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  7 1 Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo! Kip Waddle answered in Geek Week about 1 year ago | Report Comment on this answer Enter your comment or ask a new question New comments are not being accepted at this time.

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  4 0 TMBG may have kids singing about wanting to be a paleontologist or about their brother the ape but don’t forget about the original geek – Tom Lehrer from the 50’s – best known for poisoning pigeons in the park but he also has the element song, and new math and chemistry songs way before TMBG riotgrrljock answered in Geek Week about 1 year ago | Report Comment on this answer Enter your comment or ask a new question New comments are not being accepted at this time.

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  4 0 "Computer World" by Kraftwerk. Peteykins answered in Geek Week about 1 year ago | Report Comment on this answer Enter your comment or ask a new question New comments are not being accepted at this time.

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  3 0 They Might Be Giants was the first thing that popped into my head. I'm going to answer slightly differently though and go with Autechre. The geekiest of all the geeks i know love Autechre. Seen a crowd shot of one of their shows? Total geek fest. Brian Geoghagan answered in Geek Week about 1 year ago | Report Comment on this answer Enter your comment or ask a new question New comments are not being accepted at this time.

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  2 0 Clearly, the geekiest band of all time is Barcelona -- the 90s-00s synth-pop one from Arlington, VA, not the current Seattle band. Seattle folks probably know them best for their song about the Sounders goalkeeper, "Kasey Keller", celebrating his 1998 performance against Brazil, said by Brazil star Romario to be the best performance by a goalkeeper he'd ever seen. But they are not a sports band; the same album "Kasey Keller" is off of, entitled "Zero One Infinity", also has the greatest geek anthem ever recorded "I Have The Password To Your Shell Account". Many of their other songs have technological themes. Fnarf answered in Geek Week about 1 year ago | Report 6 comments by Fnarf, Fnarf, and Josh Bomb… 0 0 If that doesn't convince you, their first album was called "Simon Basic", after a version of BASIC that was written for the Commodore 64. Come ON! Fnarf commented about 1 year ago | Report 0 0 Hear "Shell Account" here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mK_auSmUtmY Fnarf commented about 1 year ago | Report 0 0 oh, fnarf! i was going to suggest Sprites when i saw your barcelona suggestion! (for you non pop-geeks, jason korzen fronts both) geeky songs include "I started a blog that nobody reads" and "George Romero" - a song detailing everything he's learned from film about fighting zombie attacks! 5/5 sir! Josh Bomb commented about 1 year ago | Report 0 0 I couldn't gone with Sprites, but I couldn't pass up the perfection of "Shell Account". Fnarf commented about 1 year ago | Report 0 0 I'm a huge fan of 'Paging System Operator' as well. Josh Bomb commented about 1 year ago | Report 0 0 and now suddenly, i'm reminded of granddaddy's jed the humanoid. Josh Bomb commented about 1 year ago | Report Enter your comment or ask a new question New comments are not being accepted at this time.

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  2 0 "MC Chris goes to Hell" by mc chris cassie answered in Geek Week about 1 year ago | Report 4 comments by protosaurus, cassie, and kitschnsync… 0 0 Nah, gotta be his first album, "Life's a Bitch and I'm Her Pimp" protosaurus commented about 1 year ago | Report 0 0 I love that one, don't get me wrong, but everyone loves Boba Fett. People don't even know who Bossk is. Plus, Segways are geekier than corvettes. cassie commented about 1 year ago | Report 0 0 Geeks. kitschnsync commented about 1 year ago | Report 0 0 Exactly. cassie commented about 1 year ago | Report Enter your comment or ask a new question New comments are not being accepted at this time.

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  2 0 I totally agree with They Might Be Giants. Also, Elvis Costello is kind of geeky if you listen to his lyrics. He's pretty into word play and has called himself "rock and roll's Scrabble champion." e.strange answered in Geek Week about 1 year ago | Report 2 comments by Biju and Rev.Enant… 0 0 Thumbs-up on the Elvis Costello Biju commented about 1 year ago | Report 0 0 ditto. Rev.Enant commented about 1 year ago | Report Enter your comment or ask a new question New comments are not being accepted at this time.

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  2 0 Ok..no one's mentioned him...but every geek I've ever known has had an awkward, special place in their heart for Weird "Al" Yankovic. Whether it's parody or polka, he's always mentioned about two sentences away from a Monty Python/D&D/Collectible Card lovefest. j_lee answered in Geek Week about 1 year ago | Report Comment on this answer Enter your comment or ask a new question New comments are not being accepted at this time.

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  2 0 Aside from what everyone else said (TMBG, Devo, etc.) there's also more straight-forward geek-made geek-oriented geek music. Jonathan Coulton, nerdcore hip-hop like MC Frontalot, Optimus Rhyme/Supercommuter, and chip tunes like Anamanaguchi or YMCK, or video game music like Minibosses. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovqWhMvaitQ Nick Nelson answered in Geek Week about 1 year ago | Report Comment on this answer Enter your comment or ask a new question New comments are not being accepted at this time.

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  2 0 Agreed with @Matt Hickey and @Brian Geoghagan - They Might Be Giants are super geeky. I really love how they re-wrote "Why Does The Sun Shine?" after actual scientists corrected them, ha. It's no longer a "mass of incandescent gas" it's a "miasma of plasma"! Sheree Pennah answered in Geek Week about 1 year ago | Report Comment on this answer Enter your comment or ask a new question New comments are not being accepted at this time.

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  1 0 What was the name of that death metal band that used to play libraries and fling paperback books at their audience? They were pretty geeky. Mr_Friendly answered in Geek Week about 1 year ago | Report 3 comments by Sheree Pennah, Robby Macdonell, and Jessica… 0 0 BLOODHAG! RxIxPx (read in peace) Sheree Pennah commented about 1 year ago | Report 0 0 BlöödHag! I forgot all about those guys. I'm changing my vote. playing shows at libraries + literary-reference laden grindcore + throwing books + the shirts/ties/glasses = pure win for this question. Robby Macdonell commented about 1 year ago | Report 0 0 Any band that wrote songs called "Anne McCaffrey" and "Madeleine L'Engle" deserve top five geekiest band status at least. Jessica commented about 1 year ago | Report Enter your comment or ask a new question New comments are not being accepted at this time.

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  2 1 That first Weezer album is pretty geeky, but many younger nerds still love They Might Be Giants for whatever reason. Also see: Decemberists, McLusky, New Bad things. And the first C-Average album sounds like a game of D&D. Matt Hickey answered in Geek Week about 1 year ago | Report 3 comments by Josh Bomb, theInvisibleDick, and Josh Bomb… 0 0 thumbs up for the cave-rage/orc-rock reference. Josh Bomb commented about 1 year ago | Report 0 0 i don't get it MattHickey, are they geeky because they wear the kind of glasses depicted in your profile picture or something? theInvisibleDick commented about 1 year ago | Report 0 0 I've got a Dungeon Master's Guide I've got a 12-sided die I've got Kitty Pryde And Nightcrawler too Waiting there for me Josh Bomb commented about 1 year ago | Report Enter your comment or ask a new question New comments are not being accepted at this time.

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  1 0 In the jazz fusion category, I nominate Romantic Warrior by Return to Forever. Betsy Ross answered in Geek Week about 1 year ago | Report Comment on this answer Enter your comment or ask a new question New comments are not being accepted at this time.

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  2 1 As far as Rush goes, if you want to get REALLY geeky, I'd have to go with "Hemispheres". It was their last and most accomplished conceptual "side-long song" album, and it contains at least 2 stone-cold geek classics - the side-long title track and the nearly as long instrumental "La Villa Strangiato".     Tony Trunzo answered in Geek Week about 1 year ago | Report Comment on this answer Enter your comment or ask a new question New comments are not being accepted at this time.

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  1 0 YT Cracker's NES album is one of the most well done I've ever heard. Ryan Grant answered in Geek Week about 1 year ago | Report Comment on this answer Enter your comment or ask a new question New comments are not being accepted at this time.

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  1 0 A not-well-known-anymore geek album: 1998's "What Makes It Go?" by Sweden's Komeda. It's more university-geekaria than tinkery-geekaria, but you can hear their obsessive attention to technical detail while listening to Lena Karlsson name-dropping Jean-Paul Sartre, singing crisply with her opera-trained alto voice, and some wild sonic arrangements along the way — all packed into about 40 minutes of brilliant pop. If you like Weezer and Stereolab, you will probably love this. But TMBG's "Flood" is the Longines of geek rock, hands-down. Telsa Grills answered in Geek Week about 1 year ago | Report Comment on this answer Enter your comment or ask a new question New comments are not being accepted at this time.

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  1 1 Lots of ways to interpret this one, but personally and idiosyncratically, whenever I need to do some serious coding, I break out Thick as a Brick by Jethro Tull. That's all there is to it. Uplift answered in Geek Week about 1 year ago | Report 1 comment by CleverScreenName… 0 0 Jethro Tull was also on my short list. CleverScreenName commented about 1 year ago | Report Enter your comment or ask a new question New comments are not being accepted at this time.

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  0 0 Obviously, agreed with Tom Lehrer, They Might Be Giants, and Jonathan Coulton. I don't see a mention of JoCo's "opening band", Paul and Storm. Anyone who writes a song called "Frogger! The Frogger Musical" (on the album, "Do You Like Star Wars?") needs to be on the list. malept answered in Geek Week about 1 year ago | Report Comment on this answer Enter your comment or ask a new question New comments are not being accepted at this time.

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  0 0 Weird Al Yankovic's Dare to Be Stupid. It's got "Like a Surgeon", "Yoda", and "Girls Just Want to Have Lunch", among others. It's also capped off with a polka medley. Mahtli69 answered in Geek Week about 1 year ago | Report Comment on this answer Enter your comment or ask a new question New comments are not being accepted at this time.

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  0 0 1975's "Spider Man: Rock Reflections of a Super Hero!" Unmitigated geekness, and pretty good too. Tremodian answered in Geek Week about 1 year ago | Report Comment on this answer Enter your comment or ask a new question New comments are not being accepted at this time.

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  0 0 MC Hawking - A Brief History of Rhyme, which contains such classics as "The Big Bizang," "Entropy," and "Fuck the Creationists." Gary D. Snail answered in Geek Week about 1 year ago | Report Comment on this answer Enter your comment or ask a new question New comments are not being accepted at this time.

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  0 0 Atom and his Package - A society of people named Elihu http://www.last.fm/music/Atom+and+His+Package/A+Society+of+People+Named+Elihu It's pretty much got all the geek-fest you could ever want: 1. One nerdy chubby guy with a sequencer 2. jams with titles like "Punk Rock Academy", and "People in this computer lab should shut the hell up" 3. an educational song about Philadelphia. 4. quite possibly the best geek/sports song ever, "Goalie", about his plan to gain over a thousand pounds so he can join the NHL and be the world's most impenetrable goalie ("You can try the wrist-shot, slap-shot, there's no getting through. I told you ten times, you can NOT fake out blubber, dude!") Robby Macdonell answered in Geek Week about 1 year ago | Report Comment on this answer Enter your comment or ask a new question New comments are not being accepted at this time.

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  0 0 2 Skinnee J's, "SuperMercado!", 1998. Nerdcore before anyone even knew what Nerdcore was, and some just plain fantastic rapping: http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/super-mercado/id336000621 Pluto: an ode to and denouncement why Pluto is still a planet. Wild Kingdom: ton of literature references. The Best: everything from physics to Sonic & Mario to Odysseus. Ball Point Man: the joys of being a kid playing as a superhero. In The Clutches Of The Diabolical Sgt. Stiletto: Pretty much everything from Indiana Jones to Wrath of Khan to the Illuminati. The Whammy: No ultra-outright geekiness, but lyrically mad rapping and some sly refs. You're A Champion: Greg Lougainous, Roddy Piper, Bruce Jenner, and Carrie at the Prom. (718): a love song to an actual area code. Kinda. The Good, The Bad, & The Skinnee: A Nerdcore theme song to basically every Clint Eastwood western ever. Riot Nrrrd: homage to their own nerd youth. John Hughes, Islands of Misfit Toys... Organic Machine: all over the map, but they don't need a Holy Grail cause they've already got one. Mindtrick: "These are not the J's you're looking for". Crazy beat. And what may be the most insanely fun live song ever of all time, when the crowd goes nuts during it singing along, for a bonus (it's off their second independent release, "Sing, Earthboy, Sing"): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zXBAtxl-Nc They were epic in the NYC area in the late 90s, but all their small labels repeatedly died around them until they finally broke up. Joe answered in Geek Week about 1 year ago | Report Comment on this answer Enter your comment or ask a new question New comments are not being accepted at this time.

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  0 0 The Protomen - Act 1. Via Wikipedia: "While the plot of the album is adapted from the Mega Man games, it takes substantial liberties with the original storyline, functioning as a dystopic reworking of the games' narrative." Listen to Unrest in the House of Light (my favorite song from the album) here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IpX41iXl0BA&feature=related sseloske answered in Geek Week about 1 year ago | Report Comment on this answer Enter your comment or ask a new question New comments are not being accepted at this time.

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  1 1 Old school rock nerds like King Crimson with a side of Zappa. Serious 90's rock geeks turn to Tortoise. Locally, I'd go with Head Like a Kite - or their predecessor Sushi Robo - their shows were gear nerd magnets! Christine Scharrer answered in Geek Week about 1 year ago | Report Comment on this answer Enter your comment or ask a new question New comments are not being accepted at this time.

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  0 0 Klaus Nomi's eponymous 1981 album, featuring the single "Total Eclipse" is pretty geeky. Luckier answered in Geek Week about 1 year ago | Report Comment on this answer Enter your comment or ask a new question New comments are not being accepted at this time.

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  0 0 Man or Astro-man? - A Spectrum of Finite Scale Danger answered in Geek Week about 1 year ago | Report Comment on this answer Enter your comment or ask a new question New comments are not being accepted at this time.

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  0 0 Gee, and here I was going to nominate Jim Croce's "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown"... "Cagey" answered in Geek Week about 1 year ago | Report Comment on this answer Enter your comment or ask a new question New comments are not being accepted at this time.

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  0 0 Well, if you're talking the geekiness of the musician(s) then I'd have to say offthesky would be my first choice as that dude revels in the tech stuff of his music (taking weather patterns\phenomena and turning them into sound). Then we have The Flaming Lips with albums like Zaireka where you're needing to time a bunch of CD's to play together (nerds!). I've always been more partial to songs like "Charlie Manson Blues" etc though. The Minutemen have always been a little geeky to me ("our band is scientist rock"). You can also go way back to the Goldberg Variations of course as those are pretty geeky. As far as sounding geeky or having a geek quality I'd have to go with Belong first as their walls of distortion appeal to the inner geek in me. Second I think I'd have to say Stars of The Lid because all geeks like space exploration. scarr4 answered in Geek Week about 1 year ago | Report Comment on this answer Enter your comment or ask a new question New comments are not being accepted at this time.

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  0 1 far too many to choose just one!?!?! old school geek: Bowie. Ziggy stardust. Or merely the song 'the laughing gnome' School House rocks Science Rock. Pink Floyd - TMBG: no no no Talking Heads - remain in light The Protomen Beastie Boys MC Frontalot Queen Moby the Muppets / Fraggle Rock songs my current fav though? PUSA!!! Rev.Enant answered in Geek Week about 1 year ago | Report 1 comment by Anthony Hecht… 0 0 Not sure how geeky it is, but Remain in Light is up there with the best albums of all time, period. Anthony Hecht commented about 1 year ago | Report Enter your comment or ask a new question New comments are not being accepted at this time.

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  1 3 It's got to be Rush. I'm torn between Moving Pictures and Fly By Night. Moving Pictures might win because "Tom Sawyer" has great bass or lose because "Tom Sawyer" is (well, was) popularly known and popular conflicts with geeky. CleverScreenName answered in Geek Week about 1 year ago | Report 5 comments by Lee, Mahtli69, and CleverScreenName… 0 0 Pimply teenage libertarians are not the only kind of geek. Lee commented about 1 year ago | Report 0 0 Rush was my first thought too. Mahtli69 commented about 1 year ago | Report 0 0 Man, people really don't like Rush anymore, do they? CleverScreenName commented about 1 year ago | Report 0 0 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lpVjXwAfm0 essential fly by night related viewing protosaurus commented about 1 year ago | Report 0 0 It's true, CSN! Rush's references to Ayn Rand have really tarnished their reputation. But I still love them. It might help that my favorite Rush songs are all instrumental. I used to really dislike Geddy's voice, but I've always admired teir musical abilities. kitschnsync commented about 1 year ago | Report Enter your comment or ask a new question New comments are not being accepted at this time.

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