It seems like ages since I've posted a robot song from the 1970s, and it's high time I posted one of several robot songs by Frank Zappa. Taken from Act II of his 1979 album 'Joe's Garage' is Sy Borg... a song which depicts a sexual encounter between album's protagonist Joe and a robot named Sy Borg, whom Joe met at the Church of Applientology. After a groovy encounter, Joe is introduced to Sy's gay room mate who goes by the name Bob, an XQJ-37 Nuclear Powered Pan-Sexual Roto-Plooker.
[PARENTAL ADVISORY : SODOMIC LYRICS]
Tune in tomorrow for even more robo-filth!
Showing posts with label 1979. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1979. Show all posts
Thursday, 18 September 2014
Sunday, 10 August 2014
Are Friends Electric? : Tubeway Army
I'm having problems with my main PC again so I'm posting from my painfully slow and positively ancient laptop. It's so shoddy that it won't play video, nor does it have any sound... but it'll just about get me online to add today's song about a robot.
More machine than man, Gary Numan fronted the post-punk synth-pop pioneers Tubeway Army before going solo. In an interview, Gary stated that this song is set in a future world where 'friends' can be purchased in much the same way that one buys a toaster, and as the song states, his 'friend' has broken down and he's left with no one to love. Some people may deny that this song is about robots, but I reckon it's bang on topic. From 1979, I present Tubeway Army's Are Friends Electric?.
Tuesday, 8 July 2014
Robot : Hawkwind
Starting with the mighty Hawkwind from their PXR5 album, released in 1979...
This isn't the official video by the way.
Robot is not the only Hawkwind song that will appear on this blog. Lyrically, Robot comes across as a song that is more of a critique on contemporary culture than pure sci-fi... but then again, who knows? Musically it's space rock at its best. Dave Brock's edgy guitar, what's 'is face on bass and thingy on drums backing up Bob Calvert's emotive delivery of the lyrics. Like much of Hawkwind's music, Robot throbs its way through nine minutes of relentless rhythm in which cacophony and melody meander and collide... it's not one for the Cliff Richard fans! I wonder if Wired for Sound qualifies as a robot song?
This isn't the official video by the way.
Robot is not the only Hawkwind song that will appear on this blog. Lyrically, Robot comes across as a song that is more of a critique on contemporary culture than pure sci-fi... but then again, who knows? Musically it's space rock at its best. Dave Brock's edgy guitar, what's 'is face on bass and thingy on drums backing up Bob Calvert's emotive delivery of the lyrics. Like much of Hawkwind's music, Robot throbs its way through nine minutes of relentless rhythm in which cacophony and melody meander and collide... it's not one for the Cliff Richard fans! I wonder if Wired for Sound qualifies as a robot song?
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)