Posted in: Musicouching by Evis T on August 5th, 2008 | 6 Comments
A collection of some great geeky pieces of music.
The internet is filled with geek music; music that was written/performed by geeks, concerning their hobbies, or to take the piss out of everyone who’s ever looked down on us. So, in honor of geek kind, I present to you five of the best of these songs. In no particular order:
“World of Warcraft is a feeling… who needs a social life?”
It would be fair to say that pure pwnage is probably one of the most popular web series out there. And when they produce gems like this, you can’t really blame them. Aside from the fact that you can’t figure out if this song is serious or not, the most disturbing thing is it’s actually really well written and performed.
“1st in my class here at MIT, got skills I’m a champion at DnD”
Weird Al has probably written more geek songs than any other artist, and is definitely extremely popular in our glorious energy drink laden sub culture. Al has a tendency to write parodies rather than original songs, but that doesn’t stop you from appreciating the thought that he puts into his music. This song is a parody of “Riding dirty” by Chameleonaire.
First time I heard this I just creased up and laughed until I nearly died of asphyxiation. It was even funnier when I put the song on while in a chav bar. It took a lot of them a while to realize that they where cheering the wrong song…
“If I wanna block you, there’s no way you can stop me, confident, cocky, the cubicle jockey…”
I love Optimus Rhyme. Smooth flows and catchy lyrics make them easy and amusing to listen to. Their music tends to focus around aspects of working life, including the drudgery of office work, idiot co workers, morons who call tech support and so forth. This little piece is all about forum moderators. I have to say, I’ve never known a forum moderator quite as… intense as the guy their going on about this video though.
That will be going around in your head for hours now and you know it. Enjoy!
fanza August 5th, 2008 at 12:35 pm
Why did you not include Geek in the Pink by Jason Mraz in your list?
Kemuel August 5th, 2008 at 3:27 pm
Still Alive?
Evis T August 5th, 2008 at 6:06 pm
Yo, a lot of activity on the various comment threads attacjed to the different social networking sites attached to this have pointed out that I’e missed some pretty awesome stuff. Do people want me to do a follow up to this? If so, let me know! *Throws up the hornsto geek rock, and flemmings right hand rule to nerdcore rap.*
bunky August 5th, 2008 at 9:19 pm
No mc chris. Your list is flawed.
Tavil August 9th, 2008 at 9:41 am
What about Code Monkey?
Jake August 10th, 2008 at 1:42 am
You don’t have *any* Jonathan Coulton on this list. For shame!
Code Monkey and Still Alive are both by him. Currently, half of your comments decry you for not having him on this list.