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Song's chords G, C, Gm, F, A♯, Fm, Cm, A, D, D♯
Album The Works
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"Machines (Or 'Back to Humans')" came up as an idea by Roger Taylor, and Brian May collaborated with him and finished it. Producer Reinhold Mack programmed the synth-"demolition" using a Fairlight CMI II Sampler, and the song is sung as a duet between two Mercury (harmonising with each other) and a robotic Taylor (using a Roland VP330 Vocoder). The instrumental remix of the song samples parts of "Ogre Battle" from Queen's second album Queen II. This song, along with Radio Ga Ga are some of the heaviest uses of electronics on the album. Roger Taylor - 1984 interview: "Basically, it starts off where everything's electronic - electronic drums, everything. And what you have is the 'human' rock band sort of crashing in. What you wind up with is a battle between the two." Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.
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