“I Love You (Miss Robot)” by The Buggles

"I Love You (Miss Robot)" is track four on The Age of Plastic, the debut Trevor Horn and Geoff Downes put out as the Buggles on Island in February 1980, and it's electropop and new wave at their sleekest and slyest. The pair wrote, played and produced it themselves in 1979, cutting the backing track at Virgin's Town House in West London and moving to Sarm East Studios for the vocals and the mix.

Critics heard a song about a robot; Downes says it's about life on the road and bedding someone you don't much like. Gary Langan mixed it late one Sunday night in 1979 and has called it one of the best mixes he's ever done. It was never a single, but it was played live in 2010, when the whole album was performed on stage for the first time.

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