Songs of or "about" science
- The Elements - Tom Lehrer
- Werner von Braun - Lehrer
- There's a Delta for every Epsilon - Lehrer
- New Math - the numinous Tom Lehrer
- That's Mathematics - the numerous Tom Lehrer
- Lobachevsky - the unbelievable Tom Lehrer
- Why Does the Sun Shine - TMBG
- E=MC2 - Big Audio Dynamite
- Cadmium - Women of Destruction (or just WOD)
- For Science- TMBG
- Parasite -Nick Drake
- The Scientist -Coldplay
- Medical Love Song - Monty Python
- Supercollider- Fountains of Wayne
- All Things Dull and Ugly -Monty Python
- Experiment IV-Kate Bush
- Biology 101 -Sparks (or they might have been called Half Nelson at the
- time)
- Grey Matter and Weird Science -Oingo Boingo
- The Ascent of Man -REM
- Particle Man - TMBG
- NaCl - Kate and Anna McGarrigle
- Eclipse- Pink Floyd
- Don't Give a Dose to the One You Love Most -Shel Silverstein
- Mammal - TMBG
- Spider - TMBG
- She Blinded me with Science - Thomas Dolby
- The Galaxy Song - Monty Python
- Everybody Needs a Home - Banana Slug String Band
- Caltech Girl - Ecphonema
- Make a Circuit with Me - Pole Cats
- Apollo Nine - Adam Ant
- Major Tom - Peter Schilling
- Space Oddity - David Bowie
- I am a Scientist - Guided by Voices
- Race for the Prize - the Flaming Lips
- The First and Second Laws of Thermodynamics - Flanders and Swan
- Darwin in Dub by the Genomic Dub Collective (a dub reggae rendition of _On the Origin of Species_)
- Rocketman - Elton John
- Astrocapella_ CD - The Chromatics
- What we need more of is Science (and other songs)- MC Hawking
- stuff by artichoke
- Music of the Body - Linda Long (protein structures translated to music)
- A Scientific Dream and a French Kiss by Dagmar Krause and Marie Goyette (although they use "light year" in a temporal sense on a late track)
- The Physics Chanteuse's work
- Charles Darwin Live and In Concert - Richard
- Milner
- Scientific Gospel - Stephen Baird and the Opossoms of Truth
- Let's Advance on Science - Caltech Stock Company (avail. through 'tech bookstore)
- Carolus Linnaeus - Jan Stein Carter
- Darwin in Dub - the Genomic Dub Collective
- Sonny Meadows/The Defibrillators - songs about aging
- Songs and Fun Stuff to Do - The Health Adventure
- The Bloodmobile (for the Franklin Institute) - They Might Be Giants
- Food Safety music - Dr. Carl Winter
- Singing Science (6 LPs) - Hy Zaret (aka William Stirrat) and Lou Singer
- L'horloge de flore - Jean Françaix (about Linnaeus's floral clock)
- The Mitosis Waltz - Moxy Früvous
- Electricity, Electricity - Schoolhouse Rock, Goodness
- CTA-102 - The Byrds
- The Lear Jet Song - ditto
- Space Odyssesy - "
- Eight Miles High - "
- Aluminum - Barenaked Ladies
to include:
Science, My Dear? ... does anyone remember this song? I can't find any reference to the lyrics: "Science my dear makes it perfectly clear as to why we are here." or something like that
stuff on my fabulous listology secret santa 04 "late nite lab mix" CD
Bill Oliver (http://www.mrhabitat.net/)
Stan Slaughter (http://www.stanslaughter.com/)
other Ecphonema stuff
Greg Crowther - u wash. http://faculty.washington.edu/crowther/Misc/Songs/links.shtml
Dr. Walter F. Smith, professor of physics at Haverford College
a musical entertainment, Vivat Linnaeus! by Sarah Elliott for the NY
Linnaean Society
2dig4.com
thanks to the ISEN-ASTC list for some of these, and to you all for your additional suggestions ...eventually, I should make this two lists, one of songs with actual science content, and one of loosely-related popular songs, but that's a project for another day...
The Byrds (especially Roger McGuinn) had an interest in science that was manifested in several songs: "CTA-102," which was about the possibility of finding extraterrestrial life, "The Lear Jet Song," "Space Odyssesy," which was about the Apollo program, and even "Eight Miles High," which the band still maintains is about commercial airliners and the height they fly at. Some think it's about something else, however...
Johnny Waco
Aluminum by The Barenaked Ladies is kind of science-y. It accuses someone of being like aluminum, and proceeds to expound on the physical properties of said metal. In its simplest and most repeated line: "You can shine like silver all you want but you're just aluminum". Also: "You're so lightweight, how can you survive?"
Brilliant theory!
The Mitosis Waltz - Moxy Früvous
New Math - the numinous Tom Lehrer
That's Mathematics - the numerous Tom Lehrer
Lobachevsky - the unbelievable Tom Lehrer
The Elements - the numinous, numerous, unbelievable and elemental Tom Lehrer (which I know you have listed above. Just trust me.)
Electricity, Electricity - Schoolhouse Rock, Goodness
E-lec-tri-city and Why Does the Sun Shine (which I know you have listed above. Just trust me.)
...and my favourite mathematician joke. (Let me caution you, I learned this in grade 4.)
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Did you hear about the constipated mathematician?..
She worked it out with a pencil.
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