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Submitted for your approval: three geek music items. To make up for all the horror videos that I’ve been posting lately, I offer up a compromise: only one item here is vaguely horror, and it’s not a video!

Item 1: Some smart soul noticed that the lyrics for The Flaming Lips’ “Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots, Pt. 1″ line up nicely with a montage of Starbuck clips. Enjoy!

Item 2: This week’s DLC for Rock Band 2 includes almost the entire Nevermind album, though hits “Smells Like Teen Spirit”, “Lithium” and “Come As You Are” are still conspicuously missing. For the youngsters among us, Nirvana is (in addition to a lot of more obvious stuff) notable for including the following in 1992’s Insesticide liner notes:

“If any of you don’t like gays or women or blacks, please leave us the fuck alone.”

Nowadays we expect pop stars to be über-progressive, but in the dark days of the last millennium, you didn’t hear that sort of thing from rock bands about the gays too often. This was especially welcome to those of us who wanted something a little harder than what was being offered by concurrent pop music (e.g., Whitney Houston’s “I Will Always Love You”), but who were turned off by the homophobic nature of a lot the legacy rock from the 80s.

Item 3: io9 reported last week on a Joan Jett cover of “Science Fiction/Double Feature“.

If you didn’t realize that you’re a Joan Jett fan, here are some tidbits to help convince you:

• She was a source of inspiration for out rocker Josh Zuckerman.
• She’s played Columbia in the Broadway version of The Rocky Horror Picture Show.
• She appeared a few times in Cyndi Lauper’s 2008 True Colors Tour.
• She’s had cameos on Ellen, Highlander: The Series and in Repo! The Genetic Opera.

I’m going to a screening of Repo! The Genetic Opera in just a few hours, so we should be able to get a bit of a review into episode 38. Stay tuned!