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"Jed the Humanoid " is a song on the 2000 album The Sophtware Slump released by the Modesto, California indie-rock band Grandaddy . The song is a eulogy for Jeddy 3, an android who drinks himself to death after his creators neglect him,[1] and is taken to be central to the nature versus technology parable of the band's second album.[2] A music reviewer for The Guardian , Dorian Lynskey, called it "the saddest robot song ever written."[3]
Songwriter Jason Lytle explained that much like Modesto's famous former resident, George Lucas , growing up "he had nothing better to do than dream up robots."[1]
In the song, the inventors of the bona fide thinking, feeling robot lament leaving town and returning to find that Jed has raided the liquor cabinet and killed himself .[4]
"Jed is a mechanical martyr with a message," said Lytle. "And his message is that alcohol and electronics do not mix."[5]
The character of Jed also appears in three other songs by Grandaddy: Jed's Other Poem (Beautiful Ground) from the same album, in the song Jeddy 3's Poem from the EP Signal to Snow Ratio , and in the song Jed the 4th (which deals with Jed's alcoholic son) from the album Last Place .
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^ Moran, Charlie (2006-05-09). "Still sort of purring -- CD Review - Grandaddy: Just Like Fambly Cat" . The Daily Iowan. [permanent dead link ]
^ Lynskey, Dorian (2006-01-27). "Readers recommend: songs about sci-fi and space" . The Guardian (UK ).
^ Harvilla, Rob (2003-11-17). "Best Band on the Planet: Sometimes, even a jaded critic gets to be a fan" . East Bay Express. Archived from the original on 2007-12-05.
^ Athitakis, Mark (2000-06-28). "The Modesto Invasion: The San Francisco rock scene is alive and well -- 90 miles from San Francisco" . SF Weekly.
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