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Matt0001 
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Posted: January 21 2005 at 21:02 |
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Just for fun, here--can you think of any songs that use that
vocorder robot voice? Extra points for songs that specifically mention
robots. And they don't have to be prog, either.
These are the only ones I can think of right now, but there has to be more:
Mr. Roboto - Styx (obvious)
Karn Evil 9, Third Impression--ELP
The Robots - Kraftwerk
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Freak-a-zoid -- Midnight Star (in which robots are ordered to report to the dance floor.)
Any others?
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wallace
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Posted: January 21 2005 at 22:07 |
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Ralph Lundsten "Robbie Dances The Waltz".
Robbie the dancing robot, programed to seduce, gets smooth with a female.
(From the "Shangrala" lp of '75. Stunning coverart.)
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K00l Prog Guruz
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Posted: January 21 2005 at 22:17 |
My fav movie this year is Irobot  ! That has lots of robots! With voices (LMAO)!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11 
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"The world is in your hands, now use it." Good'ol Phil
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James Lee
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Posted: January 21 2005 at 22:20 |
vocoder songs? Love 'em. And I know dozens, so you'll probably have to tell me to stop before I run out. 
How 'bout I start with the ones where the title of the song is vocoded?
Daft Punk - Around the World
Dr. Dre & Snoop - California Love
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FloydWright
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Posted: January 21 2005 at 23:15 |
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Pink Floyd--Sheep. That's kind of an early robot voice. I don't care for the song, but it seems to fit.
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Ivan_Melgar_M
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Posted: January 21 2005 at 23:38 |
Not exactly a Robot, but a robotic voice in Get 'em Out by Friday (Genesis)
This is an announcement from Genetic Control:
"It is my sad duty to inform you of a 4ft. restriction on humanoid height."
Iván
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gdub411
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Posted: January 21 2005 at 23:56 |
State of the Art Love Song(robotic voice and all)....it even talks about Robots and Androids.......by Acuity.
Not prog, but didn't every Gary Numan song sound Robotish?
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penguindf12
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Posted: January 22 2005 at 00:02 |
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Uh, some guy used a robot voice in a song...something my friend (the one who likes Rammstein)had...it was really stupid (purposefully)...Oh yeah! I think the artist was Toby Mac or something like that...I think
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threefates
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Posted: January 22 2005 at 01:06 |
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Alan Parsons used a vocorder a few times... don't remember if he did in I Robot or not but I remember it in a few songs during his concert....
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gdub411
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Posted: January 22 2005 at 01:10 |
 threefates wrote:
Alan Parsons used a vocorder a few times... don't remember if he did in I Robot or not but I remember it in a few songs during his concert.... |
I think The Voice had some vocoder in there...
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James Lee
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Posted: January 22 2005 at 05:47 |
my three favorite uses are kinda obscure...Skinny Puppy's "Worlock", Stereolab's "Puncture in the Radax Permutation", and Air's "Sexy Boy". All nicely melodic and yet eerily mechanical.
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fairyliar
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Posted: January 22 2005 at 05:49 |
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Vocoder is present in Yes 'Drama' pieces like "Into The Lens" or "Tempus Fugit" and in a lot of Kraftwerk works (great great electro band).
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Posted: January 22 2005 at 08:31 |
james lee wrote: vocoder songs? Love 'em. And I know dozens, so you'll probably have to tell me to stop before I run out. How 'bout I start with the ones where the title of the song is vocoded? Daft Punk - Around the World Yes!!!! Great vocoder work - even better on that album 'Discovery' is the vocoder/sampler/keyboard solo on 'Harder better faster stronger' - it's just awesome - almost disco-prog that whole album has some wonderful soul/disco/prog-pop synths on it. Loads of supertramp-elo-10cc references on it plus a heap of mid-70s soul, funk and disco all mixed up with a 90s dance vibe - I love that record it's cool. Well worth a listen.
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Cinema
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Posted: January 22 2005 at 12:21 |
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I believe The Buggles used a Vocoder on "Video Killed the Radio Star"
from their Age of Plastic album, as well as on numerous tracks from their
Adventures In Modern Recording album, including "I Am A Camera" which
is the same song as Yes' "Into the Lens" from the Drama album (just
recorded under a different name). Of course, this makes perfect sense,
since the song was written by Trevor Horn of The Buggles, and then Yes.
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Captain Fudge
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Posted: January 22 2005 at 14:31 |
OBVIOUSLY IT'S RADIOHEAD'S FITTER HAPPIER - THE APEX OF ALL ROBOT VOICES.
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 Teenage sucks hard -- Emo sucks even harder Epic. Simply epic.
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Matt0001
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Posted: January 22 2005 at 14:51 |
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Wow, some great songs here. Two more here that I can't believe I
forgot--Beck throws a robot voice into "Where It's At" and The Beastie
Boys rock the robot in "Intergalactic."
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Matt0001
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Posted: January 22 2005 at 14:59 |
threefates wrote:
Alan Parsons used a vocorder a few times... don't
remember if he did in I Robot or not but I remember it in a few songs
during his concert.... |
An album by Alan Parsons? from 1977? Called "I, Robot?" It all adds up,
there has to be a robot voice in there somewhere. I'll dig it out and
give it a listen today.
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Syzygy
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Posted: January 22 2005 at 15:55 |
And what about Peter Frampton's voice/guitar thingy, demonstrated so thoroughly across all 4 sides of Frampton Comes Alive?
On second thoughts, forget I mentioned that one.
Not forgetting Phil Collins oddly robotic 'soul' singing on much of his solo material.
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'Like so many of you
I've got my doubts about how much to contribute
to the already rich among us...'
Robert Wyatt, Gloria Gloom
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frenchie
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Posted: January 22 2005 at 16:12 |
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radiohead - kid a, pulk/pull revolving doors, fitter happier
dream theater - the very first lines of "6:00" ("six o clock on a christmas morning") are very robotic
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The Worthless Recluse 
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Dick Heath
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Posted: January 22 2005 at 20:13 |
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Depends if you jazz funk like jazz rock as part of prog - if so a lot of Herbie Hancock.....
Best jazz rock album (IMHO) in the last 10 years: Conrad Schrenk's Extravaganza's Save The Robots.
Buckethead seems to have this thing about robots.
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