Nerd Music Mix

[forsyth]

I need suggestions for a Mix CD. I'm making a nerd music CD, with songs about math, and supermassive black holes, and that sort of things. I'm also going to make a second one of nerdcore rap songs about the internet and math and stuff, but that's gonna come later.

Here's my list so far, in no real order.

Jonathan Coulton - Re Your Brains
Jonathan Coulton - Code Monkey
Jonathan Coulton - Skullcrusher Monkey
Jonathan Coulton - Mandelbrot Set
TMBG - Why Does the Sun Shine?
The Metasciences - Four Color Love Story
Freezepop - Science Genius Girl (live)
Da Vinci's Notebook - The Gates
Da Vinci's Notebook - The Big Chair
Songs to wear pants to.com - Experimental Film (cover)
Consortium of Genius - Blinded by Science
Consortium of Genius - Science Party
Thomas Dolby - She Blinded Me With Science
Muse - Supermassive Black Hole
Becky - Less Than Three (Ricardo Autobahn Remix) (as soon as I can get a copy of the mp3)
Weird Al - Yoda
Weird Al - Don't Download This Song
David Bowie - Space Oddity

So there's still a fair bit of room left for any sufficiently awesome suggestions.

Links to band pages with downloads of some of these:
http://www.consortiumofgenius.com/ (click downloads for the mp3s)
http://www.jonathancoulton.com/ http://www.myspace.com/jonathancoulton (some on the downloads page, some on his myspace)
http://www.songstowearpantsto.com/ (Same guy who made the theme song for Killroy and Tina)
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/344532 (Less than Three flash video)
http://www.davincisnotebook.com/ (their website seems to currently be down though)
http://www.muse.mu/index.php (Warning: huge flash interface, not sure you can download the mp3s from there)
http://weirdal.com/ (no download links, except for "Don't Download This Song")
http://www.freezepop.net/news/index.html (holy crapsticks, they did an Achewood song!)
http://www.tmbg.com/ (derr hey!)
http://www.myspace.com/themetasciences

Comments

[fearrett.livejournal.com]

I would kill for most of those songs, any chance on a trade in the future?

I think I have some badass nerdcore somewhere around.

[forsythferret.livejournal.com]

A bunch of them are songs I've downloaded from the bands websites. I'll put the inks in the main post.

[dezro.livejournal.com]

You probably already know this, but Why Does The Sun Shine is a cover from an old kid's album called Space Songs. What you might not know is that it's got a couple other awesome songs on it like It's A Scientific Fact and Zoom A Little Zoom, and you can download them from that link.

[kalifla.livejournal.com]

That's the same song that's all
"The sun is a mass of in-can-descent gas
A gigantic nuclear fur-nace!
Where hydrogen is turned into he-li-um
At a temperature of millions of degreeeeeees!" ?

[andysocial]

I suppose "Particle Man" isn't nerdy enough?

[dezro.livejournal.com]

Yes. And it sounds awesome when TMBG play it live.

[forsythferret.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I know, because somebody pointed it out in the thread on Ryan's forum I made. Which I was gonna link to, but Ryan's forum's been dead for all but ten minutes of today.

[forsythferret.livejournal.com]

It is, but it's also already on my TMBG mix CD. Somehow I left How the Sun Shines off it.