The Soundtrack to Nerdery

[Queen_Dopplepopolis]

Just listening to Weezer's In The Garage and got to thinking about what songs would need to go on the Soundtrack to Nerdery. In other words, what songs do you think of as being quintessential songs for the role player?

 

[Tav_Behemoth]

Rush's Exit Stage Left is the greatest nerd-gaming album of all time, and if you post enough at the excellent forums at nerdnyc.com, your custom user title becomes "Listens Only to RUSH".

But if I had to choose a single song it would have to be "The Friendly Ranger of Clontargh Castle" by Thin Lizzy.

 

[Emiricol]

Rush's Exit Stage Left is the greatest nerd-gaming album of all time

You made me cry. You made me laugh. You made me search for my copy of the album. Damn you!

 

[SubMensa]

A couple artists, a couple songs off the top of my head.

"Weird Al" Yankovic - too many to mention
They Might Be Giants - most anything from the Flood CD
The Laziest Men On Mars - All Your Base, Nothing can stop Torg,
Yoko Kanno - the Macross Plus Soundtrack
Wagner - The Planets, Ride of the Valkyries
Enya - Orinoco Flow
Green Jellÿ - Cereal Killer Soundtrack
Konami - the Castlevania soundtracks

 

[mac1504]

Marcy's PlayGround- Cloak of Elvenkind

 

[Teflon Billy]

Experimental Film by They Might be Giants.

(The video features the Homestar Runner crew)

 

[Archon]

Tenacious Queen....D?

hey Queen D
hmm...i wish i could think of anything not already posted...
anything John Williams has compossed especially "Duel of the Fates" would have to be on it.
you could also steal the "victory-dance" song from "the gamers".
what else..?
Tenacious D's "Wonderboy" conjures images of battling a hydra with my broadsword.
that's all for now. i get to wake up in less then 5 hours so i can go out to the range and fire my m-16 all day and night. yay.

mik
aka "Archon"

 

[Tarrasque Wrangler]

How about the haunting Trogdor theme?

 

[NiTessine]

Wagner - The Planets, Ride of the Valkyries

The Planets is by Gustav Holst, not Wagner...

The soundtrack should also definitely include Marshall Gray's "Critical Hit on My Heart".

Edit: And while we're at it, let's add "Elvenpath" and "Wishmaster" by Nightwish on the list. Heather Alexander never hurts, either.

 

[SubMensa]

The Planets is by Gustav Holst, not Wagner...

You're right, I was thinking of the rest of Der Ring des Nibelungen.