What do you think of as "geek rock"?

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Cake? Devo? Weezer? Talking Heads?

― The Mad Puffin (The Mad Puffin), Thursday, 30 June 2005 16:02 (twenty-one years ago)

They Might Be Giants

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Thursday, 30 June 2005 16:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Bare Naked Ladies

― PB, Thursday, 30 June 2005 16:10 (twenty-one years ago)

animal collective, frog eyes, mae-shi. wait, that's spazz-rock. please direct me to the spazz-rock thread.

― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 30 June 2005 16:14 (twenty-one years ago)

soul coughing?

― matlewis, Thursday, 30 June 2005 16:15 (twenty-one years ago)

technically it's ozzy

― Another Allnighter (sexyDancer), Thursday, 30 June 2005 16:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Literal Geek Rock (music made by Geeks):
http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000002KZ5.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

Music made for and favored by Geeks:
http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00000JCOV.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 30 June 2005 16:20 (twenty-one years ago)

They Might Be Giants

-- M@tt He1geson (matt@game[remove]informer.com), June 30th, 2005.

OTM. the quintessential geek band.

― latebloomer: now with 20% less cetacean content (latebloomer), Thursday, 30 June 2005 16:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Ha ha, Another Allnighter wins.

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Thursday, 30 June 2005 16:34 (twenty-one years ago)

ben folds

― katie, a princess (katie, a princess), Thursday, 30 June 2005 16:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Rush

― latebloomer: now with 20% less cetacean content (latebloomer), Thursday, 30 June 2005 16:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Feelies.

― mcd (mcd), Thursday, 30 June 2005 16:35 (twenty-one years ago)

was marshall crenshaw genuinely a geek or is it just cuz of the specs?

also, i'll see your feelies and raise you the dB's

― matlewis, Thursday, 30 June 2005 16:36 (twenty-one years ago)

TMBG is for dorks (goofballs and social outcasts without the implied intelligence and obsessive niche interests of the geek). To me geeky rock would be stuff that focuses on virtuosity and guitar geekery (Yngwie Malmsteen), obscure underground niche genres (Fushitsusha), or all of prog rock.

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Thursday, 30 June 2005 16:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Iggy Pop

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Thursday, 30 June 2005 16:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Definitely TMBG and Ben Folds.

Interestingly, I have seen the Pixies described as geek rock, in Rolling Stone no less.

― The Mad Puffin (The Mad Puffin), Thursday, 30 June 2005 16:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Seriously, TMBG is so right it's not even funny.*

*take it from a professional geek.

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Thursday, 30 June 2005 16:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Then there's Nerdcore:

Rap Marketing Comes to Nerdcore

― The Mad Puffin (The Mad Puffin), Thursday, 30 June 2005 17:06 (twenty-one years ago)

is that anything like Riot Nrrrd?

xpost TMBG was my favorite band for a solid six or seven years of my life... during which i was undeniably a geek, so I'll support their geekiness

― matlewis, Thursday, 30 June 2005 17:07 (twenty-one years ago)

i think they might be giants are nerd-rock. they are way too nerdy to be geeks.

― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 30 June 2005 17:14 (twenty-one years ago)

ween

― b b, Thursday, 30 June 2005 17:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Come on, people....The Decemberists!

― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Thursday, 30 June 2005 17:19 (twenty-one years ago)

See, there are differing levels of "geek." There's the Metallica level, the Nirvana level, the Rush/Yes level, and the Weezer/TMBG level. (Though, Scott Steward may be onto something with his geek-nerd distinction).

― PB, Thursday, 30 June 2005 17:20 (twenty-one years ago)

hahaha Riot Nrrrd.

― PB, Thursday, 30 June 2005 17:20 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.simpsonsweb.com/img-news/196.jpg

"Ah yes, this should provide adequate sustenance for the Dr. Who marathon."

― PB, Thursday, 30 June 2005 17:27 (twenty-one years ago)

geeks are usually more like the tall geeky kid on freaks and geeks and nerds are more like the shorter nerdy kid on freaks and geeks.

but, yeah, there is the whole circus geek definition, iggy, ozzy, etc.

― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 30 June 2005 17:29 (twenty-one years ago)

They Might Be Giants
Devo
Weird Al Yankovic

― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Thursday, 30 June 2005 17:29 (twenty-one years ago)

I still say they're dorks. I don't think they quite rise to the level of nerd.

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Thursday, 30 June 2005 17:33 (twenty-one years ago)

weird al is a spazz. devo are more nerd than geek, but they have geek in them. someone brought up nirvana. kurt was definitely a geek/nerd wannabe no matter how much he got beat up. he was just too pretty. those other guys were definite dork/geeks though.

― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 30 June 2005 17:36 (twenty-one years ago)

see, I always thought that Geek was the polar end of the coolness spectrum, not Nerd. Our definitions differ here.

― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Thursday, 30 June 2005 17:37 (twenty-one years ago)

so...

Geek - TMBG
Dork - ?
Nerd - Devo
Dweeb - ?
Freak - Marilyn Manson
Spazz - Weird Al

― PB, Thursday, 30 June 2005 17:37 (twenty-one years ago)

bill-rock v neil-rock then..

decemberists otm...

i always thought the biggest difference between dorks, geeks and nerds is that dorks are in yr face with their dorkiness and are intolerable, geeks have to make you aware of their geekiness, and are therefore mildly intolerable, while nerds attempt to keep it to themselves.

so id put barenaked ladies, ween, moldy peaches, wierd al, lots of zappa, into the dork-rock rack. all the sorta D&D john zorn, mike patton, buckethead, and TMBG into the geek-rock, and then a lot of glitch, idm, and indie (feelies, etc) into nerd-rock

― b b, Thursday, 30 June 2005 17:40 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.joblo.com/newsimages2/picnapoleon.jpg = http://cover6.cduniverse.com/MuzeAudioArt/150/150383.jpg

http://www.doheth.co.uk/profiles/cbg.gif = http://perso.wanadoo.fr/kraftwerkonline/images/autresPhotos/cegg.jpg

http://www.girlpower.gov/girlarea/images/guestphotos/lisabook.jpg = http://www.chipin-kaiya.com/DuoProject/Programs/TimeOut.jpg

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Thursday, 30 June 2005 17:40 (twenty-one years ago)

just remember that geek and dork are more about appearance and poor motor-skills and nerd is more about smarts. geeks and dorks have their mouths hanging open a lot. they look dazed. nerds can look foolish in their dress, but not always. geeks and dorks can, obviously, be just as smart as nerds. but not always. that's the big difference.

― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 30 June 2005 17:43 (twenty-one years ago)

geek = everyone who posted to this thread

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Thursday, 30 June 2005 17:45 (twenty-one years ago)

ZONG

― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Thursday, 30 June 2005 17:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Yes Scott, but in my experience I've found nerdiness and lack of coordination to go hand in hand.

Geeks almost always lack the motor-skills of most dorks AND the gifted-program smarts of all nerds; a pitiable bunch.

Dweebs wear ill-fitting clothes and sport wispy facial hair; they may or may not listen to grunge rock and Ozzy Osbourne. They surely own multiple Metallica albums, however.

― PB, Thursday, 30 June 2005 17:50 (twenty-one years ago)

i wonder how many pots with opinions on kettles we have in this thread

― b b, Thursday, 30 June 2005 18:11 (twenty-one years ago)

The Embarrassment

― mcd (mcd), Thursday, 30 June 2005 18:14 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.dorkrock.com/

― b b, Thursday, 30 June 2005 18:17 (twenty-one years ago)

The Descendents' _Milo Goes to College_

― kingfish (Kingfish), Thursday, 30 June 2005 18:39 (twenty-one years ago)

and what about the Modern Lovers' record?

― kingfish (Kingfish), Thursday, 30 June 2005 18:39 (twenty-one years ago)

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