THE TUNE IS SPACE AKA DROOOOOOOO HAS A VERY IMPORTANT SCIENCE-THEMED QUESTION TO ASK YOU ALL

'I'm DJing a dance party with a science theme and I need fun songs about science that will make people dance. Assuming I've already got the Thomas Dolby "She Blinded Me With Science" / OingoBoingo "Weird Science" / Beastie Boys "Sound of Science" trifecta covered, what else should be on my playlist? Songs can be tangential to science but should have some noticeable hook that refers to physics, chemistry, geology, biology, etc."

he's apparently having trouble logging back in or something.

obviously this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bMM61Y5CEU&ob=av2e

something from

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51gyQTAawLL._SL500_AA300_.jpg

*hides*

Laurie Anderson, "Big Science"
Minutemen, "God Bows to Math"

or the band crash course in science?

Love is Like Oxygen
Kraftwerk's Radioactivity
OMD's Electricity

one of my fave songs from the 80's

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xo-4w9A6sVE

Radar Love?

GBV's I Am A Scientist!

unkle - chemistry
john maus - quantum leap
a.r. kane - a love from outer space

OMD - Genetic Engineering
Landscape - Einstein A Go Go

Hawkwind - Orgone Accumulator

Devo-Mr. DNA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJKP5vymbV4

scientist - scientist ganja dub
flaming lips - race for the prize
deltron 3030 - virus

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPfiKEDmv-k

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dls_cBmUt7Q&ob=av2e

Can-Chain Reaction, Quantum Physics
XTC-Battery Brides
Robyn Hitchcock-The Man With The Lightbulb Head

not good for a dance party really. i just like it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpTzawl3OmI

Paul Simon - "When Numbers Get Serious"

if you can play video while dj'ing play this song play this fucking song

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=_sUeGC-8dyk

i guess dropping some schoolhouse rock into a science set would be a little too retro 90's gen x 70's, right?

or 70's gen ex retro 90's. or something.

every1 watch that vid

Blondie, "Fade Away and Radiate"

bunch of 80s shit:

the pointer sisters - "neutron dance"
the polecats - "make circuit with me"
the firm - "radioactive"
the b-52's - "53 miles west of venus"

David Bowie, "Life on Mars"
Tuff Darts, "(You're Love is Like) Nuclear Waste"

Buffalo Springfield, "Flying on the Ground Is Wrong"

Bruce Haack - "Party Machine"

The Byrds, "Artificial Energy"

They Might Be Giants, "Why Does The Sun Shine? (The Sun Is a Mass of Incandescent Gas)"

Wait I just read the part about making people dance.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCARADb9asE

I don't know how this is about science. I am sorry. I just wanted more people to know about this song. I am ashamed.

Captain Beefheart - "Electricity"

XTC - "Science Friction"
Girls Aloud - "Biology"

Agh, I hope I'm not too late, but clearly this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHX-PU9SN8A
(Anne Waldman - Uh Oh Plutonium)

Obvious slow dance is Sam Cooke's "Wonderful World." (Greatest song ever to mention biology, trigonometry, and slide rules.)

And also obvious but worth it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bP48M2BEs0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7LTXTpkQOc

Kraftwerk - "Pocket Calculator"
Blackalicious - "Chemical Calisthenics"

you should def close with that Hallelujah The Hills song "To All My Scientist Colleagues I Bud Your Farewell" or whatever the fuck its called

Can't remember which James Brown song mentions mathematics books

they all have a lot of counting in them...

I think "Licking Stick" is the one I meant

Iggy:

"Last night/I was down at the lab
Talking to Dracula/and his crew
Aaaaaall aboaoard
For Funtime"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNheHdN-dMg

jurri hulkkonen - science

Alcazar - Chemistry
Via Gra - Biologiya

"science is keeping me happy"

Kraftwerk, 'Spacelab'

Probably stretching the "dance" requirement, but Pixies "Alec Eiffel".

Also

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJG_9s5N0nk&feature=related

I would dance to almost any Man or Astroman? song, don't know about anyone else.

Dandy Warhols - I Am A Scientist

paging Dr Funkenstein by Parliament

Microbiologically speaking,
When I start churnin', burnin' and turnin'
I'll make your atoms move so fast
Expandin' your molecules
Causing a friction fire
Burnin' you on your neutron
Causing you to scream
"Hit me in the proton, BABY!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqIki33mTgs

"Chemistry" by Ohio stalwarts Michael Stanley Band.

I'm just a product of World War Two
So I never really knew any better
Out in the suburbs where things were new
All the dreams of our folks ran together
But on the way to their destination
They second mortgaged their expectations
All of this in God's favorite nation
If you're feeling down just take two
'Cause we got...

Chemistry...don't think about it
Chemistry...can't live without it
Chemistry...better living through
Chemistry...for you and me, baby

We started early on make-believe
It's a part of the American dream
And I know people who just won't believe
If it's not on a TV screen
We're gonna see that you feel all right
A little something get you through the night
And we don't care if your black or white
Don't you worry 'cause the first one's free
'Cause we got...

Chemistry...don't think about it
Chemistry...can't live without it
Chemistry...better living through
Chemistry...for you and me, baby

Let's take advantage of the situation
Let the man at the counter prescribe salvation
Are there holes in your life that you're trying to fill
'Cause if you got a problem, boy we got a pill
We got...

Chemistry...don't think about it
Chemistry...can't live without it
Chemistry...oh better living through
Chemistry...for you and me

Speaking of which,
Elvis Costello, "Chemistry Class"

Speaking of which

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TrmTFCfe6w8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=za8eGg3qQKg

"i isolate amino acids sometimes..."

John Otway, 'Bunsen Burner'

parilament's already been mentioned, but also:

"Psychoalphadiscobetabioaquadoloop"

also:

quasimodo - "microphone mathematics"

Thanks so much to Scott for posting this on my behalf and to everybody who responded! some rad suggestions here! I seem to have solved my registration/login freezeout- for a while there it was like a bad parody of a Turing test, I kept flunking out of captcha because the tweeking/distortion of the letter forms on the ILX captcha is so ambiguous and open to interpretation

Hawkwind - Quark, Strangeness and Charm

Whoa @ Dirty Dee in "Angle Dance"

Sleater-Kinney "One Beat"
Simon Bookish "Colophon", "Carbon"
Iko "Gonadotropic synthesis"

The Other Half - Mr Pharmacist

You can always troll everyone with Miracles by ICP.

Marley Marl - Droppin' Science

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HL6PcEC8Hzk
Bob Dorough - Three is the Magic Number

man this party was superfun- it was a costume party and people had some killer outfits on, and folks danced from 11 until they had to close the space at 3:30 AM, rad times- my laptop is all sticky with booze n glitter tho

thanks to everybody for the song suggestions- ILM u r a treat

playlist!

^^yes please! a rough list from memory will do :)

Aw, missed the date but for future reference this is the greatest, weirdest dance song about science.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REX8SHnU-2M

It's like the Island of Dr Moroder

well done