Talk:I Robot (album)

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Don't Let It Show was nominated for deletion. The discussion was closed on 08 May 2009 with a consensus to merge. Its contents were merged into I Robot (album). The original page is now a redirect to this page. For the contribution history and old versions of the redirected article, please see its history; for its talk page, see here.

You got sources for saying "The title of the last song on the disc, "Genesis Ch.1 v.32", implies a robotic continuation of the story of Creation, since the first chapter of Genesis has only 31 verses." or is that just your opinion and original research. Also, whats with the Bible quote, more than a billion people in the world know that, the rest don't care. Either way I don't see the relation to v.32, music, or Robots. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.137.207.191 (talk) 07:02, 2 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Strictly speaking, yeah, it's OR by synthesis of three sources (the Bible, the tracklist, and the inlay), but it didn't seem like a broad leap of faith (as it were), and it did feel like there needed to be some kind of further explanation to go with a notable point: the song title references a non-existent Bible verse. Noting this was not my contribution, I just edited what someone else had put in there, but it did seem worth keeping. I'll make another stab at it, and see if it feels less OR-ish.--NapoliRoma (talk) 08:39, 2 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Cover art[edit]

Does anyone know anything about the cover art? The architecture looks really familiar. Though it might just be an imitation of sci-fi book covers. Any thoughts? --Kraftlos (talk) 10:30, 22 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

It looks like De Gaulle Airport in Paris (except for the robot :-) ...yep, it's mentioned in the airport article.--NapoliRoma (talk) 13:58, 22 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, I'll put that in to the article when I can. --Kraftlos (talk) 07:25, 23 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The Sound[edit]

I think it's important to talk about the music style of this album, in my opinion this albun have a strong influence from soul, funk and disco music specially in tracks like "I Robot", "I wouldn't want to be like you" and "The voice", but it also have some influences from the early "techno" music (such as Kraftwerk and earliest synth-pop records). At the same time it remind me the sound of Pink Floyd's "Dark Side of the Moon" and "Animals" albums and The Beatles sound.

Lead Vocal credits[edit]

A recent edit has changed the "Lead Vocal" credit for Some Other Time from "Colin Blunstone" to "Peter Straker & Jaki Whitren". I agree that "Colin Blunstone" was not correct - he isn't listed on the liner notes or anywhere else that I can find.

However, the reference cited alongside this edit (http://www.the-alan-parsons-project.com/irobot.php) doesn't mention Peter Straker or Jaki Whitren, or Some Other Time.

I haven't been able to find anything anywhere else to substantiate the claim that they were the vocalists on this track - or indeed, who was the vocalist on any track of the album. The liner notes and all other sources just group all the artists together (although "Peter Straker and Jaki Whitren" do appear together as a single entry in the list on the liner notes).

Does anyone have any reliable source for this information? 86.7.23.104 (talk) 13:04, 19 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

No response in 2 months - I've added a "citation needed" template to the listing for this track. Given that (as described above) the reference cited on this track doesn't address this, I've relocated it to a more appropriate point (it *does* discuss the bonus tracks).86.7.23.104 (talk) 13:28, 28 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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