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Everything about this comment is too good! I'd never heard either song before, but I'd definitely argue Dan is at least half robot. I think one would have to be

Everything about this comment is too good! I'd never heard either song before, but I'd definitely argue Dan is at least half robot. I think one would have to be to keep a cool head while doing such a (mostly, 'cept for all the' thanks dang!'posts- also written by AI, I'm sure) thankless job. This is how our robot overlords begin the takeover- hiding in plain sight, pretending to be one of us, while secretly gaining more and more power over us. Do they pay him with silicon upgrades? Does he dream of electric sheep? Are we the electric sheep? 'They Live' was a warning...when we put on the google glasses will we see their real metal skin?

DonHopkins 5y ago
The Android Sisters answer questions about Androids and Electronic Sheep: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NP8bOqTAco0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NP8bOqTAco0 Album: Songs Of Electronic Despair (1984) THE AWESOME FUTURISTIC KITSCH OF THE ANDROID SISTERS: https://dangerousminds.net/comments/songs_of_electronic_despair_the_awesome_futuristic_kitsch_of_the_android_si https://dangerousminds.net/comments/songs_of_electronic_desp... >Since 1982, the ZBS Foundation (ZBS= “Zero Bullshit”) has been producing a sci-fi/detective hybrid radio drama called Ruby, the ongoing adventures of Ruby the Galactic Gumshoe. The show is a fun listen, and since its history is documented elsewhere, we shan’t dwell on it here, as the series itself doesn’t concern us so much as does a pair of its supporting characters: The Android Sisters. >Exactly like it says on the box, the Android Sisters are robotic “siblings”—conceit and name both lifted from Philip K. Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?—whose role in the show is to deliver pointedly satiric songs, rendered in a unison speak-sing intonation by actresses Ruth Maleczech (sometimes credited as “Breuer”—married name?) and Valaria Wasilewski. Though it’s a pretty one-dimensional schtick, their acutely ‘80s synth songs were sufficiently listenable to merit an album in 1984. Released on the typically more rootsy Vanguard label (it was the home of Joan Baez and Buddy Guy, among others), Songs of Electronic Despair contained eleven goofy examples of what people in the ‘80s thought the future sounded like, and many of the songs directly address the themes of mechanization and alienation with which a lot of the synth musicians of the era seemed obsessed. Really, much of this stuff is in the same zone as the work Laurie Anderson was up to back then—and Anderson was once an artist in residence at the ZBS Foundation. >A second album, Pull No Punches, was issued in 2003, but the most accessible music available from the Android Sisters is their 2004 best-of, which is still in print on CD. Android Sisters Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ab0vApijEBM&list=PLqc7dhQXRchKAZobMiT8pLjRTQxQC1ko5 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ab0vApijEBM&list=PLqc7dhQXRc...

DonHopkins 5y ago

The Android Sisters answer questions about Androids and Electronic Sheep: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NP8bOqTAco0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NP8bOqTAco0 Album: Songs Of Electronic Despair (1984) THE AWESOME FUTURISTIC KITSCH OF THE ANDROID SISTERS: https://dangerousminds.net/comments/songs_of_electronic_despair_the_awesome_futuristic_kitsch_of_the_android_si https://dangerousminds.net/comments/songs_of_electronic_desp... >Since 1982, the ZBS Foundation (ZBS= “Zero Bullshit”) has been producing a sci-fi/detective hybrid radio drama called Ruby, the ongoing adventures of Ruby the Galactic Gumshoe. The show is a fun listen, and since its history is documented elsewhere, we shan’t dwell on it here, as the series itself doesn’t concern us so much as does a pair of its supporting characters: The Android Sisters. >Exactly like it says on the box, the Android Sisters are robotic “siblings”—conceit and name both lifted from Philip K. Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?—whose role in the show is to deliver pointedly satiric songs, rendered in a unison speak-sing intonation by actresses Ruth Maleczech (sometimes credited as “Breuer”—married name?) and Valaria Wasilewski. Though it’s a pretty one-dimensional schtick, their acutely ‘80s synth songs were sufficiently listenable to merit an album in 1984. Released on the typically more rootsy Vanguard label (it was the home of Joan Baez and Buddy Guy, among others), Songs of Electronic Despair contained eleven goofy examples of what people in the ‘80s thought the future sounded like, and many of the songs directly address the themes of mechanization and alienation with which a lot of the synth musicians of the era seemed obsessed. Really, much of this stuff is in the same zone as the work Laurie Anderson was up to back then—and Anderson was once an artist in residence at the ZBS Foundation. >A second album, Pull No Punches, was issued in 2003, but the most accessible music available from the Android Sisters is their 2004 best-of, which is still in print on CD. Android Sisters Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ab0vApijEBM&list=PLqc7dhQXRchKAZobMiT8pLjRTQxQC1ko5 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ab0vApijEBM&list=PLqc7dhQXRc...