bluecanary's Geek Compilation

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This follows up my previous thread, in which I requested suggestions of geeky/nerdy songs. I posted this tracklisting in the thread, but it was not prominent. The CDs don’t actually exist, this is (at present, until I buy all the songs if I ever do so) just for entertainment and discussion purposes. Let me know what you think…

Mods: I hope this is OK - If not, I’m happy for you to close this thread.

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  1. Tom Lehrer - ‘Elements’ (YouTube)
  2. They Might Be Giants - ‘The Sun Is A Mass of Incandescent Gas’ (YouTube)
  3. Jonathan Coulton - ‘That Spells DNA’ (YouTube)
  4. The Pettit Project - ‘99 Lives’ (YouTube)
  5. The Klein Four - ‘Finite Simple Group (of Order Two)’ (YouTube1)
  6. Speck - ‘Conventional Lover’ (YouTube)
  7. Brad Paisley - ‘I’m So Much Cooler Online’ (YouTube)
  8. Marian Call - ‘I’ll Still Be A Geek’ (YouTube, MySpace)
  9. Moxy Fruvous - ‘My Baby Loves A Bunch of Authors’ (YouTube)
  10. MJ Hibbett & The Validators - ‘It Only Works Because You’re Here’ (YouTube)
  11. Weird Al Yankovic - ‘Virus Alert’ (YouTube)
  12. Barcelona - ‘I Have The Password To Your Shell Account’ (YouTube)
  13. They Might Be Giants - ‘Particle Man’ (YouTube)
  14. Jonathan Coulton - ‘The Presidents’ (YouTube)
  15. Belle & Sebastian - ‘Wrapped Up In Books’ (YouTube)
  16. Plastic Parachute - ‘Houdini’ (YouTube)
  17. Todd Snider - ‘Statistician’s Blues’ (YouTube)
  18. Da Vinci’s Notebook - ‘The Gates’ (YouTube, last.fm)
  19. Andy Xport - ‘Internet Warriors’ (eSnips)
  20. Indigo Girls - ‘Galileo’ (YouTube)
  21. Bo Burnham - ‘New Math’ (YouTube - NSFW2)
  22. Jonathan Coulton - ‘I Feel Fantastic’ (YouTube)
  23. Amateur Transplants - ‘The Drugs Song’ (YouTube - Possibly NSFW)
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  24. Thomas Dolby - ‘Hyperactive!’ (YouTube)
  25. Scarlet Division - ‘Sundial’ (YouTube)
  26. Ozma - ‘If I Only Had A Heart’ (N/A)
  27. Dogs Die In Hot Cars - 'I Love You ‘cause I Have To’ (YouTube)
  28. Weezer - ‘Why Bother’ (YouTube)
  29. The Would Be’s - ‘My Radio Sounds Different In The Dark’ (iMeem)
  30. Rush - ‘Subdivisions’ (YouTube)
  31. Simon & Garfunkel - ‘I Am A Rock’ (YouTube)
  32. The Dawn Parade - ‘The Hole In My Heart’ (YouTube)
  33. Cuckooland - ‘Happathy’ (MySpace)
  34. Bowling For Soup - ‘High School Never Ends’ (YouTube)
  35. The Pettit Project - ‘Guess I Gotta Guess’ (N/A)
  36. Encyclopedia - ‘Emily’ (MySpace)
  37. The Unlovables - ‘Everything’s Overrated’ (MySpace)
  38. Jonathan Coulton - ‘Code Monkey’ (YouTube)
  39. Weezer - ‘In The Garage’ (YouTube)
  40. They Might Be Giants - ‘Birdhouse In Your Soul’ (YouTube)
  41. Ozma - ‘Apple Trees’ (YouTube)
  42. Semisonic - ‘Chemistry’ (YouTube)
  43. Special Edd - ‘You’re Not Alone’ (MySpace)
  44. Weezer - ‘Pork & Beans’ (YouTube)
    Notes:
    1 The laughing on this video is rather annoying - I hope I can find a ‘clean’ version of this song.
    2 I won’t link directly to this. There’s no issues with the video, but some of the song’s lyrics are definitely not for the easily offended
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Some great choices there bluecanary.

Do you think British acts like John Shuttleworth, Half man half biscuit count as geeks? You can take your pick from their back catalogues:

HMHB - ‘Bad losers on yahoo chess’ (Youtube)

JS - ‘Two margarines’ (Youtube)

‘Two margarines on the go, it’s a nightmare scenario…’

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It’s alright, but the complete lack of MC Lars is scary.

Whether you like rap or not, the man revels in his geekitude.

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They’re a great selection. Another MJ Hibbett & The Validators song I love is “Hey Hey 16k”.

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What, no MC Hawking?

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Admittedly I didn’t give the ‘nerdcore’ much of a chance, since (thanks to Dopers and others) I had more than enough in my preferred genres.

In particular, Marian Call, Brad Paisley, Moxy Fruvous and especially Jonathan Coulton are songs I predict I’ll be playing for years to come.

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I suppose a fair amount of TMBG was to be expected, but if you want to shake things up just a smidge, The Bobs do a great a cappella version of Particle Man.

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Their studio CD is for sale at CafePress and iTunes, where you can buy the individual song for 99 cents. It’s a studio cut, no laughing. :slight_smile:

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If you’re still taking suggestions…

The Galaxy Song from Monty Python’s Meaning of Life

Tetris theme A as played on electric guitar by Ozma

Come On Fhqwhgads by Strong Bad