Geeky/Nerdy Songs

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Sinister Duck - sung by Alan Moore. Yes, that Alan Moore. There’s at least one video on Youtube.

Comic Book Collector by the Trashmen (I think…)

Any of the songs on this online station

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Ookla the Mok:

Super Skrull: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kk_tu2MwZDw
Stop Talking about Comic Books or I’ll Kill You: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9SEq2qLp6w
Super Powers: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ika_btPqUHY

They have a ton more. I think I actually have a CD of theirs. They are pretty good.

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Dealership has a song called “Nerdy Girl” (the MP3 is a free download on their website: dealerkids.com - This website is for sale! - dealerkids Resources and Information.).

There are also some pretty nerdy songs from Ben Folds like “Rockin’ The Suburbs” and “There’s Always Someone Cooler Than You”. Granted, nowhere near as epically geeky as Weezer, but still quite nerdy in that akward pimply-faced dorky kind of way.

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Has anyone mentioned As Time Goes By yet? The (often omitted) intro is pretty geeky:

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I don’t think anyone has mentioned The Klein Four from Northwestern University.

YouTube link: Finite Simple Group (of Order Two)

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The Animaniacs Universe Song

(It was made before Pluto got demoted, so it’s not quite accurate…)

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Don’t know why I didn’t remember this one earlier.

Tom Lehrer set the periodic table to music using a “possibly recognizable tune”.

Flash animation by Mike Stanfill.

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Although “geeky” and “nerdy” aren’t terms often used to describe them (although a number of rock critics recently have), I would think any Led Zeppelin song that references Tolkien (e.g., “Ramble On” and “Misty Mountain Hop”) would qualify.

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You could also look at The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets, a band that does (often humorous) Lovecraftian based songs.

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Astrocappella. Most of their stuff is meh (IIRC) but the Sun’s Song is worthy of many chuckles.

Very catchy, too.

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Wow. I just came in here for the first time in months to ask this specific question.

The song that prompted me to ask: The Gates by DaVinci’s Notebook
Another good one is The Ballad of Barry Allen by Jim’s Big Ego.

Actually, most anything by Jim’s Big Ego fits the bill.

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The Sexy Data Tango by Voltaire is pretty funny and full of Star Trek innuendo.

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Barcelona. Only song I’ve actually heard is “Shell Account,” a cheesy amateur homemade video of which exists here

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This goes back a ways, but the title is ‘Pencil Neck Geek’ by Freddie Blassie an old time wrestler. Really strange song.

http://www.themadmusicarchive.com/song_details.aspx?SongID=289

As far as geeky goes, yeah it is. Even has it in the title. :slight_smile:

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Pump Your Blood

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Basshunter - DOTA. How much nerdier can you get than a music video dedicated to a Warcraft 3 map?

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Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots by the Flaming Lips is kinda geeky. Race for the Prize, also by the Flaming Lips is all about the heady world of scientific discovery.

New Laboratory Assistant by Sushirobo is really geeky, in an adorable sort of way. (Or… adorkable, if you will. Which I will.)

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Cantina-- Voltaite

Dr. Who Girl-- Mitch Benn

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I think Tesla deserves a listing just for the Band’s name and Album names:
Mechanical Resonance & The Great Radio Controversy Tour

Early on they had some geeky references to Nikola Tesla in their songs. “Edison’s Medicine” is fairly geeky.

I’ll admit this is the first one I thought of.

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CD1

  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)

CD2 coming later…

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