TO WANT MATHEMATICAL SONGS?

[babytrasher]

Not really anything unreasonable, but the quickest / surest way to tap the collective genius of MN...

I am Head of Maths in a school with a tradition of teachers giving each other CDs of favourite music at Xmas. I am really keen to put together a "Maths Music" CD; and also to some of the students who would appreciate the concept. So far I have come up with about 25 mins towards a full 80 min CD:

Don MacLean: American Pi,

Katie Melua: 9.0 x 10 (to the power of) 6 Bicycles.

Nena: 10 Squared - 1 Squared Red Balloons (Does anyone have a copy of, or a link to, the original & much darker German version, 99 LuftBallon )

Lou Bega: Mambo No 5.

The Band: The Shape I'm In.

The Carter Family: The Circle Shall Be Unbroken.

There are quite a lot of songs with numbers in the title, but I am particularly looking for mathematical concepts or significant numbers.

If I can fill a CD, I will post the final playlist along with acknowledgements of the suggesters.

Many s

[uptheamp]

big audio dynamite e=mc2

[MoreCrackThanHarlem]

Look on YouTube for the mean, median and mode song sung to the tune of Its Not Fair by Lily Allen. Dd's lovely maths teacher plays it in her lessons. Never seen dd so enthusiastic about averages!

[TheCheeseAlarm]

They Might Be Giants: Triangle Man

[RubbishCrackerPuller]

Hip to be square?

[uptheamp]

numbers by soft cell - may not be quite you're after though

[karron]

The magic number - de la soul

[SageStuffingYourOrifice]

Cool idea!

Time by Pink Floyd (Dark Side of the Moon album)

[manicinsomniac]

Youtube might help, it has some amazing English grammar song that I use.

5 will make you feel alright?

[SantasRooftopFanjangHoHo]

Not quite what you were looking for but a persoanl fave...

[TeamBacon]

Sure there are other They Might Be Giants ones though can't remember off the top of ny head

[TheCheeseAlarm]

UB40: One in ten

Depeche Mode: Everything Counts

[ValentineWiggins]

New math by Tom Lehrer. They might be giants has a whole cd called "here come the 123s"

[PurplePidjChickIsNotTheMessiah]

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twelve-tone_technique

More maths in music and it sounds like strangled cats but interesting on an intellectual level?

[drjohnsonscat]

Heaven is ten zillion light years away. Stevie Wonder

[PurplePidjChickIsNotTheMessiah]

The Final Countdown, being a bit more contemporary

[amistillsexy]

It really is a song about Pi (her husband, actually, who is obsessed with pi), and she sings the numbers. It's hauntingly beautiful.

[EndoplasmicReticulum]

They Might Be Giants have a whole album of maths songs - here come the 123s.

Also if you google "songs with numbers in the title" you get loads.

www.songfacts.com/category-songs_with_numbers_in_the_title.php

[nickelbabylyinginamanger]

3 is the magic number.
can't remember who it's by but it's cool.

there must be a song about imaginary friends...

i wanna be (500 miles) proclaimers

[noblegiraffe]

I would walk 500 miles (or approximately 800km) by The Proclaimers?

[SantasRooftopFanjangHoHo]

circlesquare by the Wonderstuff

[NotQuiteCockney]

There's a Muppet song: Inch worm.

[nickelbabylyinginamanger]

9 million bicycles in Beijing

[amistillsexy]

[TheCheeseAlarm]

Anything by Joy Division, or New Order for that matter

[EndoplasmicReticulum]

Oh and The Proclaimers - "I could walk 500 miles and I could walk 500 more"