Jed the Humanoid

Jed the Humanoid

"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 an elegy for an android who drinks himself to death,cite web
url=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2001/02/01/bmneil01.xml
title=Bearded and proud
publisher=Telegraph (UK)
year=2002
month=February] and is taken to be central to the nature versus technology parable of the band's second album. [cite web
url=http://media.www.dailyiowan.com/media/storage/paper599/news/2006/05/09/Arts/Still.Sort.Of.Purring-1923110.shtml
title=Still sort of purring -- CD Review - Grandaddy: Just Like Fambly Cat
first=Charlie
last=Moran
publisher=The Daily Iowan
date=2006-05-09] A music reviewer for the The Guardian, Dorian Lynskey, called it "the saddest robot song ever written." [cite web
url=http://arts.guardian.co.uk/filmandmusic/story/0,,1695555,00.html
title=Readers recommend: songs about sci-fi and space
first=Dorian
last=Lynskey
publisher=The Guardian (UK)
date=2006-01-27]

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."

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. [cite web
url=http://www.eastbayexpress.com/music/best_band_on_the_planet/Content?oid=285880
title=Best Band on the Planet: Sometimes, even a jaded critic gets to be a fan
first=Rob
last=Harvilla
publisher=East Bay Express
date=2003-11-17]

"Jed is a mechanical martyr with a message," said Lytle. "And his message is that alcohol and electronics do not mix." [cite web
url=http://www.sfweekly.com/2000-06-28/news/the-modesto-invasion/4
title=The Modesto Invasion: The San Francisco rock scene is alive and well -- 90 miles from San Francisco
first=Mark
last=Athitakis
publisher=SF Weekly
date=2000-06-28]

The character of Jed also appears in two other song by Grandaddy, "Jed's Other Poem (Beautiful Ground)" from the same album, and in the song "Jeddy 3's Poem" from the album "Signal to Snow Ratio".

References

External links

* [http://www.stewdio.org/jed/ Grandaddy official video for "Jed's Other Poem (Beautiful Ground)"]


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