I am a big fan of The Mary Sues, an excellent trio who mix Irish bouzouki and keytar which is pretty cool!
Anywhere here is a really cool song about a DnD character that most players can relate to!
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A sound of my childhood here with D-Rok a Warhammer Records band that made songs about 40k that were championed by Brian May of all people!
Brian May even contributed to two of their songs too, after meeting them in a Games Workshop store with his son.
But yeah even though they only released one album, it was a banger, and this is the opening track!
Its not really avaiable anywhere right now, but I am sure you can hunt down a copy of Oblivion somewhere, I am surprised it hasn’t been rereleased after being used in the Boltgun game this year!
The Doubleclicks are frequent features on the Advent, probably cause I really, really like their music.
This one, well its not my favourite, but it is Lindsay’s, the first time she heard it, at the 77th WorldCon, Dublin 2o19, she cried her eyes out and then played it again and again for months (she still insists that she isn’t an autist).
And well, I have been meaning to include it, but it always got displaced by something else, but this time, I am sticking to my guns and its staying put here!
This one is older than me, and really captures the very early days of video gaming when Pac-Man swept the world!
And lets face it Pac-Man is a fantastic game that has stood the test of time and its no wonder that Buckner & Garcia scored a hit with this one in 1981!
Interestingly they pioneered rerecording an album when the masters ownership was denied to them, and they rerecorded the whole Pac-Man Fever album (yes there is an album, and its worth a listen/download)
As a nerd who loves war games, and approaching a more mature age, there is a part of me that’s getting very interested in Napoleonic’s, probably doesn’t help that I recently rewatched Sharpe!
So here is a traditional British song, that was featured heavily in Sharpe, performed by folk singer John Tams, who also starred as Hagman in the series.
It also featured in Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag, which is also an excellent version of the song, which I am sharing because the John Tams version is sadly hard to find for online listening.
Good old Jonathan Coulton is a regular feature of the nerdy advent, and this year is no different.
This time we bring you IKEA, a song about many peoples favourite furniture store, and its certainly one of mine, I mean, not only is the stuff great, my studio is a lot of IKEA stuff.
But also meatballs and hot dogs too!
Its been a long long while since we featured MC Chris, so lets rectify that now, with Nrrrd Grrrl
A great Nerdcore rap about a lot of girls we know, and none of us deserve, reminds me of both Megan and Lindsay.
OK I am a day late, I have had a shitty year in terms of keeping up with the things I am supposed to do, and sadly this suffered as a result with poor planning, even though I knew it was coming up!
Anyway, this one is a classic from the Nintendocore (a subgenre of chiptune) band, I Fight Dragons who make music using the electronic sounds of Game Boys and NES consoles.
This is a great song for which the video was released in 3D form for the 3DS, and looked great, but well that console is now dead, so if you want to see it how it was intended, you have to find, other means!
Oh and its set this year, which is why it was delayed until now.
But is still a great listen!
Its been a long time since we featured Kirby Krackle and what better way to do so than we this song about dancing baby Groot!
Lets face it, it was the best MCU post credit scene thus far!
This is a rather mainstream cover of one of Bob Dylans greatest hit, but its a song which features a lot in Alan Moore’s Watchmen with the title of the first chapter “At Midnight All the Agents” being ripped from the lyrics.
Watchmen was one of the first serious comic I was introduced to, probably way way too young, but I still love it, my mum less so when I asked what a whore was on Christmas morning when I opened it!
Anyway, My Chemical Romance covered the song for the soundtrack to Zack Snyder’s film version of the story, which I enjoyed, but I know was controversial.