Trans Songwriting Credits by Neil Young

"Trans" is the 1983 album by Neil Young, an electronic and synth-pop record that prominently features a Sennheiser vocoder on six of its nine tracks. It includes "Computer Age," "Transformer Man," "Sample and Hold," "We R in Control," and a reworking of the Buffalo Springfield song "Mr. Soul." Young produced the album with David Briggs and Tim Mulligan, backed by Nils Lofgren, Ben Keith, Frank Sampedro, Ralph Molina, and bassists Bruce Palmer and Billy Talbot. The heavily digital sound reflected Young's experience communicating with his son Ben, who had cerebral palsy, with Young noting it captured the same feeling he got from his son. It peaked at number 19 on the Billboard 200 and prompted a 1983 lawsuit from Geffen Records over its uncommercial nature, though later critics reassessed it as prescient electronic music.