I came across two blogs that were interesting re: science pop songs.
Top 10: Science Pop Songs
and
Science Fails in Pop Music Songs
You can read the blogs but I culled their lists in the hopes that people might add to it..
I came across two blogs that were interesting re: science pop songs.
Top 10: Science Pop Songs
and
Science Fails in Pop Music Songs
You can read the blogs but I culled their lists (with a very British slant) in the hopes that people might add to it..
1. Air - "Biological"
2. Billy Bragg - "The Space Race is Over"
3. Thomas Dolby - "She Blinded Me With Science"
4. The Smiths - "Still Ill"
5. Beastie Boys - "Sounds Of Science"
6. MC Hawking - "What We Need More Of Is Science"
7. Sweet - "Alexander Graham Bell"
8. Landscape - "Einstein A Go-Go"
9. Big Audio Dynamite - "E=MC2"
10. Kraftwerk- "Computer Love"
Laurie Anderson - "Big Science"
Siouxsie and the Banshees- "Placebo Effect"
Blur - "Chemical World"
Suede - "Electricity"
OMD - "Genetic Engineering"
Diana Ross - "Chain Reaction"
Monster Magnet - "Gravity Well"
David Bowie - "Space Oddity (re: Apollo 13)"
Sugababes - "Overload"
Space - "Female of the Species"
Moby - "We are all made of stars"
Semi-sonic - "Chemistry"
Lemon Jelly - "Experiment No. 6"
Muse - "Stockholm Syndrome"
Jet Plane Landing - "Atoms Dream in Technicolor"
The Shins - "A Comet Appears"
Dot Allison - "We're Only Science"
Fujiya & Miyagi - "Collarbone"
BT - "Fibonacci Sequence"
The Polecats - "Make A Circuit with Me"
Crosby, Stills and Nash - "Woodstock"
Pink Floyd - "Echoes"
Monty Python's Flying Circus - "The Galaxy Song"
They Might Be Giants song "Why Does the Sun Shine?"
Pat Benatar - "My Clone Sleeps Alone"
Coldplay - "The Scientist"
Neil Young = "Sedan Delivery" & "Computer Age"
Kate Bush - "Experiment IV"
REM - "Man on the Moon"
The Flaming Lips - "Race for the Prize"
Guided By Voices - "I Am A Scientist"
Tom Lehrer - "The Elements"
Klein Four - "Finite Simple Group (of Order Two)"
They Might Be Giants - "Mammal," "For Science," "Particle Man" and many more!
Blackalicious - "Chemical Calisthenics"
Dr. Octagon - "Biology 101" & "No Awareness"
Andrew Bird - "Imitosis"
The Five Stars - "Atom Bomb Baby"
The Animaniacs - "Parts of the Brain," "Multiplication," "The Senses Song," "The Planets'
Particle Zoo - "Pi in the Sky"
Kate McGarrigle - "NaCl"
Rush - "Natural Science"
Freeze Pop - "Science Genius Girl"
Elvis Costello: "Chemistry Class"
Tom Lehrer - "The Elements"
Wally Pleasaant - "That's Evolution"
Patti Smith - "Birdland"
Jarvis Cocker - "Quantum Theory"
Supertramp - "The Logical Song"
Jimi Hendrix - "Third Stone From The Sun"
Janis Ian - "Stars"
10.000 Manics - "Planned Obsolescense"
Warren Zevon - "Networking"
Peter Gabriel - "We Do What We're Told" (based on the infamous Milken experiments)
Pixies - "Distance Equals Rate Times Time" & "Bird Dream of the Olympus"
Ramones - "Psycho Therapy" & "Shock Treatment"
Alice Cooper - "Clones (We're All)"
Sufjan Stevens - "Dear Mr. Supercomputer"
Joy Division - "Transmission"
Rilo Kiley - "Science vs. Romance"
Obviously we would need to add
Schoolhouse Rock stuff as well as TMBG Science album but this, I thought, was an interesting list. What songs might you add to it? If it takes off I will make iTunes hyperlinks!