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

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