rush - manhattan projectmogwai - atomic ostcan - quantum physics
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 11 October 2016 10:53 (seven years ago) link
Hermann Love Pauline by SFA is about Gruff picking up those little pocket history books in service stations whilst on tour iirc.
― MaresNest, Tuesday, 11 October 2016 11:01 (seven years ago) link
Semisonic - All About Chemistry, in the reference/metaphor category. Whole song.
Also surely a fair number of 50s/60s novelty songs about mad scientists and the like, which tend to have at least the suggestion of a research/laboratory setting, e.g. Jimmy Troy's wonderful "The Brain."
― DOCTOR CAISNO, BYCREATIVELABBUS (Doctor Casino), Tuesday, 11 October 2016 17:03 (seven years ago) link
What's that one Flaming Lips song, "Search For The Prize"?
― Easy, Spooky Action! (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 11 October 2016 17:12 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwbhVjUcono
― paolo, Tuesday, 11 October 2016 17:13 (seven years ago) link
Sorry, "Race For The Prize."
― Easy, Spooky Action! (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 12 October 2016 15:54 (seven years ago) link
every breath you take - the police
― hunangarage, Wednesday, 12 October 2016 16:01 (seven years ago) link
Can, "Below This Level (Patient's Song)"
"This time the experiment you’ve madeHas turned to some kind of lemonade"
― (SNIFFING AND INDISTINCT SOBBING) (Tom D.), Wednesday, 12 October 2016 16:16 (seven years ago) link
"Maxwell's Silver Hammer" - "Joan was quizzical, studied pataphysical science in the home."
― GUNSHOW POOPHOLE (Phil D.), Wednesday, 12 October 2016 16:19 (seven years ago) link
Submitted for your approval, the mysterious second verse of Brian Eno's Fat Lady of Limbourg. She appears to be a human CSI lab.
The Fat Lady of LimbourgLooked at the samples that we sentAnd furrowed her brow.You would never believe thatShe'd tasted royalty and fameIf you saw her now.But her sense of taste is such that she'll distinguish with her tongueThe subtleties a spectrograph would miss,And announce her decision,While demanding her reward:The jellyfish kiss.
― kornrulez6969, Wednesday, 12 October 2016 18:12 (seven years ago) link
Oh geez, someone beat me to Fat Lady of Limbourg. Sorry home organ, I searched by "eno"
― kornrulez6969, Wednesday, 12 October 2016 18:14 (seven years ago) link
more about *not* doing research, but:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4csr6pLZLg
― a self-reinforcing downward spiral of male-centric indie (katherine), Wednesday, 12 October 2016 22:31 (seven years ago) link