Not entirely original and not the first blog to feature a similar list. But I feel it's only appropriate to do robot songs some justice on a community blog of this sort.
Anyway, here's my list in no particular order:
Radiohead - Paranoid Android: Of course.
Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots: Again, an obvious choice.
Tokyo Police Club - Citizens of Tomorrow: Great song about the coming robot uprising (apparently in 2009).
Flight of the Conchords - Robots: Also known and performed as "The Humans Are Dead." Simply hilarious.
Rush - The Body Electric: They were doing binary solos long before that weird New Zealand singing comedy duo above.
Beastie Boys - Intergalactic: Because of the cool robot voice thingie.
Andrew Bird - Not a Robot, But a Ghost: I understand the title slightly contradicts the point of the list, but I don't care. Good song.
Super Furry Animals - Sex, War, and Robots: I'm terrified of all three things. ;)
Daft Punk - Robot Rock: I don't know, it just makes the heads bop and the toes tap.
Styx - Mr. Roboto: You thought I was gonna forget this one, didn't ya? Had to include it, even if I can only tolerate it once a year.
Upon completion of my list, I realized there is a severe lack of popular music written about robots. So... what did I miss?
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Dude, good topic. I agree that there is a lack of robot music in our current entertainment environment.
You do need to include the song Jed the Humanoid by Granddaddy, though.
Also Transformer by Gnarls Barkley. Maybe it's not a robot song exactly but he DOES say 'I was a robot' somewhere in there.
Unfamiliar with both, but I do have both Gnarls Barkley albums in my iTunes, so off to check that out now.
One time I was sick to the point of being delusional, and when I came out of it my girlfriend told me I was singing Gnarls Barkley's, "Transformer" the whole time I was sleeping.
I have to mention the Imperial March.
Darth Vader is half robot right?
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