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I think these are the best geek albums

Anymore good ones??

― Michael Costello (MichaelCostello1), Tuesday, 19 July 2005 05:15 (twenty years ago)

Have to disagree... I always considered the best geek albums to be just be under the mainstream radar, but lame enough to be rejected by most of the hip/indie crowd.

Example:

Siamese Dream (two or three years after the fact)
Ours
Bauhaus
MC Chris (or whatever Adult Swim sees fit to pimp)
MXPX

Of course, I live in Southeast Texas, so my ideas of "geeks" (and to a certain extent, "goths) are mostly informed by places like Hot Topic.

― Jamey Lewis (Jameys Burning), Tuesday, 19 July 2005 05:34 (twenty years ago)

No, not Goths, Geeks. Like people who love video games, star trek, D&D, math, stuff like that.

― Michael Costello (MichaelCostello1), Tuesday, 19 July 2005 05:37 (twenty years ago)

devo,madness,proclaimers,moby.

― agnetha's stockings, Tuesday, 19 July 2005 06:11 (twenty years ago)

Thomas Dolby, The Golden Age of Science
Kraftwerk, Computer World
Elvis Costello, My Aim Is True

― t. fiend, Tuesday, 19 July 2005 08:29 (twenty years ago)

I 2nd the motion for the Ozma cd. I used to adore it.

― Hari A$hur$t (Toaster), Tuesday, 19 July 2005 09:13 (twenty years ago)

Like people who love video games, star trek, D&D, Ayn Rand, math, stuff like that.

Erm, there's a little band called Rush, people.

― Scream! Scrovula, Scream! (noodle vague), Tuesday, 19 July 2005 09:16 (twenty years ago)

Decemberists, They Might Be Giants, Weezer.

― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Tuesday, 19 July 2005 13:30 (twenty years ago)

Yeah Michael yr totally off on the video game rock stuff....traditionally, metal's been a big thing...Rentals too indie/obscure...Devo too hipster cool...Ozma I'm not familiar with....think more They Might Be Giants....Smashing Pumpkins is a good one...maybe some Rush, Dream Theater stuff like that....maybe a little Danzig/Misfits.

of course, trying to pin down "people" that play video games nowadays is like trying to pin down "people who watch television"

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Tuesday, 19 July 2005 13:53 (twenty years ago)

They Might Be Giants' Flood was my primary geek album towards the end of HIgh School.

I discovered The Feelies later and forgot about TMBG, fo the most part.

― PappaWheelie (PappaWheelie), Tuesday, 19 July 2005 14:11 (twenty years ago)

Ever play Columns while listening to The Boredoms' "Super AE"?
Total religeous experience....

― That One Guy (That One Guy), Tuesday, 19 July 2005 14:45 (twenty years ago)

Decemberists, They Might Be Giants, Weezer.

I was going to say Weezer, because in a summary of them they and Rivers especially are always painted as the poster-boys of geek rock.

― Nick H (Nick H), Tuesday, 19 July 2005 19:38 (twenty years ago)

Most geeks I know are into prog.

― daavid (daavid), Tuesday, 19 July 2005 20:22 (twenty years ago)

Deltron 3030.

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Tuesday, 19 July 2005 20:28 (twenty years ago)

Heavy metal.

The thing about D&D geeks is that, unlike music geeks, they haven't quite embraced their geekdom; so it's a fallacy to assume that they would be all over bands featuring smirky bespectacled frontmen. Just the opposite.

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Tuesday, 19 July 2005 20:37 (twenty years ago)

geek/fanboys are some of the worst rockists you'll ever meet.

― mjfan, Tuesday, 19 July 2005 20:42 (twenty years ago)

Yes, that's why nobody role plays as a speccy wizard with acne and a masturbation problem.

― Scream! Scrovula, Scream! (noodle vague), Tuesday, 19 July 2005 20:43 (twenty years ago)

Information Society Hack is a classic computer geek album.

― mikef (mfleming), Tuesday, 19 July 2005 23:52 (twenty years ago)

Prog sounds more true to the geek thing. Dream Theatre anyone?

― Jamey Lewis (Jameys Burning), Wednesday, 20 July 2005 01:57 (twenty years ago)

anything by TOOL.

― haitch (haitch), Wednesday, 20 July 2005 02:07 (twenty years ago)

Alot of the computer programmers/geeks I know are into industrial music and Scandinavian metal. I always think of those genres as "geek music", although presumably the bands in question wouldn't.

― ooooh, Wednesday, 20 July 2005 02:39 (twenty years ago)

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