You do the maths...
Bryan Burnett | 19:53 UK time, Tuesday, 23 November 2010
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Comment number 1.
At 23rd Nov 2010, Billy in Alloa wrote:All this user's posts have been removed.Why?
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Comment number 2.
At 23rd Nov 2010, Scotch Get wrote:WEDNESDAY
'The Butterfly Flaps Its Wings' - Michael Marra ~ (Chaos Theory)
'For Michael Collins, Jeffrey and Me' - Jethro Tull ~ (1969 Moon Landing)
Michael Collins stayed in the mother-ship whilst Aldrin & Armstrong went walkabout.
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Comment number 3.
At 23rd Nov 2010, Billy in Alloa wrote:All this user's posts have been removed.Why?
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Comment number 4.
At 23rd Nov 2010, mary-doll wrote:I gave up on maths after 5th year - calculus and me didn't get on. Maybe I should have tried harder.
The Beatles We Can Work It Out
Would have done for tonight - better than the irritating (having heard it for the first time in years) Daft Punk I asked for!
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Comment number 5.
At 23rd Nov 2010, joe-k-brown wrote:Even now - William Fitzsimmons
Satellite radio - Steve Earle
Reflecting light - Sam Phillips
the scientist - Coldplay
More to follow
Joe
Linlithgow
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Comment number 6.
At 23rd Nov 2010, Glen Miller wrote:Psychotic Reaction - Count Five
Science Is Golden - The Tremeloes
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Comment number 7.
At 23rd Nov 2010, paolopablo wrote:You could have restricted it to the periodic table
Love is like Oxygen / The Sweet
Sex on Fire / Kings of Neon
Now those days argon / Bucksfizz
Being Boron / Pet Shop boys
Goddess on a Highway / Mercury Rev
Iron Lion Zion / Bob Marley
Pencil Full of Lead / Paolo Nutini
I Zinc I Love you / Partridge Family
Tin Man / America
Kayleigh / Beryllium
Memphis tennessee / Silicon Teens
Copperhead Road / Steve earle
Against The wind / Bob seger & the Silver Bullet Band
Fields of Gold / Eva Cassidy
The silver bullet band would be good to here...
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Comment number 8.
At 23rd Nov 2010, Scotch Get wrote:WEDNESDAY
'Î ' - Kate Bush ~ Pi (3.14 etc.)
'Who's Next?' - Tom Lehrer ~ Nuclear arms race.
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Comment number 9.
At 23rd Nov 2010, Billy in Alloa wrote:All this user's posts have been removed.Why?
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Comment number 10.
At 23rd Nov 2010, Scotch Get wrote:Re: Thursday
The last Thursday in November is Thanksgiving Day across the pond.
We should be able to come up with a song or three that covers this and the theme.
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Comment number 11.
At 23rd Nov 2010, madmacfraeclydebank wrote:Arithmetic... Two Thirds Of Four Fifths ~ Ivor Biggun
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Comment number 12.
At 23rd Nov 2010, gaie wrote:1,2,3,4 - Malcolm Middleton
Crystalised - the XX
You Do the Math - Brad Paisley
Parallel Lines - Joss Stone
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Comment number 13.
At 23rd Nov 2010, divulgarac111 wrote:This comment was removed because the moderators found it broke the house rules. Explain.
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Comment number 14.
At 23rd Nov 2010, Scotch Get wrote:WEDNESDAY
'Psychomodo' - Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel
Psycho - relating to the mind.
Modo - The Head Gardener of Unseen University.
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Comment number 15.
At 23rd Nov 2010, Scotch Get wrote:BRING ME THE HEAD GARDENER OF UNSEEN UNIVERSITY!
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Comment number 16.
At 23rd Nov 2010, mary-doll wrote:Tried an early bed tonight - not working. Temperature still all over the shop. Just like my suggestions.
Jean Michel Jarre Magnetic Fields
This reminds me of
OMD Electricity
or maybe it's the other way around.
Anyway - both to do with physics. I was rubbish at that, too.
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Comment number 17.
At 23rd Nov 2010, gaie wrote:I had a list I've just scrubbed in favour of this:
Charlie Darwin -
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Comment number 18.
At 23rd Nov 2010, madmacfraeclydebank wrote:Biology 2 ~ Sparks
Airwaves ~ Kraftwerk
Split Into Fractions ~ Curve
Electrolatino ~ Señor Coconut
6 Volt Car ~ The Peculiar Pretzelmen
It's a list, Captain, but not a list that GIO would know of!
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Comment number 19.
At 23rd Nov 2010, mazzystar wrote:Ah BB, only 25 years too late for me to be doing well with my homework!
Maths and Science - Haircut 100, Love Plus One (I had such a huge crush on Nick Heyward....) or Thomas Dolby, She Blinded Me With Science. (I have never had a crush on Mr Dolby!)
Pay attention at the back
Mazzy*
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Comment number 20.
At 23rd Nov 2010, DC wrote:X & Y - Coldplay (for the great unwashed, that's the horizontal & vertical graph axes)
By the way,
#4 that should be "calculus and I didn't get on"
and
#7
"silver bullet band would be good to hear"
Jeeeez, you guys can't even spoke right
DC
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Comment number 21.
At 24th Nov 2010, JuliefromEdinburgh wrote:'Biology' - Girls Aloud.
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Comment number 22.
At 24th Nov 2010, JuliefromEdinburgh wrote:'Digital Love' - Daft Punk
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Comment number 23.
At 24th Nov 2010, Billy in Alloa wrote:All this user's posts have been removed.Why?
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Comment number 24.
At 24th Nov 2010, Billy in Alloa wrote:All this user's posts have been removed.Why?
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Comment number 25.
At 24th Nov 2010, jake bullet wrote:Love Will Tear Us Apart - Joy Division
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Comment number 26.
At 24th Nov 2010, paolopablo wrote:#24
As I read out the answers to the pub quiz one night....
....and the American Singer to have been shot dead in a motel in 1964 was Sam Cooke....
...A voice from the back shouts ''how the hell could we get that, we don't know much about History''
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Comment number 27.
At 24th Nov 2010, paolopablo wrote:Adding subtractionmultiplivation and division
Concrete and clay / Unit 4 plus 2
Don't Take Away the music / Tavares
Hard Times / Boz Scaggs
Great Divide / Cardigans
Alternatively
Feel Like a Number / Bob Seger And the Silver Bullet Band would be good to heer
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Comment number 28.
At 24th Nov 2010, paolopablo wrote:multiplivation is a form of Maths yet to be discovered
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Comment number 29.
At 24th Nov 2010, CatastropheJohn wrote:Radiohead: 2 + 2 = 5
Regina Spektor: The Calculation
Or something by We Are Scientists or The Magic Numbers
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Comment number 30.
At 24th Nov 2010, Billy in Alloa wrote:All this user's posts have been removed.Why?
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Comment number 31.
At 24th Nov 2010, DC wrote:#27 Hear Heer
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Comment number 32.
At 24th Nov 2010, Senga wrote:#20 - DC - No kidding? Nothing to do with men who wear Ys almost invariably becoming Xs?
This from the man who thinks Thin Lizzy's Whiskey In The Jar is an original.
;o)
#27 - Paolo - Support for Bob Seger!
Meteorology. You get an ology you're a scientist!
The Thunder Rolls - Garth Brooks
The long version if possible from the Double Live album. Thank you!
:o)
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Comment number 33.
At 24th Nov 2010, ElspethsDaddy wrote:No 1 - The Tweenies
One - U2 (though to be honest, I'd rather not hear the Tweenies!)
One - Metallica
One and One - Aztec Camera
Well, we all have to start somewhere...
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Comment number 34.
At 24th Nov 2010, CaptRamius wrote:#21
Anatomy, Physics (internal ultrasound) & Physiology: The Vapors - Turning Japanese
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Comment number 35.
At 24th Nov 2010, CaptRamius wrote:* Kraftwerk - Pocket Calculator
* Timbuk3 - The Future's So Bright, I Gotta Wear Shades (Nuclear Physics)
* Feist - 1234 (also used as a counting song on Sesame St)
* They Might Be Giants - Particle Man
Actually, anything from TMBG's great kids' album would be just lovely. I Am A Palaeontologist hits the spot nicely.
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Comment number 36.
At 24th Nov 2010, henri hannah wrote:I think it's worth pointing out to our hero that the guts of of Big Audio Dynamite went on to form....the much requested and never played.. Dreadzone!
Unsurprisingly, Dreadzone don't have much to say about tonights theme except to the extent that maths and science can be wrapped into much that is mystical mumbo jumbo.
To be fair, there is a mathematical basis to much that is called 'music' and therefore the theme is, in reality, really rather wide.
Therfore,apart from Einstein A Go-Go - Landscape I'm keen to hear I Know - Dreadzone but since Pigs will Fly before that happens I guess
Rules Don't Stop - We Are Scientists
is in with a chance.
The irony of the Gong Children In Need campaign was, of course, that Gong were the track of the night - later it dawned on me that the track reminded me of another band who are up there on our hero's big faves list - Admiral Fallow: so much so, we're thinking of playing them back to back on the henri hannah radio show.
reagrdez youse
henri
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Comment number 37.
At 24th Nov 2010, Billy in Alloa wrote:All this user's posts have been removed.Why?
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Comment number 38.
At 24th Nov 2010, Scottish Lass wrote:The Big Bang Theory - Barenaked Ladies
The Element Song - Tom Lehrer
When I Kissed the Teacher - ABBA
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Comment number 39.
At 24th Nov 2010, gaie wrote:Henri - I so agree about Gong and Admiral Fallow. The whole thing was mystifying as come the night it seemed that no-one on the GIO team had actually ever listened to any Gong tracks. I had stuff to do on the pc at the weekend and for fun put on 2032 - listened quite happily to the whole album right through for the first time.
I then went on to listen to Jim Gellatly's new music programme and was very impressed at how good all the tracks were - they're uploaded directly by the bands themselves I think and then presumably sifted.
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Comment number 40.
At 24th Nov 2010, Adam_from_Rio wrote:#24
Aw Billy, Billy, Billy noooooooooooooooooooo. This song is up at Proclaimer level in terms of GIO plays.
Hunner lines for you on klaxons and shoo-ins.
DC told me that someone suggested Space as a theme while my back was turned. Is this true?
Still knurlt but back to warmer climes tomorrow - snow and ice permitting.
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Comment number 41.
At 24th Nov 2010, Billy in Alloa wrote:All this user's posts have been removed.Why?
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Comment number 42.
At 24th Nov 2010, DC wrote:#32 dear Agnes,
Are you saying that X & Y are not the names of the horizontal & vertical axes on graphs?
You must have gone to an "interesting" maths lesson!
I was about to request that we be telt but, on second thoughts, I'm at my lunch so no thanks.
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Comment number 43.
At 24th Nov 2010, DC wrote:Adam, I think the phrase "stellar objects" was mentioned on the show
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Comment number 44.
At 24th Nov 2010, Glen Miller wrote:I never get tired of Sam Cooke but if you want a change, Art Garfunkel does with James Taylor and Paul Simon. It was co-written by Herb Alpert.
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Comment number 45.
At 24th Nov 2010, Rorys_dad_polmont wrote:This is amazing, feat. Richard Feynman on bongos;
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Comment number 46.
At 24th Nov 2010, Billy in Alloa wrote:All this user's posts have been removed.Why?
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Comment number 47.
At 24th Nov 2010, RoxyJohn wrote:Roxy Music 'The Numberer'
Roxy Music '2HB'
Roxy Music 'Three And nine'
Bryan Ferry 'Heartache By Numbers' co/written with Scissor Sisters
J.O'B.
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Comment number 48.
At 24th Nov 2010, CaptRamius wrote:#38
Yes to Tom Lehrer! (did anyone else catch ?)
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Comment number 49.
At 24th Nov 2010, mary-doll wrote:#38 Agree with you and the captain - brilliant choice!
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Comment number 50.
At 24th Nov 2010, paulhandley wrote:853-5937 - Squeeze, hugely enjoyable gig in Glasgow last night :)
4 + 20 - CSNY
Love Minus Zero / No Limit - Bob Dylan, an expression which according to Rab means unlimited love, hmmmm, not sure it stands up to mathematical scrutiny
Paul from Ayr
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Comment number 51.
At 24th Nov 2010, Glen Miller wrote:4+20=6D
Steve Stills tuned all his strings to D for this song.
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Comment number 52.
At 24th Nov 2010, Willie B wrote:Hi Bryan,High Priestess of Weird,Laurie Anderson's songs all seem to be about science and technology(gone wrong,usually!) i love her hypnotic voice so would be cool to hear "Let X=X"or "Big Science"thanks Willie Bartke
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Comment number 53.
At 24th Nov 2010, Mark from Stonehaven wrote:People have mentioned B.A.D and EMC2 but has anyone thought of Mick Jone's current band with Tony James - Carbon Silicon - The News from ATOM 2 would be good and it is a free track!
Mark from Stonehaven (now in from the snow)
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