Become A Robot

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song name	Become a Robot
artist	They Might Be Giants
album	1985 Demo Tape, Free When You Call From Work, Then: The Earlier Years
year	1985
run time	1:18
sung by	John Flansburgh

Written and recorded for a Restless polka compilation, but rejected.
Flans has said that the song "uses a Fairlight, which was then a brand new invention, like a music sampler and computer. Phil Collins, Peter Gabriel - every Brit art-rocker guy had a Fairlight in the '80s."
The lyrics for this song contained in the booklet for Then include the line "here's hoping you don't harbor a wishnik," even though that is clearly not what is being sung. Producer Bill Krauss confirmed in an interview that Flansburgh actually sings "here's hoping you don't harbor a deathwish." The wrong lyrics were printed because TMBG believed the real lyric might have scared parents.
This song appears to use a drum track similar to Which Describes How You're Feeling (Demo Version).

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