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!
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!
Today we go back to the They Might Be Giants album Here Comes Science and to my academic love, chemistry.
When I was at university I was studied for an MChem degree in Chemistry because its a subject I love, the way the material universe works and how everything fits together, and as the song says, how the elements are almost like a paint set, with them standing on their own or combining to make all the colours of the rainbow.
My specialism were food chemistry and nuclear chemistry, which were really fascinating subjects, I was lucky to have a visit from Lord Krebs whilst I was there, at the time he was the chair of the Food Standards Agency, and once everyone had stopped Stanning over his dad, his lecture mostly focused on potatoes, and how if they were brought to market today, they would be banned, because when they go off, they become extremely toxic, poisonous in face.
So any song which does chemistry will always grab my attention, and I really love this song, its so easy to sing along to!
Its time for some metal, in this case we are going with DragonForce a speed metal band from London who specialise in fantasy and video game influenced music.
This song is probably their best known song and was featured on Guitar Hero III, and is a really difficult song to so in that game, its really really hard.
Interestingly during the recording Herman Li snapped one of his guitar strings during the recording of the dual-guitar solo, and they kept this version and used it on the album.
Through the Fire and Flames is an epic 7 minutes and 22 second song, although the official video cuts that down to 5 minutes, but I highly recondite listening to the full song because its fantastic, and its an amazing D&D anthem.
Almost there and now we have the grandfather of nerdcore, MC Frontalot and many consider him to be the first nerdcore artist, but he acknowledges that others came before him and that they are his peers.
He has been performing nerdcore since 2000 and has seen the scene grow into the niche of a niche of a niche that it is today.
In 2002 Penny Arcade names him their rapper laureate which lead him to record the Penny Arcade Theme.
This song, is a collaboration between MC Frontalot, MC Hawking and Jessie Dangerously and is from his debut studio album Nerdcore Rising.
This song is about how awesome nerdcore is and what a threat it poses to gangsta rap!
This band are reputed to have coined the phrases nerdcore and nerd rock, and I love them.
Named for the insult thrown at Han Solo by Princess Leia, Nerf Herder have been rocking since the mid-90s and are highly linked with Buffy The Vampire Slayer, having written the theme tune and were the last band to appear on the show at The Bronze.
This song is from their album American Cheese and is just perfect for Trekkies, with lots of imagery from Star Trek with some specifically taken from Arena.
It’s a great song and you really will love it, it’s also been amazingly covered by Meri Amber acoustically.
Garfunkel and Oates are a comedy folk duo consisting of Riki Lindhome who you might know from The Muppets and Kate Micucci who you will know from Steven Universe, Scrubs and DuckTales.
They had their own show back in 2014 which ran for 8 episodes and they are known for putting out some brilliant and occasionally risque songs.
The song of theirs that I have chosen is Such a Loser and its a brilliant song, which highlights my personal philosophy in life, you are better off for trying that not.
Its from the album Secretions which is absolutely brilliant and hilarious, they also did a special on Netflix a few years ago, called Trying to be Special so go check that out.
Today is Star Wars day for me Lindsay and Megan, and had I thought it through, I would have saved the song from the 12th for today!
So I have had to change plans to bring in another Star Wars piece, and it’s once again nerdcore this time by mc chris, a rapper who spent a long time trying to maintain he wasn’t a nerdcore rapper when he clearly was a nerdcore rapper.
Anyway he had made peace with the nerdcore community now after a few years of bad blood, not that nerdcore rap rivalries are dangerous like those of gangsta rap!
This song is called Fett’s Vette and is about, well you guessed right Boba Fett, and is from mc chris’s first album Life’s a Bitch and I’m Her Pimp and was featured in the Kevin Smith film, Zack and Miri Make a Porno.
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