Robot Love

Victor Lams | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (March 6, 2001)
• Original Release Date: 2001
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: The Orchard
• ASIN: B00005B7EP
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,816,376 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Intro

2. Vampire Babies

3. Robot Love

4. Sarahs Lullaby

5. Shelly

6. (Life Is) Salty

7. Captain Bigshot, Pt. 1

8. Interlude (Run You Down)

9. Space Helpers

10. Cacaphonie

11. Interlude (Permission)

12. A Little Something

13. So Simple a Song

14. The Video Store Song

15. Party for My Head

16. Advice for Young Robot

17. The Return of Captain Bigshot

18. Farmer Joe

19. Homunculus

20. It's Time to Go

See all 22 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Wow!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!, February 17, 2003

A Kid's Review

This review is from: Robot Love (Audio CD)

This cd is so good, me and my brother listen to it all the time. This cd is great for kids!!!! My mom loves it too!! I really love this cd!! And I highly suggest this cd to kids, they'll love it!!!

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars You got to love the robots, whatever it takes, April 4, 2001

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Kevin P. Hogan (Ann Arbor, MI USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Robot Love (Audio CD)

The songs on this CD are catchy. Expect them to live on in your head long after you've put the CD down.

Victor Lams does compose his music with the assistance of a computer, but it's really the songs about the secret lives of robots that capture the imagination.

I've never been able to look at a robotic checker (U-Scan or what have you) in the same way. Now I wonder about the lasers that perform price checks, and cars that tell me their doors are jars.

4.0 out of 5 stars a quirky departure (arrival?) for a jazz journeyman, May 21, 2001

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"bwanadevil" (Truth or Consequences, NM, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Robot Love (Audio CD)

I'm impressed -- this is clearly not the traditional jazz and swing Lams cut his teeth on back in the day, but a mix of lounge, space pop, and techno, all about robots -- unstoppable farmer robots, sammitch-eating robots, and the self-checkouts at the supermarket (I don't know if they're technically robots, but I now believe they may actually have feelings, so mission accomplished, I guess).

Lams has gravitated away from the straight-up jazz of his teenage-prodigy days and toward... what's next? Could this be a preview of his future years as a prog-rock god? Well, I'll be listening, at least.

This would've been an easy five if it had more head-nodding breakbeats.