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Damon Albarn — Everyday Robots
Album: Everyday Robots
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5.8

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Total ratings: 1448









Released: 2014
Length: 3:49
Plays (last 30 days): 0
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We are everyday robots on our phones
In the process of getting home
Looking like standing stones
Out there on our own

We're everyday robots in control
Or in the process of being sold
Driving in adjacent cars
'Til you press restart

Everyday robots just touch thumbs
Swimmin' in lingo they become
Stricken in a status sea
One more vacancy

For everyday robots getting old
When our lips are cold
Lookin' like standing stones
Out there on our own

Little robots in ringback tones
In the process of getting home
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I'm not the one who recognized this but I thought it worth reposting that it sounds like he borrowed just a few moments from this... 

Posted 11 months ago by pennstatejimboh    [ Reply ]
What a cool song. We need more songs like this that make insightful social commentaries!
Posted 11 months ago by Kajukenbo    [ Reply ]
 timmus wrote:
That dissonant squeaking, over and over and over.  I've been having to turn the radio off for awhile when this is on.
 
Not a bad song, if they could just remove it from the track.




I think that "Squeaking" is central to the monotonous moaning of the day for those of us who are addicted to our Tech.

It drives home the point.
Posted 1 year ago by Rstrickster    [ Reply ]
That dissonant squeaking, over and over and over.  I've been having to turn the radio off for awhile when this is on.
 
Not a bad song, if they could just remove it from the track.
Posted 2 years ago by timmus    [ Reply ]
Ok this was a 6 on my first listen.. its now a 7... 
Posted 3 years ago by xerces    [ Reply ]
This is Damon Albarn at his best alone. I love it.
Posted 3 years ago by tm    [ Reply ]
While I can understand diddling around with this tune in, say, the privacy of one's basement, there was no reason nor any excuse for recording it thus exposing it to others. This ain't no robot party. Or disco. 
Posted 3 years ago by Grayson    [ Reply ]
 2Hawks wrote:

I'm laughing quietly at all the "squeak" comments. Surely this isn't the first time someone used squeaky metal in music? Somebody help me out here.




Lou Reed's Metal Machine Music (1975) comes to mind. Also Indonesian Gamelan "music" (sounds like a team of hellhounds banging on anvils with large hammers) has been around a lot longer than that, and may explain why Indonesia is occasionally... a bit on the cranky & fussy side.
Posted 3 years ago by moto848    [ Reply ]
 2Hawks wrote:

I'm laughing quietly at all the "squeak" comments. Surely this isn't the first time someone used squeaky metal in music? Somebody help me out here.


2014? could be close
Posted 3 years ago by plat_    [ Reply ]
I'm laughing quietly at all the "squeak" comments. Surely this isn't the first time someone used squeaky metal in music? Somebody help me out here.
Posted 3 years ago by 2Hawks    [ Reply ]
When I'm sitting in rush hour traffic day after day , I feel exactly like this song. An everyday robot on my way home.  Thanks to RP there are no Robots playing our music! 
Posted 3 years ago by jimtyrrell    [ Reply ]
I hear a sad swingset, with one lonely kid.
Posted 3 years ago by Larrygrrl    [ Reply ]

Captain Obvious says:
robots = squeak
squeak = robots
Mood matches social commentary.
C'm’on people.

"Rocket Raccoon: His people are completely literal. Metaphors go over his head.
Drax: Nothing goes over my head. My reflexes are too fast, I would catch it."


(Not saying it's brilliant or anything, just...
never mind.
I may edit this if I come back later when I'm less cranky.)
Posted 3 years ago by easmann    [ Reply ]
Amused by the comments regarding the "squeak" of the song when I am immersed in the message of our obsession/ addiction to digital technology (including one of our societies favorite pastimes of slinging shallow opinions for amusement).  I think the melancholy / unsettling expression of the tune is perfect for the message and perhaps the "squeak" was intended to make us uncomfortable and pay attention.. what a concept!  They say the squeaky wheel gets the grease ;)  
Posted 3 years ago by constantine.stephanie148    [ Reply ]
I can't place it but for whatever reason, this song reminds me of a Michael Kiwanuka song.
Posted 4 years ago by westslope    [ Reply ]
 below72 wrote:
 Laptopdog wrote:
I think the sound engineer should've used some WD-40 on this track.
 critics... enuff.
Bill ...always eclectic and esoteric - please, do not change.

 
I dig Damon Albarn's creations, but that WD-40 comment can't help but hit the funny bone here
Posted 4 years ago by rhlrstn    [ Reply ]
that squeak is insufferable. Whole evening ruined. The only "1" I have ever doled out on RP. Cloud Cult and Kings of Leon are twice as good, solid 2
Posted 4 years ago by fatcatjb    [ Reply ]
may the pandemic be a a great awakening from the stupor which this song describes... 
Posted 4 years ago by RabbitEars    [ Reply ]
5.7 for this beautiful song...It says a lot. While bands such as A Perfect Circle get 7.5 for some really childish lyrics and very overrated music. 

Thanks, Bill, for playing this song despite the h/rating!
Posted 4 years ago by serban.popadiuc    [ Reply ]
Thought this was Elbow. I like the unassuming nature of this tune. 
Posted 4 years ago by ziakut    [ Reply ]
 panoz wrote:
That "squeak" sounds to me like a sample of the third movement of the famous Bela Bartok's Romanian Folk Dances..
Check it out: https://youtu.be/vsGDYcbANGg .
I bet a beer. :D
 
I believe you are correct! Nice catch -- how did you manage that?
Posted 4 years ago by Dave_Mack    [ Reply ]
I try, keep trying and try some more...and then lower my rating...
Posted 5 years ago by raewah    [ Reply ]
This just seems needlessly redundant and disoriented. I don't give out 1's lightly, but I'm not holding back on this one. Sucko barfo all of the way. 
It's almost as depressing as the album cover.
Posted 5 years ago by Blasserman    [ Reply ]
 Laptopdog wrote:
I think the sound engineer should've used some WD-40 on this track.
 critics... enuff.
Bill ...always eclectic and esoteric - please, do not change.

Posted 5 years ago by below72    [ Reply ]
 linden wrote:
No sir, I don't like it.
 
Me neither. That synth riff hurts every time it comes around.
Posted 5 years ago by Dave_Mack    [ Reply ]
Bloody hell this is dreary.
Posted 5 years ago by Montyontherun    [ Reply ]
no damon play with yourself.
Posted 5 years ago by taklalaratar    [ Reply ]
Posted 6 years ago by ziggytrix    [ Reply ]
No sir, I don't like it.
Posted 6 years ago by linden    [ Reply ]
I think the sound engineer should've used some WD-40 on this track.
Posted 6 years ago by Laptopdog    [ Reply ]
awful. that droning beep gave me a headache
Posted 6 years ago by olixbob    [ Reply ]

Phrase: 'They didn't know where they was going, but they knew where they was wasn't it?" -- Cabenza De Gasca aka The Gasser, voice Lord Buckley.

This phrase also used at Yonger Brother -- "All I Want".

Posted 6 years ago by ico    [ Reply ]
 jkl1416 wrote:
Once a month, eh?
 
Last play: May 27, 2018
Plays in last 30 days: 2
 
Now, that's better, isn't it?
Posted 6 years ago by palatin8    [ Reply ]
I wonder how he decides whether he wants his name on an album vs Gorillaz?

Also, I wanna hear track 6, it has Natasha Khan (Bat For Lashes) guesting on it.
Posted 6 years ago by ziggytrix    [ Reply ]
 helloitsme wrote:
Thought this was a new Elbow song.

 {#Roflol}


Posted 6 years ago by markybx    [ Reply ]
that squeak! EEEEEEKKKKK
Posted 6 years ago by fatcatjb    [ Reply ]
The humans are dead. I sniffed him. He's dead.
Posted 6 years ago by NoEnzLefttoSplit    [ Reply ]
Like Elbow on ludes. Played on a chalkboard. With fingernails. 

Album art kinda says it all.
Posted 6 years ago by merobreno    [ Reply ]
That "squeak" sounds to me like a sample of the third movement of the famous Bela Bartok's Romanian Folk Dances..
Check it out: https://youtu.be/vsGDYcbANGg .
I bet a beer. :D
Posted 7 years ago by panoz    [ Reply ]
that squealing - ugh!
Posted 7 years ago by ploba    [ Reply ]
Thought this was a new Elbow song.
Posted 7 years ago by helloitsme    [ Reply ]
Eleanor Rigby -> Everyday Robots

A song about a lonely person to a song about people secluding themselves. Interesting juxtaposition there, Bill.
Posted 7 years ago by Grammarcop    [ Reply ]
I'm growing so fond of this song.  I hear noises from my childhood...the squeal of the swingset, playing jax, the "percussion" section we'd created with kitchen implements... It has a playful melancholy to it.
Posted 7 years ago by Larrygrrl    [ Reply ]
I like this one. I was trying to recall where I have heard his voice before.  Oh yeah Gorillaz!
Posted 7 years ago by richardfrey    [ Reply ]
"Everyday robots on our phones". That reminds me of a new word I came across the other day, to describe people walking along staring at their smartphones and ignoring the reality around them - 'smombie'.
Posted 8 years ago by fredriley    [ Reply ]
I like it a lot.  Interesting instrumentation, and I like his voice.  Violins are always a plus.
Posted 8 years ago by dimar    [ Reply ]
 TerryS wrote:

Right, nuffink quite like a Nottnem acc'nt.

 
Yer rahrt there, me ducks :o)
Posted 9 years ago by fredriley    [ Reply ]
Once a month, eh?
Posted 10 years ago by jkl1416    [ Reply ]
eh kinda weak.. {#Shhh}
Posted 10 years ago by moodfood    [ Reply ]
While I don't mind this song, I do prefer the Flight of the Conchords robot song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2IPAOxrH7Ro



Posted 10 years ago by Ipse_Dixit    [ Reply ]
I used to find this merely boring, but increasingly I find it irritating.
Posted 10 years ago by jessfine    [ Reply ]
Gets more annoying each time I hear it.
Posted 10 years ago by DaveInSaoMiguel    [ Reply ]
Awful!! {#Frustrated}  {#Beat}  {#Arghhh}  
Posted 10 years ago by mgkiwi    [ Reply ]
Everyday People --> Everyday Robots.... Nice Segway!


Posted 10 years ago by zepher    [ Reply ]
Needs to go back to the shop for ... I dunno, some serious remanufacturing, at the very least.
Posted 10 years ago by Baby_M    [ Reply ]
a little dissonant, weird grooviness never did anybody any harm, and it may even do you some good, like spinach.
Posted 10 years ago by GTT    [ Reply ]
Genius to some, overrated rubbish to others.  One man's meat is another man's poison, and so on.

I think it grates. 
Posted 10 years ago by DaidyBoy    [ Reply ]
11010010010001101010011101110!!
Posted 10 years ago by onerb    [ Reply ]
It's the squeaky song!
These robots need some WD 40......
Posted 10 years ago by drewd    [ Reply ]
Has officially bored a hole into my skull....
Posted 10 years ago by leafmold    [ Reply ]
 Zeito wrote:

I thought it was the Blur singer.

 
I thought it was the Damon Albarn singer. ;-)
Posted 10 years ago by Jamunca    [ Reply ]
Reminds be of a Lorde song, and not in a good way.
Posted 10 years ago by zink    [ Reply ]
{#No}      {#No}       {#No}    not good is it?  
Posted 10 years ago by Peter_Bradshaw    [ Reply ]
Sounds like Damon is trying to out-hip himself.  I sure miss his Blur days with all of those wonderful sounds......{#Roflol}
Posted 10 years ago by d48m02h    [ Reply ]
{#Frustrated} Argh...!
Posted 10 years ago by gesue    [ Reply ]
I could tolerate this if it were not for the spoken part. Gets under my skin.
Posted 10 years ago by leafmold    [ Reply ]

Anyone else hear a squeaky front porch swing?  Oh, yeah, it's the soundtrack of long past, lazy summer days.  Early evening, warm, gentle breeze.  Quiet, except for the squeaking of that old porch swing as I push and glide and push and glide; daydreaming.


Posted 10 years ago by FamilyMan    [ Reply ]
Protracted winter here in the not-so-far-North (still hitting 0 deg. F overnight at the end of March);  Drive to the office; Do some work;  Drive home; Lather; Rinse; Repeat.

Yup.  I'm an "Everyday Robot"  (with a bad case of SAD and cabin fever).
Posted 10 years ago by psg    [ Reply ]
I think this is great......
Posted 10 years ago by mlarimore    [ Reply ]
 ronniegirl wrote:
I thought it was the Gorillaz singer.

 
I thought it was the Blur singer.
Posted 10 years ago by Zeito    [ Reply ]
{#No}{#No}{#No}{#No}{#No}{#No}{#No}{#No}{#No}{#No}{#No}{#No}{#No}
Posted 10 years ago by BMTR    [ Reply ]
Wow, annoying. Almost atonal. Blech.
Posted 10 years ago by KNX0355    [ Reply ]
1 - because i just love to hear a song with a squeeky swing soundtrack!
 
Posted 10 years ago by ploba    [ Reply ]
 fredriley wrote:
Nope, I still can't be doing with Albarn's Sahf Lahndan accent, narmean, john? It really gets on me wick. TFF PSD.

 
East London, I think you'll find.
Posted 10 years ago by oldsaxon    [ Reply ]
{#No}{#Dance}
Posted 10 years ago by sfcarvalho    [ Reply ]
 fredriley wrote:
Nope, I still can't be doing with Albarn's Sahf Lahndan accent, narmean, john? It really gets on me wick. TFF PSD.

 
Right, nuffink quite like a Nottnem acc'nt.
Posted 10 years ago by TerryS    [ Reply ]
 Damon is the mastermind behind all the Gorillaz albums, but a lot of credit also goes to Dan the Automator and DangerMouse, etc.

ronniegirl wrote:
I thought it was the Gorillaz singer.

 


Posted 10 years ago by mostling    [ Reply ]
ouch...
Posted 10 years ago by 25demayo    [ Reply ]
 ronniegirl wrote:
I thought it was the Gorillaz singer.

  It is.


Posted 10 years ago by Jelani    [ Reply ]
Nope, I still can't be doing with Albarn's Sahf Lahndan accent, narmean, john? It really gets on me wick. TFF PSD.
Posted 10 years ago by fredriley    [ Reply ]
I thought it was the Gorillaz singer.
Posted 10 years ago by ronniegirl    [ Reply ]
So cool to hear something new from him (new to me at least). Got a bit of a David Byrne ring to it... That's a good thing in my book.
Posted 10 years ago by Limpopoking    [ Reply ]
After all that he has done, I wonder sometimes what he would do with a symphony orchestra. Then I remember what Joe Jackson, one of Albarn's few peers in the musical genius club, did when he tackled a symphony and am content to wonder, ponder, and wait a while longer.
Posted 10 years ago by WonderLizard    [ Reply ]
wow..
Posted 10 years ago by Candela    [ Reply ]
After a documentary about Damon on British TV last week there are a lot of people looking forward to hearing the complete album.  Few weeks away yet.   Like most of his work it will take a few listenings before some people get it.
Posted 10 years ago by Jim_Messenger    [ Reply ]
huh, I thought we might all be blessed with an Ian Drury ditty ("Reasons to be cheerful, Part 3"), though this is abit cheery in a way
Posted 10 years ago by hayduke2    [ Reply ]
Didn't like it when I first heard it, now I love it.
Which is typical Albarn I guess.
Posted 10 years ago by sajitjacob    [ Reply ]
It's different. That's for sure.
Posted 10 years ago by MojoJojo    [ Reply ]
Crap.
Posted 10 years ago by Alpine    [ Reply ]
 Sounds like radiohead and that's not negative... Really cool from a real artist 
Posted 10 years ago by loukas1982    [ Reply ]