I’m a big fan of the Ellen McLain and Jonathan Coulton partnership in Portal and Portal 2. I’ll admit that Want You Gone is my second favourite of the two ending songs but it’s still pretty good. It’s actually pretty hard to find samples of Ellen McLain’s opera singing – yes, the voice of GLaDOS […]
Geeky music videos
Welcome to the Music category, where we turn up the volume on the sounds of geek culture. This is your destination for epic gaming soundtracks, synthwave scores, chiptune artists, and bands whose lyrics are inspired by our favourite fandoms. We celebrate the music that provides the backdrop to our adventures, from the sweeping orchestrations of a fantasy epic to the pulsing beats of a cyberpunk future.
We have a special appreciation for the visual side of music, and this section is always on the lookout for clever, creative, and unapologetically geeky music videos. If a song tells a story or an artist has a unique vision, you'll likely find their videos featured here. Tune in and discover your next geek anthem.
The Matrix Lobby scene as a capella
Everyone remembers the lobby scene from The Matrix. It’s when Neo starts to kick butt. The original track played in that infamous raid is Spybreak! by Propellerheads (iTunes link) but in this video they’ve been replaced. The sound effects have been replaced. The track and FX have been replaced by just one guy; Matt “pew […]
Geeksplode: Adam Savage sings I Will Survive as Gollum
Boom! That’s the sound of my geek dna exploding in an overdrive of geek charged geekiness. Awesome. Awesome. Do you have a better word for it? Oh. Yeah; that is Neil Gaiman as one of the radio hosts. It’s such an appropriate song for Gollum to be singing. Clever Gollum, clever.
Popular JPop and anime band contained secret virtual singer
The popular Japanese pop band AKB48 who sung one of the Dragon Ball Kai themes, who were guests of honour at the 2010 Anime Expo in the US and have been involved with Kamen Rider W have revealed that one of their band is… well, rather anime herself. She’s 2D. She’s fake. She’s a computer […]
Musical Harry Potter: Daniel Radcliffe dresses up and sings
If the thought of a musical Harry Potter wasn’t enough – do you think that Daniel Radcliffe’s costume here looks anything like Doctor Who? A touch of Matt Smith’s eleventh doctor with Sylvester McCoy’s seventh? Perhaps. As it turns out this video does feature a singing, dancing and ultimately rather sweaty Daniel Radcliffe but it’s […]
Doctor Who: The Gallifrey version of Born This Way
Last week the X-Men version of Born This Way did the rounds in geek land. This week the Doctor Who version from What Travis Says will storm the gates of Demons Run. Nerd Bastard Mark Poynter picked this up and correctly calls out that 25k hits aren’t enough for this parody. It needs to do […]
Ellen McLain’s music: GLaDOS sings
The voice of GLaDOS in Portal and Portal II is Ellen McLain. While not being awesome as a voice actor in Half-Life 2, Team Fortress 2 or Portal, Ellen McLain is an opera singer. I’ve not found it easy to dig up samples of Ellen McLain singing. I’m sure people search for McLain’s music but […]
X-Men Born This Way
This is a pretty funky song that the X-Men: First Class movie inspired. I’m told it’s a parody of a piece of music produced by a “Lady Gaga”. If true I have to wonder whether she’s a superhero too; has the name to match. I wonder what her powers might be? Kudos to Ryan from […]
Bioshock completion anxiety: the musical
Lightsatsparkwood21 seems to have trouble finishing things – despite her obvious talent. Our YouTube hero opens this video by explaining that she’s had trouble filming her Bioshock song for us and hopes that this will be the last take. The song? It’s about her inability to play Bioshock without having to… well, stop and hide. […]
Rigamortis: A zombie love story musical
I know, you can barely click a link on YouTube without stumbling across a multi-part zombie love story as a musical these days. I still think Rigamortis is worth a look at, though! Imagine if mankind successfuly manages to quell the zombie infestiation and its the undead on the run. Imagine if we’re down to […]
