Ima Robot [Enhanced][Explicit Lyrics]

Ima Robot

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 16, 2003)
• Original Release Date: September 16, 2003
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Enhanced, Explicit Lyrics
• Label: Virgin Records Us
• ASIN: B0000C0FFA
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (72 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #28,029 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

Track Listings

1. Dynomite

2. Song #1

3. Alive

4. Scream

5. A Is For Action

6. Dirty Life

7. Let's Talk Turkey

8. Philosophofee

9. 12=3 (Here Come The Doctors)

10. Here Comes The Bombs

11. What Are We Made From

12. Black Jettas (Bonus Track)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars "d" is for disease, June 23, 2005

By	Leslie (Pennsylvania) - See all my reviews

holy...my mind is blown.

i put their cd in when i get in the shower, and i unabashedly sing and dance until i run the hot water tank dry.

so they're not good for my electric bill, but they sure are good for everything else. i daresay im addicted. and that their cd isn't very good at sharing. it hogs my cd player, and makes all my other cds jealous.
not that i mind too much. i play obvious favorites.

9 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Refreshing_Re-defining_Simply Amazing, January 21, 2006

By	Kev M. "Pop Culture Enthusiest/Bad MC" (New Jersey) - See all my reviews

With the whole "emo"/punk rock movement on everybodies lips (i.e. mega-bands like 'My Chemical Romance' and 'Fallout Boy' to name a few) it is easy to see how numerous similar bands can emerge out of mediocracy and over-saturate the radio waves with mass produced music while landing guest spots on MTV's 'Total Request Live' performing infront of screaming 13 year old girls.

"Ima Robot" is one of those bands that transends and re-defines the genre. Though their self-titled album has been released over 2 years ago, it is a must own for all music lovers, whether you are part of the "scene" or not. The stand-out song on the album is "Scream" which was featured in the "Queer As Folk" soundtrack. The vocals of Alex Ebert give shades of bands like "Hot Hot Heat", but the accompaniment of pseudo New Age sound combinded with the punk guitar riffs & musical construction leave "Ima Robot" in a class all on its own. My personal favorites on the album are "Dirty Life", "A is for Action", and "Lets Talk Turkey". This album goes smoothly from track to track, and dont be surprised if you have the CD playing on loop.

On a side note, "Ima Robot"'s new album should be out this year (2006), on Capitol Records. Something to look forward to, whether you are a fan of the band, fan of the whole "emo"/punk rock genre, or just somebody who looks forward to CD releases.

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars It Makes You Laugh, But Unlike Creed, The Music's Still Good, June 12, 2004

By	"the_1_and_only" (Iowa) - See all my reviews

What is this world coming to? What is wrong with today's music patrons? What is it, I ask you? There must be something wrong. And, do you want to know what I think that it is? I think that today's young music 'fans' are all media-brainwashed, uninterested, unopinionated minions. Tell me that I'm wrong. You can't. If I were wrong, then you wouldn't come upon a huge poster advertising D12's new 'album' in the front of the Sam Goody store as you journey to the I's to find the last remaining copy of this incredible album, which you will buy for $20, since it won't be on sale. If I were wrong, then I wouldn't have some idiot standing next to me at the 'MTV Campus Invasion Tour,' waiting for the recycled, almost-dead sounds of Hoobastank (and, to a lessor extent, Lostprophets), and shouting "get off the stage!" to this groundbreaking band as they put on a disturbing-yet-great show.

Yes, people these days don't want anything new. They don't want artists to expand on musical genres, they want artists to grab hold of them and stretch them thinner and thinner. It's like when a person hires another painter to fininsh painting the world's largest house, because the painter working on it before got too old, and instead of using new paint, the new painter just throws some paint thinner on the paint and then spreads it around the wall, hoping that it would expand the paint slightly. (Okay, that was kind of a weird example.) But, you get what I'm saying. And, there's one more thing that you should understand: This band rocks.

This album opens with the single 'Dynomite.' This is a cool song, and a great way to get things going. Also, at about 2:20 in length, this song helps set the pace for the entire album. Song, No. 1 is also a great number, and helps reassure that the album's gonna break more ground than a Garden Claw and the tracks won't be recursions of 'Dynomite' or of 80's new wave (which is what they often get accused of.) From here, it's pretty much smooth sailing, from the electro-punkish acid downpour "Here Come The Bombs" to the frantic chimes of "A is For Action," to the phenomenal sing-along anthem "Alive." This album's only real flaw is that it's over far too soon, only a little over a half hour in length (and only if you include the ten-or-so minutes of silence before the well-placed hidden track "Black Jettas," a song that you'll be thanking your lucky stars you won't really have to count against this band.)

As with all great bands, though, the album is only half the experience. You haven't experienced Ima Robot unless you've seen the live show. They have so much energy, and they use the coolest of antics, including the bassist's ability to play a bass with-- get this-- another bass. I was fortunate enough to see them at the MTV Campus Invasion Tour, which I mentioned earlier, and I will see them again this summer on the Van's Warped Tour. However, as you will note, both of these venues kind of counteract with Ima Robot's style. They shouldn've booked them on the Lollapalooza tour, in my opinion, especially since this year's looking kind of dry.

Ima Robot is to 80's new wave like Tim Burton's '89 Batman flick is to the 60's TV show: You could see it as a rehash, but you'd be dumb to deny the brilliance and the potenial of it all, a work of art that could have existed even if the 'original' did not. And if anyone who wrote Ima Robot off as a 'retro band' had actually listened to 80's new wave, they would know that Ima Robot are very new, very now, and playing music for the future, not the past.