I need some tunes, yo.

[renderman]

Re: I need some tunes, yo.

Just poking through my CD's I figure that Apocalyptica fits in vaguely with the hacker mentality. Covering Metallica w/ 4 chello's is one hell of a hack in my book.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00...801624?ie=UTF8

[skroo]

Re: I need some tunes, yo.

Some more '80s synthpop for y'all (and yeah, this song never had a video made for it): SSQ's Anonymous. Again, more of an atmospheric number than anything else. Can't find lyrics, so here's my loose transcription of them:

Masking identity
Lost in a memory
Of how it used to be
Anonymous
Sit in the dark of night
In the shadow of a streetlight
Uncover your role tonight
Anonymous

We are anonymous (Anonymous...)
We are anonymous (Anonymous...)
We are anonymous (Anonymous...)

(unknown)
I saw it on the telephone
Always with the (unknown)
Anonymous
What do they think of this
Can we survive the test
Living like all the rest
Anonymous

We are anonymous (Anonymous...)
We are anonymous (Anonymous...)
We are anonymous (Anonymous...)

They've got your number
You're undercover
Try to remember your name

Unmaksing identity
In search of a memory
Of how it used to be
Anonymous
Sit in the dark of night
Just a shadow in the moonlight
Is there no wrong or right
Anonymous

We are anonymous (Anonymous...)
We are anonymous (Anonymous...)
We are anonymous (Anonymous...)


[While it may have been cheesy, there was a certain elegance and subversiveness to '80s music that is sadly lacking in today's equivalent.]

[Jim_in_mesa]

Re: I need some tunes, yo.

How about:

Artist: Rockwell
Title: "Somebody's Watching Me"
Original Release Date: 1984
Label: Motown
ASIN: B0009YJXZA

also contained on:

CD title: Sounds of the Eighties 80's : 1984
ASIN: B000BNMAV8

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somebody's_Watching_Me

[skroo]

Re: I need some tunes, yo.

How about:

Artist: Rockwell
Title: "Somebody's Watching Me"

Or, by the same artist (and IIRC, on the same album), Obscene Phone Caller...

[dYn4mic]

Re: I need some tunes, yo.

Everything so far is great, if we're looking for some funny techy rap..
I would add some more "real" music, but there looks to be enough already.
Maybe some DJs could use these songs for something.

MC++ is second to none.
These lyrics/song are genious:
http://www.monzy.com/intro/drama_lyrics.html (free mp3 too)

"My flow is so intense that I will overflow your buffer,
Corrupt your stack pointer makin' all your data suffer.
I've got saturated edges but your flow is sparser,
Real gangstas sip on Yacc; instead you generate a parser.
While you're busy poppin' stacks I'll pop a cap in your skull,
While you smoke your crack pipe I'm gonna pipe you to /dev/null."

"Your mom circulates like a public key,
Servicing more requests than HTTP.
She keeps all her ports open like Windows ME,
Oh, there's so much drama in the PhD."

enjoy.

[skroo]

Re: I need some tunes, yo.

I would add some more "real" music, but there looks to be enough already.

Just curious - what constitutes "real" music? I mean, I'm pretty fond of Wall of Voodoo's Spy World; does that qualify? Given the many suggestions here, which ones just don't fit into that category? Or is there some single narrow 'lol, hackerchoonz' slot it's all meant to fall into?

[hackajar]

Re: I need some tunes, yo.

What about anything 'God ate my Homework" did?

http://experts.about.com/e/g/go/God_Ate_My_Homework.htm

Tracks include:
"I saw Bill Gates on IRC"
"Secret Asian Man"
"Pirate this Song"
and my personal favorite
"She Was Probably A Guy"

All released under GPL!

[phreakmonkey]

Re: I need some tunes, yo.

Butthole Surfers - "Goofy's Concern" (off Independent Worm Saloon)
- "I don't give a f%*$ about the FBI,
I don't give a f%*$ about the CIA..." :)

[Shadowvex]

Re: I need some tunes, yo.

Every year I try and put together some music to play during the breaks at BH that is hacker inspired, or has some sort of governmnet conspiracy feel to it.

Anyway, you get the idea. Let the song ideas flood in!

CLOCK DVA - THE HACKER

"A digital murder
Programmed by mathematical terrorists
Outside of mortal bounds
Silently hacking
A binary plague
Serving information
This is the time of the hacker
This is the code of the hacker
This is the hacker
An algebra of fear

Within the language of machines
Uninfringed my human emotions
Within global systems
Silently moving
A digital maze
Cutting information
This is the way of the hacker
This is the extremity of the hacker
This is the hacker
Protect now or be erased forever

A binary virus
Unleashed by subversive programmers
Inside corporate systems
Silently eating
The endemic wave
Erasing information
This is the sign of the hacker
This is the genius of the hacker
This is the hacker
Learn now
Or be cut down forever"

Release in 1988 - several remixes also released. One of my all time favorite songs!

[MitchMitchem]

Re: I need some tunes, yo.

^ I love that song. Totally forgot about it until I saw this post.

[arashi_kage]

Re: I need some tunes, yo.

I have to agree with Nikita on "Shiny Disco Balls." One of my favorite songs is Different Gear - "A Little Bit Paranoid." A guy thinks someone is trying to get in contact with him through his girlfriends dream. Also:
System of a Down - Deer Dance + Prison Song
Public Enemy - Fight the Power + Party for Your Right to Fight
Varukers - Modem For Destruction
Naked Raygun - Wonder Beer

[guile]

Re: I need some tunes, yo.

Pearl Jam "World Wide Suicide"

I felt the earth on Monday
It moved beneath my feet
In the form of a morning paper
Laid out for me to see
I saw his face in a color picture
I recognized the name
Could not stop staring at the
Face I'd never see again

It's a shame to awaken, world aflame
What does it mean when the war has taken over?
It's the same every day in a hell man-made
What can be saved, and who will be left to hold her?

The whole world...
Will now burn...
Yeah, it's a world wide suicide

The whole world...
world over
Yeah, it's a world wide suicide

Medals on a wooden mantle
Next to a handsome face
That the president took for granted
Writing checks that others pay
And in all the madness
Thought becomes numb and naive
So much to talk about and
Nothing for them to say

It's the same everyday and the wave won't break
Tell you to pray, while the devil's on their shoulder
Laying claim to the take that soldiers save
Tell them to quit it, the truth's already out there

The whole world...
Will now burn...
Yeah, it's a world wide suicide

The whole world...
Will now burn...
Yeah, it's a world wide suicide

Looking in the eyes of the fallen
You got to know there is another, another, another, another, another...
Way

It's a shame to awaken, world aflame
What does it mean when the war has taken over?
It's the same everyday and the wave won't break
Tell you to pray, while the devil's on their shoulder

The whole world...
Will now burn...
Yeah, it's a world wide suicide....

[guile]

Re: I need some tunes, yo.

Here's a few more:

Cujo "Fat Ass Joint"
Massive Attack "Angel"
New Deal "Exciting new direction"
Rob D "Clubbed to death" (you'll know it from the Matrix)
Zero One "mem0ry"
Zero One "b0t"

[Fire_Walker]

Re: I need some tunes, yo.

AC/DC - ThunderStruck

[Deviant Ollam]

Re: I need some tunes, yo.

don't know if anyone already mentioned this... "Social Engineering" by Barcelona is pretty funny. it has a downtempo 80's synth-pop sound and is good for a lark. (was released online by the record label some time ago... not breaking laws by linking to it here)