Eight of the Greatest Geek Anthems of All Time

Don’t forget kids: Piracy is bad, and we must all allow ourselves to get bent over a table by the music industry so that they can have their Ferraris. It’s just the way it is, don’t question it. [/sarcasm]

What we Need More Of Is Science, By MC Hawking

“On Blind faith, they place reliance, what we need more of, is science.”

Okay, this is a thinly veiled attack on creationism, but it’s still funny. Oh, and incidentally, if any flaming starts in the comments section of this article, those comments will be deleted. I don’t care if you’re for, or against this video, or the concepts it’s taking the mickey out of. If you need to vent, do it an appropriate forum. MC Hawking is actually Ken, Leavitt-Lawrence, who uses the old willowtalk program to make the “singing” and then mashes it up using audio editing software. So, busta, you ready to hear the beats and flows of the farther of physics?

What does Hawking himself have to say on this? He finds it funny, “A modern day equivalent to spitting image.” If you’ve never seen spitting image then it sucks to be you. If you have seen it and don’t get it, then you’re either a) not British, or b) too young. In both cases, still sucks to be you .

The Geek (Shall inherit), By Wir Sind Helden

“The last should be first, The first see as the last, The geek shall inherit the earth”

All of these songs are great as the celebrate geek culture in its many forms, but they overlook one important little fact. Often times, being a geek sucks ass. In school you get the crap kicked out of you, as well as alienated from what feels like 90% of the population. Outside school your parents want you to go out and play football rather than play videogames. You never seem to get the girl, or the attractive guys never notice you. Even at university it seems that this segregation continues, albeit on a lower level. When you grow up and start working, you always seem to either a) be working under a moron, or B) be working with morons. So, for every time we’ve walked home with broken glasses, for every time we’ve been told our java scripts aren’t elegant enough by someone who knows jack all, for every time they whisper about as around the water cooler, we should remember this. The Geek shall inherit the earth.

Translation available here.

In closing

I hope you enjoyed this music as much as I did. Love and peace to you all, and try to remember what’s important. That we laugh as much as we can every day, and frown only to the misery of others. Now, if you’ll excuse me, I need to go and finish writing my newest piece of work, a rap piece under the title of “MC Evis”…