100 Best Songs About Nerds and Geeks
Songs That Celebrate Being a Nerd Without Apology
There’s a specific kind of social gravity that pulls at people who’ve memorized entire comic book timelines or solved a math problem for fun during lunch. It’s not quite isolation, not really shame, but something stranger that lives in the gap between self-awareness and refusal to blend in. You’re the kid with Star Wars socks under the dress code, the one explaining D&D rules while everyone else is pre-gaming. And the songs that land hardest aren’t polished anthems of defiance—they’re weird, twitchy, full of anxious genius or low-key swagger. They make space for the outsider without turning it into a TED Talk.
You can hear it in how Rivers Cuomo folds his voice around the awkward corners of crushes and calculus. Or how Childish Gambino wraps punchlines around pain like he’s building armor out of wordplay. Even Taylor, when she’s in her narrator bag, sketches out the quiet kid in the back row way too precisely to be accidental. These tracks don’t try to gloss over what it feels like to be picked last or talked over. They sit in the middle of it, fumbling through confidence like a science fair project held together by tape and caffeine.
There’s power in owning that oddness without asking for a medal. Some tracks flex the intelligence loud enough to turn heads. Others hang back in their own world, where being obsessive or overprepared isn’t a flaw but the whole point. The energy flickers between pride and cringe and lands somewhere real. These are the pop, rock, country, and R&B songs that get what it's like to be the nerd in the room. Here’s the list.
Top 10 Nerd and Geek Songs
1. 'White & Nerdy'—Weird Al Yankovic
2. 'She Blinded Me with Science'—Thomas Dolby
3. 'The Geeks Will Inherit the Earth'—I Fight Dragons
4. 'Code Monkey'—Jonathan Coulton
5. 'I'll Still Be a Geek After Nobody Thinks It's Chic (The Nerd Anthem)'—Marian Call
6. 'The Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny'—Lemon Demon
7. 'Wired Science'—Oingo Boingo
8. 'Still Alive'—Aperture Science Psychoacoustic Laboratories
9. 'Danny Don't You Know (Cool as Heck Version)'—Ninja Sex Party
10. 'Pi'—Hard 'n Phirm
Essential Nerd Culture Songs #11—30
11. 'Hello Zepp'—Charlie Clouser
12. 'Concerning Hobbits'—Howard Shore
13. 'The Legend of Zelda Main Theme'—Koji Kondo
14. 'Game of Thrones Main Theme'—Ramin Djawadi
15. 'The Throne Room'—John Williams
16. 'The Battle of Evermore'—Led Zeppelin
17. 'Lovecraft In Brooklyn'—The Mountain Goats
18. 'Doctorin' The Tardis'—The Timelords
19. 'Talk Nerdy to Me'—K-Face Rules
20. 'Computer Love'—Kraftwerk
21. 'Revenge of the Nerds'—The Rubinoos
22. 'Theme from Star Trek'—Leonard Nimoy
23. 'The Princess Bride Theme'—Mark Knopfler
24. 'Harry Potter Main Theme'—John Williams
25. 'Guardians of the Galaxy: Awesome Mix Vol. 1'—Various Artists
26. 'The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Main Theme'—Jeremy Soule
27. 'Schizophrenia'—Sonic Youth
28. 'Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots, Pt. 1'—The Flaming Lips
29. 'Meet the Elements'—They Might Be Giants
30. 'Write Like the Wind (George R. R. Martin)'—Paul & Storm
More Great Geeky Tunes #31—50
31. 'Minecraft Theme'—C418
32. 'Megalovania'—Toby Fox
33. 'Tetris Theme'—Hirokazu Tanaka
34. 'Super Smash Bros Brawl Theme'—Nobuo Uematsu
35. 'Live and Learn'—Crush 40
36. 'The Guild (I'm the One That's Cool)'—Felicia Day
37. 'Pixelated'—Random Encounters
38. 'The Internet Is A Series Of Tubes'—Jonathan Coulton
39. 'My Name Is Jonas'—Weezer
40. 'Teenage Dirtbag'—Wheatus
41. 'Smells Like Teen Spirit'—Nirvana
42. 'Basket Case'—Green Day
43. 'Creep'—Radiohead
44. 'I Am A Rock'—Simon & Garfunkel
45. 'Only The Lonely'—The Motels
46. 'Alone Again (Naturally)'—Gilbert O'Sullivan
47. 'Here'—Alessia Cara
48. 'Solitude Is Bliss'—Tame Impala
49. 'Day 'n' Nite'—Kid Cudi
50. 'Middle of Nowhere'—Hot Hot Heat
Popular Songs for Geeks and Nerds #51—75
51. 'The Re-Education (Through Labor)'—Rise Against
52. 'The World Is a Vampire'—The Smashing Pumpkins
53. 'In the End'—Linkin Park
54. 'Numb'—Linkin Park
55. 'Mr. Roboto'—Styx
56. 'Robot Rock'—Daft Punk
57. 'Aerodynamic'—Daft Punk
58. 'The Sound of Silence'—Simon & Garfunkel
59. 'Bohemian Rhapsody'—Queen
60. 'Don't Stop Me Now'—Queen
61. 'Eye of the Tiger'—Survivor
62. 'A Thousand Years'—Christina Perri
63. 'You'll Be in My Heart'—Phil Collins
64. 'Can't Help Falling in Love'—Elvis Presley
65. 'I Want to Hold Your Hand'—The Beatles
66. 'Space Oddity'—David Bowie
67. 'Major Tom (Coming Home)'—Peter Schilling
68. 'Counting Stars'—OneRepublic
69. 'Astronomy Domine'—Pink Floyd
70. 'In My Room'—The Beach Boys
71. 'Nobody Home'—Pink Floyd
72. 'Year In Hibernation'—Youth Lagoon
73. 'Lost In The Dream'—The War On Drugs
74. 'Everything Is Awesome'—Tegan and Sara feat. The Lonely Island
75. 'The Song of the Dragonborn'—Jeremy Soule
Top Nerd-Themed Songs #76—100
76. 'Mii Channel Theme'—Kazumi Totaka
77. 'Mario Theme'—Koji Kondo
78. 'Pac-Man Theme'—Toshio Kai
79. 'Halo Theme'—Martin O'Donnell & Michael Salvatori
80. 'Gotta Catch 'Em All'—Pokemon
81. 'Dragonborn'—Miracle of Sound
82. 'The Day The World Went Away'—Nine Inch Nails
83. 'The Only Exception'—Paramore
84. 'All Star'—Smash Mouth
85. 'Stacy's Mom'—Fountains of Wayne
86. 'Hey There Delilah'—Plain White T's
87. 'Bizarre Love Triangle'—New Order
88. 'Just Like Heaven'—The Cure
89. 'Don't You (Forget About Me)'—Simple Minds
90. 'Video Killed the Radio Star'—The Buggles
91. 'Computer Love'—Zapp
92. 'Electric Dreams'—P.P. Arnold
93. 'The Nerd'—The Dead Milkmen
94. 'Geek in the Pink'—Jason Mraz
95. 'The Saga Begins'—Weird Al Yankovic
96. 'Yoda'—Weird Al Yankovic
97. 'Nerdy Prudes Must Die'—StarKid Productions
98. 'Go Go Nighthawks!'—StarKid Productions
99. 'Hail to the Geek'—Paul & Storm
100. 'All Hail Science'—Allegaeon
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