Songs where the narrator takes on the character of an alien or robot

smog, ex-con (briefly)

'Mr Roboto' - Styx

Not specifically taking on the character of a robot as much as masquerading as one, but still.

bionic by placebo is about sex with a robot.

Goldie Lookin' Chain, "Half Man Half Machine" of course.

I-Robots - "Frau"

"THe Humans Are Dead!"

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y139/PunkRockr/137Flight_of_the_Conchords.jpg

http://www.electrofunkroots.co.uk/i/planet_rock.jpg

Or this, for that matter
http://screwtube.files.wordpress.com/2007/08/trow-the-d-ghetto-bass-label-scan.jpg

Gerry And The Holograms-Gerry And The Holograms

uge - mad charles

about the world's first kung fu robot or something. from 1974.

Rivers Cuomo - Blast Off

I reject "Mr. Roboto" -- that the narrator is not actually a robot is the entire point of the song, dude!

"Illegal Alien," by Genesis, probably not what you're looking for.

Goldie Lookin' Chain, "Half Man Half Machine" of course.

^^^^^

out and out hilarity. seriously fuckingexcellent

Philistines JR had a robot voice in one of their classics, but I think it may have been a sample of Stephen Hawking

Arnie & the Terminators - I'll Be Back

He's looking for love because:

"I just want to be treated right like any terminator"

i always thought "digital love" was sung in the voice of some sort of artifically intellegent computer/robot guy "dreaming" about human intimacy and so on, but a quick look at the lyrics suggest that this is highly debatable

http://www.poecker.homepage.t-online.de/01/1uk7rb1.jpg

Neil Diamond- Heartlight

"Surrender Earthlings" Lee Harvey Oswald Band

The Lonliest of Creatures - Klaatu

No! I mean, So Said The Lighthouse Keeper - Klaatu

(smog) - teenage spaceship is kinda half way

Grandaddy - "Beautiful Ground (Jed's Other Poem)"

Most of Anthony Rother's tracks. I nominate "Little Computer People". Also, Sun Ra, although that's not so much lyrical as him claiming he actually came from Saturn.

I think "The Robot Speaks" by Damon & Naomi might fit the bill, but it's kinda hard to make out the words so I'm not sure.

http://lh5.ggpht.com/wubfur/SLsJfE_dlfI/AAAAAAAAADE/QPeJ6Wme61Y/Robot_Speaks_Live_Vid.jpg

The robot in Future Bible Heroes' "The Lonely Robot" is definitely looking for love, but the song is sung by a 3rd person narrator.

Having ended all life, absorbed all other robots,
ruler of the cosmos, she walks into the sunset
But there is no darkness
Her laser-gaze is itself a weapon
And no sleep defends her from the nightmare of oblivion
So she wakes a new world made entirely out of lightwaves,
memories of movies, and chance determinations
Then she watches random characters and situations,
endless combinations with very little input
But she sees the ending
Every clock finds its equilibrium
So she introduces the absurdist contradictions
Anything can follow, but the actors can't believe that,
so they keep pretending the script is real and means things
So the lonely robot, with no feeling for the actors,
just erased the whole thing, which -- true -- had not existed
And a trillion stories all came abruptly to a non-ending,
and a trillion people suddenly stopped non-existing
Thus was born a new world from the movies of the old one,
and the lonely robot was given non-existence

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/31AF3BGSVEL._SL500_AA240_.jpg

Grandaddy, "I'm On Standby"

Culture Club, "Love Is Love"

http://www.dailynugget.com/images/electric-dreams.jpg

i have no idea if "robot" by tatu is about actually being one but it should go on yr mix anyway

janelle monae - "violet stars happy hunting!"

There's an italo song called "automatic Lover" which certainly fits the bill. There are a couple of different versions too. One by Johnny Chingas, another by Sylvia ... and at least 1 other version, but I can't remember the artist.

dee dee jackson?

There's an italo song called "automatic Lover" which certainly fits the bill.

Uh, that'd be sylvia robinson, as in Mickey and Sylvia. As In Pillow Talk. As in Sugar Hill!!!!111

"plastic fantastic lover" by jefferson airplane is sung by a human but is a groovy tune, and might fit....

Well then Rolling Stones (or KISS), "2000 Man"!

Meat Puppets, "I Am A Machine"

Air "How Does It Make You Feel"

Alice Cooper "Clones (we're all"

Incredible String Band, Robot Blues

Gary Numan to thread

(He's done BOTH, hasn't he? I know Bowie has.)

2112: Rush

http://991.com/newGallery/Leonard-Nimoy-Mr-Spocks-Music-F-427795.jpg

Frank Zappa, Sy Borg

Already found love rather than looking, but otherwise Robot by The Futureheads

> Gary Numan to thread

why did it take two days for the numanoid to appear?

servotron are the other band that spring to mind. i did think they were all for wiping out humans but first track on their myspace is called 'erotomatic' so maybe not.

http://www.myspace.com/httwwwmyspacecomservotron (sic)

Data (Brent Spiner) also had an lp out called 'ol' yellow eyes is back' but i don't think he songs are done in character. (Spock was never a robot)

Marvin, I Love You is probably the exact opposite of what you want
http://marvin-marvin-i-love-you-mp3-download.kohit.net/_/282195

Essentially every Voivod song.

Dr Octagon - Earth People, or basically any other song

Bent Bolt & The Nuts - Mechanical Man

Electric Light Orchestra - Yours Truly, 2095 (The narrator is human, but the she-bot gets to sing a few lines.)