The Top 10 Perl/Programming Songs of All Time

[thezip]

OK, so I was assisting a fellow monk today in writing a Perl script to generate a random music playlist from multiple playlists.

This got me to thinkin' -- "Self, you being the music connoisseur that you are, what would your all-time favorites list look like?"

Well, that's where I started... and here's where I tragically ended up:

Update: Fixed columns, added readmore tags

thezip's Top 10 Perl/Programming Songs of All Time!

Rank	Artist(s)	Genre	Song
1	Pink Floyd	Classic Rock	Wish You Were <<HERE
2	The do-bie Brothers	Classic Rock	It Keeps You Runnin'
3	The Beatles	Classic Rock	Yellow sub{}
4	Styx	Classic Rock	Blue Collar Man Page
5	M.C. Hammer	Hip-Hop	Can't `touch` This
6	The Doors	Psychedelic Rock	break; on Through
7	The Pretenders	Punk	<=> Invaders
8	Led Zeppelin	Classic Rock	D'yer nMak'r
9	James Brown	Soul	Papa's Got a Brand New BEGIN
10	Rocky Horror Picture Show	Musicals	The time() Warp
Hon. Mention	Bob Hope	Big Band	Thanks for the Memory
Hon. Mention	Glenn Miller Orchestra	Big Band	A String of Perls

(Could there be others?)

[Popcorn Dave]

Sure :)

The Sex Pistols: sub mission();

[ciderpunx]

Well if you have the Pistols you've gotta have the Clash, too!

$should_i="stay" || $should_i="go"; (if($i=="go") {$trouble} && if ($i=="stay"){2*$trouble} };)

syscall-ing $london;

#FFFFFF Riot

[thezip]

#FFFFFF Riot is awesome!

[marto]

Check out the replies to Perlmonks The Musical, some classics there :)

Cheers

Martin

[grinder]

There's also the much older WPERL: The Perl radio station, written way back when we didn't have any of this fancy spoiler stuff.

[grinder]

I get high on a buzz
Then a rush when I'm plugged in you
I connect
When I'm flush
You get love when told what to do

Wonderful electric
Wonderful electric
Wonderful electric
Cover me in you

I'm in love
I'm in love
I'm in love with a strict machine


Goldfrapp, Strict Machine

[thezip]

Oh, and then there's the popular song from Electric Light Orchestra, "Eval Woman"...

Update: Thanks MarkMoon

[jhourcle]

So long at it seems to be mostly bad puns, let's see if anyone can recognize the bands/songs from the code snippets:

    !( $this->isa( 'exit' ))

    until ($brooklyn) { } continue { sleep() }

    while ($america) { $america->DESTROY }

    `touch evil`

    @ways_to_die == 99

    @fix == 1

    $self->name eq 'mud'

    7 + 7 ==

    die unless $too_tough;

    if ( $you->buy('cd') ) { $self->get('porche') }

    require 'English' || die

    (! $self->believe() )

    $technicolor->blur()

    $self == $hell

And, for the case of no real code involved, but search engines probably won't help you: (okay, with the one word names, there's probably more than one artist who have songs with these titles)

    time

    if

    $pass && $fail

    split

    Test

    use less

    sleep

    push

I guess one hint -- they're in alphabetical order by artist name (as I just browsed through my listings)

Update: well, no one seems to have tried guessing in the ~40hrs it was up, so here are the answers:

<Reveal this spoiler or all in this thread>

[TGI]

Anyone else have a hard time coming out of code-fog to deal with the real world?

Perl haze all in my brain
Lately things just dont seem the same
Perl haze all in my brain 
Lately things just don't seem the same 
Typin' funny, but I don't know why 
'Scuse me while the sigils fly 

Perl haze all around 
Don't know if I'm comin' up or down 
Am I happy or just missing C? 
Whatever it is that Perl put a spell on me 

Perl haze all in my eyes 
Don't know if it's day or night 
You got me blowin', blowin' my mind 
Is it tomorrow, or just the end of time?

Apologies to Jimi.

[gloryhack]

Because I'm a parrothead, I have to suggest Jimmy Buffett's Margaritaville: Wasted array again in Margaritaville.

[TGI]

At first I took parrothead to mean involvement with the Perl 6 VM--Say, say, say immediately came to mind.

Then my cultural literacy kicked in and saved me from further thoughts of Paul McCartney and Michael Jackson.

[thezip]

There's always The Spice Girls, and "wanna-array".

[tinita]

here's a newsgroup posting from 2002

[bennymack]

Ok, I'll give it a shot.

Radiohead: Pearly

o/Sweet tooth for while loops/

[jdporter]

Anything by Perl Jam.

Also, any time I use the double-fork method, I'm reminded of To Our Children's Children's Children.

[Limbic~Region]

thezip,
Am I the only one who noticed that you have some of your artists and genres mixed? In any case, I usually just have classic rock streaming in the background as noise filler. When I have the luxury of turning up music, I tend to lean towards Nirvana, Stone Temple Pilots, Alice In Chains, etc.

[thezip]

Thanks L~R! Its fixed now.

[YuckFoo]

 my $name = 'mud'; # Primus

[Fletch]

Of course for the HTML writing monks wouldn't it be "&nbsp; Invader"?

Update: No one's mentioned Code Monkey yet . . .

Or the obscure: "Pony Boy" by the Allman Brothers Band . . . :)

[poqui]

Type O Negative: Black
KMFDM: Juke Joint Jezebel
Parliament: Flashlight
Blue Man Group: Time to Start
Red Hot Chili Peppers: Blood Sugar Sex Magik
B52's: Devil in my Car
Joan Osborn: One of Us
Caulfields: Devil's Diary
Tom Tom Club: As Above So Below
David Bowie: Ziggy Stardust

Honorable mentions:
-- David Bowie: Space Oddity
-- Veruca: Number One Blind
-- Nickel Creek: Seven Wonders
-- B52's: 53 Miles West of Venus
-- Red Hot Chili Peppers: Funky Monks
-- B52's: Dirty Back Road
-- Type O Negative: Christian Woman
-- David Bowie: Starman

29 years experience as a hacker
ONE DEGREE

[dwhite20899]

Rush, 2112 - "We are the priests of the Temples of Syrinx, our great computers fill the hallowed halls..."

[Argel]

I'm really hooked on several of the anime InuYasha theme songs:

Change the World (V6)
My will (dream)
Fukai mori (a.k.a. Deep Forest) (Do As Infinity)
No more words (Ayumi Hamasaki)
Dearest (Ayumi Hamasaki)
Yura Yura (a.k.a. Rock) (Every Little Thing)
Grip! (Every Little Thing)
Itazura na Kiss (a.k.a. Mischievous Kiss) (day after tomorrow )
Every Heart (BoA)
Ai no Uta (a.k.a. Song of Love) (Every Little Thing)
One Day, One Dream (Tackey & Tsubasa)

[lowphive]

until ($brooklyn) { } continue { sleep() } no sleep till brooklyn - beastie boys $self->name eq 'mud my name is mud - primus $self == $hell there was a song on the kids soundtrack by slint i think where the guy is yelling "i'm in hell!" not sure what it was called @ways_to_die == 99 probably not right, but it reminds me of 99 luftballoons (! $self->believe() ) heh, maybe whitney houston? i believe that childeren are our future, teach them well and let them lead the way. kinda obscure.

[Ojosh!ro]

Do you mean your favourite hack-background noise? Or rather the songs that make you go 'perl' ?


For my favourite background noise:

1. VNV-Nation: Saviour (vox)
2. Project Pitchfork: Timekiller
3. VNV-Nation: Standing (still)
4. Laibach: WAT
5. Jim Groce: Leroy Brown
6. Wumpskut: Thorns (Distant voices)
7. Type O-negative: My girlfriends girlfriend
8. Slayer: Disciple
9. Big Black: Kerosene
10. Rammstein: Sonne
I have to admit though, I normally put my entire multimedia disk on shuffle. So everything from Iron fist to Puff the magic dragon passes the revue.
Perlized songs? Hmmm..
1. less o-: My girlfriends keyboard?
2. PSP-Nation: Save your (work)
3. ...
That's never going to work...
Andromeda (ascendant, you know, with captain Hercules) running in the background seems to work well too...

[Moron]

"Perl's a DWIMmer" ("sung" by Elkie Brooks)

[LanX]

> (Could there be others?)

what about these in "Poll idea: Monk's Main Theme?" 8)