Help! Science geeks and music lovers.

[progressoid]

I'm compiling some science related songs for my brother (he's a high school science teacher).
I need some suggestions.

Here's what I've come up with so far:

*Thomas Dolby - "She blinded me with Science"
*Laurie Anderson - "Big Science"
*Kraftwerk - "Pocket Calculator" (or something like that)
*Tom Lehrer - "The Elements Song"
*"Also sprach Zarathustra"
*maybe the theme from Star Trek?



Holy crap, I feel like a nerd just typing this. :eyes:

[Dr. Strange]

1. Maybe some Rush?

Chemistry: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wjd6RDjigpQ
The Body Electric: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fqXV8sbgyE (very computer sciencey)

[TZ]

5. I wish

I could recommend your post, sir!:patriot:

[progressoid]

9. Yep

and I have "Chemistry" somewhere in the library. Thanks.

[NJmaverick]

2. The theme song to The Big Bang

[progressoid]

10. Ha - I found another while youtubing the Big Bang.

The Dandy Warhols - I am a Scientist

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=suazwrc2RPU

Thanks!

[unpossibles]

3. Weird Science - Oingo Boingo

Biological - Air
Sounds of Science - Beastie Boys
anything by MC Hawking
Space Oddity - David Bowie
the Galaxy Song - Monty Python

[progressoid]

7. Oh thanks, I have a few of those!

[Forkboy]

4. Servotron - I Sing The Body Cybernetic

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CpFkBkuovM

Man..or Astroman? - Spferic Waves
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ps32wFxDY94

[progressoid]

11. Yeah!

Just about anything from Man...or Atroman.

[Forkboy]

12. Servotron has two of the guys from Man or Astroman.

That's why I got it. :)

[Tyrone Slothrop]

6. Nearly anything by They Might Be Giants would probably fit the bill

Off the top of my head:

Particle Man
Why Does the Sun Shine?
Mammal

[progressoid]

8. Damn! Particle Man

How could I have missed that one. :thumbsup:

[mvd]

18. In fact, TMBG just released a CD named Here Comes Science

That would be perfect as I'm sure they treat the subject respectfully.

[kentauros]

44. TMBG's "Why Does the Sun Shine?" is a cover song

from the Singing Science Records :D

Here's some other links to look over:

http://members.tranquility.net/~scimusic

William Shatner - Rocket Man

Three Guys from Hollywood - Frozen Embryos

The VD Song

Herby and Elena Ayers - What Would We Do Without Glass?

Gissur - Beginnings/The Earth Is One Of Trillion Stars

Rappin' With Gas

General Electric - Go Fly A Kite

General Electric Silicone Products Department - Got To Investigate Silicones

Tate - Oh Black Lung

Norgine Ltd present "Tableau Of A Lithotomy" by Marin Marais

The Green County Boys - Medic Emetics

Katie Lee - Songs of Couch and Consultation

American Moon

Dictionaraoke - She Blinded Me With Science (mp3 link)

[tigereye]

13. you would think that They MIght Be Giants would have one...

[progressoid]

14. Yeah, I can't believe I forgot about those guys.

I know I have "Particle Man" on the Flood CD. I'll have to check out the others tonight.

[Swede]

15. Peter Schilling Major Tom (coming home)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NiOZMlD9TA

[Swede]

16. David Bowie- Space Oddity

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D67kmFzSh_o

[progressoid]

21. BOWIE!

And I think I have Major Tom on some 80's compilation CD I picked up at Goodwill.

ugh - I'm gettin old.

[mzteris]

17. um - Rocket Man by Elton John

Space Oddity (Major Tom) - David Bowie

Rocket - Def Leppard
Satellite - " "

[progressoid]

22. Doh - Rocket Man

That's another one I missed.

I don't think I have any Def Leppard though.

[Swede]

19. Alan Parsons Project - I Robot

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgJA7lPkb1o

[progressoid]

23. Wow, I haven't heard that in a long time.

I don't have it but I think my brother does. I'll just tell him to use his own copy!

[rucky]

20. Tom Lehrer

puts the periodic table to a song.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYW50F42ss8

Monty Python
did a song about the universe:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWVshkVF0SY

[progressoid]

24. Thanks! I forgot about the Python song.

:thumbsup:

[WilmywoodNCparalegal]

25. Coldplay - The Scientist

hauntingly beautiful lyrics.

[progressoid]

28. Maybe too haunting.

How's that gonna sound with Monty Python and Thomas Dolby? :shrug:

[seemunkee]

26. They Might Be Giants

Here Comes Science
http://www.amazon.com/Here-Comes-Science-Amazon-com-Exclusive/dp/B002FKZ4UO

[progressoid]

27. That looks like Christmas present!

I'll buy it for him and then borrow it. ;)

[sarge43]

29. Telstar, The Tornados

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAQYxqBxJjQ&feature=related

[progressoid]

37. I've never heard that before.

Makes me want to rollerskate!

[sarge43]

46. Very popular in its day.

Summed up the time when we'd all stop what we were doing and watch crazy ass fighter jocks shoe horn themselves into tin cans on top of humongous firecrackers and, well, boldly go.

[astral]

30. Kate & Anna McGarrigle -- Sodium Chloride

Hah! Found a link -- (let me test it first to see if it works)

http://videos.matchdoctor.com/49318/Kate_Anna_McGarrigle_-_NaCl_Sodium_Chloride.html

bummer it's not there but here are the words and I will see if I can find another:
__________________________________________________
Just a little atom of chlorine
Valence minus one
Swimming thru the sea, digging the scene
Just having fun
She's not worried about the shape or size
Of her outside shell
It's fun to ionize
Just a little atom of Cl
With an unfilled shell

But somewhere in that sea lurks
Handsome Sodium
With enough electrons on his outside shell
Plus that extra one
Somewhere in this deep blue sea
There's a negative
For my extra energy yes
Somewhere in this foam
My positive will find a home

Then unsuspecting Chlorine
Felt a magnetic pull
She looked down and her outside
Shell was full
Sodium cried "what a gas be my bride and
I'll change your name from Chlorine to Chloride"

Now the sea evaporates to make the clouds
For the rain and snow
Leaving her chemical compounds in the abscence
Of H2O
But the crystals that wash upon the shore
Are happy ones
So if you never thought before
Think of the love that you eat
When you salt your meat
Think of the love that you eat
When you salt your meat

- Kate McGarrigle

[progressoid]

36. I just checked and our local library has some McGarrigle CDs

hope they have that one. thx

[billyclem]

31. That's what slugs are for

:woohoo:

the mp3 for "That's what slugs are for" http://faculty.washington.edu/crowther/Misc/Songs/MP3/newerslugs.mp3


Sometimes experiments are easy to design.
We'll take the perfect mollusks
And use recordings from their nerve cells,
Just like Eric Kandel,
To explain why they behave as they do.

Sometimes I wonder if our methods are humane.
We can be so unkind,
Squirting water at their siphon until
They withdraw their gill.
They always get their fill
Of this sadistic drill, 'cause....

That's what slugs are for: to test our theories.
That's what slugs are for: to answer queries.
Map out the wiring, observe neurons firing,
Give us circuits to explore --
Baby, that's what slugs are for.

Sometimes I wonder if we can really use these slugs
To learn about mankind,
But compare the two and you will observe
Many traits are conserved,
And from slugs and squids to hominids,
A nerve is still a nerve....

And that's what slugs are for: to give us data.
That's what slugs are for; they can really aid ya.
It's a small set of neurons, and they're easy to turn on.
Demonstrating "less is more" --
Baby, that's what slugs are for.

This much is true according to
Our anthropocentric view....

That's what slugs are for: to test our theories.
That's what slugs are for: to answer queries.
Map out the wiring, observe neurons firing,
Get us funding when we're poor --
Baby, that's what slugs are for.

[progressoid]

33. OK, now I have a song about slugs stuck in my brain.

Thanks a lot! ;)

[pokerfan]

32. The Major-General's Song from Pirates of Penzance

I am the very model of a modern Major-General,
I've information vegetable, animal, and mineral,
I know the kings of England, and I quote the fights historical
From Marathon to Waterloo, in order categorical;
I'm very well acquainted, too, with matters mathematical,
I understand equations, both the simple and quadratical,
About binomial theorem I'm teeming with a lot o' news,
With many cheerful facts about the square of the hypotenuse.
I'm very good at integral and differential calculus;
I know the scientific names of beings animalculous:
In short, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral,
I am the very model of a modern Major-General.

and there are many geeky parodies: Tom Lehrer's "Elements Song" has already been mentioned. There's also a "Unix Sysadmin" version.

[progressoid]

39. Been looking for the sysadmin song

can't find it.

[Fire Walk With Me]

34. Monty Python's "Galaxy Song".

[progressoid]

38. Thanks - added to the list!

[Twillig]

35. If you got some shredding guitar wannabes here's "Pulsar"

by Paul Gilbert.

"Just stand up, we'll reach for the stars. Venus and Mars. Spinning like a pulsar"

OK. Name a star that rhymes with pulsar, so they're planets..he plays guitar..Got the spinning part right..


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WE2yJw0scAE&feature=related

[progressoid]

40. Thanks and thank you everybody for the great suggestiions.

[frogmarch]

41. Building a Histidine

http://faculty.washington.edu/crowther/Misc/Songs/MP3/his.mp3

Lyrics:

It comes in your food; that's what the textbooks say.
But you can't be subdued until the next meal.
You've got some ribose and a few carbonyls,
And you're going to take a break from your normal routine....
You're building a histidine.

You live in a cell, where you sleep with organelles,
And you won't give up on the synthesis,
Though it's not going well.

The R group buffers you 'cause it has the perfect pKa;
Can you really create it
Without thermodynamics getting in the way?

It's not difficult to form these amino acids.
You're so clueless; maybe you need some classes....

'Cause you're working, building a histidine.
Hold on -- that looks like alanine.
Yeah, you're working, building a histidine
Like those you've seen in Science magazine.

You woke up screaming aloud:
"Pray for more histidine,
'Cause, without that guy, my globins will die!

"We can't make protein without imidazole rings.
The ribosomes just sit there; they can't do a thing."

It's not difficult to form this residue.
E. coli does it, so tell me, what's wrong with you?

'Cause you're working, building a histidine.
Hold on -- that's more like arginine.
Yeah, you're working, building a histidine
Like those you've seen in Science magazine.

Ooh, you're working, building a histidine.
Hold on -- that looks like tyrosine.
Yeah, you're working, building a histidine
Like those you've seen in Science magazine.

Yeah, you're working, building a histidine.
Hold on -- that's gotta be glutamine.
Oh yeah, you're working, building a histidine
Like those you've seen in Science magazine.

You're building a histidine.


(Greg's Science Songs: http://faculty.washington.edu/crowther/Misc/Songs/ )

[midnight armadillo]

42. Stop and watch this video...singing Tesla coils!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcaf9Qb4ncA

[csziggy]

43. "Mathmaticious" and "I Will Derive!"

Mathmaticious
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6cAs1YBELmA

I Will Derive!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9dpTTpjymE

Large Hadron Rap
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j50ZssEojtM

In The Year 2525
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMdaRyY7cs4

Bill Nye has a bunch of short science music videos
http://www.youtube.com/user/NyeTunes

[Rabrrrrrr]

45. The music of MC Hawking; each song also comes with safe listening version

with the swears bleeped out.

http://www.mchawking.com

[Dr. Strange]

47. Calculus: the Musical

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMdh_fiGZag
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pW34zlUxhak

[hunter]

48. Timbuk3 -- The Futures so Bright (I gotta wear shades)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvIAyxpjEuc