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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

big audio dynamite e=mc2

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!

They Might Be Giants: Triangle Man

Hip to be square?

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

The magic number - de la soul

Cool idea!

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

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

5 will make you feel alright?

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

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

UB40: One in ten

Depeche Mode: Everything Counts

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

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twelve-tone_technique

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

Heaven is ten zillion light years away. Stevie Wonder

The Final Countdown, being a bit more contemporary

Kate Bush-Pi

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

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

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

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

circlesquare by the Wonderstuff

There's a Muppet song: Inch worm.

9 million bicycles in Beijing

Joni Mitchell The Circle Game

Anything by Joy Division, or New Order for that matter

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

1 by u2

anything by 5star.

perfect by fairgro und attraction

A few here...

Half Man Half Biscuit - 99% of Gargoyles Look Like Bob Todd

Europe - The Final Countdown
Blur - Song 2
Jackson 5 - ABC
Three times a lady ( don't know who sings that)
Cornershop - Brimful of asha

99 Red Balloons

There's a really cool number song on Dd's Mickey Mouse clubhouse cd in the car.
here it is, ignore the cheesy soft play pics

Oooooh ooooooh oooooooh I have a Music Bugs CD with a song on it about Five Bouncing Bunnies

Little Arithmetic by Deus.

The InchWorm song is lovely -Paul McCartney did a version though I've just heard the one on DS' nursery rhyme tape.

multiply by xzibit

My dd used to LOVE this about 3 years ago. It's brilliant :

choo choo soul

I wish I could think of something as dd would love this so I'd like to help you get a cd worth. What a brilliant idea.

one direction - math song

YABU to post it on this forum instead of chat, which also gets a lot of traffic

Tim Minchin - If I didn't Have You

Some of the best mathematical lyrics
http://www.6lyrics.com/if_i_didn_t_have_you4-lyrics-tim_minchin.aspx

Sign of the Times - Brian Ferry I think (links to multiplying with negative numbers!?!?)

How many times? - brother beyond

Mel Torme - "Geometric Blues (Pythagoras, How you stagger us)"

2-4-6-8 motorway

Square one - coldplay

3 is the magic number - bob dorough. Does 3 x table up to 30 and is a lovely song. De la soul adapted it, also good but bd is more maths-y.

Take my breadth away - berlin

Mathcore!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathcore

Reflection - Christina agulara(sp)

Transformers (theme tune from the tv show)

The final countdown

Breakeven by the script

Distance by Karsh Kale (Realise album)

Isachronic tones sound therapy - sleep music relaxation album (may be a bit obscure? But uses patterns for brain stimulation, got me through labour!)

Meridian - a state of trance 550

Miles away - madonna

Perfect - mason Vs princess superstar

Power - Kanye West

Shape of my heart - Sting

212 - Azalea Banks, although you may want the clean version, she's over fond of the c word, a MNer perhaps

That was fun! Though the alphabetisation shows I was trawling my iTunes

www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQej8AOjEHc Math Song, Tom Lehrer

www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOmazuzCXCg Bizarre Love Triangle, New Order

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwU8QeW4ofU Money, Pink Floyd

Haven't read all posts but there's that 3, 6, 9, the goose drank wine song - The Clapping Song in fact. Not really maths in the title though. Errrrm...

Sine your name - Terence Trent D'Arby
Sine of the Times - Prince (is that a song?)
Be-cos - The Beatles
Circle of Life - Elton John

And I was trying to think of a Floyd one to justify my name... very tenuous but there is 'Set The Controls For The Heart of the Sun'.

Not directly linked, but i like this

sorry, this

Someone mentioned one direction. Their math song is actually from chris moyles program and I think they had a maths song each week with a different singer/band

There's a great Pythagorean theorem song sung to the tune of Justin bieber's 'baby'... It's all over you-tube and used by all the maths teachers I know...

On YouTube there are lots of quadratic equation songs.

As another head of maths I might steal your idea. Thanks.

Money by Pink Floyd, Eugene?

Adele - Turning (Times) Tables
Carly Simon - Coming Around Again (probably too tenuous)
Taylor Swift - The probability of us getting back together is zero
Iron Maiden - The Number of the Beast
Spice Girls - Two Become One
Coldplay - X&Y (Title song from their album)

I don't know why but I'm thinking Snow Patrol or Keane probably have something with a good title or lyrics?

Tribute by Tenacious D might work too as it has the recurring lyric "The greatest song in the world"

Jurassic 5 have some great tracks

Jurassic 5..
ignition sequence
lesson 6 the lecture
quality control pt 2
power 106 promo
concrete schoolyard

the counting song and this masterpiece batty bat

Theorem by Kineto (it's about Fermats Last Theorem)

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermat%27s_Last_Theorem

Anything by Maroon 5. I'll have a ponder at my tunes in the morning (well, when I get up, hopefully having slept...) and see what I can find.

Though a link to the Pythagorus tube done to Justin Beiber would be appreciated, it might get DD understanding it a bit better...

Substitute - The Who

*has to be awake at 7am.. stays awake at 3.30am watching movies online about Fermat's proof...

damn you mumsnet!

You make me feel (Mighty real): Sylvester

The Logical Song: Supertramp

Don't explain, be obtuse: Nina Simone

Complex: Gary Numan

Not sure if it has already been mentioned but Dodecahedron by Beth Jeans Houghton.

Take it to the limit - Eagles
No limit - 2 unlimited

3 times a lady- Lionel Ritchie ( I think)

plan 9 channel 7 by the Dammned

3 minute song - tim minchin

Circle - Soouxie and the Banshees

The Logical Song, Scooter.

i had a quick look at some of my albums this morning (only a couple of i would have been late for work)

The Blessing - Delta Rain
Blur - No Distance left to run
Deacon Blue - one hundred things
David Bowie - Zeroes (that's only a mathematical concept, see)

A bit obscure perhaps but I remember reading trying to read a book about the mathematical basis within bach's music. It was too complicated for my tiny brain but this website has a bit of explanation (transformation geometry) that even my tiny, now baby frazzled, brain can understand.

I'm in awe of how many suggestions are already here, but if you did need more, might want to try posting this on the TES maths forum.
community.tes.co.uk/forums/25.aspx

5,4,3,2,1 - manfred mann
Galaxy song - monty python

Laurie Anderson: Let x = x
XTC: Senses working overtime