robot romance

Cafe Society
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the flameing lips – one more robot
electric lights orchestra – yours truely 2095
tommarow’s retro future – robot heartache
pollen – girls love robots
T.A.T.U – robot (yeah its in russian… its still about loveing a robot)
dresden dolls – coin opperated boy (does that count? close enough…)
duran duran – electric barbarella
what else? any other songs about robots being in love? or gaining emotions?

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Well, there’sMarvin The Paranoid Android’s line of songs…

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Styx…Mr. Roboto
Alan Parsons…I, Robot

 Gary Numan Albums....Robots,Androids,machmen (Machines),replicas,aliens
 Dark,Dark cool stuff!

 "I am a human being who has intercourse with a machine"...
  Twilight of the Machman
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Does Bjork’s All is Full of Love count?

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Theme music from The Stepford Wives?

There’s a manga titled Chobits that addresses this idea, too…

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any more?

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Was (Not Was) - “Robot Girl”

There are lots of anime & manga with this theme - Hand Maid May, Boku no Marie(sor t of), Mahoromatic Maid, Ping from Megatokyo, all off the top of my head.

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There’s always Diesal Sweeties on-line robot romance comic.

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the theme has been done to death in anime and manga… I’d have no problem finding that topic covered in anime. its basicly assumeable that if you see a humanoid robot it will gain emotions if its in anime (possibly right before heroicly sacrificeing itself).

what I want is specific songs with this theme. robots gaining emotion… or humanity. or else robots who fall in love, or people who fall in love with robots.

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While I’m not sure he is actually in love with the robot in the same way he’d be in love with a true “soul mate”, Alice Cooper sings of having a robot woman in the song “Woman Machine” from the album Muscle of Love (1974)…

*She’ll do your work in half the time
Never sick and can’t go blind
Oh, woman machine

Brain of tape that fill her head
She knows more now than all the dead
Oh, woman machine

Oh, woman machine
Oh, woman machine
Oh, woman machine
Oh, woman machine

Heart of steel and skin that’s cold
Can’t wear her out, she can’t grow old
Oh, woman machine

She goes to bed when her work is through
She’ll do it all, just change the tubes
Oh, woman machine

[chorus]

She can’t talk back
With no playback
But she’ll listen
To all your woe
Trade your old one
For a new one
They just don’t make 'em like they used to
No!

[chorus]*

Doesn’t sound like Alice really loves her. At least not on an emotional level. I’m sure he loves her for what she can do, however. :wink: He shows more emotion when singing about dead women. :evil grin:

Anyhoo…

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Domo arigato, Mr Roboto.