Exclusive Download: Wombats' Aggressive, Clever 'I'm A Robot Like You'

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Click here to listen to The Wombats' song "I'm a Robot Like You"

"I'm A Robot Like You," the latest offering from the Liverpool alt-rock band the Wombats, pushes the band's sound to a new extreme of aggression while retaining their addictive melodies and clever wordplay. The band's second album, The Wombats Proudly Present… This Modern Glitch, is in stores now, but you can download the b-side of the band's latest single for free here.

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Song Stories

“Piano Man”

Billy Joel | 1973

Billy Joel’s first hit, “Piano Man,” was – ironically – an autobiographical lament about how his first album wasn’t a hit. When Cold Spring Harbor didn’t take off, Joel briefly became a lounge pianist in Los Angeles, and this song, about that experience, expressed his frustrations and fears at the time: “And they sit at the bar and put bread in my jar/And say, ‘Man, what are you doing here?’” “It was all right,” Joel said later, about the gig. “I got free drinks and union scale, which was the first steady money I’d made in a long time.”

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