What are some popular science songs and albums?

[Moonbear]

Can I borrow one? I have a test tomorrow.

Well, unless your test involves running through a maze, they're not very good for test-taking.

 

[Danger]

*squeak*

Not so loud! Now Lucy's trying to get into the monitor...

 

[gnome]

Well, unless your test involves running through a maze, they're not very good for test-taking.

Distributed algorithms. Pretty much the same thing.

 

[Moonbear]

Not so loud! Now Lucy's trying to get into the monitor...

*squeak*[/size] *runs as Lucy swats monitor*

 

[Danger]

Distributed algorithms.

Sounds nasty. I didn't realize that you were studying immunology.

 

[Math Is Hard]

This is obscure, but it's one of my favorites...

Biology
by Jane Child

I’m attracted anatomically
Need to know you scientifically
Strange confusion has come over me
Need the fusion between you and me
Mother Nature’s legislature, Mother Nature takes her course
Gravitation of the nation, Gravitation to the source

I’m distracted biologically
My attention dominating me
I’m a victim of Divine design
I’m a victim of a one-track mind
Gut reaction, satisfaction, Gut reaction’s never lie
Need I mention my intention, Do I need an alibi

It happens every time you’re next to me,
Biology

Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh uh oh,
Biology

I’m defenseless, lacking all control
It’s relentless, longing of my soul
I am driven, I’m completely yours
It’s a given, I’ll be back for more
It’s instinctive, so distinctive, and on that you may depend
Don’t go mess with Mother Nature, she’ll defeat you in the end

It happens every time you’re next to me,
Biology

Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh uh oh,
Biology

Need I mention my intention, Are you willing to supply
Gut reaction, Satisfaction, Gut reaction’s never lie

It happens every time you’re next to me,
Biology

Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh uh oh,
Biology

 

[Danger]

*squeak*[/size] *runs as Lucy swats monitor*

Okay, you can relax now. She's tyoooepooti g again.

This is obscure, but it's one of my favorites...

See, Moonbear? The woman who lists her occupation as 'cowgirl' isn't quoting cowboy s*** at me.

 

[Moonbear]

Okay, you can relax now. She's tyoooepooti g again.

Phew!

See, Moonbear? The woman who lists her occupation as 'cowgirl' isn't quoting cowboy s*** at me.

Hmph! Her occupation changes every time she gets a new outfit!

 

[Danger]

Her occupation changes every time she gets a new outfit!

So we're back to the bit about the pole position...

 

[Chi Meson]

Chi meson, Particle Man is a clever song!

That's right! IT's "Particle Man." After all "particle man hates triangle man."


Oh, and Danger? "Space Oddity" is not really about space! It's about (gasp) drugs! . "Rocket man" too, I'm afraid.

Cast my vote for Eric Idle's Galaxy song, BTW. If it wasn't for that last line, I'd have all my classes memorize it.

 

[BobG]

How about this one. These two have a kind of folk/country style.

[quote="Gentle Arms of Eden" by Dave Carter and Tracy Grammer]

on a sleepy endless ocean when the world lay in a dream
there was rhythm in the splash and roll, but not a voice to sing
so the moon shone on the breakers and the morning warmed the waves
till a single cell did jump and hum for joy as though to say

this is my home, this is my only home
this is the only sacred ground that i have ever known
and should i stray in the dark night alone
rock me goddess in the gentle arms of eden

then the day shone bright and rounder til the one turned into two
and the two into ten thousand things, and old things into new
and on some virgin beach head one lonesome critter crawled
and he looked about and shouted out in his most astonished drawl

this is my home ...[/quote]

 

[Danger]

Oh, and Danger? "Space Oddity" is not really about space! It's about (gasp) drugs! . "Rocket man" too, I'm afraid.

Sorry... I never really noticed. I was always a little stoned when I listened to them... (Actually, if I understand the original topic properly, the request was for songs with science-sounding titles or words. That's why I didn't mention 'Hotel California', which has neither, but is kinda spacey...)

 

[Danger]

'Telstar' by the Ventures

 

[meteor]

Wow, great thread...

-Schrodinger's cat (Tears for fears)
-Astronaut (Duran Duran)
-Gas giants (Tears for fears)
-Astronomy domine (Pink floyd)
-Champagne supernova (Oasis)
-Einstein on the beach (Counting Crows)
-Speed of light (Stratovarius)
-Light years (Kylie Minogue)
-Tesla girls (OMD)

There are a lot more...

 

[Danger]

How about 'Earth' by Starship? The sleeve has a nice picture from space.

 

[Danger]

Oh! 'The Time Warp'!

 

[rygar]

i don't know about pure science songs, but if we're taking a little liberty here, how about the velvet underground - lady godiva's operation?

it's about a patient who wakes up during brain surgery

the last verse is:

The ether tube's leaking says someone who's sloppy
Patient it seems is not so well sleeping
The screams echo up the hall
Don't panic someone give him pentathol instantly
Doctor removes his blade
Cagily so from the brain
By my count of ten -
The head won't move!

the velvet underground rules

 

[infidel]

James Taylor has a few mentions...

Drifting through time and space on the face
Of a little blue ball falling around the sun
One in a million billion twinkling lights
Shining out for no one

There We Are

Now the thing about time is that time
Isn't really real
It's just your point of view
How does it feel for you?
Einstein said he could never understand it all
Planets spinning through space
The smile upon your face
Welcome to the human race

Secret O' Life

 

[samoth1]

Bad Religion - Entropy
Vintersorg - Lots of his work uses themes from astronomy and science, eg.


Formulas of an ethereal intellect strayed through black and empty
planes, into the auditorium of evolution. In devious ways magic
came and created a spectra of fiery celestial bodies.
Since then they've been a cynosure to ulterior worlds,
beyond the fifth element.

The bodies are like a stratum of dust on a dark livid background,
spherical architectures womiting coronas.
The sacred hemispheres are the compass to eternity,
my notion is unison with its sidereal modesty.

Rise! solar spirits in the caravan of supernovas,
give me the palmist visual sensation.
I'm a newborn in this omnipotent laboratory,
fulfilled with balance and harmony in a timeless nexus.

Cosmic Genesis, galatic powers astir
Cosmic Genesis, as the magnitude expands.
Cosmic Genesis, I watch the vista transform
Cosmic Genesis, blessed by the stellarwind.

Somehow it seems to be built on mathematics,
but it hides in the dress of obscurity.

Quantum questions rests, since dawn of chronology
in the arms of the spiralgalaxy.

 

[Danger]

'The Sacro-Iliac'; 'Clockwork Creep' both by 10cc
'Spiders & Snakes' Jim Stafford
'Sea of Time & Sea of Holes' Beatles

And of course 'Armaggedon' Prism

 

[Dissident Dan]

One of my favorites is "Astronomy" by Blue Oyster Cult, and one of my all-time albums is "Dark Side of the Moon."

The Metallica cover is much better.

 

[Integral]

Harry Nilsson did a song called Spaceman, I thought it was pretty appropriate last year when the astronauts were trapped aboard the SSI.

Bang, bang, shoot em' up, destiny
Bang, bang, shoot em' up to the moon
Bang, bang, shoot em' up one, two, three
(One, two, three, four!)

I wanted to be a spaceman
That's what I wanted to be
But now that I am a spaceman
Nobody cares about me

Hey mother earth
Won't 'cha bring me back down
Safely to the sea
But 'round and around and around and around
Is all she ever say to me

I wanted to make a good run
I wanted to go to the moon
I knew that it had to be fun
I told 'em to send me real soon
I wanted to be a spaceman
I wanted to be it so bad
But now that I am a spaceman
I'd rather be back on the pad

Hey mother earth
Won't 'cha bring me back down
Safely to the sea
But 'round and around and around and around
Is just a lot of lunacy
(Yeah!)
'Round and around and around and around and around
(So bring me back down)
'Round and around and around and around and around
Safe on the ground

Hey mother earth
Won't 'cha bring me back down
Safely to the sea
But 'round and around and around and around
Is all she ever say to me, yeah

You know I wanted to be a spaceman
That's what I wanted to be
But now that I am a spaceman
Nobody cares about me

Say, hey! You mother earth
You better bring me back down
I've taken just as much as I can
But around and around and around and around
Is the problem of a spaceman

"

 

[Evo]

Peter Schilling - My favorite

MAJOR TOM (COMING HOME)
Standing there alone,
the ship is waiting.
All systems are go.
"Are you sure?"
Control is not convinced,
but the computer
has the evidence.
No need to abort.
The countdown starts.

Watching in a trance,
the crew is certain.
Nothing left to chance,
all is working.
Trying to relax
up in the capsule
"Send me up a drink."
jokes Major Tom.
The count goes on...

4, 3, 2, 1
Earth below us
drifting, falling.
Floating weightless
calling, calling home...

Second stage is cut.
We're now in orbit.
Stabilizers up,
runnning perfect.
Starting to collect
requested data.
"What will it affect
when all is done?"
thinks Major Tom.

Back at ground control,
there is a problem.
"Go to rockets full."
Not responding.
"Hello Major Tom.
Are you receiving?
Turn the thrusters on.
We're standing by."
There's no reply.

4, 3, 2, 1
Earth below us
drifting, falling.
Floating weightless
calling, calling home...

Across the stratosphere,
a final message:
"Give my wife my love."
Then nothing more.

Far beneath the ship,
the world is mourning.
They don't realize
he's alive.
No one understands,
but Major Tom sees.
"Now the light commands
this is my home,
I'm coming home."

Earth below us
drifting, falling.
Floating weightless
coming home...
Earth below us
drifting, falling.
Floating weightless
coming, coming
home...
home...

 

[Integral]

Intergalatic Laxitive
Donovan

I was impressed like everyone when man began to fly
Out of earthly regions to planets in the sky
With total media coverage we watched the heroes land
As ceremoniously they disturbed the cosmic sand

I awe with admiration we listened to the talk
Such pride felt they, such joy to be upon the moon to walk
My romantic vision shattered when it was explained to me
Spacemen wear old diapers in which they **** and pee

Oh the intergalactic laxative will get you from here to there
Relieve you and believe me without a worry or care
If ****ting is your problem when you're out there in the stars
The intergalactic laxative will get you from here to mars

They don't partake like you and I of beefy burger mush
Their food is specially prepared to dissolve into slush
Absorbed my multi-fibers in the super diaper suit
Otherwise the slush would trickle down inside the boot

You may well ask now what becomes of liquid they consume
A pipe is led from penis head to a unit in the room
The water is recirculated, filtered for re-use
In case of anti-gravity, pee gets on the loose

Wherever man has conquered on the quest for frontiers new
I'm glad he's always had to do the no. One and two
It makes it all so ordinary just like you and me
To know the greatest heroes they had to **** and pee!

 

[Integral]

Can't leave this one out

All about the Pentuiums
Weird Al Yankovic

It's all about the Pentiums, baby
Uhh, uh-huh, yeah
Uhh, uh-huh, yeah
It's all about the Pentiums, baby
It's all about the Pentiums, baby
It's all about the Pentiums! (It's all about the Pentiums, baby)
It's all about the Pentiums! (It's all about the Pentiums, baby)
Yeah

What y'all want to do?
Wanna be hackers? Code crackers? Slackers
Wastin' time with all the chatroom yakkers?
9 to 5, chillin' at Hewlett Packard?
Workin' at a desk with a dumb little placard?
Yeah, payin' the bills with my mad programming skills
Defraggin' my hard drive for thrills
I got me a hundred gigabytes of RAM
I never feed trolls and I don't read spam
Installed a T1 line in my house
Always at my PC, double-clickin' on my mizouse
Upgrade my system at least twice a day
I'm strictly plug-and-play, I ain't afraid of Y2K
I'm down with Bill Gates, I call him "Money" for short
I phone him up at home and I make him do my tech support
It's all about the Pentiums, what?
You've got to be the dumbest newbie I've ever seen
You've got white-out all over your screen
You think your Commodore 64 is really neato
What kinda chip you got in there, a Dorito?
You're usin' a 286? Don't make me laugh
Your Windows boots up in what, a day and a half?
You could back up your whole hard drive on a floppy diskette
You're the biggest joke on the Internet
Your database is a disaster
You're waxin' your modem, tryin' to make it go faster
Hey fella, I bet you're still livin' in your parents' cellar
Downloadin' pictures of Sarah Michelle Gellar
And postin' "Me too!" like some brain-dead AOL-er
I should do the world a favor and cap you like Old Yeller
You're just about as useless as jpegs to Hellen Keller

It's all about the Pentiums! (It's all about the Pentiums, baby)
It's all about the Pentiums! (It's all about the Pentiums, baby)
It's all about the Pentiums! (It's all about the Pentiums, baby)
It's all about the Pentiums! (It's all about the Pentiums, baby)

Now, what y'all want to do?
Wanna be hackers? Code crackers? Slackers
Wastin' time with all the chatroom yakkers?
9 to 5, chillin' at Hewlett Packard?

Uh, uh, loggin' in now
Wanna run wit my crew, hah?
Rule cyberspace and crunch numbers like I do?
They call me the king of the spreadsheets
Got 'em printed out on my bedsheets
My new computer's got the clocks, it rocks
But it was obsolete before I opened the box
You say you've had your desktop for over a week?
Throw that junk away, man, it's an antique
Your laptop is a month old? Well that's great
If you could use a nice, heavy paperweight
My digital media is write-protected
Every file inspected, no viruses detected
I beta tested every operation system
Gave props to some, and others? I dissed 'em
While your computer's crashin', mine's multitaskin'
It does all my work without me even askin'
Got a flat-screen monitor forty inches wide wide
I believe that your says "Etch-A-Sketch" on the side
In a 32-bit world, you're a 2-bit user
You've got your own newsgroup, "alt.total-loser"
Your motherboard melts when you try to send a fax
Where'd you get your CPU, in a box of Cracker Jacks?
Play me online? Well, you know that I'll beat you
If I ever meet you I'll control-alt-delete you
What? What? What? What? What?

It's all about the Pentiums! (It's all about the Pentiums, baby)
It's all about the Pentiums! (It's all about the Pentiums, baby)
It's all about the Pentiums! (It's all about the Pentiums, baby)
It's all about the Pentiums! (It's all about the Pentiums, baby)
Now, what y'all want to do?
Wanna be hackers? Code crackers? Slackers
Wastin' time with all the chatroom yakkers?
9 to 5, chillin' at Hewlett Packard?
What??

 

[TheStatutoryApe]

Bad Religion - Entropy

How could I forget Bad Religion. I'm sure there are probably other science related songs aswell. I think it was only about a year or so ago that the lead singer received his Phd in Evolutionary Biology.

 

[Danger]

'Frankenstein' by The Edgar Winter Group
If you count pharmacology as science, I really like 'Mother's Little Helper' by the Stones.
I apologize if I happen to duplicate previous posts. I don't have the time or energy to keep checking back.

 

[Danger]

Don't know how I forgot this one either: Spaceship Superstar by Prism