We Control The Wow And Flutter!

March 6, 2011 4:21 PM

Please help me find a song about robots!

I'm trying to find out the name/artist of song I used to have on my iPod. The song was about robots on strike and the band name was something, well, roboty. The vocalist was male.

Here are the lyrics, as best as I can remember them:

Just a twenty watt bulb and a surge protector
that's what we're going to bat for
and you know we're not alone!

The blender and the stove are with us,
so's the toaster and the television.
We control the wow and flutter;
we can make you suffer.

We are small machines.
We have simple dreams.


Thanks for your help!

posted by mmmbacon to Media & Arts (6 answers total)

Is it this?
posted by Cool Papa Bell at 5:58 PM on March 6, 2011

Response by poster: That's not it, Cool Papa Bell. Thanks though!
posted by mmmbacon at 5:23 AM on March 7, 2011

Servotron?
posted by jca at 12:43 PM on March 11, 2011

(an offshoot of the band Man or Astroman?)
posted by jca at 12:44 PM on March 11, 2011

Response by poster: The song isn't by Servotron, but thanks!
posted by mmmbacon at 7:34 AM on March 18, 2011

Response by poster: I found it! I finally found the magical keyword combination that led me to their website: http://www.notheydo.com/

The song I remembered is called Small Machines.

Their name isn't all that roboty, so that probably didn't help.
posted by mmmbacon at 8:30 AM on March 18, 2011