My Robot Friend / Hot Action!
Album: | Hot Action! | Collection: | General | |
Artist: | My Robot Friend | Added: | Dec 2004 | |
Label: | Proptronix |
A-File Activity
Add Date: | 2005-02-06 | Pull Date: | 2005-04-10 |
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Week Ending: | Apr 10 | Apr 3 | Mar 27 | Mar 20 | Mar 13 | Mar 6 | Feb 27 | Feb 20 |
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Airplays: | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
Recent Airplay
1. | Jun 21, 2022: | I Like to Dance: Shake Off Your Pants
Walt Whitman |
4. | Mar 24, 2011: | Treeswinger Radio
Why Won't You Call Me |
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2. | Feb 10, 2012: | InAcrossAwayFromMe
Why Won't You Call Me |
5. | Jan 14, 2010: | Musically Assured Destruction
Why Won't You Call Me |
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3. | Apr 28, 2011: | A Family Affair
You're Out of the Competitio |
6. | Nov 11, 2008: | MusicTime!
Why Won't You Call Me, Why Won't You Call Me |
Album Review
Red West
Reviewed 2005-01-31
Reviewed 2005-01-31
Quirky technopop from NYC underground, many songs from a robot’s point of view. Good stuff.
1.mid-slow, semi-rapped verses, “I am the robot in your town”
2.FCC “I want to fuck the human race”x4 mid-slow. Not James Brown
+3.Wacky l337 braggadocio. “You’re the world’s worst hacker and I’m the world’s best programmer” Simple music, it’s all about the delivery. Though I am disappointed because this appeared on an outsider music CD in our a-file a year or two ago, and this clearly is not an outsider.
+4.Cute pop song with “natural” instruments and human vocals, welcome break from the 8 bit synths. This was in our afile on a single last year, go ahead and play it again.
5.very 80’s new-wave love song, parody of the style
-/+6.Slow, kinda slinky tribute to creators of “East End Boys West End Girls” Seems blah at first but by the end I thought it was pretty cool.
7. standard electroclash. Some dog barking sounds at end. Johnny Cash cover.
8.off-key singing, buzzy guitar-like riff, still electro but more rock
+9.warbly synth vocal sounds, silly suave machine
10. nearly indecipherable layered/distorted vocals, changing beats
+11.Human vocals, impressionist lyric. Drum machine low in mix, simple bassline, synth mostly plays drawn out notes with just enough buzz.
+12. Noisy electro. Sexual prowess bragging w/Jewish angle. questionable verse about gay adolescent sex w/cantor. Peaches lite/Atom & His Package dark.
+13.Technopop, human singing soars the poet’s name in chorus. Speeds up.
1.mid-slow, semi-rapped verses, “I am the robot in your town”
2.FCC “I want to fuck the human race”x4 mid-slow. Not James Brown
+3.Wacky l337 braggadocio. “You’re the world’s worst hacker and I’m the world’s best programmer” Simple music, it’s all about the delivery. Though I am disappointed because this appeared on an outsider music CD in our a-file a year or two ago, and this clearly is not an outsider.
+4.Cute pop song with “natural” instruments and human vocals, welcome break from the 8 bit synths. This was in our afile on a single last year, go ahead and play it again.
5.very 80’s new-wave love song, parody of the style
-/+6.Slow, kinda slinky tribute to creators of “East End Boys West End Girls” Seems blah at first but by the end I thought it was pretty cool.
7. standard electroclash. Some dog barking sounds at end. Johnny Cash cover.
8.off-key singing, buzzy guitar-like riff, still electro but more rock
+9.warbly synth vocal sounds, silly suave machine
10. nearly indecipherable layered/distorted vocals, changing beats
+11.Human vocals, impressionist lyric. Drum machine low in mix, simple bassline, synth mostly plays drawn out notes with just enough buzz.
+12. Noisy electro. Sexual prowess bragging w/Jewish angle. questionable verse about gay adolescent sex w/cantor. Peaches lite/Atom & His Package dark.
+13.Technopop, human singing soars the poet’s name in chorus. Speeds up.
Track Listing
1. | I Am the Robot | 7. | Understand Your Man | |||
2. | Sex Machine | 8. | The Fake | |||
3. | You're Out of the Competitio | 9. | I Know What Women Want | |||
4. | Why Won't You Call Me | 10. | Boing! | |||
5. | The Power of Love | 11. | Way Down | |||
6. | We're the Pet Shop Boys | 12. | Walking Jewish | |||
13. | Walt Whitman |