Everybody knows that geeks rock out harder than “normal” people.  So, with this new feature, Gimorozo hopes to chronicle the best that Geek Rock has to offer.

We’re going to kick things off with the Number 1 Geek Rock song of all time: Mr. Roboto.

Artist: Styx
Released: 1983
Album: Kilroy Was Here
Geek Credentials: It’s about freakin’ robots!  The chorus is in Japanese and everyone knows that Japan is the Mecca of all geekdom.  Vocoder and synths are played throughout.  The robots in the video were designed by Stan Winston.  It’s from a concept album by a band that named themselves after the mythological river that forms the boundary between the land of the living and the land of the dead.  Seriously, how much geekier could this get?
Best Line: “My heart is human, my blood is boiling, my brain IBM”
Geek Factor (out of 10): 10
Overall Rating (out of 10): 10

The awesomeness of Mr. Roboto is enough to drive one to tears.  Geekdom is so beautifully represented in these 5 minutes and 34 seconds that I doubt there is anything I can add.  However, I shall show you why this is the number one geek rock song of all time.  Come, sail away with me to a dark future where rock and roll is dead and the Majority for Musical Morality rules.

Mr. Roboto is the opening track to Styx’s (Styx’?) rock opera Kilroy Was Here.  The album tells the story of a young man whose name is Robert Orin Charles Kilroy, which oh-so-cleverly forms the acronym “ROCK.”  Blind chance?  Or fate?  Anyway, young Kilroy is in jail for rock and roll (it’s the future, after all) and escapes by wearing a robot disguise…a Mr. Roboto disguise, that is!  Talk about a concept we can all relate to.

But, pure, unadulterated geekiness does not a perfect song make.  Knowing this, Dennis DeYoung wrapped his convoluted burrito of sci-fi awesomeness in a scrumptuous tortilla of catchy melodies and covered it all in a salsa of SYNTH MADNESS!  I bet you couldn’t find one person, geek or non-geek, who can’t sing the opening lines of this song to you.  And if that’s not a testiment of the glorious power of this song, I don’t know what is.

Please excuse the advertisement at the beginning of this video…it is decidedly unmanly and I apologize.