Via David Bradley, I came across the Valentine for a Scientist meme. This started on Kat Arney’s Facebook page, apparently, and is now taking over Twitter.
What you have to do is substitute a scientist’s name into the lyrics of a song. Such as
- Diamond and Streisand: “You don’t [Simon] Singh me love songs…”
- Jackie Wilson: “[Lord] Rees petite, the finest…”
- Stylistics: “Einstein in love with you…”
- Roxette: “Newturn me on…”
- ZZ Top: “Every girl’s crazy for a [Barry] Sharpless man”
I know how much the NN folk love a good pun, so here’s your opportunity to stretch the funny synapses a little. The sillier and the cornier the better. (I did extend the meme slightly, but that’s because I’m supposed to be working cough. Still, only 5 days until Friday afternoon.)
Have at it.
PS. Feel free to cross-post to Twitter, using the hashtag #scientistlyrics. If you don’t/can’t, I’ll post them appropriately credited.
I guess “Every strep you take” doesn’t qualify. But it’s all I’ve got at the moment.
Planck You For The Days (The Kinks)
OK, not really a love song, but:
“Pasteur dutchie on the left hand side”
“I see Fred (Hoyle)” by Split Enz.
Thanks for the shout out.
Just to explain, I hacked Kat’s original idea so that the twitter meme #scientistlyrics means shoehorning a scientist’s name into a song title or lyrics, possibly even nursery rhymes and poems and if you wanted to #scientistlimericks might be fun:
There was an old Prof called Einstein…
“Hey, there, Golgi Girl. Comin’ into lab so fancy free.” ~ The Seekers
“King Faraday” by Green Day
Curie’s Sole Assay, by k.d.lang
Some are too easy:
Gene Genie: David Bowie
Maxwell’s Silver Hammer: Beatles
Others require more work:
Citation (Higher and Higher): Heaven 17
My Perfect Cousin (Now, I’ve got a cousin called Kelvin): The Undertones
Just Another Crick in the Wall
Anything by Lawrence, or his father, Billy Bragg.
Don’t it make your brown eyes blue (Mendel).
hahahah! Something to do with the BlackEyed Peas, too..?
And from the thermodynamic label
Watts it all about? Alfie
(I Carnot get no) Satisfaction
Anything by Canned Heat
Watt’s Going On? – Marvin Gaye
Darwin-ner Takes It All – ABBA
Avogadro My Eyes On You – Cole Porter
I’m Bohred – Iggy Pop
Hawking On The Moon – The Police
Haldane And All Of THe Night – The Kinks
Love Hertz – Nazareth
Six Months In A Leakey Boat – Split Enz
Also, “Ptolemy” fits nicely into the chorus of “Valerie” by Steve Winwood.
Hashtag away, my friend – I have no such voodoo.
Oh dear…
“Open the door, get on the floor / Everybody walk the Neils Bohr…” – Was (Not Was)
Ok, I really must stop now –
Venter Sandman – Metallica
My brain is tooooo tired for this hilarity, but I like Kate’s and some of RW’s.
The old and bore song of Watson & Crick in the bar of the corner -(Anonymus).
Or maybe:
Crick & Lysenko great friends in conquering the universe– (Anonymus)
Either this is losing something in translation, or you haven’t quite grasped the meme, me old fruit.
Songs by the diminutive Nobel Laureate
Nine Inch Nils
and who can forget
Revolution by the BeatlesNight Nurse – Gregory Isaacs
Enjoying the posts, but my frazzled brain can only come up with this for the moment:
“Born in the USA” (Springsteen)
That horror, I’ve saw the horror.
Either this is losing something in translation…..
Feel to tell him my old friend that is none nothing of two.
The best Mendel song has to be “Peas Please Me” by the Beatles.
An aid to my old pea Richard: are only about a new set of songs very bad in Chile, the rappers goup called “The infernal geneticists of University” and they use white robes, but are just beginning and these are your new song titles are er..mmm… I can not remember, as be called: I think that it was something like that: …When Mendel ate peas stomach is sick and ashamed step in the abbey, something like ..and he had to clean the bathroom… and after er I don’t remember…I believe that in the night he dreamt in a great variety of peas in all the ways and colors…”
There are some errors in grammar ignore them. Is The rapp..
“Agassiz for Miles” ~ The Who
“Gould Vibrations” ~ The Beach Boys
“(If Only Hubel-ieve in) Miracles” ~ Jefferson Starship (embarrassed to admit that I own the Red Octopus album)
Ok, Kristi. I follow you:
“Fleming”- (Syd Barret)
“After Dawkins” – (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
“You Bateson” – (The Who)
[Ed] Southern Cross – Crosby, Stills and Nash
or [Ed] Southern Man – Neil Young
Hm. Never noticed that connection before.
Mendeleev Me Alone – Michael Jackson
Yalow, I Love You – The Doors
The Hooke Of Love – ABC
Curie On Wayward Son – Kansas
Ok, lunchtime’s over.
“Kelsey Morning” ~ Joni Mitchell
“Tinbergen Indigo” – Joni Mitchell
“The Life Of The Karl Popper” – Cat Stevens (Yusuf Islam)
Mello Yellow: Donovan
Pretty Fleming-o: Manfred Mann
Prusiner Whole Year: Third Eye Blind
Faraday on my Mind: Easybeats
“MexiCajali Blues” ~ The Grateful Dead
My excuse? My colleague’s MS Word formatting fu is very weak indeed, and my brainz are fried as a result of trying to fix an existing document.
“I’m a Brehm” – The Monkees
My dear Kristi, don’t excuse, don’t excuse. I understand.
“Lady McClintock/ The Chattering Magpie” – Planxty
ZZZZZzzzzz, go to the bed.
Mello Yellow: Donovan
snort
Very good, Cath. 🙂
Light My (Andrew) Fire – The Doors
It Was Avery Good Year – Frank Sinatra
Coulomb Ev’ry Mountain – The Sound of Music
Lagrange – ZZ Top
Laplace-tic Fanstastic Lover – Jefferson Airplane
Oh dear.
Ok, I really really really will stop now:
Don’t Fear The Réaumur – Blue Oyster Cult
I thought ‘Mello Yallow’ would have been a nice double-whammy.
Shouldn’t you be working, Winty? Does the Canadian taxpayer know about this? 😉
“Yalow”, with one “L”, Grant.
14:53 UTC – shouldn’t you be working, too? Does f1000 know you’re cross-posting their blogs here? Is it any of my business?
Point. I am, yes, no.
My friend RPG and my no friend RW (according NN). Actually you
bothshould be working, as he loses his time. Is a Shame.Another Crick in the Wall, perhaps? (edit: I see Kate beat me to this one :o( )
Schrodinger fits very nicely into the Bond “Goldfinger” theme tune.
Or, for those traumatised by biochemistry lectures, Relight My Stryer?
Now, if you wanted another blog post for songs with lyrics altered to encompass some aspect of science……. such as Robert Palmer’s chemistry epic, “Resistant to Base” we can easily help you out…..
Another Crick in the Wall, perhaps? (edit: I see Kate beat me to this one :o( )
Schrodinger fits very nicely into the Bond “Goldfinger” theme tune.
Or, for those traumatised by biochemistry lectures, Relight My Stryer?
Now, if you wanted another blog post for songs with lyrics altered to encompass some aspect of science……. such as Robert Palmer’s chemistry epic, “Resistant to Base” we can easily help you out…..
A few song titles more came to mind overnight…..
Paint it Black (Rolling Stones)
David Lane (either Pink Floyd or the Beatles)