"When so-called experts try to tell you/That parallel lines will never intersect/Don't listen to them, man/Don't you believe a word/I'm speaking from experience/Everything that floats is gonna run into something/'Cos everything that rises must converge"
2. Schoolhouse Rock - "Three is a Magic Number"
3. Tony Paxton - "It's Arithmetic baby"
Anyone have any more?
― J. Weiss (jweiss), Tuesday, 23 September 2003 03:29 (twenty-two years ago)
― Dan I., Tuesday, 23 September 2003 03:37 (twenty-two years ago)
― Charlie Rose (Charlie Rose), Tuesday, 23 September 2003 03:40 (twenty-two years ago)
― Charlie Rose (Charlie Rose), Tuesday, 23 September 2003 03:41 (twenty-two years ago)
― Jeremy (Jeremy), Tuesday, 23 September 2003 03:45 (twenty-two years ago)
― Sonny A. (Keiko), Tuesday, 23 September 2003 03:49 (twenty-two years ago)
― dlp9001, Tuesday, 23 September 2003 04:00 (twenty-two years ago)
― derrick (derrick), Tuesday, 23 September 2003 04:01 (twenty-two years ago)
― weatheringdaleson (weatheringdaleson), Tuesday, 23 September 2003 04:03 (twenty-two years ago)
― oops (Oops), Tuesday, 23 September 2003 04:05 (twenty-two years ago)
(um, "numbers" by kraftwerk)
― Little Big Macher (llamasfur), Tuesday, 23 September 2003 04:06 (twenty-two years ago)
― geeta, Tuesday, 23 September 2003 04:11 (twenty-two years ago)
― the surface noise (electricsound), Tuesday, 23 September 2003 04:12 (twenty-two years ago)
― the surface noise (electricsound), Tuesday, 23 September 2003 04:13 (twenty-two years ago)
― doug (doug), Tuesday, 23 September 2003 04:15 (twenty-two years ago)
― weatheringdaleson (weatheringdaleson), Tuesday, 23 September 2003 04:18 (twenty-two years ago)
― trife (simon_tr), Tuesday, 23 September 2003 04:20 (twenty-two years ago)
― trife (simon_tr), Tuesday, 23 September 2003 04:21 (twenty-two years ago)
― Douglas (Douglas), Tuesday, 23 September 2003 04:27 (twenty-two years ago)
― gaz (gaz), Tuesday, 23 September 2003 04:31 (twenty-two years ago)
― gaz (gaz), Tuesday, 23 September 2003 04:33 (twenty-two years ago)
― gaz (gaz), Tuesday, 23 September 2003 04:38 (twenty-two years ago)
― lolita corpus (lolitacorpus), Tuesday, 23 September 2003 04:43 (twenty-two years ago)
― reo fordecor, Tuesday, 23 September 2003 05:07 (twenty-two years ago)
― reo fordecor, Tuesday, 23 September 2003 05:08 (twenty-two years ago)
― Damian (Damian), Tuesday, 23 September 2003 10:54 (twenty-two years ago)
"Shove your fucking foot up your fucking ass"
― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Tuesday, 23 September 2003 10:56 (twenty-two years ago)
-- DJ Mencap (lackofinteres...), September 23rd, 2003.
So he wants to down the metric system, then slags the imperial?
― mei (mei), Tuesday, 23 September 2003 11:08 (twenty-two years ago)
― Lynskey (Lynskey), Tuesday, 23 September 2003 11:15 (twenty-two years ago)
― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Tuesday, 23 September 2003 11:19 (twenty-two years ago)
― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Tuesday, 23 September 2003 11:24 (twenty-two years ago)
― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Tuesday, 23 September 2003 11:26 (twenty-two years ago)
― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Tuesday, 23 September 2003 11:29 (twenty-two years ago)
But I do know that one and one is two,And if this one could be with you,What a wonderful world this would be."
Sam Cooke has the right attitude
― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Tuesday, 23 September 2003 11:33 (twenty-two years ago)
"Everything that Rises Must Converge" - I checked to see if that was the same song as the Shriekback song .. (it wasn't.) Surprised to see that there are 4 songs with that title.
― dave225 (Dave225), Tuesday, 23 September 2003 11:45 (twenty-two years ago)
― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Tuesday, 23 September 2003 11:53 (twenty-two years ago)
― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 23 September 2003 12:23 (twenty-two years ago)
There's a Shriekback track by the same name.
Also,"Mathematics of Chaos" by Killing Joke"Bourbon & Division" by Firewater (har har)
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 23 September 2003 12:42 (twenty-two years ago)
― Vincent Vern, Tuesday, 23 September 2003 14:35 (twenty-two years ago)
Bob Seger -- "2+2=?"Pet Shop Boys -- "Two Divided by Zero"Laurie Anderson -- Let X = X"Jimi Hendrix - "If 6 Was 9"Wire -- "12xU," "A Question of Degree," "Map Ref. 41@N 93@W except with degree signs instead of at signs"Billy Preston - "Nothin From Nothin (Leaves Nothin)"pretty every song from *Multiplication Rock*
― chuck, Tuesday, 23 September 2003 15:39 (twenty-two years ago)
presumably they're all based on, or at least named for, the flannery o'connor story of the same title.
also:
radiohead, "2+2=5" (how on earth has that gone unmentioned so far?)scrawl, "1=1"three dog night, "one"
― fact checking cuz, Tuesday, 23 September 2003 16:59 (twenty-two years ago)
― Charles McCain (Charles McCain), Tuesday, 23 September 2003 17:47 (twenty-two years ago)
― Felcher (Felcher), Tuesday, 23 September 2003 17:53 (twenty-two years ago)
― Nick Mirov (nick), Tuesday, 23 September 2003 18:31 (twenty-two years ago)
geeta 'wins'.
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Tuesday, 23 September 2003 18:36 (twenty-two years ago)
― mei (mei), Tuesday, 23 September 2003 18:43 (twenty-two years ago)
― nickn (nickn), Wednesday, 24 September 2003 05:04 (twenty-two years ago)
― Jeremy (Jeremy), Wednesday, 24 September 2003 05:16 (twenty-two years ago)
http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drd200/d248/d24887ryj86.jpg
― weatheringdaleson (weatheringdaleson), Wednesday, 24 September 2003 05:21 (twenty-two years ago)
The EuclidsH K Lemma
― Robin Goad (rgoad), Wednesday, 24 September 2003 11:23 (twenty-two years ago)
Think of a number,divide it by two,something is nothing,nothing is nothing.Open a box,tear off the lid,then think of a number,don't think of an answer.Open your eyes,think of a number,don't get swept under,a number's a numberA chance encounter you want to avoid,the inevitable, so you do, oh yes you do the impossibleNow you ain't got a number,you just want to rhumba,and there ain't no way you're gonna go underGo under!
It's math enough for me.
― Matthew Perpetua (Matthew Perpetua), Wednesday, 24 September 2003 18:39 (twenty-two years ago)
― summerslastsound, Wednesday, 24 September 2003 18:49 (twenty-two years ago)
― David Gates of Delirium, Wednesday, 24 September 2003 20:16 (twenty-two years ago)
― Adam Bruneau, Wednesday, 24 September 2003 22:48 (twenty-two years ago)
― A Nairn (moretap), Wednesday, 24 September 2003 22:55 (twenty-two years ago)
Should five per cent appear too smallBe thankful I don’t take it all’cause I’m the taxman, yeah I’m the taxman"
― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Thursday, 25 September 2003 07:47 (twenty-two years ago)
― Jez (Jez), Thursday, 25 September 2003 07:56 (twenty-two years ago)
― Dadaismus (Dada), Thursday, 25 September 2003 10:39 (twenty-two years ago)
Post a jpeg and I can probably translate it into english!
― mei (mei), Thursday, 25 September 2003 10:53 (twenty-two years ago)
what does that translate to?
― A Nairn (moretap), Thursday, 25 September 2003 14:03 (twenty-two years ago)
― NA (Nick A.), Thursday, 25 September 2003 14:07 (twenty-two years ago)
Erm, Sacred Charlie...although the song is all about school work.
― Jez (Jez), Friday, 26 September 2003 05:52 (twenty-two years ago)
― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Friday, 26 September 2003 16:09 (twenty-two years ago)
― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Friday, 26 September 2003 16:10 (twenty-two years ago)
― DANIEL OCAMPO, Wednesday, 17 March 2004 11:21 (twenty-two years ago)
― David Allen (David Allen), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 15:14 (twenty-two years ago)
and if you count "Cause=Time" then "Flux=Rad"
― Will (will), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 16:42 (twenty-two years ago)
I am adding and subtractingI'm controlling and composingI'm the operator with my pocket calculator
― christoff (christoff), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 17:30 (twenty-two years ago)
Uhhhh most of these are just normal songs that have a math-related song title. Come on ILM you can do better than this. I'm trying to make a mix to teach my son some math.
Something like "Got Two Again" by Roger Miller (sample lyric: "21, take away nine. / 12 little children standing in a line. / From that take two, that leaves you ten. / Take away eight and you got two again.")
― Mr. Snrub, Sunday, 31 January 2016 21:56 (ten years ago)
XTC senses working overtime
― Dr X O'Skeleton, Monday, 1 February 2016 22:49 (ten years ago)
"Four out of Five" by Soul Coughing
"Her knees thrust in one directionLike a symbol of math, a symbol meaning Greater Than.
I come recommended by four out of five,I'm a factor in the whole plan.
Four and five therefore nine,Nine and nine therefore eighteen,Eighteen and eighteen therefore thirty-six,Four and five therefore nine."
― frogbs, Monday, 1 February 2016 22:52 (ten years ago)
kate bush - pi obvz
― ZESTY O'PRIDE (imago), Monday, 1 February 2016 22:56 (ten years ago)
"I Can't Do the Sum" from Babes in Toyland (1903):
If a steamship weighed 10,000 tons and sailed 5,000 milesWith a cargo large of overshoes and carving knives and filesIf the mates were almost six feet high and the bos'n near the sameWould you subtract or multiply to find the captain's name?Oh, oh, oh!(Chorus)Put down six and carry twoGee, but this is hard to doYou can think and think and think till your brains are numbI don't care what teacher says, I can't do the sumIf Clarence took fair Gwendoline out for an auto rideAnd if at 60 miles an hour one kiss to capture triedAnd quite forgot the steering gear on her honeyed lips to supHow soon could 20 men with brooms sweep Clare and Gwennie up?Oh, oh, oh!(Chorus)If Harold took sweet Imogene with him one eve to dineAnd ordered half the bill of fare with cataracts of wineIf the bill of fare were $13.95 and poor Harold had but fourHow many things would Harold strike before he found the floor?Oh, oh, oh!(Chorus)If a woman had an English pug, ten children, and a catAnd tried in seven hours to find a 40-dollar flatWith naught but sunny outside rooms in a neighborhood of toneHow old would those ten children be before they found a home?Oh, oh, oh!(Chorus)If a pound of prunes cost 13 cents at half past one todayAnd the grocer is so bald he wears a dollar five toupeeAnd if with every pound of tea he will give two cut glass platesHow soon would Willie break his face on his new roller skates?Oh, oh, oh!(Chorus)
(Chorus)Put down six and carry twoGee, but this is hard to doYou can think and think and think till your brains are numbI don't care what teacher says, I can't do the sum
If Clarence took fair Gwendoline out for an auto rideAnd if at 60 miles an hour one kiss to capture triedAnd quite forgot the steering gear on her honeyed lips to supHow soon could 20 men with brooms sweep Clare and Gwennie up?Oh, oh, oh!
(Chorus)
If Harold took sweet Imogene with him one eve to dineAnd ordered half the bill of fare with cataracts of wineIf the bill of fare were $13.95 and poor Harold had but fourHow many things would Harold strike before he found the floor?Oh, oh, oh!
If a woman had an English pug, ten children, and a catAnd tried in seven hours to find a 40-dollar flatWith naught but sunny outside rooms in a neighborhood of toneHow old would those ten children be before they found a home?Oh, oh, oh!
If a pound of prunes cost 13 cents at half past one todayAnd the grocer is so bald he wears a dollar five toupeeAnd if with every pound of tea he will give two cut glass platesHow soon would Willie break his face on his new roller skates?Oh, oh, oh!
― Mr. Snrub, Thursday, 20 April 2023 19:13 (three years ago)
― Mr. Snrub, Sunday, January 31, 2016 9:56 PM (seven years ago) bookmarkflaglink
This totally worked, btw. Junior Snrub's a goddamn math whiz.
― Mr. Snrub, Thursday, 20 April 2023 19:14 (three years ago)