# Need songs/music with that "electronic voice" in them. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 14, 2009, 11:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-songs-music-with-that-electronic-voice-in-them/481244 "2009-01-14T11:07:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Toxylon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f05b48/32.png) [@Toxylon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Toxylon)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2009, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-songs-music-with-that-electronic-voice-in-them/481244/41 "2009-01-14T20:31:16Z")
> [@NineToTheSky](#): > > Keep Talking by Pink Floyd from The Division Bell. And it’s no other than Stephen Hawking who “keeps talking” in the song intro! A youtube link to my earlier suggestion: [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Qt82NrHrfa8/hqdefault.jpg "Jean Michel Jarre - Revolution") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qt82NrHrfa8) ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2009, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-songs-music-with-that-electronic-voice-in-them/481244/42 "2009-01-14T20:33:17Z")
Alan Parsons Project’s “The Raven” features Alan on a vocoder. ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2009, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-songs-music-with-that-electronic-voice-in-them/481244/43 "2009-01-14T21:55:19Z")
Tanto Metro and Devante’s Give It To Her [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/0mP-jL4gMBU/hqdefault.jpg "Give It To Her") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mP-jL4gMBU) ---
**Author:** ![myskepticsight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cc9497/32.png) [@myskepticsight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/myskepticsight)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2009, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-songs-music-with-that-electronic-voice-in-them/481244/44 "2009-01-14T21:57:24Z")
“Watch Us Work It” by Devo It’s a newer song by them and was in a Dell commercial. Fun song. ---
**Author:** ![interface2x](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c0e974/32.png) [@interface2x](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/interface2x)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2009, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-songs-music-with-that-electronic-voice-in-them/481244/45 "2009-01-15T00:49:37Z")
> [@Daerlyn](#): > > Combichrist’s “This shit will fuck you up” ([Youtube link](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htM3LhX27mc)) is all in a vaguely female vocoder voice. The lyrics are kind of, uhm, blue, though. Heh yeah, you could say that! The first time I listened to it, I was enjoying and then I started to think…hey…what did she say?? A couple of other suggestions… [Apoptygma Berzerk - Kathy’s Song](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ci_LIavsEhQ) (though the vocoder is only in the second half) [Splendor Projekt - Energy (interface 2x mix)](http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewProfile&friendID=174386412)\* (it’s in the player, you may have to scroll and select that particular track) \*shameless plug ---
**Author:** ![jovan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/0ea827/32.png) [@jovan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jovan)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2009, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-songs-music-with-that-electronic-voice-in-them/481244/46 "2009-01-15T00:53:25Z")
Also by Pink Floyd: **A New Machine Pt. 1** and **A New Machine Pt. 2** from _A Momentary Lapse of Reason_. **Hide and Seek** by Imogen Heap. There are essentially three ways the “electronic voice” effect is done, [vocoders](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vocoder) are used in most of the tracks mentioned. The [talk box](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk_box) was used mainly to make guitars talk, notably by Peter Frampton. Finally, recently, Cher and most notably T-Pain use a pitch-correcting software called [Auto-Tune](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auto-tune), but intentionally set parameters to get an unnatural effect. ---
**Author:** ![mswas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e99b99/32.png) [@mswas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mswas)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2009, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-songs-music-with-that-electronic-voice-in-them/481244/47 "2009-01-15T01:05:32Z")
The genre is called, “Acid House”. Now go to town. ---
**Author:** ![mswas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e99b99/32.png) [@mswas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mswas)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2009, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-songs-music-with-that-electronic-voice-in-them/481244/48 "2009-01-15T01:06:32Z")
> [@Martini\_Enfield](#): > > _Satisfaction_ by Benny Benassi has a female voice that sounds very vocoder like. Great booty club track. Back when I was throwing parties, my partner would play this one all the time. ---
**Author:** ![mswas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e99b99/32.png) [@mswas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mswas)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2009, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-songs-music-with-that-electronic-voice-in-them/481244/49 "2009-01-15T01:08:22Z")
[Underworld - Cowgirl](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2q4DPdrR8Y) ---
**Author:** ![mswas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e99b99/32.png) [@mswas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mswas)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2009, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-songs-music-with-that-electronic-voice-in-them/481244/50 "2009-01-15T01:09:27Z")
There is also a midi controlled vocoding program, but I forget the name. It is used to make a text to speech program actually sing. The best use I know of it is Apoptygma Berzerk - Kathy’s Song, but it’s not like a dance track. ---
**Author:** ![Yookeroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yookeroo/32/323_2.png) [@Yookeroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yookeroo)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2009, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-songs-music-with-that-electronic-voice-in-them/481244/51 "2009-01-15T05:46:29Z")
[Beautiful](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzE0LHp6Rbg) by Ferry Corsten. ---
**Author:** ![Buckler\_of\_Swashing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Buckler\_of\_Swashing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buckler_of_Swashing)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2009, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-songs-music-with-that-electronic-voice-in-them/481244/52 "2009-01-15T14:26:15Z")
Pendulum’s ‘The Other Side’ ---
**Author:** ![HumanMonkeyGod](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c67d28/32.png) [@HumanMonkeyGod](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HumanMonkeyGod)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2009, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-songs-music-with-that-electronic-voice-in-them/481244/53 "2009-01-15T15:23:24Z")
Probably not the kind of music you’re after, but Cynic are entirely within your request 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Starving\_Artist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Starving\_Artist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Starving_Artist)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2009, 10:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-songs-music-with-that-electronic-voice-in-them/481244/54 "2009-01-20T10:52:58Z")
[Play With Bootsy](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5vYVa3y0FI&feature=related) (Bootsy Collins of _Parliament-Funkadelic_ with words and a cute singing performance by the adorable Kelli Ali, formerly of the _Sneaker Pimps_. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-songs-music-with-that-electronic-voice-in-them/481244.md?page=2)