Best songs about robots!

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Bonus points for "Robot" in the title, no points given for anything off "Yoshimi battles the..." or "Paranoid Android". Limits make threads shorter and us stronger, people...

My votes?

None of Them Knew They Were Robots - Mr. Bungle
Attack, El Robot! Attack - Calexico
Worship the Robots - DJ Swamp
Everything Servotron ever recorded.

Go!

― John Justen (johnjusten), Friday, 22 April 2005 02:57 (twenty years ago)

aw, man, I was totally gonna say Servotron to thread :)

― Morley Timmons (Donna Brown), Friday, 22 April 2005 03:00 (twenty years ago)

"Jed the Humanoid" - Grandaddy

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 22 April 2005 03:00 (twenty years ago)

Clearly, "The Robots" by Kraftwerk

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 22 April 2005 03:02 (twenty years ago)

Yup. And

"Gold Star for Robot Boy" -Guided by Voices
"Robot Cowboy' - Steven Malkmus

― Ken L (Ken L), Friday, 22 April 2005 03:02 (twenty years ago)

'share and enjoy' off the hitchhikers' guide to the galaxy radioshow.

― ƒVƒX (cis), Friday, 22 April 2005 03:03 (twenty years ago)

(smog) "ex. con" not really but its awesome and talks about feeling like a robot.

― jmeister (jmeister), Friday, 22 April 2005 03:05 (twenty years ago)

that Futureheads song about, uh, robots

― Morley Timmons (Donna Brown), Friday, 22 April 2005 03:06 (twenty years ago)

which would be "Robot"

― Morley Timmons (Donna Brown), Friday, 22 April 2005 03:09 (twenty years ago)

Panda Bear- We Built A Robot
Dead Clown- Can't remember the name but it features lines like "but how does one make love to silicon chips?"

― mitch dub (ano ano), Friday, 22 April 2005 03:18 (twenty years ago)

Confunkshun- Electric Lady

― startrekman, Friday, 22 April 2005 03:25 (twenty years ago)

PARANOID ANDROID ISN'T ABOUT ROBOTS.

― The Brainwasher (Twilight), Friday, 22 April 2005 03:26 (twenty years ago)

pulsars 'my pet robot'

― keith m (keithmcl), Friday, 22 April 2005 03:29 (twenty years ago)

"robot parade" - they might be giants
"School for robots" - bruce haack
"ROBOT MOTHERFUCKIN' ROCK" - daft fuckin' punk

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Friday, 22 April 2005 03:32 (twenty years ago)

the kraftwerk one wins because the robots is us.

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 22 April 2005 03:37 (twenty years ago)

ROCK. RO-BOT ROCK.

― jmeister (jmeister), Friday, 22 April 2005 03:49 (twenty years ago)

EVERYTHING on gary numan's replicas.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Friday, 22 April 2005 03:53 (twenty years ago)

Ah, Malkmus is a "ph" Stephen.

I never listened to it, but didn't the Alan Parsons Project have an album called I, Robot? Belongs on the other thread, no doubt.

― Ken L (Ken L), Friday, 22 April 2005 04:04 (twenty years ago)

'DOMO ARIGATO, MR ROBOTO'
The entirety of Vince DiCola's Transformers: The Movie score.
Princess Superstar - 'Do It Like A Robot'
Kid Koala - 'Roboshuffle'

― Plus-Tech Whiz Kid (Disco) (Barima), Friday, 22 April 2005 09:34 (twenty years ago)

'Paranoid Android' is totally about a robot. it's obvious when you actually take time to listen to the lyrics. i don't think it's necessarily referring to Marvin, though, or at least not just him/it.

― Lee F# (fsharp), Friday, 22 April 2005 09:37 (twenty years ago)

"Transformers" theme song, duh!

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Friday, 22 April 2005 09:37 (twenty years ago)

The Stranglers - Hey Hey, Rise of the Robots

― Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 22 April 2005 09:37 (twenty years ago)

Incredible String Band - Robot Blues

― Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 22 April 2005 09:38 (twenty years ago)

Once again: androids aren't robots! They're two different things!

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Friday, 22 April 2005 09:38 (twenty years ago)

Android = a synthetic human being.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Friday, 22 April 2005 09:38 (twenty years ago)

The Saints - Do the Robot

― Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 22 April 2005 09:39 (twenty years ago)

Androids is a subset of robots, innit?

"Song Against Robots" - Broken Family Band.

― Failin Huxley (noodle vague), Friday, 22 April 2005 09:43 (twenty years ago)

Chrome - Slip It To The Android

― NickB (NickB), Friday, 22 April 2005 09:52 (twenty years ago)

This has got a bunch of Dalek tracks on it. Are Daleks robots? Who the fuck cares anyhow?

http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/B00004YVJ6.02.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

I'm particularly excited about hearing Jon Pertwee & The Go-Go's!

― NickB (NickB), Friday, 22 April 2005 09:57 (twenty years ago)

"Chip Off The Old Block" -- Chic.
"just like a robot he'll do/what he's programmed to."

― m coleman (lovebug starski), Friday, 22 April 2005 10:03 (twenty years ago)

Plus-Tech Squeeze Box's Cartooom! album is ostensibly about an android who looks like a little girl and her wacky hi-jinks.
Midnight Star - 'Freakazoid'?

― Plus-Tech Whiz Kid (Disco) (Barima), Friday, 22 April 2005 10:06 (twenty years ago)

Could the Tin Man be considered a robot? If so then
"Tin Man" - America.

lovebug's post prompts me to say

Honorable Mention:
"Make a Circuit With You" - The Polecats

― Ken L (Ken L), Friday, 22 April 2005 10:26 (twenty years ago)

no points given for anything off "Yoshimi battles the..."

WHY NOT?!?!?!?!?

Okay then I choose... ummmm... "Fitter Happier"

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Friday, 22 April 2005 10:38 (twenty years ago)

"Yoshimi Vs. The Pink Robots" is the obvious winner here.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Friday, 22 April 2005 11:44 (twenty years ago)

The Art Attacks - I Am A Dalek

― NickB (NickB), Friday, 22 April 2005 11:45 (twenty years ago)

Scooter Lee - "Rex The Robot"
Arling & Cameron - "Dirty Robot"
Midnight Star - "Freak-A-Zoid"
Momus - "Quark & Charm, The Robot Twins"
Future Bible Heroes - "The Lonely Robot"
Alan Parsons Project - "I Robot"

― Brian Miller (Brian Miller), Friday, 22 April 2005 11:46 (twenty years ago)

"Here's hoping you don't, become a robot. Woo woo woo woo woo whoops too late"

"Robot parade! Robot parade. Wave the flag that the robot made"

:-)

― phil jones (interstar), Friday, 22 April 2005 12:53 (twenty years ago)

Futureheads - Robot!

― Simon H. (Simon H.), Friday, 22 April 2005 13:01 (twenty years ago)

tatu - robot

― John Cocktolstoy, Friday, 22 April 2005 13:02 (twenty years ago)

"Automatic Lover" by Dee D Jackson.

"Your body's cold, there's not a head to hold."

Ooer!

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 22 April 2005 13:06 (twenty years ago)

worm is green - the robot has got the blues

^my 5:45am-cup-of-tea-in-my-clown-mug-late-november song

― katy of the smog, Friday, 22 April 2005 13:18 (twenty years ago)

Delia Derbyshire: Ziw-zih Ziw-zih oo-oo-oo

Marvin had a couple of singles out around the time of the tv series.

― koogs (koogs), Friday, 22 April 2005 15:33 (twenty years ago)

"Robot World" - Bailter Space

― Yngwie AlmsteenMay (sgertz), Friday, 22 April 2005 18:36 (twenty years ago)

Ben Light and his Surf Club Boys - "I'm Going To Get Me a Robot Man"

― PappaWheelie, Friday, 22 April 2005 19:04 (twenty years ago)

Neil Young-"Sample and Hold'

― Doobie Keebler (Charles McCain), Friday, 22 April 2005 19:37 (twenty years ago)

Suede - "Metal Mickey"

http://img14.imgspot.com/u/05/111/17/metalmickey.png

Also, Goldie Lookin' Chain - "Half Man Half Machine"

― Failin Huxley (noodle vague), Friday, 22 April 2005 21:33 (twenty years ago)

Queen - Machines Or Back To Humans

― musicjohn73 (musicjohn73), Saturday, 23 April 2005 00:55 (twenty years ago)

"Hello Computer" by James Kochalka Superstar
"Robot Song" by Kenickie (sort of)

― kit brash (kit brash), Saturday, 23 April 2005 01:24 (twenty years ago)

best robot song of ALL TIME: "The Mechanical Man" by Bent Bolt and the Nuts

― Adam Lawrence, Sunday, 24 April 2005 02:43 (twenty years ago)

kit is right, in fact, james kochalka superstar has an entire cd (& graphic novel) "Monkey vs Robot"
also: They Might Be Giants "Robot Parade"

― Adam Lawrence, Sunday, 24 April 2005 02:46 (twenty years ago)

theres a band called the robot ate me. good stuff. their first album is basically like yoshimi vs. etc except the robots win. and its quirkier.

― jonathan - stl (jonathan - stl), Sunday, 24 April 2005 04:39 (twenty years ago)

oh shit yeah, Monkey Vs Robot is a MUCH BETTER robot song than Hello Computer! I'm an idiot.

― kit brash (kit brash), Sunday, 24 April 2005 16:34 (twenty years ago)

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