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My Robot Friend
Proptronix
General | Dec 2004

Reviews

Red West
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.

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Charting

2005-02-06 — 2005-04-10
Week EndingAirplays
Apr 10 2
Apr 3 2
Mar 27 1
Mar 20 1
Mar 13 2
Mar 6 2
Feb 27 2
Feb 20 2

Track listing

1. I Am the Robot
2. Sex Machine
3. You're Out of the Competitio
4. Why Won't You Call Me
5. The Power of Love
6. We're the Pet Shop Boys
7. Understand Your Man
8. The Fake
9. I Know What Women Want
10. Boing!
11. Way Down
12. Walking Jewish
13. Walt Whitman