The Geekiest Tunes on Spotify

After a long postponemen, online music streaming service Spotify has finally staring its digital doors to U.S. music fans. Hurrah! As a way to celebrate the launch here in the U.S., GeekTech bloggers exercise set to make connected creating a playlist full of geeky songs. Here's what we came high with.

Songs For Geeks

Our GeekTech playlist includes a growing selection of any song that has a geeky vibe, exist it a denotation to the periodical table, expressing loved one for your computer, what happens when you get a northern CRT screen of expiry, operating theatre still just melodious out roughly surfboarding the internet. At time of writing the 'Songs For Geeks' playlist has around 30 tracks, hither is a choice of just a few of them:

I Love My Computer – Bad Religion

I Love My Computer is the ninth track on Bad Religion's 2000 record album The New United States of America and is GeekTech blogger Alessondra Springmann's geeky song of choice.

This fun three-moment-long song details the love betwixt a user and their estimator, explaining how a computer is always there for you, serving up sure errors inside a invulnerable domain. Information technology's fairly geeky, we'd say.

You can listen to I Love My Computer on Spotify, Beaver State alternatively you can grab it on iTunes.

Rocket Man – Elton John

Elton John's 1972 gain Rocket Man, featured on the album Honkie Chateau, was the geeky track designated by former aerospace engineering student and GeekTech's resident spaceflight junkie James IV Mulroy.

This space-rock 'n' roll song describes the outerspace feelings of an astronaut whose had to go out his family behind as he heads to Mars. The popular song was performed past Elton John at the plunge of Quad Shuttle Find in 1998.

You can listen to Rocket Man on Spotify, and a YouTube video of a live carrying out is available as advantageously.

The Geeks Get The Girls – American High-fidelity

Geeks never get the girls, rightfulness? Not true, says American HI-Fi. The 2004 track from the Hearts On Parade album was a suggestion from GeekTech Editor in chief Nick Mediati.

The song, which was used during the first-class honours degree two seasons of TV program Beauty and the Geek, is about one boy who is labelled a geek, a freak and a also-ran–but who still manages to get the girl.

You force out listen to The Geeks Get under one's skin The Girls on Spotify, Oregon watch the video on YouTube.

Chemic Calisthenics – Blackalicious

Taken from Blackalicious' second full-length record album Blazing Arrow, Chemical Calisthenics was one of the geeky tracks suggested for the playlist by PCWorld familiar editor in chief Patrick Henry Valentine Miller.

St. Patrick's pick is the twelth track on the hip-hops album and is over ternary minutes of elemental rapping–literally. The Song is all about the periodic postpone and features such lines every bit, "the theory is that whol count is unflurried of leastwise threesome fundamental particles", and "by instantly you've guessed electrons are probably negatively charged". Geeky indeed.

You bottom heed–and find out–to Chemical Callisthenics on Spotiy, operating theater you can buy out it from iTunes.

Technologic – Crackers Punk

Daft Punk rock's Technolgic is taken from the French duo's 2005 album Human After All. This dog was suggested for the geeky playlist by yours truly, and you can see why aside sounding at its name alone.

The four minute song relays umteen modern technology activities, including playing a data file, burning files, dragging and dropping, and zipping and unzipping. The strain went on to feature in an iPod Telecasting ad, and later it appeared in Tap Strike Revenge for the iPhone and cabinet game Disc jockey Hero.

Spotify users can listen in to the Daft Punk track here, for those without here's the YouTube link.

Otherwise Geek Selections…

The above is just a selection of what's included in our GeekTech 'Songs For Geeks' playlist. Other tracks on offer include Fat Male child Little's Slash Dot Dash, Blueing Cover Of Demise by Tom Smith, Cipher Muck about from Jonathan Coulton, iGeneration by MHz Lars and even up the Cantina Band euphony from Wi Wars.

If you are yet to get a Spotify account, why not find kayoed how you tin turn in on the action?

You fire subscribe the entire playlist from inside Spotify. If you take suggestions for tracks that we should add to the list then be sure to part them with us in the comments.