Science
From This Might Be A Wiki
Songs about scientific things or with a scientific theme
Central theme
- All of Here Comes Science
- All Alone - The ballad of a lonely germ who survived an impromptu trip to the moon and being bombarded by solar radiation.
- Call You Mom - Deals with Freudian psychology
- Canajoharie - Details the aftermath of an experiment gone awry
- Cut The Strings
- Dark And Metric - The Metric system of measurement
- Destination Moon
- Dinner Bell - Classical conditioning
- Door To Door Minotaur - “the scientist was considered kind of disgraced…some people thought of him as like a Frankenstein”
- The Edison Museum
- For Science
- Hive Mind - Title refers to the sociological concept of collective consciousness
- Homunculus
- John Lee Supertaster
- The King Of Wingo - Cell division
- Mammal
- My Man - Paralysis
- Nanobots
- Particle Man
- Reptiles Eat With The Bones We Hear With - Refers to the bones in the jaws of early reptiles, which, by the process of evolution, shifted to become the stapes, malleus, and incus (sometimes called the "stirrup", "hammer", and "anvil", respectively) in the middle ears of mammals
- Robot Parade
- Rocket Ship - Space travel
- See The Constellation
- Sensurround - Zygote, perception of sound, audio technology
- Tesla
- Thermostat
- Tiny Doctors - Inside the human body
- Tryptophane
- Turtle Songs Of North America - An informative biology lesson with Professor Linnell
- Why Does The Sun Shine?
Briefly mentioned
- 2082 - "First take readings to be sure the atmosphere is safe / Yes, it's safe"
- Alphabet Lost And Found - "Science teachers had their hands full"
- Bee Of The Bird Of The Moth - "Subatomic waves to the underwater caves"
- Birds Fly - "The microscope reveals the scope"
- Black Ops - "We're not worrying about the optics"
- Brainwashing Our Fighting Boys - "They're searching for the missing chimp, but they won't find him"
- Burning Coffee - "...battery acid smell"
- Chainsaw Dick - "When poised for a nuclear target…"
- Complete Paranoia - "The German scientist guy turns around"
- Countdown Intro - "Scientists standing by to assure us nothing is wrong have already been found murdered in their laboratories!"
- Critic Intro - "... the Twin Quasars of Rock"
- Down To The Bottom Of The Sea - Titled "Bathymetry For Two" on They Might Be Giants Vs. McSweeney's
- Elephants - "They're great communicators / With waves called infra-sound", etc.
- The Guitar (The Lion Sleeps Tonight) - A lion in a spaceship
- It Never Fails - "We're cops, we're not psychiatrists; We ain't no Sigmund Freud"
- It Was A Very Good Year - "In a state of quantum uncertainty / We would have sexual intercourse / While at the same time we would not have sexual intercourse" is a reference to Schrödinger's cat
- Money For Dope - "Isotopes"
- Nightgown Of The Sullen Moon - "Space walk, it's like a space walk with the corresponding weight loss"
- Nine Bowls Of Soup - Bowls are revealed to be radar dishes in a Very Large Array detecting interstellar messages
- Now Is Strange - "Have you seen that naughty boy / Who steals each blade of grass / And replaces it with wires and batteries"
- Read A Book - "How fast is the speed of light?"
- She's An Angel - Acknowledges the medieval scientific conundrum "how many angels can dance on a pin head?"
- Teenagers Are Going - "And of some science fiction writer's imagination"
- Tropical Lazor Beams
- Trucker's Coffee - "Swirling all around like biology slides"
- We Want A Rock - Prosthetics
- The World's Address - "Call the men of science"
- Yeah, The Deranged Millionaire - "Betting on the genome of bats"
Honorable mentions
- The cover of Indestructible Object shows a telescope
