# bluecanary's Geek Compilation **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 13, 2009, 10:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bluecanarys-geek-compilation/481069 "2009-01-13T10:39:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![bluecanary](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bluecanary/32/3614_2.png) [@bluecanary](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bluecanary)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2009, 10:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bluecanarys-geek-compilation/481069/1 "2009-01-13T10:39:18Z")
This follows up [my previous thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=500663), 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._ **CD1** 1. Tom Lehrer - ‘Elements’ ([YouTube](http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=SmwlzwGMMwc)) 2. They Might Be Giants - ‘The Sun Is A Mass of Incandescent Gas’ ([YouTube](http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=Oyz7e8iQ6Uo)) 3. Jonathan Coulton - ‘That Spells DNA’ ([YouTube](http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=6cmbck1GZ9Q)) 4. The Pettit Project - ‘99 Lives’ ([YouTube](http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=yrGyIfX6Jng)) 5. The Klein Four - ‘Finite Simple Group (of Order Two)’ ([YouTube](http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=UTby_e4-Rhg)1) 6. Speck - ‘Conventional Lover’ ([YouTube](http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=DGCNupVsipw)) 7. Brad Paisley - ‘I’m So Much Cooler Online’ ([YouTube](http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=7GcVnhNjWV0)) 8. Marian Call - ‘I’ll Still Be A Geek’ ([YouTube](http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=r7cO-2dW8x8), [MySpace](http://www.myspace.com/mariancall)) 9. Moxy Fruvous - ‘My Baby Loves A Bunch of Authors’ ([YouTube](http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=h_iNNUuVenE)) 10. MJ Hibbett & The Validators - ‘It Only Works Because You’re Here’ ([YouTube](http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=naiJZWc_iDk)) 11. Weird Al Yankovic - ‘Virus Alert’ ([YouTube](http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=k-GaRKDsz-Y)) 12. Barcelona - ‘I Have The Password To Your Shell Account’ ([YouTube](http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=mK_auSmUtmY)) 13. They Might Be Giants - ‘Particle Man’ ([YouTube](http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=fJ_uEWDQQQE)) 14. Jonathan Coulton - ‘The Presidents’ ([YouTube](http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=DdUUywIsIGI)) 15. Belle & Sebastian - ‘Wrapped Up In Books’ ([YouTube](http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=iBU-MxydbWQ)) 16. Plastic Parachute - ‘Houdini’ ([YouTube](http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=wB-2RrwAcUI)) 17. Todd Snider - ‘Statistician’s Blues’ ([YouTube](http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=BMQdtyot38s)) 18. Da Vinci’s Notebook - ‘The Gates’ ([YouTube](http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=5EpuYa632W4), [last.fm](http://www.last.fm/music/Da+Vinci%27s+Notebook/_/The+Gates+-+DaVinci%27s+Notebook)) 19. Andy Xport - ‘Internet Warriors’ ([eSnips](http://www.esnips.com/doc/a4ea0ece-813a-4d56-b4bc-4e2fbe0bbf7a/Internet%20Warriors%20-%20Andy%20Xport)) 20. Indigo Girls - ‘Galileo’ ([YouTube](http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=CTuSDNRJYmE)) 21. Bo Burnham - ‘New Math’ (YouTube - NSFW2) 22. Jonathan Coulton - ‘I Feel Fantastic’ ([YouTube](http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=knzMFC6s4Bw)) 23. Amateur Transplants - ‘The Drugs Song’ ([YouTube](http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=KXROnzpsrlg) - Possibly NSFW) **CD2** 24. Thomas Dolby - ‘Hyperactive!’ ([YouTube](http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=nb-8SHznFw0)) 25. Scarlet Division - ‘Sundial’ ([YouTube](http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=Th3QkpDAKRI)) 26. Ozma - ‘If I Only Had A Heart’ (N/A) 27. Dogs Die In Hot Cars - 'I Love You ‘cause I Have To’ ([YouTube](http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=AeywCfxYcas)) 28. Weezer - ‘Why Bother’ ([YouTube](http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=-B0_FLBaHQ8)) 29. The Would Be’s - ‘My Radio Sounds Different In The Dark’ ([iMeem](http://www.imeem.com/ljenner/music/WFp3HMoX/the_would_bes_my_radio_sounds_different_in_the_dark/)) 30. Rush - ‘Subdivisions’ ([YouTube](http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=2aH3qoQIqig)) 31. Simon & Garfunkel - ‘I Am A Rock’ ([YouTube](http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=kPioSdlIERg)) 32. The Dawn Parade - ‘The Hole In My Heart’ ([YouTube](http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=N2cuC_l78oU)) 33. Cuckooland - ‘Happathy’ ([MySpace](http://www.myspace.com/cuckoolandmusic)) 34. Bowling For Soup - ‘High School Never Ends’ ([YouTube](http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=-9uOM0voY3I)) 35. The Pettit Project - ‘Guess I Gotta Guess’ (N/A) 36. Encyclopedia - ‘Emily’ ([MySpace](http://www.myspace.com/encyclopedia)) 37. The Unlovables - ‘Everything’s Overrated’ ([MySpace](http://www.myspace.com/theunlovables)) 38. Jonathan Coulton - ‘Code Monkey’ ([YouTube](http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=v4Wy7gRGgeA)) 39. Weezer - ‘In The Garage’ ([YouTube](http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=Ybe4pgwVoxc)) 40. They Might Be Giants - ‘Birdhouse In Your Soul’ ([YouTube](http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=6kJD2N2gvqw)) 41. Ozma - ‘Apple Trees’ ([YouTube](http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=21bLWctPVuI)) 42. Semisonic - ‘Chemistry’ ([YouTube](http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=VuGAFHd-1hE)) 43. Special Edd - ‘You’re Not Alone’ ([MySpace](http://www.myspace.com/specialeddband)) 44. Weezer - ‘Pork & Beans’ ([YouTube](http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=muP9eH2p2PI)) _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 ---
**Author:** ![Busy\_Scissors](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/d78d45/32.png) [@Busy\_Scissors](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Busy_Scissors)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2009, 11:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bluecanarys-geek-compilation/481069/2 "2009-01-13T11:03:44Z")
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](http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=yzKdtMGBphY)) JS - ‘Two margarines’ ([Youtube](http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=-K4cEocL5kI)) _‘Two margarines on the go, it’s a nightmare scenario…’_ ---
**Author:** ![Justin\_Bailey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justin_bailey/32/8792_2.png) [@Justin\_Bailey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Bailey)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2009, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bluecanarys-geek-compilation/481069/3 "2009-01-13T12:57:10Z")
It’s alright, but the complete lack of MC Lars is scary. Whether you like rap or not, the man revels in his geekitude. ---
**Author:** ![An\_Gadai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@An\_Gadai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Gadai)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2009, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bluecanarys-geek-compilation/481069/4 "2009-01-13T14:06:07Z")
They’re a great selection. Another MJ Hibbett & The Validators song I love is [“Hey Hey 16k”](http://www2.b3ta.com/heyhey16k/). ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2009, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bluecanarys-geek-compilation/481069/5 "2009-01-13T16:46:37Z")
What, no MC Hawking? ---
**Author:** ![bluecanary](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bluecanary/32/3614_2.png) [@bluecanary](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bluecanary)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2009, 11:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bluecanarys-geek-compilation/481069/6 "2009-01-15T11:57:55Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2009, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bluecanarys-geek-compilation/481069/7 "2009-01-15T13:52:33Z")
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_. ---
**Author:** ![Scarlett67](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scarlett67/32/7387_2.png) [@Scarlett67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scarlett67)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2009, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bluecanarys-geek-compilation/481069/8 "2009-01-16T00:32:34Z")
> [@bluecanary](#): > > 1. The Klein Four - ‘Finite Simple Group (of Order Two)’ ([YouTube](http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=UTby_e4-Rhg)1) > > _Notes:_ > 1 The laughing on this video is rather annoying - I hope I can find a ‘clean’ version of this song. 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. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Yumblie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/76d3ee/32.png) [@Yumblie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yumblie)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2009, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bluecanarys-geek-compilation/481069/9 "2009-01-16T03:10:49Z")
If you’re still taking suggestions… [The Galaxy Song](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgCZjSBTtyY) from Monty Python’s Meaning of Life [Tetris theme A](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57DZ5KOE7jw) as played on electric guitar by Ozma [Come On Fhqwhgads](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXLYoyl6B1s) by Strong Bad