One song per answer please!
We have discussed music you listen to while coding, but I looking for music related to coding and coders. It can be eclectic or mainstream, and even a bit of a stretch (just explain the connection).
Vote for your favorite song or add it if it isn't already here.
Link to lyrics, band, music, video, etc., when possible.
"I'm fluent in JavaScript as well as Klingon"
"At Pascal well I'm number one"
The free software song (lyrics) by RMS qualifies? :)
I wouldn't exactly listen it though...
surely
Bad Religion - I love my Computer
http://www.musik-base.de/Songtexte/Bad-Religion/i-love-my-computer-106003.html
Not strictly programming related but, "The Humans are Dead", by Flight of the Conchords.
Binary solo: 0000001 00000011 0000001 00000011 0000001 0000001 0000001 0000001
[Video]
Probably not the strongest association ever, but someone had to mention Kraftwerk!
Not really about programming, but somewhat funny: "Kaiser Chiefs - Ruby" :-)
http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?id=213625435&s=143443
Another one by Jonathan Coulton that came it me is "Still Alive." It is an AI singing about science. Would that be related?
Perfect World, by Billy Talent. Only because of the following lines.
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Reset my memory!
I am rather belated answering this, but my band has a fun parody about emacs vs. vi: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWxtBVT9C_s
Living with a geek (mp3 + lyrics) (Video) by Chad Wollenberg
more computer based than strictly programming related. Still I'm sure most of can empathise with the lyrics...
"Loose Bruce" Kerr put Sun v Microsoft to music- the Java Posse uses this as their theme song. Not exactly programming, but programming related.
Some how I like Kiss' "Beth" (all be it a little modified).
Beth, I hear you callin'
But I cant come home right now
Me and the boys are **codin'**
And we just cant find the **bug**
Just a few more hours
And Ill be right home to you
I think I hear them callin'
Oh, beth what can I do
Beth what can I do
Eric Siegel has some computer science songs at http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~evs/songs/songs.html
Chorus:
Modular decomposition!
It's the way things are and ought to be.
If yer life is hierarchical, it's really quite remarkably
easy to do each sub-sub-sub-sub-sub-routine.
try last.fm with your own best artist as seed and forget about it and focus on coding!
It's All About the Pentiums - Wierd Al
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ky-JTAPhmUo
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It%27s_All_About_the_Pentiums
What y'all wanna do?
Wanna be hackers? Code crackers? Slackers
Wastin' time with all the chatroom yakkers?
9 to 5, chillin' at Hewlett Packard?
Workin' at a desk with a dumb little placard?
Yeah, payin' the bills with my mad programming skills
Defraggin' my hard drive for thrills
I got me a hundred gigabytes of RAM
I never feed trolls and I don't read spam
Installed a T1 line in my house
Always at my PC, double-clickin' on my mizouse
Upgrade my system at least twice a day
I'm strictly plug-and-play, I ain't afraid of Y2K
I'm down with Bill Gates, I call him "Money" for short
I phone him up at home and I make him do my tech support
It's all about the Pentiums, what?
You've gotta be the dumbest newbie I've ever seen
You've got white-out all over your screen
You think your Commodore 64 is really neato
What kinda chip you got in there, a Dorito?
You're usin' a 286? Don't make me laugh
Your Windows boots up in what, a day and a half?
You could back up your whole hard drive on a floppy diskette
You're the biggest joke on the Internet
Your database is a disaster
You're waxin' your modem, tryin' to make it go faster
Hey fella, I bet you're still livin' in your parents' cellar
Downloadin' pictures of Sarah Michelle Gellar
And postin' "Me too!" like some brain-dead AOL-er
I should do the world a favor and cap you like Old Yeller
You're just about as useless as jpegs to Hellen Keller
Orgy - Dreams in Digital
It's filled (at times too forcefully so) with many computer terminology references.
Maybe a bit dated and maybe more for a hardware nerd, but I like it :)
One humanoid escapee One android on the run Seeking freedom beneath a lonely desert sun
Trying to change it's program Trying to change the mode -- crack the code Images conflicting into data overload
1-0-0-1-0-0-1 S.O.S 1-0-0-1-0-0-1 In distress 1-0-0-1-0-0
Memory banks unloading Bytes break into bits Unit One's in trouble and it's scared out of it's wits
Guidance systems break down A struggle to exist -- to resist A pulse of dying power in a clenching plastic fist...
It replays each of the days A hundred years of routines Bows it's head and prays To the mother of all machines...
Rush - The Body Electric
One humanoid escapee, one android on the run,
Seeking freedom beneath a lonely desert sun,
try'n' to change its program trying to change the mode, crack the code.
Images conflicting into data overload.
One, zero, zero, one, zero, zero, one, S. O. S.
One, zero, zero, one, zero, zero, one, in distress...
Kraftwerk - Home Computer
SongBuilder sb = new SongBuilder();
do {
sb.Append("I program my home computer");
sb.Append("Beam myself into the future");
} while (Music.EOF == false)
Kraftwerk have to be mentioned twice!
Every OS Sucks by Three Dead Trolls.
Maybe not directly programming related, but it is what every developer thinks, sooner or later.
The Sorcerer's Apprentice - a musical piece about a programming bug way ahead of its time.
And even more tenuous...
Brian Eno - Windows 95 start up sound
He wrote it, and it allegedly helped him clear a bout of writers block http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Eno