Are You A Robot?

In honor of the release of the new album from Lonely Robot, I bring to you a poll that foreshadows the robot uprising.  Give the songs a listen and let us know which songs are your three favorites.  Or as many of you are apt to do, share your own favorite PA songs about our metal "friends?".  These are the droids that you are looking for.

Edited by rushfan4 - August 26 2022 at 23:52

I've never heard the Tubeway Army's Replicas nor Kraftwerk's "The Robots".  

tszirmay wrote: Definitely "we Are the Robots" by Kraftwerk

+1

The Flaming Lips

^ And a lot of listening I recently finished.

The ones I particularly liked sequentially are:

- The Fierce and the Dead - Dancing Robots (Post Rock) (new to me)
- Sweet Fingers - Good Night Robots (Crossover) (new to me)
- The Alan Parsons Project - I Robot (Crossover). as mentioned, this album was one of my first loves (when a young child) and I still love it. It will always be a special album to me and I love the track.
- Mr. Bungle - None of Them Knew They Were Robots (Avant). I knew this track and album and was not always sold on Mr. Bungle completely, but loved it now.. haven't listed to MB in many years.
- Miriodor - Portrait-Robot (Avant). Miriodor was the first "post-classic era Prog" band I fell for and I really, really love this track! Awesome.
- 3rd World Electric - TinCan Robots (Jazz Rock/Fusion). Not the most original to my ears, but I like me some funk.
- Mother Gong - Robot Woman is plenty of fun and I surely like it but not a contender for me.
- Kraftwerk - The Robots. You already know I like this.

Others I knew and/ or liked or have a comment I wish to make from the list.

By the way, that mark Ceccotti albums wa sthe first album included in neo_rog that I liked other than Discipline (later moved) and The Watch. As for Muffins, I love the album Manna / Mirage, but I don't think I know the track listed. Voivod is a band I know and like, but that track didn't quite make my first cut. Strong competition. I like King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard, but Robot Stop didn't make my first cut. I like Umphrey's McGee, and I like Robot World, but again it missed the cut, partially because I loved listening to that Miriodor, and it has some similar qualities without stacking up to it to my ears. I love music and albums by Flaming Lips, and Ilve hear d lot, but this isn't doing it for me.

So for my three votes:

Miriodor - Portrait-Robot
The Alan Parsons Project - I Robot
Kraftwerk - The Robots

I wanted to give a spot to Mr. Bungle.

Thanks for putting this together, Scott, and I know they can be a lot of effort to put together and act as host. This was my favourite of yours, and I was re-acquainted with various music, discovered some new-to-me music and gained some more appreciation for some music I already knew. I like these polls and topics which involve communal listening of music. It reminds me of being teen when we would play each other our tapes and records and come to appreciate more music together.   That nostalgic desire is a big part of what keeps me coming back to PA and wanting to be a part of this music community.

Edited by Logan - August 27 2022 at 01:23

Tubeway Army - Replicas is a absolute classic. Essential listening for prog fans. Gary Numan is a very modest genius.

Kraftwerk

Lens, first time I’ve seen them come up in a poll here! Love them, especially the 2nd album, which is simply stunning😎

David_D wrote:     no

Good to no.

Or not.

Jaketejas wrote: Logan wrote: We are the robots, doo, doo, doo doo. I won't vote before I have the chance to listen, or at least skim through the playlist, Scott. Quite a few of these I have heard before, and The Alan Parsons Project's I Robot was one of my first music album loves -- that and Tubeway Army's Replicas, which of course has a thematic link, "Are friends electric?". When I saw this poll, the song that started playing in my head immediately was Kraftwerk's "The Robots". I love Tubeway Army and Gary Numan. "Are Friends Electric", "Me, I Disconnect From You", "Metal", "Films", "Airlanes", "Cars", "Tracks", "Random", "Down in the Park" The classic robot sound that influence robot dance music in the late 70s and early 80s and even contributed to breakdancing music. Kraftwerk and Alan Parsons also amazing! We enjoy writing some music in this style. One song was picked up by this site: Last Day Deaf

Indeed (and I will check out the link later)

Incidentally, Gary Numan with Tubeway Army's Replicas and Die Mensch-Maschine (1978) (The Man-Machine) are two albums that I have double billed. I think Numan was both influenced by the Kraftwerk album, and by one of my favourite writers, Philip K. Dick. Interestingly, I make that Dick/ Numan association more-so because of Replicas (as androids or synthetics or skin jobs) and Replicants in the film Blade Runner (1982). But in the novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (1968) which inspired the early 80s film Blade Runner, the manufactured ones are called andies (for androids). Ridley Scoot wanted them to be more human than human, I might say, and as a good call, I think, renamed them replicants. The replicas of Numan seem less human than Numan.

Edited by Logan - August 27 2022 at 10:55