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SquareOne song poll

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"Nine Nine Nine" and "Angle Dance" still get stuck in my head from time to time

Poll Results

OptionVotes
* A song about the number one billion, performed by The Fat Boys. 2
* "8% of My Love," a song about percentages, reminiscent of Meatloaf's style. 2
* "Less Than Zero," a song about negative numbers 2
* "Ghost of a Chance," a Thriller parody about a pizza boy gambling on his life when he delivers to a haunted 1
* "Nine, Nine, Nine," a country music song demonstrating that the digital root of a multiple of 9 is 9, 1
* "Patterns", about patterns that can be detected in society, performed by "Weird Al" Yankovic. 1
* "Time Keeper," a synth-pop song about clock arithmetic, performed by Tempestt Bledsoe of The Cosby Show fam 0
* "Wanna Be," a song about needing to know math to be productive, performed by Bobby McFerrin. 0
* "Sign of the Times," a salsa song about using the letter X for multiplication. 0
* "Rules of Thumb," a song about making estimations from well-known facts, performed by Kid 'n Play. 0
* "Hip to Be a Square" sung by Huey Lewis and the News, usually accompanied by dancing squares 0
* "Angle Dance," a New Wave/synth-pop song about obtuse and acute angles. 0
* "Count Each Fraction of Each Second We're Apart," a country song about fractions performed by The Judds. 0
* "The Mathematics of Love" a '60s pop-styled song about numbers and Roman numerals. 0
* "Infinity" a song about the concept of infinity performed by The Jets. 0


― ambient bangers (gnarly sceptre), Tuesday, 24 March 2009 11:55 (seventeen years ago)

May I say you are my HERO for ALL TIME for making this poll?

― i'm shy (Abbott), Tuesday, 24 March 2009 17:03 (seventeen years ago)

And that even on an obscure subject I am sad that a song got left out? ('Archimedes' bcz it got me to know that Archimedes is a fucking badass.)

― i'm shy (Abbott), Tuesday, 24 March 2009 17:03 (seventeen years ago)

i have deep childhood memories of the fat boys and of the infinity song.

― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 24 March 2009 17:05 (seventeen years ago)

"usually accompanied by dancing squares"

Sometimes it wasn't?

― i'm shy (Abbott), Tuesday, 24 March 2009 17:07 (seventeen years ago)

Haha, my first thought was "Where's the Archimedes song?"

Don't know what I'm voting for, but now I'll have "I night the stars were glowing/ II hearts were overflowing" stuck in my head all afternoon.

― lindseykai, Tuesday, 24 March 2009 17:17 (seventeen years ago)

ditto, although i am also disappointed by the lack of the Mathnet theme song as an option. really wanna hear "8% of my love" right now. xpost

― kid cutty (some dude), Tuesday, 24 March 2009 17:18 (seventeen years ago)

These were all that was on the wiki page, so any absentees are the math-hating public's fault.

The Fat Boys song doesn't ring any bells. But the title music is worth a nod too:

Here's Archimedes:

― ambient bangers (gnarly sceptre), Wednesday, 25 March 2009 00:07 (seventeen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

― System, Sunday, 29 March 2009 23:01 (seventeen years ago)

i blame this show for everything thats happened to me in life

― ۞_۞ (ciderpress), Sunday, 29 March 2009 23:45 (seventeen years ago)

fat boys all the way

― Whiney G. Weingarten, Sunday, 29 March 2009 23:47 (seventeen years ago)

how do i not remember the kid n play one?!

― Whiney G. Weingarten, Sunday, 29 March 2009 23:48 (seventeen years ago)

"Nine, Nine, Nine" is pretty catchy, but I gotta go with "8% of My Love," which still makes me giggle. "Ghost of a Chance" totally scared me as a kid.

― lindseykai, Monday, 30 March 2009 00:32 (seventeen years ago)

Between "8% of My Love" and "Ghost of a Chance". Was this the greatest children's TV show ever?

― Sundar, Monday, 30 March 2009 02:20 (seventeen years ago)

― Sundar, Monday, 30 March 2009 02:22 (seventeen years ago)

"Ghost of a Chance" doesn't hold up quite as well but it totally spooked me at the time too.

― Sundar, Monday, 30 March 2009 02:30 (seventeen years ago)

this totally set the tone for Bill Nye's parodies of cool songs. why isnt there a working youtube of his reptile song "Touch Me, I'm Slick"?

― Whiney G. Weingarten, Monday, 30 March 2009 11:34 (seventeen years ago)

"Nine Nine Nine" blew my 8-year-old mind.

how do i not remember the kid n play one?!

ya me neither! which is weird cause my brother would watch House Party and Class Act nearly every day at the time so i feel like i should remember if they turned up on SquareOne.

― Roz, Monday, 30 March 2009 12:18 (seventeen years ago)

Does anyone remember the Morrissey parody on Bill Nye, "The Faster You Push Me, the Farther I Get"?

― i'm shy (Abbott), Monday, 30 March 2009 16:09 (seventeen years ago)

I LOVED THIS SHOW

― fight the real NME (Curt1s Stephens), Monday, 30 March 2009 16:11 (seventeen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

― System, Monday, 30 March 2009 23:01 (seventeen years ago)


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