No one here mentions the Wurlitzer 200 EP in this song.

[saxplaya77]

played on the soundsystem before a kansas concert......wings stadium kalamazoo michigan...around 1976 77......unbelieveable sound..;-)

[lakeguild]

@saxplaya77 Now, THAT would have been something to see.

[charmenchanter]

he produced pink floyds dark side of the moon

[abyios]

I remember way back in the day going down into this mysterious music store...and the aroma of incense and as I came into this place...the owner asked me what I was looking for and I said, I don't know...and he sold me this album by Alan Parsons, said it was brand new and that I had to buy it and take it home and listen to it, he guaranteed I'd love it...he was RIGHT

[centralparocker]

I feel like I want to be a time traveler when I hear this now....

[tetekofa]

Carbon = 6 - protons 6 - neutrons 6 - electrons

[pittypat98223]

My son and I have always been able to travel... so this is MOST important to us...

[faaaaaaaaaaack]

i found this album on vinyl at the salvation army for like $1, probably one of the best purchases i've ever made

[jsokayama]

Is there any connection between Alan Parsons Project and Mike Oldfield of Tubular Bells fame?

[jsokayama]

I need to roll one and fire it up before I listen to this again....Seriously.

[falconelli01]

@jsokayama I was thinking the same damn thing ;}

[evansrayu]

@jsokayama

do they still make colombian gold?

[freshkryp69]

@jsokayama

Just did! on the solo's the best!

[eggnogfrog]

@jsokayama that's the most sensible youtube comment i've read in a long time...

[MrEventhorizon1]

understand Me I Robot does not compute carbon unit

[leocat7]

And in a moment I, back there. Why did I ever leave?

[MrSereymartinez]

man what a journey !or better said TRIP!

I remember... well almost ,but the important thing is that Alan and I

went on sooo many trips together i just wish he knew how much fun we had

happy travels alan.

[FinestFinger]

That's what I'm talkin' about!

[kwhitney57]

Excellent. If they tried to do this album now, it would never come out. It doesn't fit into the 'pop mold". There is not alot of good progessive music now or I just haven't heard it.

[PR0T0TYP3MKII]

loved this since i was a teen! m 4 7now. Excellent

[22mybleu22]

@PR0T0TYP3MKII

I'm 60 and instantly was grabbed by this amazing artist. Look on the back cover of the Pink Floyd Darkside Album. Alan Parsons was the engineer for the album. Just don't hear concept music much anymore. I have every thing ever done by Parsons.

[leevinylcritic]

ROBOT PORN!!

[luvtotruck]

I WISH SOMEONE COULD UPLOAD THIS WHOLE ALBUM THE WAY OTHERS HAVE WITH PINK FLOYD

[fsol13]

Unreal

[datmanflyliketeca]

the five people that disliked this.....are dumbasses

[JoeyPencils]

@datmanflyliketeca they must be robots

[Lars99]

So funky.

[CaninAble]

I've had Parsonmares, man. lol

Always lov

ing these compositions so dayam MUCH!!

[sealyoness]

@YourFriendHerbie

Dude, I have NEVER stopped tripping on this WHOLE ALBUM - I ROBOT was one of their all-time best. I've LOVED these since WAS a little kid. All Alan Parsons ALL the time.

[0962yul]

una musica clasica de ingenieria electronica musical

[mrjohnwg]

Thankyou thankyou - Alan Parsons Project is the best, Love sooo much

[amodulares]

Alan Parsons deserves a separate folder in my playlists

[dtennow]

@amodulares I did that, but half the songs are not allowed on playlists. Bunch of crap if you ask me.

[mseppie99]

i can't remember NOT listening to Alan Parsons, seen them in concert in Vegas with my best friend.

[IsotoNickGR]

I love his music,,i remember whaen i was a little boy going skiing with my moms car.she always listening alan parsons songs.I remember them like yesterday...haha

[hellsbellspapa]

In my mid-40s, just started the "downhill" half of 'em, and remember this song from GRADE school -- LONG before WIll Smith's movie :-D -- but still long AFTER Isaac Asimov. This song, and "I wouldn't want to be like you," are both old favorites of mine. Thanks!

[mtfssjr2]

I fell in love with a girl listening to this music

[1976turkish]

@mtfssjr2 i'd do the same

[MuleTeiwazArTonelico]

@mtfssjr2 Are you sure she wasn't an android?

[Kingdomesea]

una cancion genial

[wentworth313]

To be alive and witness the actual release of this music in 1977 was like journey.

I remember my local rock station playing the entire album all the way through on my 18th B-Day...Sitting on my living room floor with g/f lights out and trippin' to this awesome new sound...Amazing day!!

[shell59ell06]

I am remembering in the bible where it says to love one another, and that meant like Adam and Eve not Adam and Steve. And your whole little snit has absolutely nothing to do with this song. Were you even born when it came out?

[SteveLLW]

Will you two homosexuals stop fighting, tongue kiss and make up and just enjoy the music, like heterosexuals do? Please!

[tubermier]

Alan Parsons was a producer engineer at APPLE Studios owned by the BEATLES. Someone asked what was happening in a certain studio in the complex and the answer was . Oh thats just one of Alan Parsons projects. The guys heard it and decided that would be a fine name for the album, then it was made the band name.

[JoshuaOst]

So funky.

[asaphopeful]

My dad just told me to listen to this band, now im almost positive he smoked weed when he was younger cause this is trippy

[eldongb1]

@asaphopeful Most intelligent people do both at some point, and many continue to in secret- lemme know if you find his stash of albums...and hash lol ;-P

[batoloco78]

though it is an instrumental, it defines mans onward progression to his demise, unless he remembers his creator. we do not need to find the ignorant ones who are so shortsighted they cannot see what the music does

[raiynen]

one of the animusic songs sound like this. i'm thinkin starship groove but I'm not sure exactly. Anybody know animusic?

[raiynen]

one of the animusic songs sound like this. i'm thinkin starship groove but I'm not sure exactly. Anybody know animusic?

[smalllove1]

They should have called it something else instead of I Robot. I think the Will Smith version is better.

[barnydrunk]

@smalllove1 idiot!

[smalllove1]

@barnydrunk Why are you calling me an idiot? Your just jealous because Will Smith is more talented at rapping than Alan Parsons. Getting Jiggy With It is better than this as well.

[Keyboardman88]

@smalllove1 Oh Ye of such shallow intellegence. Rap is nothing more than "CRAP" without the letter "C"

[foreveronkronic]

@smalllove1 youtes fucks idiot bitch !

[Pouffmusic]

@smalllove1 LOL!

[12Pascal21]

@Aqualung

I robot was recorded in 1977 ? i tought it was before Dark side of the Moon.. Thanks !

[MultiWebweaver]

Instrumental's similar to this include Hawkwind E.M.C., Ozric Tentacles Sploosh Engine Driver's And So on. Rock on World.

[5jerry1]

I have always LOVED this. :-D

[rnt718]

remember the day i bought it in 1977...Classic!!!!!

[airondb101]

This isn't my favorite Alan Parsons instrumental, but it's still pretty good.

[randomrob1968]

sounds a little compressed

[mingalomars]

The whole Alan Parsons band was on a bus that got lost and ended up in front of our house. We invited them in and offered them all some hot cocoa. The we all sat around and sang songs. What a fun day that was.

[flahr1]

@mingalomars that's nothing. The president's motorcade got lost and ended up in front of our house. We invited them in and offered them all some warm milk. Then we all sat around and sang camp songs. What a great day that was!

[arbuviknb]

@flahr1 that's nothing. The future/present president was out wid da homies, they were jacking a 'Benz. Then they met up with some 'mo homies "whom" offered some warm hoes, and, $5 rocks fo da car. Den dey all sat 'round and brake danced, rapped, and, burned all night. What a great day that was!

[SuperCartiel]

@mingalomars Did Mr. Parsons leave you an autograph?

[silentsniperrr]

@mingalomars srsly?

[eshnic]

@mingalomars cool!! lucky you. :))))

[marmjtin]

FANTASTICO.

LO MEJOR DE LO MEJOR.

[MrDirtyratmiller]

Anybody remember this on Quadrophonic? Better than anything I've ever heard yet!

[ginch56]

are you fucking idiots for real?

[ciaster]

mehh

[Doommaster1994]

I wonder what kind of keyboards or synths they were using?

[hittingnote75]

@Doommaster1994 I bet they were Moog.

[Doommaster1994]

@hittingnote75 Nope I found out what it was. My mom has the CD version and in the manual it says it's a Yamaha CS10.

[ClassicTVMan1981X]

@Doommaster1994

I also hear a Clavinet and a Wurlitzer electric piano.

[soleus333]

Thanks for putting this up. This was the first CD that I owned (when CDs first come out in, what, 1983-4?) I'd listened to it as a kid when it was new, that blue cassette :) Still holds up, decades on.

[SouthernBreeze]

Ahhhh, the days of weed & wine back in the mellow 70's!!!

[66Ryansworld]

i'm 14 years old,but this song is my childhood

[masquenada8]

I ROBOT!

[pianomatteo]

timeless. but damn, nothing compares to this song on vinyl on my dad's "audiophile" setup from the 80's (6 foot tall polk floors and super awesome denon receivers and amps. aghhhh) some of the best music listening I've ever done in my life, and I go to school for music. lmao. alan parsons for the win.

[solarwave]

This song kicks ass! Gorgeous!

[MrGeeMan1980]

One of my favorite tunes. Put on the trusty ol' headphones, crank up the volume, listen and be swept away.

[3ohs0unds]

This music was inspired by the collection of stories by Isaac Asimov entitled "I,Robot" :)

I discovered it as a result of reading the editorial in Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine (February 2011 issue)

[21leftcenter]

i'm pretty sure this song is about rockem sockem robots

[denceflor]

la storiaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

[billbloodma]

it,s all right beav

[Tuttyistheshizz]

play the michael caine doesn't blink for 570 minutes video at the same time it's fucking mad hahaha

[emanboogie]

What a year for the electronic pulse! Same year as I Feel Love and Trans Europa Express

[luisdent]

love this song. such excellent mixing and production.  parsons is great. check out my tribute song i composed in my channel. i'd love to hear what people think of it ("Parsons and I") :-) You will hear some parsons elements in there. :)

[almostfamous000]

I played this song on keys when I was younger...peace..

[lu1arv]

i love !

[dtennow]

Thank You Aqualung1989. All these APP songs are fantastic. Brings back so many good memories for me. I had this one and Tales of Mystery and Imagination on vinyl. I miss those times.

[CaferacerQ]

@kpix99

he was an assistant engineer on Abbey Road and Let It Be.

If you didn't already know.

[5jerry1]

@CaferacerQ

I didn't know that. This, what you just said, and Pink Floyd, make one MONSTER of a resume!

[SystemofaJake1]

so was this song made after the movie i robot? you know, that one movie where its in the future and it has will smith in it.

[Aqualung1989]

@SystemofaJake1 man, this song was made in 1977, so...

[demover7]

@Aqualung1989 kids...

[MrGonzorhea]

@SystemofaJake1 It's a book by Isaac Assimov

[StellarJetman]

@SystemofaJake1

AFTER? Try almost 30 years BEFORE.

They're both (barely) based on a book written in the '50s.

[Vashtiana]

@SystemofaJake1

This song came out...WAY before I Robot...

[huskerdu1661]

@SystemofaJake1 It was a classic Sci-Fi book too....maybe you could "Kindle" it ????

[StyXquickscoping]

@SystemofaJake1 lol this song is from the 70s

[Keyboardman88]

@SystemofaJake1 No, this was obviously made before your brain was developed...and by your comment...you haven't made any progress yet.

[Enemyofreali7y]

@SystemofaJake1

Kid's a retard. Alan Parsons is almost as LEGENDARY as the 'Floyd, and the fact that you can't even place them in the same quarter century is a pure testament to the failing generation that I happen to be a part of. I applaud you.

[SystemofaJake1]

@Enemyofreali7y wow i just asked if this song had anything to do with the movie and everyone goes fucking crazy and saying im a retard. wow. im sure yall have never asked a question that was... well hell that wasnt even a stupid question!!! wtf people.

[micktheMaag]

@SystemofaJake1 sorry to hear you had a backlash from others... great that you found the song and hopefully you like it... great album from my late teens early 20s... fantastic music... enjoy

[eldongb1]

@SystemofaJake1 Rightfully so. Only retards don't know that the movie is based on an Isaac Asimov story, as is the album title and other works that pay tribute by referencing it. I, Robot is a classic Asimov tale and anyone that knows jack about anything knows about the 'three laws' he imagined unless they were watching movies as five year olds because their parents didn't feel like or have the intelligence to teach them read before growing up to be 'special'

[SystemofaJake1]

@eldongb1 well yall are just plain rude then. it seems like all people on youtube are. i just left a comment and 10 people call me a retarded kid. im only 16! i dont read books! i play video games and watch anime! the only thing i read is manga. and if yall dont know what manga or anime is then yall are retarded!

[eldongb1]

@SystemofaJake1 We know what manga is and I was reading Asimov at six and manga when I was twelve and Huxley at your age in 2001. Pointing out to you that you're illiterate and shaming you for it is not rude, it's a service both to you, motivating you to read, and to the public that will have to deal with you. If your parents don't every day as well, they're FAILURES . Anime robots and stories are bs compared to Asimov that 'invented' robots! If you don't read books you will always be a fool.

[SystemofaJake1]

@eldongb1 well your either a teacher or some idiot gay faggot that lives in california. im from oklahoma dammit! we dont read for fun down here! we kill faggots, shoot guns, and everything fun. reading is borring!

[eldongb1]

@SystemofaJake1 I'm from Texas just 3-4 hours from you. If you think it's gay/idiotic to know things and understand them, you'll be fighting imigrants to dig a ditch for a living. If you need something to be fun to motivate you, then you'll be be used up by your pimp-like boss at a minimum wage job. If that's not enough to make you read physics/history no matter how boring, you won't remember the Maine, and you/your kids will think they work for your country when they're Hearst's TOOLS.

[SystemofaJake1]

@eldongb1 your just gay.

[eldongb1]

@SystemofaJake1 If your parents weren't burger flippers you'd know gay & informed aren't synonyms. All the ignorant people you know and your buddies being anti-gay and beating up openly homo homos doesn't make them any less of a closet-homo. Being a moron has jack to do with being from OK/straight- you're just braindead so you call all straight guys gay because we're ALL literate. Any straight 6yr old knows "you're" (not 'your'- possessive) less literate than a 4th grader.

[eldongb1]

@SystemofaJake1 Seriously, whoever told you they kill fags or that it's fun was just afraid you'd dind out they're gay. That or they were an ignorant psycho with no life and nothing to do but have fun getting killed. I'm glad you think that it being boring is an excuse to not read. It's gonna be funny as hell when you walk into a room full of queers and ignore the boring plain sign that says "Semi-Automatic Gay Gun Club" and have fun getting your ass shot and poked.

[SystemofaJake1]

@eldongb1 dude your just a piece of shit. your probably a fag yourself.

[eldongb1]

@SystemofaJake1 Say it to my face, you ignorant, inbred punk. I'm from Texas, and we don't like queers either; but calling people names when someone tells you to pull your head out of your ass, is retarded. I know you're just afraid people will find out you're a gay bashing homo, but your stupidity'll get you stomped on. I don't enjoy hurting people, but just because I'm a pacifist doesn't mean I won't stomp on you. But you'd like that, seeing how much you like being somebody's bitch.

[SystemofaJake1]

@eldongb1 ok this whole fight we are having is just stupid. im sorry.

[Booger6995]

@SystemofaJake1 I wouldn't worry too much. People here in YT tend to act before thinking lots of times. The fact that you asked the question is not in itself stupid. However some of the responses really do appear to be. Glad you found APP. Hope you'll love it 30 years later like I do. CHEERS!!!

[eshnic]

@SystemofaJake1 hehehe, that reminds me of this young guy asking me if Jimi Hendrix was this american quizmaster, because he was sure he heard of the name before... LOL xD

[mikemat3307]

@SystemofaJake1 I, Robot was a book by Isaac Asimov.

[batoloco78]

Progressive, and wel lorchestrated. the shit they have now could never match the vision in this and all songs on this album.....Rock-on

[pare5markes]

Great Great Great tune!!

[mgwilliams1000]

Asimov would have been proud!

[izzynutz2000]

AHH to be back in the day......

[kpix99]

He ran the sound board and produced on Dark Side Of The Moon

[SystemofaJake1]

@kpix99 are you serious?! wow no wonder this guy reminds me of pink floyd! awesome!

[firthoffifthtom]

I was lucky to see this performed live in a hole of the wall concert club in the Cleveland Flats called the Odeon bout 9 or 10 years ago. What a show!

[FreeFavl]

One word: "Sublime!"

[ThomasHardmanJr]

Alan Parsons Project: totally under-rated yet an integral part woven weft and woof into the weltgeist of the late 1970s and early 1980s. Totally professionals among professionals, but doing their own thing in their own way. It doesn't get any better than this, or at least, if it got any better than this, I never heard it on a radio back in the day when I cranked all knobs completely clockwise on my cheap car radio.

Eternal Kudos.

[salernitanodoc1987]

A classicc forever!

[jerztoons]

This song tickles the sound chambers...deep in my mind ... everytime ! All HAT"S OFF to The Alan Parsons Project .

[nix4pool]

John Cleese in bottom right corner of sleeve cover, great memories from the 70's, really good album too.

[BrainEatingApe]

One of the most fantastic pieces of music I've ever heard in my 57 years of life. Listening to it is like a religious experience.

[videos2103]

love it.... it's been so long

[Viperzep]

i love this song!!

[Booger6995]

Best memory of this song was on an Air Force base in the middle of desert walking thru tent city and heard it. Hadda find that tent. And I did. Best memories go with this song. That was back in 1980 if I remember correctly.

[tbuzz41058]

You might have unknowingly also enjoyed his genius as the sound engineer on Pink Floyd's "Dark Side of the Moon"!!

[RandomActs58]

awesome tune for cruisin the highway at warp speed. i love it.

[SuperNomad420]

@RandomActs58 warp speed? i like that

i burned a hole thru this album when a seed exploed, hahahha

[jayrayhoo1]

jayrayhoo ;) My I robot album cover had resin smeared all over it

[mrblujet]

The guy in the bottom right of the photo looks like Matt Drudge.

[stenn]

Lovely ;-))

[berylman]

This song is on the level of all classics and perhaps should be enjoyed in schools as part of a diverse curriculum. Alan was quite the genius. Robotic the tune is this really dug home to me.

[beanrp]

When I was stationed in Germany we played this on the largest sound systems a soldier could afford and keep in the barracks. 200 watts of sound blasting the disco other people were listening to. It helped keep our sanity. beanrp

[ENCOMAN]

I bought this LP back in 1977 knowing Alan did an outstanding job on Dark side of the Moon. Just like Dark side of the Moon this has held the test of time very well also. Real Talent.

[MalahkAngel]

I remember forcing my dad to play this song 6 or 7 times a night when I was little.

[supermatx]

I know this is a stupid question, but, I wonder what Isaac Asimov (you know, the guy who wrote 'I robot' and popularized the term) would think of this...

[SuperMetroCardMan]

@supermatx It was intended to be based on the I, Robot stories written by Isaac Asimov, and actually Woolfson spoke with Asimov, who was enthusiastic about that. As the rights had already been granted to a TV/movie company, the album's title was altered slightly by removing the comma, and the theme and lyrics were made to be more generically about robots rather than specific to the Asimov universe.

[1PHILLWHITE]

According to Wikipedia: 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."

[quidnick]

DAMN YOU WILL SMITH AND YOUR AMAZING ABILITY TO CONVERT GREAT SONGS INTO CRAPPY FILMS!

[SilentEcho33]

@quidnick THAT MADE MY DAY!

[1PHILLWHITE]

@quidnick LMAO god comment Thumbs up :)

I remember when I smoked my first join in the Arquelogical Zone in Mexico....was during the sunset in the top of the Kukulkan pyramyd in Yucatan....A good trip!!!