Match a philosopher with the song that best suits him/her

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Alright, people. Here's the game. If you know of a song that sounds like a particular philosopher would sing it, post it.

Here's my contribution:

Socrates=Knowledge by Operation Ivy (also covered by Green Day)

― Kevin, Thursday, 5 June 2003 08:22 (twenty-two years ago)

Digital by Joy Division = Sartre (have I put enough r's in his name or too many?)

― kate, Thursday, 5 June 2003 08:27 (twenty-two years ago)

That awful 'Superman' song thing and Nietszche.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Thursday, 5 June 2003 08:28 (twenty-two years ago)

Which Superman song? Spin Doctors or Flaming Lips?

Or the hundred other bands that have written songs about Superman?

― kate, Thursday, 5 June 2003 08:30 (twenty-two years ago)

3 Doors Down? Laurie Anderson?

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 5 June 2003 08:30 (twenty-two years ago)

Nietzsche (I know, it's hard) and any black metal song...

Just kiddin', Nietzsche wasn't a Fascist actually, he got that reputation because of his sister's support of the Nazis.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 5 June 2003 08:34 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh, and cause the Nazis just quoted him left right and centre in all their philosophy. But that's right, influence does not exist, etc. etc.

― kate, Thursday, 5 June 2003 08:36 (twenty-two years ago)

Marquis de Sade = No New Tale To Tell

(you cannot go against nature, because when you do, that's part of nature, too, now bend over and say ah!)

― kate, Thursday, 5 June 2003 08:37 (twenty-two years ago)

Plato: Biz Markie 'Just a Friend'

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 5 June 2003 08:39 (twenty-two years ago)

(Am desperately trying to think of some themetunes for Kant and Voltaire but not doing very well, sans caffeinaion.)

― kate, Thursday, 5 June 2003 08:39 (twenty-two years ago)

Immanuel Kant -

"You Are In My System".

There you go Kate.

― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Thursday, 5 June 2003 08:44 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh, and cause the Nazis just quoted him left right and centre in all their philosophy. But that's right, influence does not exist, etc. etc.

I didn't say Nazis weren't influenced by Nietzsche, I said the man himself wasn't a Fascist. He was misinterpreted, sure, but that doesn't make him a Nazi. I think nowadays he's better understood because that Nazi stigma has been lifted off.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 5 June 2003 08:44 (twenty-two years ago)

(That Superman song that was a really hi-camp Rocky-Horror-type 80s thing that had people doing all that dance going "1-summat, 2-summat, 3-summat SUPERMAN!" As well as being about Superman it has a hi-camp ethos that I thing old Fred woudl appreciate.)

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Thursday, 5 June 2003 08:46 (twenty-two years ago)

Or any Bowie song and Nietszche.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Thursday, 5 June 2003 08:46 (twenty-two years ago)

Adorno & Horkheimer: And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead

a group name, I know, but it was just too tempting ...

― Jay K (Jay K), Thursday, 5 June 2003 08:46 (twenty-two years ago)

Kant might have liked Goldie's last album as the Critique of Pure Reason is equally long and impenetrable. Possibly Schopenhauer for Joy Division too (Love will tear us apart). Derrida might like 'Jacques Derrida' by Scritti Politti (or possibly not).

― Kim Tortoise, Thursday, 5 June 2003 08:53 (twenty-two years ago)

Deleuze would like Britney Spears and Merzbow.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Thursday, 5 June 2003 08:56 (twenty-two years ago)

Would Voltaire like Cabaret Voltaire? I don't think so.

― kate, Thursday, 5 June 2003 08:58 (twenty-two years ago)

I heard Plato was a big Republica fan. No, stop it, you're killing me.

― Kim Tortoise, Thursday, 5 June 2003 09:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Funny, I heard he liked early-90s New Order! Ba dum dum dump.

― kate, Thursday, 5 June 2003 09:04 (twenty-two years ago)

Can we get a shout-out for Heidigger & Ho's? 4 Real!

― kate, Thursday, 5 June 2003 09:06 (twenty-two years ago)

Kant "We Are The World"

― Siegbran (eofor), Thursday, 5 June 2003 09:18 (twenty-two years ago)

McLuhan's not really a philosopher per se but I alwasy associated Idlewild's I Am A Message with him.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Thursday, 5 June 2003 09:22 (twenty-two years ago)

Roland Barthes would like Bucks Fizz - My Camera Never Lies.

― Kim Tortoise, Thursday, 5 June 2003 09:37 (twenty-two years ago)

Althusser - G'n'R, "Used to Love Her"

― dave q, Thursday, 5 June 2003 09:37 (twenty-two years ago)

Lacan - "Stop Making Sense".

Bertrand Russell - "I Get Around"

Damn, I just rubbed dried chilli into my eyes. Ow! OW!!!!

― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Thursday, 5 June 2003 09:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Adorno and anything By Johnny Hates Jazz

― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Thursday, 5 June 2003 09:57 (twenty-two years ago)

Right, the pain's subsided.

Jean-Paul Sartre - "I've Never Been To Me".

― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Thursday, 5 June 2003 09:58 (twenty-two years ago)

You know, this is bound to be a popular thread as we can all prove how much philosophy we've skimmed through without ever being challenged by a real philosopher.

― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Thursday, 5 June 2003 09:59 (twenty-two years ago)

Come on, you didn't *really* expect anything except facetiousness on this thread now, did you?

Boethius - "I'm In A Rut"

― kate, Thursday, 5 June 2003 10:02 (twenty-two years ago)

Paulo Virilio and anything produced by The Bomb Squad

― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Thursday, 5 June 2003 10:04 (twenty-two years ago)

Hakim Bey - Anything on Underground Resistance

― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Thursday, 5 June 2003 10:06 (twenty-two years ago)

No Kate, as a pesudo-intellectual myself, like all music critics, I can only approve. Actually, I'm standing on my laurels and applauding wildly.

Although it's obvious you, at least, have read and actually understood some philosophy.

Epictetus - 'You Can't Always Get What You Want'.

Woo, I'm on fire.

― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Thursday, 5 June 2003 10:07 (twenty-two years ago)

Adorno again... Modern Life Is Rubbish by Blur

― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Thursday, 5 June 2003 10:07 (twenty-two years ago)

Marx would like Kelis and ODB.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Thursday, 5 June 2003 10:09 (twenty-two years ago)

Nah, Marx would be more down with Bobby G and PRML SCRM! For sho'!

― kate, Thursday, 5 June 2003 10:13 (twenty-two years ago)

R.D. Laing - "Don't Let Me Get Me".

He's a psychologist but I plead admissibility due to his existential leanings.

Karl Marx would like "We Can't Be Beaten" by Rose Tatoo. That's an anthyem for proletarian uprising if ever there was one.

― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Thursday, 5 June 2003 10:15 (twenty-two years ago)

Marx - Common People

― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Thursday, 5 June 2003 10:15 (twenty-two years ago)

Albert Camus "Killing an Arab" Ha ha hzzzzzzzzzzzzz....

― flowersdie (flowersdie), Thursday, 5 June 2003 10:20 (twenty-two years ago)

2nd year philosophy student -> Socrates the Python - Peter Murphy

― dave225 (Dave225), Thursday, 5 June 2003 10:57 (twenty-two years ago)

Young Wittgenstein would probably like Autechre. Older Wittgenstein, probably not.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 5 June 2003 11:02 (twenty-two years ago)

Plato: Biz Markie 'Just a Friend'

oops that is extreme genius!

Saussure - Motorhead, 'On Parole'

― pete b. (pete b.), Thursday, 5 June 2003 11:02 (twenty-two years ago)

Derrida releases all his trax through the Deconstruction UK label o course

― Alan (Alan), Thursday, 5 June 2003 11:06 (twenty-two years ago)

Diogenes "Barrel House Man" (ha!)

― Siegbran (eofor), Thursday, 5 June 2003 11:41 (twenty-two years ago)

Jack Handy - "Break on Through (To the Other Side)"

― dave q, Thursday, 5 June 2003 11:47 (twenty-two years ago)

Liebnitz - Everybody's Happy Nowadays

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Thursday, 5 June 2003 12:58 (twenty-two years ago)

Nietszche - "Once In a Lifetime"

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 5 June 2003 13:11 (twenty-two years ago)

Aristotle - woo-whoo, yeah, uh! I am a scientist.

― kate, Thursday, 5 June 2003 13:23 (twenty-two years ago)

Jung - "Particle Man"

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 5 June 2003 13:33 (twenty-two years ago)

It would work equally well for Demothsenes. (sp?)

― kate, Thursday, 5 June 2003 13:34 (twenty-two years ago)

Charles S. Peirce, philosopher and the father of modern semiology, might like the 'Don't start me to talking' by Sonny Boy Williamson II.

"Don't start me to talkin', I'll tell everything I know/ I'm gonna break up this signifyin'/ 'Cause somebody's got to go....".

― jadrenos, Thursday, 5 June 2003 13:55 (twenty-two years ago)

Blaise Pascal — Broken Road's "Bet On An Angel"

― Bruce Urquhart (Bruce Urquhart), Thursday, 5 June 2003 13:57 (twenty-two years ago)

Franz Muller-Lyer - Johnny Cash's "I Walk the Line"

― Bruce Urquhart (Bruce Urquhart), Thursday, 5 June 2003 14:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Democritus — New Order's "World in Motion"

― Bruce Urquhart (Bruce Urquhart), Thursday, 5 June 2003 14:04 (twenty-two years ago)

"Killing An Arab" -- Camus

oh snap!

― Kingfish (Kingfish), Thursday, 5 June 2003 14:10 (twenty-two years ago)

e.m. cioran = anything by negative approach...

btw, cioran wrote extensively and beautifully on music. my favorite line of his: "music is the refuge of souls wounded by happiness."

and so on...

― steve duda, Thursday, 5 June 2003 15:17 (twenty-two years ago)

Parmenides —Azalia Snail's "Static Quo"

― Bruce Urquhart (Bruce Urquhart), Thursday, 5 June 2003 15:35 (twenty-two years ago)

Ayn Rand - Ludacris' "Rollout (My Business)"

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Thursday, 5 June 2003 15:52 (twenty-two years ago)

Descartes - "Leave Your Body" by THE GRID

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Thursday, 5 June 2003 15:56 (twenty-two years ago)

colin's Epictetus one is very good!

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Thursday, 5 June 2003 15:59 (twenty-two years ago)

Virilio - "I Can't Drive 55"

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Thursday, 5 June 2003 16:00 (twenty-two years ago)

of course Deleuze doesn't listen to recorded music

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Thursday, 5 June 2003 16:01 (twenty-two years ago)

Habermas - anything by Talk Talk

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Thursday, 5 June 2003 16:01 (twenty-two years ago)

Marquis de Sade : Venus in Furs

― King Kobra (King Kobra), Thursday, 5 June 2003 16:29 (twenty-two years ago)

Lacan - Smashing Pumpkins - "Zero"

"my reflection, dirty mirror, there's no connection, to myself..."

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 5 June 2003 16:32 (twenty-two years ago)

erm Jean Baudrillard - 'Nothing ever happens'

― jadrenos (jadrenos), Thursday, 5 June 2003 17:29 (twenty-two years ago)

Spinoza - We Are the World

― brains (cerybut), Thursday, 5 June 2003 18:59 (twenty-two years ago)

[gaping anus pic] Actually not that far removed from an answer.

― goatse.cx, Thursday, 5 June 2003 19:04 (twenty-two years ago)

Marquis de Sade = No New Tale To Tell
Naw...he'd pick that phony "punk" song from the Punk Episode of CHiPs!

― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Thursday, 5 June 2003 19:05 (twenty-two years ago)

Okay, we'll have none of that, thank you.
(x-post)

― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Thursday, 5 June 2003 19:05 (twenty-two years ago)

Walter Benjamin - "All About the Benjamins"

― s1utsky (slutsky), Thursday, 5 June 2003 19:11 (twenty-two years ago)

Pierre Bourdieu - "Common People"

― Sam J. (samjeff), Thursday, 5 June 2003 19:13 (twenty-two years ago)

Adorno/Horkheimer (once more): everything by the Art Bears

― Sam J. (samjeff), Thursday, 5 June 2003 19:21 (twenty-two years ago)

older wittgenstein - Ray Charles' "What'd I Say"

― brains (cerybut), Thursday, 5 June 2003 19:53 (twenty-two years ago)

kierkegaard (sp?) - you take me higher by Creed

― brains (cerybut), Thursday, 5 June 2003 19:56 (twenty-two years ago)

Wittgenstein - 'Don't say goodnight and mean goodbye'

― jadrenos (jadrenos), Thursday, 5 June 2003 20:10 (twenty-two years ago)

G.E. Moore - Vicious Games

Of course, the 'vicious' would refer to vicious infinite logical regress, and the 'games' would refer to the definitional games philosophers often mistake for real points of issue.

― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Thursday, 5 June 2003 23:31 (twenty-two years ago)

Hey that Althusser joke!!! What about Paul de Man, "Springtime for Hitler and Germany"!! You see, now you made me say something mean! Poor guy.

― Jody C, Friday, 6 June 2003 05:12 (twenty-two years ago)

You understand Kant, you write a book only the world's most advanced theorists can read, you make ONE LITTLE MISTAKE and suddenly everyone else is a wiseguy!

― Jody C, Friday, 6 June 2003 05:14 (twenty-two years ago)

The Massed Determinists' Community Choir: "Que Sera Sera"

― Captain Sleep (Captain Sleep), Friday, 6 June 2003 05:41 (twenty-two years ago)

L Ron Hubbard - "Sail on Sailor", "Death of a Disco Dancer"

― dave q, Friday, 6 June 2003 12:51 (twenty-two years ago)

L. Ron Hubbard = "I Was Only Joking"

― kate (kate), Friday, 6 June 2003 12:53 (twenty-two years ago)

Rev Jim Jones - "992 Arguments"

― dave q, Friday, 6 June 2003 12:55 (twenty-two years ago)

Been Caught Stealing - Jean Genet

― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Friday, 6 June 2003 13:02 (twenty-two years ago)

Jean Genet lives on his back....

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Friday, 6 June 2003 13:14 (twenty-two years ago)

"Opium For The People" (Gong) - Karl Marx

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Friday, 6 June 2003 13:29 (twenty-two years ago)

one year passes...

Karl Marx- Gimme Shelter

His two favorite subjects as a boy were the girl next door and the apocalypse. This was the best I could come up with.

― Cunga (Cunga), Sunday, 22 May 2005 05:58 (twenty years ago)

W.V.O Quinne - Rabbit, Rabbit (Chas 'n Dave)

― elwisty (elwisty), Sunday, 22 May 2005 14:24 (twenty years ago)

Gottlob Frege - The Logical Song or Add It Up

― elwisty (elwisty), Sunday, 22 May 2005 14:31 (twenty years ago)

J.S. Mill - Shiny Happy People

― Prolegomena, Sunday, 22 May 2005 14:36 (twenty years ago)

Would Slavoj Zizek/Momus be too obvious?

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Sunday, 22 May 2005 14:50 (twenty years ago)

Lacan + Damon & Naomi with Ghost = "The Mirror Phase"

― L (Leee), Sunday, 22 May 2005 14:53 (twenty years ago)

Scritti Politti - "Jacques Derrida" [/obvious]

Would Sartre like The Jean-Paul Sartre Experience? Would Saussure like "The Death of Ferdinand de Saussure"?

― Ian Riese-Moraine is on toffuti break! (Eastern Mantra), Sunday, 22 May 2005 17:06 (twenty years ago)

hume "what you see is what you get"

― Sym Sym (sym), Sunday, 22 May 2005 17:12 (twenty years ago)

L Wittgenstein-"4'33"
JL Austin - "Words"
WVO Quine - "All You Zombies"

― Ken L (Ken L), Sunday, 22 May 2005 17:15 (twenty years ago)

Arthur C. Danto- "Andy Warhol"
Hilary Putnam - "Cool Water'

― Ken L (Ken L), Sunday, 22 May 2005 17:20 (twenty years ago)

Gang of Four, "Natural's Not In It" = Foucault's History of Sexuality, Volume I in three minutes, only more fun.

― box of socks, Sunday, 22 May 2005 17:24 (twenty years ago)

Baudrillard: Gang of Four - "Why Theory?" [I don't think the song has anything to do with him, but the title's lifted from a brief essay of his.]
Debord: The Durutti Column's debut album. *grin*

― Ian Riese-Moraine is on toffuti break! (Eastern Mantra), Sunday, 22 May 2005 17:39 (twenty years ago)

Actually, Debord: Anything JAMs/Timelords/KLF-related.

― Ian Riese-Moraine is on toffuti break! (Eastern Mantra), Sunday, 22 May 2005 17:42 (twenty years ago)

Alvin Plantinga - God Only Knows

― elwisty (elwisty), Sunday, 22 May 2005 18:07 (twenty years ago)

"We Are Time" (Pop Group)- Heidegger/Kant

― D. Bachyrycz, Sunday, 22 May 2005 18:08 (twenty years ago)

Richard Dawkins - I Will Survive

― elwisty (elwisty), Sunday, 22 May 2005 18:10 (twenty years ago)

E Husserl -"[Something Like a] Phenomenon"

― Ken L (Ken L), Sunday, 22 May 2005 18:40 (twenty years ago)

Thomas Malthus- "Philosophy of the World"

― Ken L (Ken L), Sunday, 22 May 2005 18:47 (twenty years ago)

Giambattista Vico- "Will It Go Round In Circles?"

― Ken L (Ken L), Sunday, 22 May 2005 18:51 (twenty years ago)

and, or course
Giordano Bruno - "Will The Circle Be Unbroken?"

― Ken L (Ken L), Sunday, 22 May 2005 18:52 (twenty years ago)

Alfred Tarski - "The Way I Walk [Is Just The Way I Walk]"

― Ken L (Ken L), Sunday, 22 May 2005 18:54 (twenty years ago)

Another one for Wittgenstein, courtesy of the Monks- "Shut Up"

― Ken L (Ken L), Sunday, 22 May 2005 18:55 (twenty years ago)

Marcus Aurelius- "Kings"

― Ken L (Ken L), Sunday, 22 May 2005 18:59 (twenty years ago)

Another one for Blaise Pascal- "The Lucky One"

― Ken L (Ken L), Sunday, 22 May 2005 19:08 (twenty years ago)

Samuel Johnson "Why Can't I Touch It"

― Sym Sym (sym), Sunday, 22 May 2005 19:09 (twenty years ago)

Plato, or in fact most Greek philosophers: Michael Jackson: "P.Y.T (Pretty Young Thing)"

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Sunday, 22 May 2005 19:17 (twenty years ago)

hegel "three (is the magic number)"

― Sym Sym (sym), Sunday, 22 May 2005 19:22 (twenty years ago)

bertrand russell "dear god"
david hume (again!) "tomorrow never knows"

― Sym Sym (sym), Sunday, 22 May 2005 19:27 (twenty years ago)

Peter Sibger - Meat Is Murder

― elwisty (elwisty), Sunday, 22 May 2005 19:33 (twenty years ago)

*Peter Singer

― elwisty (elwisty), Sunday, 22 May 2005 19:33 (twenty years ago)

ayn rand -- "the greatest love of all"

― m coleman (lovebug starski), Sunday, 22 May 2005 19:34 (twenty years ago)

Hegel - "the best of both worlds"
Stirner - "me myself and I"

― Koens (Koens), Sunday, 22 May 2005 19:46 (twenty years ago)

Jeremy Bentham - "Somebody's Watching Me"

― Ken L (Ken L), Sunday, 22 May 2005 20:06 (twenty years ago)

Jerry Fodor - "Jet Airliner"
John Searle - "Chinese Rocks"

― Ken L (Ken L), Sunday, 22 May 2005 20:11 (twenty years ago)

buckminster fuller - "modern things"
jean baudrillard (or however you spell that) - "Once in a Lifetime"
ayn rand - "banging the door"

― firstworldman (firstworldman), Sunday, 22 May 2005 20:21 (twenty years ago)

Karl Marx: The Clash "Remote Control"

― Orbit (Orbit), Sunday, 22 May 2005 20:23 (twenty years ago)

chomsky - ballad of investment capital overseas
confucious - man whose head expanded

― firstworldman (firstworldman), Sunday, 22 May 2005 20:25 (twenty years ago)

Eric Hoffer: Who Makes the Nazis

― Cunga (Cunga), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 03:45 (twenty years ago)

Another one for Descartes: "Still Ill"

― Ken L (Ken L), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 15:51 (twenty years ago)

Martin Buber: Lionel Ritchie, "Say You, Say Me."

There are lots of good choices for Epictetus and Stoics generally: "Break My Stride," "I Will Survive," etc.

― The Mad Puffin, Tuesday, 24 May 2005 16:07 (twenty years ago)

More Plato: "The Academy Fight Song"

― Ken L (Ken L), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 16:10 (twenty years ago)

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