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- From: hal@radio.wkar.msu.edu (Hal Prentice)
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- Subject: Re: The Android Sisters (Human Duplicators)
- Message-ID: <hal.66.725554429@radio.wkar.msu.edu>
- Date: 28 Dec 92 14:53:49 GMT
- Organization: Broadcasting Services, Michigan State University
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- OK, MSTies, did you catch the reference to "The Android Sisters" in "The
- Human Duplicators?" If they meant what I think they meant, they were
- talking about a public radio production from 1984. Actually, it was an
- album of songs with a futuristic bend produced by a radio commune in
- upstate New York called ZBS. The album (which was for public radio play
- only though it supposedly made it into the real world on LP) was called
- "Songs of Electronic Despair."
-
- The Android Sisters were a pair of women ('droids?) who sang (or spoke) very
- odd, heavily synthesized songs such as "S-s-s-s X-1" (Who's got the time for
- relationships. This is the future. Who need's an old fashioned analog
- lover when you can have digital s-s-s X-1), "Down on the Electronic Farm", "
- Invasion" (o-o-o helicopters! o-o-o air strikes! It's good! It's so good), "
- Boogie, Woogie Bugle Droid from Planet B", "Livin' in the 50's" (Look! Space
- stations with Buick portholes, MX missiles with fishtail fins and chrome
- nosecones!), "Robots are Coming" (Give me your job), "Macho Robot" (...most
- of all, I love when he pounds his big metal chest), "Radio" (once I turned
- you on and you on all day and most of the night but no more.)
-
- Anyway, it is a terrific album but very rare. Check it out if you dare.
-
- Cheers.
-
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