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Subject: Songs and parodies about science From: GUEST,Fred Maslan Date: 12 Oct 05 - 04:30 PM I'm looking for songs and parodies about science, I know Tom Lehrer's periodic table and Mony pythons Universe, but there must be a gazillion more. |
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Subject: RE: Songs and parodies about science From: Le Scaramouche Date: 12 Oct 05 - 04:37 PM Would you consider the source of Lehrer's tune, Gilber and Sullivan's Major General song? |
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Subject: RE: Songs and parodies about science From: sapper82 Date: 12 Oct 05 - 04:45 PM Did hear a take off of Ghost Riders in the Sky. Had a chorus Euripedese, and I'll ripedose, And shove it up your quid quo pro! Anyone else recall this one? |
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Subject: RE: Songs and parodies about science From: Ned Ludd Date: 12 Oct 05 - 04:55 PM Les Barker's Science of unclear physics...C'mon L.T.S. You'll have the words. |
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Subject: RE: Songs and parodies about science From: GUEST Date: 12 Oct 05 - 06:22 PM I'm thinking more of the hard sciences, physics, geologly, astronomy etc. and yes of course that is where the tune for the periodic table came from. |
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Subject: RE: Songs and parodies about science From: GUEST Date: 12 Oct 05 - 06:22 PM I'm thinking more of the hard sciences, physics, geologly, astronomy etc. and yes of course that is where the tune for the periodic table came from. |
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Subject: RE: Songs and parodies about science From: John on the Sunset Coast Date: 12 Oct 05 - 06:32 PM Talking Atom Blues - Oscar Brand, Sons of the Pioneers et. al. |
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Subject: RE: Songs and parodies about science From: Le Scaramouche Date: 12 Oct 05 - 06:41 PM Not hard science enough? I am the very model of a modern Major-General, I've information vegetable, animal, and mineral, 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 conics I can floor peculiarities parabolous; When I have learnt what progress has been made in modern gunnery, |
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Subject: RE: Songs and parodies about science From: Sandy Mc Lean Date: 12 Oct 05 - 07:06 PM A few of us catters wrote a "Wild Rover" parody for the Mars Rover a couple of years ago. A forum search for "Mars Rover" should turn up the old thread. Sandy |
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Subject: RE: Songs and parodies about science From: Ken Schatz Date: 12 Oct 05 - 07:11 PM Flanders and Swann: 'The First and Second Laws of Thermodynamics' from their album 'At the Drop of Another Hat.' It's catchy. Here's a link to the lyrics: http://physics.about.com/cs/jokeoftheweek/a/flandersandswan.htm |
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Subject: RE: Songs and parodies about science From: Ken Schatz Date: 12 Oct 05 - 07:21 PM I'm glad to see Science News is keeping active its page dedicated to Jonathan Eberhart. It includes the lyrics to his great song Solar Privateer (jargon-packed and still romantic, about solar sailing), among others: http://www.sciencenews.org/pages/jonathan.asp |
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Subject: RE: Songs and parodies about science From: Ken Schatz Date: 12 Oct 05 - 07:28 PM And then there's Frederick Winsor's 'The Space Child's Mother Goose': http://www.purplehousepress.com/space.htm |
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Subject: RE: Songs and parodies about science From: Stewart Date: 12 Oct 05 - 07:46 PM Hi Fred, I have a copy the "The Biochemists' Songbook" by Harold Baum. This may not be exactly what you're looking for, but I used to teach these songs to my biochemistry students when I used to be a College Prof., before I became an "unemployed musician" (by choice, now that I can afford it!). These songs were written by a U. of London biochem prof. "whilst travelling upstairs on the No. 22 bus between Putney Bridge and Manresa Road" for his Departmental Christmas Party. Most of them describe metabolic pathways such as... "Battle Hymn of the Aerobes" Mine eyes have seen the glory of respiratory chains In every mitochondrion, intrinsic to membranes Functionally organized in complex sub-domains Where electrons flow along. Glory, glory, respiration! 3X Where electrons flow along. (plus 7 more verses) Or "Fatty Acid Biosynthesis" (tune: "Men of Harlech") If you gobble tagliatelli Chicken soup with bermicelli You'll acquire a sagging belly What's the use of that? Guzzling beer till soporific Possibly you'll feel terrific But you'll end up fat. Fat against starvation; fat for insulation; If you sit hard you'll bounce on lard Which substitutes in females for inflation. Fat provides when you are needing Glucogenic when you're seeding Product of excessive feeding Hail adipocyte! (plus 5 more verses) They're all biochemically correct, but probably for a limited audience. You're welcome to borrow my copy. I also have buried away somewhere a whole file on chemistry- and biology- related songs and parodies. Cheers, S. in Seattle |
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Subject: RE: Songs and parodies about science From: GUEST Date: 12 Oct 05 - 08:05 PM Check the thread "Unified Field Theory" |
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Subject: RE: Songs and parodies about science From: Don Firth Date: 12 Oct 05 - 08:15 PM Sam Hinton MCed the Berkeley Folk Festivals back in the early Sixties. In real life, he was Director the Aquarium-Museum at the Scripp's Institute of Oceanography. During the festival, I heard him sing this. It's to the tune of It's a Long Way to Tipperary: It's a Long Way from Amphioxus ^^^Unfortunately, I never got around to learning it, so I haven't worked out the chords, but considering the tune it's attached to, they shouldn't be hard to find. Don Firth Hmm. . . . I wonder if I should post this on the "BS: Evolution is Heresy" thread…… |
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Subject: RE: Songs and parodies about science From: Mark Cohen Date: 12 Oct 05 - 09:45 PM I don't know if you'd consider pharmacology a "hard" science (I thought it was pretty hard when I was a medical student), but here is The Formulary Song. Oh, and there's a line missing in the DT version. The third line of verse 3 should be: "There's Miltown, Motrin, Medrol, Maalox, Myleran and Miradon" Aloha, Mark fixed. Thanx Marc. S of DT |
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Subject: RE: Songs and parodies about science From: GUEST,Joe_F Date: 12 Oct 05 - 10:11 PM http://www.haverford.edu/physics-astro/songs/ |
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Subject: RE: Songs and parodies about science From: Bill D Date: 12 Oct 05 - 10:45 PM to "Colonel Bogey March" "Physics is what we learned in class. Einstein said 'En-er-gy- is mass. Newton is high-fa-lutin'- And Pacsal's a rascal...so's Boyle" "Trolley, he made the Trolley car, Leyden, he made the Leyden jar- Curie rides in a surrey- And Diesel's a weasel...so's Boyle" |
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Subject: RE: Songs and parodies about science From: Bill D Date: 12 Oct 05 - 10:47 PM Just on a hunch, I typed "science songs" into Google: http://faculty.washington.edu/crowther/Misc/Songs/ |
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Subject: RE: Songs and parodies about science From: Bill D Date: 12 Oct 05 - 10:52 PM http://www.science-groove.org/MASSIVE/ |
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Subject: RE: Songs and parodies about science From: GUEST,Ingrid Frances Stark Date: 12 Oct 05 - 11:13 PM A google search for "Dr. Jane Songs" might turn up some interesting stuff. |
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Subject: RE: Songs and parodies about science From: SINSULL Date: 12 Oct 05 - 11:25 PM Alaska Mike's "Iditerod" fits the category. |
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Subject: RE: Songs and parodies about science From: GUEST Date: 12 Oct 05 - 11:28 PM Don, that's the song! The one that got me thinking about starting this thread. But I want more...more...HaHahahahhaa |
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Subject: RE: Songs and parodies about science From: open mike Date: 12 Oct 05 - 11:29 PM i do remember a thread we had a while back featuring two scientists (physiscists?) who had an album or c.d. of songs used in university classrooms? or are the atoms of my brain dissapating?? |
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Subject: RE: Songs and parodies about science From: open mike Date: 12 Oct 05 - 11:38 PM i can't find that reference.. but if you search for physics this thread will come up.. What Do Physicists Think About?? along with some other musical ones. |
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Subject: RE: Songs and parodies about science From: GUEST,reggie miles Date: 13 Oct 05 - 12:40 AM What about biology? Because if you'd consider this topic, here's one I put together called Grossosity which loosely hints at some of the grosser workings of our human anatomy. ;o) Enjoy! |
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Subject: RE: Songs and parodies about science From: JohnInKansas Date: 13 Oct 05 - 01:27 AM Also check out Tom Lehrer's "Lobochevsky," sometimes referred to by the subtitle "Plagiarize." It's a "how I succeeded in science" sort of thing, but apparently accurate for tenured academics. Academics of all kinds - including scientists should appreciate it. His "Wernher von Braun" might also fit your description. Both of these are more about "scientists" than about "science," but you can't have one without t'other. John |
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Subject: RE: Songs and parodies about science From: Splott Man Date: 13 Oct 05 - 03:44 AM NaCl by Kate & Anna McGarrigleis an Inter-elemantal love song |
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Subject: RE: Songs and parodies about science From: JohnB Date: 13 Oct 05 - 10:47 AM What about Donovan's "Intergallactical Laxative" it is about space travel, I think :) JohnB |
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Subject: RE: Songs and parodies about science From: Don Firth Date: 13 Oct 05 - 12:13 PM Well . . . It's a slow morning here at the Skunk Works, so I tried googling "leprosy" and "parody" and came up with a fair amount of stuff. I randomly selected two of them. For what they're worth: To the Beatles' "Let It Be."What is this with the Beatles and leprosy? Here's another one, to the tune of "Yesterday." Leprosy.I've read these through, but I haven't tried singing them, so I'm not sure they scan all that well, but give 'em a try of so moved. Fell free to "folk process" them if they need it. Don Firth |
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Subject: RE: Songs and parodies about science From: open mike Date: 13 Oct 05 - 12:35 PM i think there is a thread about leprosy--but this isn't it.. i guess it is scientific though. as science may be needed to find a cure--but have they? |
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Subject: RE: Songs and parodies about science From: Susan of DT Date: 13 Oct 05 - 04:05 PM Check out the following keywords in the Digital Tradition: @science @computer @medicine Both Dick and I have been scientists, so we like this stuff. |
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Subject: RE: Songs and parodies about science From: Tootler Date: 13 Oct 05 - 04:14 PM Flanders and Swann did a song about the laws of thermodynamics. I did a Google search and found the words. The tune is more of a chant. The First Law of Thermodymamics: Heat is work and work is heat Heat is work and work is heat Very good! The Second Law of Thermodymamics: Heat cannot of itself pass from one body to a hotter body (scat music starts) Heat cannot of itself pass from one body to a hotter body Heat won't pass from a cooler to a hotter Heat won't pass from a cooler to a hotter You can try it if you like but you far better notter You can try it if you like but you far better notter 'Cos the cold in the cooler with get hotter as a ruler 'Cos the cold in the cooler with get hotter as a ruler 'Cos the hotter body's heat will pass to the cooler 'Cos the hotter body's heat will pass to the cooler First Law: Heat is work and work is heat and work is heat and heat is work Heat will pass by conduction Heat will pass by conduction Heat will pass by convection Heat will pass by convection Heat will pass by radiation Heat will pass by radiation And that's a physical law Heat is work and work's a curse And all the heat in the Universe Is gonna cooool down 'cos it can't increase Then there'll be no more work and there'll be perfect peace Really? Yeah - that's entropy, man! And all because of the Second Law of Thermodynamics, which lays down: That you can't pass heat from the cooler to the hotter Try it if you like but you far better notter 'Cos the cold in the cooler will get hotter as a ruler 'Cos the hotter body's heat will pass to the cooler Oh, you can't pass heat from the cooler to the hotter You can try it if you like but you'll only look a fooler 'Cos the cold in the cooler will get hotter as a ruler That's a physical Law! Oh, I'm hot! Hot? That's because you've been working! Oh, Beatles - nothing! That's the First and Second Laws of Thermodynamics! |
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Subject: RE: Songs and parodies about science From: Rapparee Date: 14 Oct 05 - 09:39 AM The Bug Came Back (Copyright 1991 by Joel Polowin. Music: "The Cat Came Back" by Harry Miller) The program wasn't complex, and it wasn't very long, Though it seemed a bit erratic, its results were seldom wrong. But that little error nagged us, so we stayed up late one night - Found a missing comma, and we thought that fixed it right - (Chorus) But the bug came back, the very next day The bug came back, we thought it was a gonner But the bug came back, it just wouldn't stay away. We put away our documents, rewrote the code from scratch To find out where the new and older versions didn't match. A subtle shift of logic showed where we had gone astray; We felt a bit embarrassed, but at least it ran okay - (Chorus) We wrote in other languages, from FORTH to APL And ev'ry one ran ev'ry time - just sometimes not too well. Translation to assembler didn't give us any clue; The COBOL version crashed on ev'ry system it went through - (Chorus) We gave it to the hacker squad - the folks who code for fun - And asked them if they couldn't get the stupid thing to run. But less than one week later, they no longer wished to play - Three paranoids... one suicide... and six who ran away... (Chorus) We got a summer student in to check the code by hand, With paper, pen and calculator, run through each command, But suddenly the lights went out -- the air went thin and queer -- A sudden FLASH! of lightning -- and the student... disappeared..? (Chorus) (Last verse and corresponding alternate chorus are optional) We set up an experiment that Schrodinger inspired: A box; a cat; some poison; a computer system wired Such that IF the program failed, the little moggy would be gassed. A quasar was - almost - the only remnant of the blast... (Chorus) But the cat came back the very next day The bug came back, we thought they were a goner But they both came back, they just wouldn't stay away |
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Subject: RE: Songs and parodies about science From: Rapparee Date: 14 Oct 05 - 09:43 AM Here's one based upon "Ya gotta pick a pocket or two" (from Oliver): Pick a Packet or Two Strangers with Strange accounts Porno GIF Large amounts Villains like these use FSP You godda pick a packet or two You Godda pick a packet or two, boys You godda pick a packet or two. FSP you do not see Unless you pick a packet or two. Forged IPs Leave no tracks When they launch SYN attacks Never know why your mail has dried Unless you pick a packet or two You Godda pick a packet or two, boys You godda pick a packet or two. Buffers fill, net I/O's killed Unless you drop a packet or two. RTM What a worm Internet All asquirm When he was caught he said it ought To've only sent a packet or two You Godda pick a packet or two, boys You godda pick a packet or two. Spaf revealed the bug that yielded More than just a packet or two. IP port Six-six-six Firewalls play Deadly tricks Never assume cross-campus Doom Won't yield an evil packet or two You Godda pick a packet or two, boys You godda pick a packet or two. Name the campus Ether spammers When you pick a packet or two. MBA Browsing by Activates CGI Credit-card details, indiscreet Disclosure in a packet or two You Godda pick a packet or two, boys You godda pick a packet or two. Whiff of porn, all caution's gawn A compromising packet or two. IP frags Steal your breath When they yield Ping o' Death Kernels beware, rebuild with care Or gag upon a packet or two You Godda pick a packet or two, boys You godda pick a packet or two. Bound'ry checks can save your neck A kamikaze packet or two. Thoughts of this Sort of trick Reboots my Facial tic Simply to find some peace of mind I have to pick a packet or two You Godda pick a packet or two, boys You godda pick a packet or two. We will find some peace of mind When he can pick a packet or two. |
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Subject: RE: Songs and parodies about science From: Flash Company Date: 14 Oct 05 - 12:08 PM My wife and I , we worked alone, In a sweet little lab we called our own, We developed a germ that would kill in an hour, And sold it to a foreign power! Ch.... Ha ha ha, He he he Little brown bug how I love thee..... It's good to be back! FC |
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Subject: RE: Songs and parodies about science From: Jon W. Date: 14 Oct 05 - 12:56 PM |
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Subject: RE: Songs and parodies about science From: moongoddess Date: 14 Oct 05 - 07:29 PM When I was part of the Providence Journal's Follies ( the ProJo is a RI newspaper) we sang a song about an Amoeba that one of the reporters wrote. I used to sing it every year to the Science classes on my team, even though I was a mathematics teacher. I saw you there, with some algae in your hair, I knew right away we were meant to love and share. I walked up to you and I said in a voice so rare, "Be my amoeba, baby, be my amoeba, be my babe" We swam for a while and then we swam away, We swam around together all night and all day, We swam with our arms around our pseudopodea, "Be my amoeba, baby, be my amoeba, be my babe." Then one dark and stormy night, You gave me such a fright, Said that you were feeling sick, And then by gosh you began to split! "Be my amoeba,baby, be my amoeba, be my babe." Now I have a problem, I don't know what to do. Now I have two lovers, and they both are you! How can I love one, and still be true to two? "Be my amoeba, baby, be my amoeba, be my babe." My students really loved this song. Diana |
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Subject: RE: Songs and parodies about science From: GUEST,Stephen Date: 14 Oct 05 - 08:42 PM Out here in the Portland (OR, not cement) area, Shanghied on the Willamette sings this: EINSTEIN THE GENIUS (3:21) MP3 by Henry Jankiewicz (Kicking Mule) Einstein was a genius As smart as he could be. He wrote one equation every day. On Mondays he wrote three, On Mondays he wrote three. CHORUS Albert dance around , Albert be profound. Albert let your hair stick out, And your socks hang down. Albert dance around , Albert be profound. Albert let your hair stick out, And your socks hang down. A man got in a spaceship. And flew a million miles. He busted through the speed of light And he came back a child, Yes, he came back a child. REPEAT CHORUS Well, a man looked through a telescope Until his eye was red. He looked around space and saw The back of his own head, Saw the back of his own head. REPEAT CHORUS A wave and a particle Were walking side by side. One to the other said Which one of us am I? Which one of us am I? REPEAT CHORUS Albert played the fiddle. He loved to shout and sing. Now if that ain't genius, Well, that ain't anything. No, that ain't anything. |
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Subject: RE: Songs and parodies about science From: oldhippie Date: 16 Jul 10 - 09:16 AM Hard to believe nobodys posted: "Modern Physics In Five Easy Verses" by Bruce Lesnick. |
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Subject: RE: Songs and parodies about science From: Tannywheeler Date: 16 Jul 10 - 02:35 PM Emily (Kates? Kaitz?) wrote & sings one about "I'm from the shallow end of the gene pool". This song is a lot of fun. She's from down here in Texas. |
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Subject: RE: Songs and parodies about science From: Jim Carroll Date: 16 Jul 10 - 02:40 PM Little Willie's dead and gone, His face we'll see no more; For what he thought was H20 Was H2S04. Jim Carroll |
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Subject: RE: Songs and parodies about science From: Micca Date: 16 Jul 10 - 03:26 PM The World was cloaked in darkest Stygian night God cried "let Newton be"! and all was light!!! The devil watching, leaped up crying "Ho Let Einsein be" restored the status quo. |
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Subject: RE: Songs and parodies about science From: Micca Date: 16 Jul 10 - 03:38 PM OOOps, My mistake, and misquotw .ine 1 should read "The World of Science was cloaked in Stygian night" Sorry |
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Subject: RE: Songs and parodies about science From: dick greenhaus Date: 16 Jul 10 - 08:29 PM An outfit called Lyrical Learning has a bunch of recordings ably performed by Bobby Horton, each covering a different fields of science. They're aimed at kids, and they manage to be both accurate and fun. (Available from CAMSCO, of course). |
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Subject: RE: Songs and parodies about science From: GUEST,JimP Date: 16 Jul 10 - 11:25 PM Theme song from The Big Bang Theory by Barenaked Ladies: Big Bang Theory (full) |
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Subject: RE: Songs and parodies about science From: mousethief Date: 16 Jul 10 - 11:49 PM I didn't realize that TMBG didn't write "Why Does the Sun Shine? (The Sun is a Mass of Incandescent Gas)". Although they do lots of covers (most famously "Istanbul (not Constantinople)") so it's not a total surprise. A quick google turned up this: [b]The song was written by Hy Zaret in 1950, for Space Songs, part of the "Ballads for the Age of Science" series.[/b] The same website notes that the sun is not, in fact, a mass of incandescent gas, and says that on a newer album, TMBG sang, "The sun's a miasma of incandescent plasma." Not nearly as catchy, even if scientifically more up-to-date. Unfortunately, another website says the song was written by one Tom Glazer. Wikipedia, the repository of all knowledge and wisdom, says it's from Glazer's 1965 album Space Songs. But when you click the hypertext link on the album name, the page it takes you to says it was released in 1959 and written by Hy Zaret and Lou Singer. Their page on Glazer, on the other hand, claims he [i]sang[/i] the song on the 1959 album, and admits it was written by Zaret and Singer. So you figure it out! Anyway it might be worthwhile to find the Space Songs album, or any of the albums in the series mentioned. The wikipedia article on Space Songs is probably the best place to start. ANYway, the original words: Why the Sun Shines Hy Zaret (music) and Lou Singer (words) The sun is a mass of incandescent gas A gigantic nuclear furnace Where hydrogen is built into helium At a temperature of millions of degrees Yo ho, it's hot, the sun is not A place where we could live But here on earth there'd be no life Without the light it gives We need its light We need its heat We need its energy Without the sun, without a doubt There'd be no you and me The sun is a mass of incandescent gas A gigantic nuclear furnace Where hydrogen is built into helium At a temperature of millions of degrees The sun is hot [spoken] It is so hot that everything on it is a gas: iron, copper, aluminum, and many others. The sun is large [spoken] If the sun were hollow, a million earths could fit inside. and yet, the sun is only a middle-sized star. The sun is far away [spoken] About 93 million miles away, and that's why it looks so small. And even when it's out of sight The sun shines night and day The sun gives heat The sun gives light The sunlight that we see The sunlight comes from our own sun's Atomic energy [spoken] Scientists have found that the sun is a huge atom-smashing machine. the heat and light of the sun come from the nuclear reactions of hydrogen, carbon, nitrogen, and helium. The sun is a mass of incandescent gas A gigantic nuclear furnace Where hydrogen is built into helium At a temperature of millions of degrees (The best TMBG version is the up-tempo live ska version. Well worth looking for.) |
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Subject: RE: Songs and parodies about science From: GUEST,deanofrochester Date: 17 Jul 10 - 10:01 AM sally ironmonger trio do a great song called 'sod's law' which is a hilarious richard digance song includes pythagoras einstein archimedes laws etc as well as sods law |
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Subject: RE: Songs and parodies about science From: GUEST,Philippa Date: 17 Jul 10 - 10:23 AM has anyone else come across a physics song to the tune of Men of Harlech, with lines "What's the new equation, governs radiation, what's the new and only true electrodynamical equation?...."? |
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Subject: RE: Songs and parodies about science From: beeliner Date: 17 Jul 10 - 07:43 PM Hy Zaret is, of course, best known for "Unchained Melody". A lot of old, and sometimes obscure songs get mistakenly credited to the performers who revive them. Surely Thomas Dolby's "She Blinded Me with Science" deserves a place on the list. British scientist and eccentric Dr. Magnus Pyke (1908-1992) shouts the word "Science" throughout the recording and also appears in the video. |
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Subject: RE: Songs and parodies about science From: GUEST,raredance Date: 18 Jul 10 - 12:50 AM http://practicality.wordpress.com/2008/01/13/the-pcr-song-with-lyrics/ The PCR Song by Scientists for Better PCR There was a time when to amplify DNA, You had to grow tons and tons of tiny cells. (Oooh) Then along came a guy named Dr. Kary Mullis, Said you can amplify in vitro just as well. Just mix your template with a buffer and some primers, Nucleotides and polymerases too. Denaturing, annealing, and extending, Well it's amazing what heating and cooling and heating will do. [Chorus] PCR when you need to detect mutation (detect mutation) PCR when you need to recombine (recombine) PCR when you need to find out who the daddy is (who's your daddy?) PCR when you need to solve a crime (solve a crime) [x2 http://practicality.wordpress.com/2009/09/11/video-bio-rad-gtca-song/ GTCA Song Randolph: Six years of graduate school, and look at our boy now. Randolph's Wife: Oh Randolph! Now I remember somebody who wasn't too different from this not too long ago. Enzyme, whatcha doin' today? I said enzyme, want to make DNA? I said enzyme, show me your binding way Let me mix you with some primers Enzyme, time to build a new strand I said enzyme, cause I know that you can I said enzyme, these letters also spell DAN All we need to get things started Is just a little bit of GTCA Is just a little bit of GTCA I can build DNA I can be a big star You're the key to my PCR Thats right I'm talkin' bout GTCA Just a little bit of GTCA I can make some new strands I can view all my bands I can be the best that I can Enzyme, you have come a long way But in my lab, demands are higher today I said enzyme, now its time to go fast We have got to increase throughput Enzyme, I think I found what I need It's an enzyme, it gives me much higher speed It goes so fast, when it builds DNA All we need to get it started Is just a little bit of GTCA Is just a little bit of GTCA I can build DNA I can reach for the stars I can do faster PCR Yeeeeeaaaa-eeee-ehhh |
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Subject: RE: Songs and parodies about science From: Joe Offer Date: 18 Jul 10 - 01:03 AM Raredance, I haven't seen a post from you in years! Nice to see you back. Contact me if you need a password reset. -Joe- joe@mudcat.org |
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Subject: RE: Songs and parodies about science From: Joe_F Date: 18 Jul 10 - 11:01 AM One by me |
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Subject: RE: Songs and parodies about science From: GUEST,Steamin' Willie Date: 18 Jul 10 - 11:33 AM The late lamented Ian Dury wrote a wonderful song that was released as the B side of Hit Me with Your Rhythm Stick, called "There ain't half been some clever bastards." One verse goes; Einstein can't be classed as witless, He claimed atoms were the littlest, * When you did a bit of splitiness, Frightened everybody shitless. Mind you, ignoring science (to a degree) my favourite verse goes; Van Gogh did some eyeball pleasers, He must have been a pencil squeezer, He didn't do the Mona Lisa, That was an Italian geezer. He was one of my heros, that guy... * yes, yes, I know he didn't, but Nils Bohr doesn't scan as good I suppose! |
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Subject: RE: Songs and parodies about science From: GUEST,guest, john f weldon Date: 18 Jul 10 - 11:49 AM This song video about Isaac Newton's dog..... diamond ...qualifies, sort of.... |
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Subject: RE: Songs and parodies about science From: dick greenhaus Date: 18 Jul 10 - 12:16 PM From the aforementioned Lyrical Learning series: The Scientific Method to the tune of "Dixie" Oh, what do you think a scientist does To solve a problem found because Many scientists are scientists 'Cause they're great problem solvers There is a systematic way They go about 'most every day It's methodical and it's logical The scientific method Chorus: A way to solve a problem, a way, a way The scientific method is a way to solve a problem A way, a way, a way to solve a problem A way, a way, a way to solve a problem It may not seem important to you But the first thing that they always do Is state the problem or ask a question So, they know just what they're after Then they review everything involved that might help get the problem solved By reading, researching And gathering information... |
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Subject: RE: Songs and parodies about science From: Gingerbeardman Date: 18 Jul 10 - 06:51 PM Jonathan Coulton has some great songs about science, notably his mini-album "Our Bodies, Ourselves, Our Cybernetic Arms". I won't list them all (his website lets you listen and you can download several songs for free) but they're original songs (not parodies) and very catchy. The songs cover things like the attraction between Charon & Pluto ("I'm Your Moon"), heredity ("That Spells DNA"), and an ode to Benoit Mandelbrot ("Mandelbrot Set"). Most of his songs have tabs or chords on the website, and you can find video tutorials for how to play many of the songs on guitar here (choose 'Lesson A Week' from 'Playlists'). To give an idea of what they're like, here are the lyrics from "That Spells DNA": We start the story when Mom met Dad And they danced all night and he took her home It might have been all the wine they had But they rolled the dice and won your genome Then you grew and you grew and one day you were you And you looked like your father and mother If you're looking for someone convenient to blame You can take your pick it's one or the other DNA, you're in my heart DNA, in fact you're in every part of my body Each cell has a nucleus, each nucleus has chromosomes And DNA, baby, that spells DNA Guanine met Cytosine, fell in love And then Thymine got busy with Adenine They sent the messenger-RNA To the ribosome to make more protein And while it's killing you dead it will mess with your head And it's the light in the dark that will guide you It's the pages and pages of what you are like In the giant book that's hidden inside you DNA, you're in my heart DNA, in fact you're in every part of my body Each cell has a nucleus, each nucleus has chromosomes And DNA, baby, that spells DNA If it says TGGTCGAAC Then you might get the cancer If it says GTCACGACAGG Then you shouldn't eat shrimp or nuts If it says TATACACATATCCTCGT Then you'll probably wish that you didn't know The time will come when you're almost gone And you try to guess but you'll never know You do your best and you soldier on Every day you're here till it's time to go All the good things and bad that you do or don't have You can find out for sure if you got 'em But there's a spiraling staircase that you're falling down And you're nothing but dead at the bottom DNA, you're in my heart DNA, in fact you're in every part of my body Each cell has a nucleus, each nucleus has chromosomes And DNA, baby, that spells DNA |
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Subject: RE: Songs and parodies about science From: Suffet Date: 18 Jul 10 - 07:00 PM To the tune of Harrigan by George M. Cohan: H C double bond O With one more H you see, Is a smell you can tell Inside your laboratory, Formaldehyde -- that's me! --- Steve |
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Subject: RE: Songs and parodies about science From: The Fooles Troupe Date: 19 Jul 10 - 06:39 PM "Little Willie's dead and gone" I remember from at least the 1960s, maybe even a decade earlier.... |
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Subject: RE: Songs and parodies about science From: Joe_F Date: 19 Jul 10 - 09:15 PM Sung at a celebration of Linus Pauling's first Nobel prize (1954): Diggin' rocks in the chandelier, And was I havin' fun. Then one night, I got it right, Now Stockholm here I come! Hey, lay them crystals down, boy, Lay them crystals down, Crystal-crackin' papa, Lay them crystals down. I measured all the bond lengths, The contacts all looked swell. The H-bond's straight, now ain't that great? It filled the unit cell. Peptide bonds and side groups, I put them all in place. It sure was plain, they formed a chain And had such HELLical grace. Diggin' rocks in the chandelier, etc. (Digging was already hip slang for understanding. Rocks was still ham-radio slang for crystals. One of the chemistry buildings at Caltech had a chandelier representing a crystal structure.) |
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Subject: RE: Songs and parodies about science From: pavane Date: 20 Jul 10 - 09:14 AM "As Time Goes By" music and words by Herman Hupfeld The first verses are often omitted! [This day and age we're living in Gives cause for apprehension With speed and new invention And things like fourth dimension. Yet we get a trifle weary With Mr. Einstein's theory. So we must get down to earth at times Relax relieve the tension And no matter what the progress Or what may yet be proved The simple facts of life are such They cannot be removed.] You must remember this A kiss is just a kiss, a sigh is just a sigh. The fundamental things apply As time goes by. |
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Subject: RE: Songs and parodies about science From: pavane Date: 20 Jul 10 - 09:15 AM But I think the post from Amrit PZ10,COM (above) is spam |
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Subject: RE: Songs and parodies about science From: Desert Dancer Date: 18 Feb 11 - 04:25 PM Yet another MM-G parody: The Model of a Psychopharmacologist ~ Becky in Tucson |
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Subject: Lyr Add: NOGIES CREEK (H Kaplan via M Cooney) From: Jim Dixon Date: 08 Dec 14 - 10:59 AM These lyrics and the footnote copied from the songwriter's web site where he also has a song sheet (PDF), MIDI file of the voice part, MIDI of a 4-part arrangement, and a performance MP3. (The latter is not as good as Michael Cooney's.) NOGIES CREEK Written by Howard L. Kaplan, ©1979. Recorded by Michael Cooney on "Together Again" (2002) 1. My name is Edwin Crossman, and I'm an ecologist. I'm studying the bullfrog now; I also study fish. My group works down at Nogies Creek in east Ontario. We make extensive measurements to see the species grow. We measure tadpoles, note their weight, and estimate their age. We want to know how many pass through each important stage, But there are few statistics in these facts which I now speak: What happened on the booming ground last year at Nogies Creek. CHORUS: Tell me, why does the bullfrog begin to go courting? Is it something in the water? Is it something in the sky? Is it daylight getting longer? River current growing stronger? Do not ask me; I'm the expert, but I cannot tell you why. 2. Some things we learn by measurement; some things we learn by chance. We've learned that water lily pads are not their favourite plants. The bullfrog is too heavy for a perch upon their leaf. He'd rather something bushier that's stronger down beneath. He'll set his feet upon the stems as wind and wave go by, To catch the food that comes to him, the beetle and the fly, And when the heat of summer comes, each cottage owner wants His fifty feet of waterfront kept free of tangled plants. 3. Each spring throughout the province in the rivers and the ponds, Each male cries his greeting out; each female responds. To us it is a message that the springtime does arrive. For them it has the meaning that the species will survive. At Nogies Creek we see them meet in shallows by the shore. They gather by the hundreds now; there once were many more. We've named their place of gathering; it's nothing too profound. It's taken from the sound they make and called the "booming ground". 4. Last spring we went to Nogies Creek in time to see them mate. The sound of males booming let us know we weren't too late. We set out with our dip nets and our cameras and our pails, To take our yearly census, and discovered only males. We spent some days in listening; the sound brought no delight, To hear that male chorus crying out into the night, And when their time had ended, and the earth had lost their sound, We saw the females swimming out to fill the booming ground. 5. What caused this lack of synchrony? Which sex is wrong? Which right? Do males follow temperature? Do females follow light? Is this some fault in nature's plan? Unlikely that does seem. Is this a batch of chemicals that someone dumped upstream? A scientist knows causes and effects recur again. Those things that happen once, we find much harder to explain. It may not be good science, but I've not the heart to seek Another instance of last year's events at Nogies Creek. Based on a lecture given by Dr. Edwin Crossman of the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, at the 1979 annual meeting of the Federation of Ontario Naturalists. Nogies Creek (no apostrophe) is located about 130 miles northeast of Toronto. |
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Subject: RE: Songs and parodies about science From: Vic Smith Date: 08 Dec 14 - 12:12 PM More mathematical than scientific, but I remember a parody of Dylan's Blowing In The Wind that had some lines in the form of questions about dividing the radius of a circle into its perimeter and so on. I can only remember the last few lines which went:- ...And what is the value of pi? I would be delighted if anyone can supply more of this. |
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Subject: RE: Songs and parodies about science From: GUEST,John from Kemsing Date: 08 Dec 14 - 12:43 PM Here`s one that may fit the bill. "https://soundcloud.com/john-hills/when-were-gone"> |
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Subject: RE: Songs and parodies about science From: Rob Naylor Date: 08 Dec 14 - 01:29 PM Vic: The answer, my friends is 3.142 Recurring but 3.142 But it's not....the most significant property of pi is that it's decimals *don't* recur :-) |
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Subject: RE: Songs and parodies about science From: Vic Smith Date: 09 Dec 14 - 08:00 AM OK if ever I get the words, I alter the last line to :- Rounded up, but 3.142 if that makes people happy. |
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Subject: RE: Songs and parodies about science From: Howard Kaplan Date: 09 Dec 14 - 10:53 PM Thanks to Jim Dixon for mentioning one of my songs. By my count, there are about two dozen songs of some scientific interest on my web site, starting here. All of them are in the form of lead sheets and MIDI files, but only a few have .mp3 versions at the moment. It's now mid-December, though of course it may not be mid-December the next time someone re-activates this thread. If you're looking for something seasonal and scientific as an antidote to the usual sort of Christmas song, I can suggest these four: Long is the Winter Till the Sun's Return, a counting-down song with natural rather than biblical references The Holly is the Ilex, a recounting of the botanical, rather than religious, attributes of holly, with a passing reference to ivy Wren 2K, a depiction of the annual Christmas bird count in the style of The Cutty Wren The Moon and the Solstices, an explanation of why Earth's axis tilts enough to make the solstices important |
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Subject: RE: Songs and parodies about science From: Jim Dixon Date: 10 Dec 14 - 02:36 PM Howard Kaplan: The thing I like most about your song NOGIES CREEK is that it contains a description of how science is done. Too often people talk as if science is a collection of facts, forgetting that, more importantly, science is a process. People often think they are studying science when in fact they are learning some of the facts that have been brought to light by science. Often they learn nothing about the process by which those facts were brought to light, which is a shame. |
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Subject: RE: Songs and parodies about science From: GUEST,Neon Leon Date: 11 Feb 18 - 10:09 PM I would offer They Might Be Giants' "Particle Man", and, from the old school yard, "One Ton Amoeba". BONUS TRACK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1NU51lJIdrg |
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