Geek Songs

[Anders]

Absurd by Fluke, a true pan-geek song

King Kong in Cannes, on a date with Spider-man
Dan Dare’s sitting there, scared by the killer teddy bears
Downtown, Minnie Mouse is slipping Mickey’s in the famous grouse
While Big Bird spreads the word—
Anybody with a heart votes love
Judge Dredd, found dead, face down in Snoopy’s bed
Outside, Tweetie Pie’s getting itchy on more supplies
Meanwhile, Snow White getting ready for work tonight
Turning tricks with crystal tips—
Trying to make the best of it’s absurd

Puppy dogs and pussy cats in suspect suicide attacks
Captain Kirk from planet earth fights it out with Papa Smurf
Some phony little ponies, preying on the old and lonely
Making friends, robbing them, X-Men taught them everything
Betty Boop’s tired of life, took vows, became a bride of Christ
While Tin Tin’s been playing him at Caesar’s palace live on ice
Babar Kum-ba-yahs with the Mighty Morphin’ movie stars
As Big Bird spreads the word—
Anybody with a heart votes love

[paulpogue]

Looking at it in plain text, it totally screams out to be sung to the tune of "Science Fiction Double Feature."

With some of the references -- the phrasing of the Dan Dare line in particular -- part of me wonders if it's not intentional.

[Anders]

I can't quite get that to work, but I'm not too good with that sort of thing.

[paulpogue]

I've tried it out loud a couple of times now, and while you can make a lot of the lines work with the first part of a verse ("Flash Gordon was there, in silver underwear" overlapping "Dan Dare's sitting there, scared by the killer teddy bears" works pretty well), my whole theory comes apart when you try to bring in the second half of any verse ("Claude Rains was the Invisible Man") it comes apart.

[jarddavis]

Nothing tops Zombie: Not even Iron Maiden.

More Human Than Human
-I am the Nexus One,
-Want more life, fucker
-I ain't done yet


Living Dead Girl:
"Goldfoot's Machine creates another fiend so beautiful it'll make you ... killl" (Bonus for being the song that Faith dances to as she starts a bar brawl in an episode of Buffy...)

And the guys slips something in in just about every song he's ever done...

Not to mention, you know, Dan Brereton doing the art for one of his CD's...