A pop-tune ode to Doctor Who…

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Middle school…the final frontier!

I’m going to take a moment to examine why I find this so nerdishly charming in so many ways…

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Kari Maaren has a new album of geeky songs available. It’s called Beowulf Pulled My Arm Off and it’s described like this:

This album collects 14 of the geeky ukulele songs Kari Maaren wrote and performed in 2011 and 2012 at Toronto’s Chiaroscuro Reading Series. The songs tend to be about monsters, heroes, and other highly fictional properties. No mythical beasts were harmed in the making of this album.

Curious? You should be. It’s a good listen.

My only question: How long is it before the Internet pits John Anealio’s “George R.R. Martin’s Not Your Bitch” against Kari’s “Dear George R. R. Martin”?

Listen to album below, or check out Kari Maaren’s bandcamp page for more information.

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Paul Di Filippo sent us a link to the song “Everything Changes” by Eytan and The Embassy which, while not sf-related itself, pays homage to Star Wars in the following version of their video.
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Well, I suppose this was inevitable…

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Back in 1983, the Alarm released “The Stand, a song based on The Stand by Stephen King. This is the video from MTV (y’know…when the “M” actually stood for “music”…)
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Came across these and wanted to share. Both are wonderful versions/interpretations of ‘Over The Misty Mountains Cold. by J R R Tolkien.

Check them out after the jump.

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A few weeks back in our Crowd Funding Roundup post we covered the Kickstarter campaign for a crowd-sourced SF movie called Project London (and with 2 days left to go, they’ve met their goal, congrats!). While perusing more info about the movie, I ran across this music video, made for the movie, by the band Half-Acre Day. It features scenes from the movie and you can view it as a different movie trailer set to a kickin’ beat. I rather like it.

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In honor of Gerry Anderson, who recently passed away, Neil Gaiman took the stage with Amanda Palmer and band to sing the theme song for Anderson’s Fireball XL5.

It’s quite epic.

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It’s that time of year again…and SciFi Songster John Anealio is letting folks download his Seasons Geekings LP for the low, low price of free!

Thrill to the soothing sounds of

“Batman Smells (A Rebuttal)” and “The Millennium Falcon For Christmas”, as well as the soon-to-be-classics “Winter Day” and “Is A Chupacabra Kosher?”…

Head on over to John’s blog and start downloading Seasons Geekings!

It’s been a little while since we’ve done a Weekend Playlist feature, which has moved to occasional status as we’ve drifted to various projects. There’s been a whole slew of great geek-related music that’s come out recently, and it’s too good to pass by. For your listening pleasure:

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Richard Powers is one of science fiction’s seminal artists. His work is both distinctive and iconic.

In this promo film, musician Andy Partridge combines Powers’ art with music inspired by it for his 2010 called Powers.
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While the rest of America was stuffing their faces with turkey, SciFi Songster John Anealio was hard at work writing another song.

“The Ferryman” was inspired by John Mierau’s Walk The Fire, a shared world, science fiction anthology that features stories by Jake Bible, Jason Andrew Bond, Brand Gamblin, Nathan Lowell, Patrick McLean, Edward W. Robertson, J. Daniel Sawyer, Matthew Sanborn Smith and John Mierau.

Give it a listen right here.
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Back to the Future actor Tom “Biff” Wilson goes all William Shatner and mocks science fiction conventions with this self-deprecating song. Intermixed are some interesting anecdotes.

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I can only imagine that money must have been tight in Gotham City back in the 1960s for Batman to take a singing gig on a variety show. Or perhaps he was working undercover to bust a ring of rogue off-key villains? Or maybe he lost a bet with the Joker?
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Fashion Monster answers the age old question, “What would a music video by a Japanese Tim Burton look like?” The answer my friends is, in all its J-Pop glory, after the jump!
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I had the opportunity to see the new Bond flick, Skyfall, this week, and while the movie itself is wonderful, it was the title music that struck a chord with me early on. The folks behind the Bond flicks have always done elaborate opening title sequences featuring music from some of the biggest names around. I remember a quote from Paul McCartney saying something like, “Being asked to do the music for a Bond film means you’ve arrived.” This from a former Beatle.

The music in those opening sequences haven’t always resonated with me. In fact, there’s been quite a few that have fallen flat. I believe Shirley Bassey set the tone for Bond when she recorded Goldfinger, and every band or singer since, has been held, at least in my mind, up to that for comparison. Adele’s soulful rendition of Skyfall harkens back to Bassey’s Goldfinger in a way few others have been able to manage, and has prompted me to do a top ten list of my favorites.

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John Anealio writes songs about science fiction and fantasy and other geeky things. Alternate-tuned acoustic guitar picking, soaring synthesizers, and catchy pop hooks power his odes to androids, princesses, and vampires. His newest album, available on his website JohnAnealio.com as well as iTunes is the Chuck Wendig named album Laser Zombie Robot Love. He also recently released a free single to commemorate the fall of Felix Baumgartner from space to the ground. He is the co-creator and co-host of The Functional Nerds and has come up with theme songs for a variety of other podcasts as well, including the one for the SF Signal podcast.

I decided to sit down with John to learn more about him and his writing and creative process…

Paul Weimer: Laser Zombie Robot Love is your newest album. But where did the idea of doing geeky songs, as opposed to, say, covers or homages to Rush or Emerson Lake and Palmer come from?

John Anealio: For years, I was a straight-up folk/pop singer/songwriter. My songs were about relationships and other typical subject matter. As my writing grew, I started to write about all kinds of things. The first CD that I put out as a typical singer/songwriter included a song about vampires and one titled Orbit. At one point, I decided to focus my writing on subjects that would appeal to genre fans and tech geeks. Part of the idea behind this stemmed from my then, new found interest in blogs and podcasts. I was reading all of these Sci-Fi review blogs and I thought if I wrote songs inspired by the books that these folks were reviewing, then they’d probably enjoy them and maybe even spread the word about them. That was the start and it pretty much worked. However, it quickly changed to writing about all different subjects and themes within the genre, not just about specific Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books.

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Here’s a science fictional music video from the band Swimming for their song “I Do (Come True)”. (There’s also a short film that’s an alternative edit of the music video.) The narrative is based on the last living human and their mission to seed new life in the universe.

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Finally, the theme to HBO’s adaptation of George R.R. Martin’s A Game of Thrones the way it was meant to be played. On a kazoo.

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