On the cosmology episode of the Infinite Monkey Cage they had this guest — apart from Alan Moore, Dallas Campbell and Professor Ed Copeland — who sang a song. It was such a wonderful one that I needed to hunt down and then post. Turns out Helen Arney has The Sun has Got His Huff On as a free download on her bandcamp. 

You treat me insignificantly
Name a tabloid after me
Synonymous with paparazzi
Just a backdrop for Brian Cox on TV 

The podcast is described as this by the Beeb: “Witty, irreverent look at the world according to science with physicist Brian Cox and comedian Robin Ince.” All true!

(The GEEK SONGS tag lives!)

It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Fish-Men.

And with this jolly tune I bid you goodnight and sweet dreams with the smell of salmon.

The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets - KABLAM!

My tv channel provider — Boxer — are lowbrow weasels that deserve a beating and flogging in public. They’ve pushed Discovery Science to 24-06 because of “transponder sharing.” Clearly shows about cake decorations, children’s beauty pageant glorification, and some people called Jon and Kate and their libido on display deserves 18 hours a day on TLC. I’m disgusted at humanity for the existence of all of these shows, but mostly I’m disgusted at Boxer: you oozing puss out of flaccid cheese-raked cocks.

So this is in honour of science! Yet another geek song!

Moldy Peaches - Nothing Came Out

No list of geek songs should be without this one. Why? Because of the awkward¹ and the chorus and the listings of titles inside the song. I want to add the phone ringing in the background but that has probably nothing to do with geekiness and more about “first take or the highway” recording strategies.

And all I want to do is ride bikes with you
And stay up late and watch cartoons

There are no channels that show cartoons late at night at my place. This is a serious flaw as that’s when one want to watch them. Food Network and cartoons, sometimes I really wonder if I’m fifteen and the factual double.

_{1) I don’t really have to go into how much I can relate to this song? All it needs is a simple gender swap and it’s almost uncanny.}

The Flash Girls - Post-mortem on Our Love

Because one can be a bit too detail obsessive about why things don’t work out and why kill when you can overkill that worry? Neil Gaiman and Lorraine Garland (she and Emma Bull were The Flash Girls) wrote this and they really go overboard with the whole post-mortem theme. As it should.

The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets - the Math Song

I could really have picked almost any of their songs as as well, they’re kind of coloured (greenly) by that the group started out as a Call of Cthulhu roleplaying group. But I picked this one because it’s a damn catchy stoner punk song.

Y
Y equals X over 5
5 to the power of psi
psi is the square root of 3
3 is the number for me
I said

X
X by the tangent of N
N minus pi over 10
That equals negative 9
Negative 9 is so fine

You’ve got a brain
And nobody really needs another love song
Love song
(x4)

N
N is the product of v
V and the cosine of 3
Cube that and add 44
And not an integer more
Baby

V
V equals 1 through the sum
The sum of 101
And 83 over 5
What is the value of Y?

You’ve got a brain
And nobody really needs another love song
Love song
(x7)

You’ve got a brain
Yeah I heard you’ve got it

Bonus song from the past: Mekons - Hey Susan. Because retelling a thick book in under three minutes while at the same time have fun with a Beatles’ song title is to me pretty geeky.

Mekons — Hey! Susan

Let’s talk books. Or to be more specific: songs about books. This song by the Mekons is my favourite retelling of a book: Hey! Susan is of course the story of Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy. A bit condensed, I admit, but it’s hard to go through an entire book under three minutes. Even for someone like Tom Greenhalgh.