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lucy-list-digest        Wednesday, May 18 2005        Volume 07 : Number 038



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[lucy-list] ny tmes article about science in songs

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Date: Tue, 17 May 2005 08:04:28 -0400
From: sdgold60@aol.com
Subject: [lucy-list] ny tmes article about science in songs

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/17/science/17song.html?


When You Wish Upon an Atom: The Songs of Science

By MICHAEL ERARD
Published: May 17, 2005


the Times science section has an article about songs about science..
here is an section ...
unfortunately.. the writer is not familiar with Dr Irving's mix of 
music and science

there will be a second CD.....


Rock music, even of the indie persuasion, tends to avoid science. The 
Pixies have a song about Alexandre Gustave Eiffel, builder of the 
Eiffel Tower, and the celebrated geekiness of They Might Be Giants 
produced "Particle Man" ("Particle man, particle man/doing the things a 
particle can") and "The Sun Is a Mass of Incandescent Gas," among other 
science-y songs. And the folk-pop duo Kate and Anna McGarrigle made 
chemistry a metaphor for romance in "NaCl" ("Just a little atom of 
chlorine, valence minus one/Swimming through the sea, digging the 
scene, just having fun"). Scientific themes probably show up more often 
in music videos, as in Thomas Dolby's 1980's hit, "Blinded by Science."

someone should get those science songs on the next cd.....

sharong



"Call it chance or call it fate
Either one is cause to celebrate
Still the question begs why would you wait
And be late for your life"
mary chapin carpenter

"sage advisor, does weary mean wiser?"
on traveling -dar williams
"

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