This album evinces no obvious connection, except in the title, to Philip K Dick's 1957 novel. Weaker, although much more commercially successful, was The Eye in the Sky ( 1982), which is rather vaguely about a future dystopian world of oppressively intrusive surveillance, a theme rather undercut by the inappropriately harmonic and easy-listening flavour of the music. The songs, which develop a loose narrative about a future clash of wills between robots and men, are often strong. I Robot ( 1977) takes its title, but little else, from Isaac Asimov's collection. The group's first release Tales of Mystery and Imagination ( 1976) turned four Edgar Allan Poe short stories (and two of his poems) into rock songs, with varying degrees of success. Each of the ten Alan Parsons Project albums develops a single "concept", often science-fictional, through a number of songs. Parsons worked as a record producer, and remains best-known today as the sound engineer of Pink Floyd's album Dark Side of the Moon ( 1974) there is, indeed, an inescapably sub-Floyd feel to most of the work released by his own band. UK prog-rock band founded by Alan Parsons (1948- ) and Eric Woolfson (1945-2009).
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