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They Might Be Giants — Why Does The Sun Shine? (The Sun Is A Mass Of Incandescent Gas)
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hixmyrick
(Amerika)
Posted: Jan 06, 2013 - 12:51
 
 jmsmy wrote:
To Loosely quote Bruce Springsteen - I've learned more from a 3 minute song then I ever learned in school.

This song wasn't exectly what he meant - but I sure learned a lot from it.
 

NeuroJoe wrote:

Apparently it's not a song about spelling {#Wink}
 
{#Iamwithstupid} LOL!

Grammarcop
(You want an E Class? We got 'em!)
Posted: Dec 06, 2012 - 04:16
 
 SchoepTone wrote:
Reminds me of Monty Python.
 
Reminds me of The Animaniacs. 

Sloggydog
(UK)
Posted: Dec 06, 2012 - 03:54
 
Absolutely loved the first 4 albums and saw them live in Brisbane at that point.  They played a 3hr 15 min set which caused me to miss my last bus but I didn't mind the 5 mile walk at all.  Though I think my neighbours may have been a bit upset when we woke them up with TMBG and a room full of hyped up jumping idiots at about 3am.

NeuroJoe
(Central mASS)
Posted: Nov 04, 2012 - 18:42
 
 jmsmy wrote:
To Loosely quote Bruce Springsteen - I've learned more from a 3 minute song then I ever learned in school.

This song wasn't exectly what he meant - but I sure learned a lot from it.
 
Apparently it's not a song about spelling {#Wink}

zair99
(In Cognito)
Posted: Oct 04, 2012 - 10:47
 
 cc_rider wrote:
I wonder if they play this song in Constantinople.
 
It's Istanbul, not Constantinople.

Ag3nt0rang3
(Canada)
Posted: Oct 04, 2012 - 10:43
 
Yeah, I can think of many many many other TMBG songs I'd rather hear than this one.

jmsmy
(Music Town, Klein, Texas)
Posted: Oct 04, 2012 - 10:32
 
To Loosely quote Bruce Springsteen - I've learned more from a 3 minute song then I ever learned in school.

This song wasn't exectly what he meant - but I sure learned a lot from it.

EdmoJoe
(Edmonton, Canada)
Posted: Oct 04, 2012 - 10:31
 
Kind of funny. Kind of musical.

ick
(...out of the primordial ooze)
Posted: Oct 04, 2012 - 10:30
 
 lafcadio wrote:
Actually, the sun is a miasma of incandescent plasma.  Both science and TMBG are self-correcting!
 
but incandescent gas rhymes better!

cc_rider
(Austin Texas. Y'all.)
Posted: Oct 04, 2012 - 10:30
 
I wonder if they play this song in Constantinople.

SchoepTone
(Duke City)
Posted: Oct 04, 2012 - 10:30
 
Reminds me of Monty Python.

Biscobret
(Vashon, WA)
Posted: Oct 04, 2012 - 10:29
 
I should love this band, right?  I like quirky, I have kids, I like creative — they annoy me to no end...

Hi Ho.

djengs
Posted: Oct 04, 2012 - 10:29
 
 lafcadio wrote:
Actually, the sun is a miasma of incandescent plasma.  Both science and TMBG are self-correcting!
 
Let's see...what rhymes with "plasma"? 

smartn1
Posted: Oct 04, 2012 - 10:29
 
silly but fun
 

lafcadio
(Knox-vegas)
Posted: Aug 02, 2012 - 10:31
 
Actually, the sun is a miasma of incandescent plasma.  Both science and TMBG are self-correcting!

pattiecovert
(Leesburg, Virginia)
Posted: Aug 02, 2012 - 10:31
 
Great album for kids—smart kids.

Businessgypsy
(Deepest, Darkest Florida)
Posted: May 29, 2011 - 05:16
 
FUCK YEAH!
Huzzah for science!


Raechel
Posted: Apr 27, 2011 - 16:08
 

I could do without the whine



Art_Carnage
(DeepintheheartofTexas)
Posted: Apr 27, 2011 - 16:05
 
... and that's how TMBG started their trek from a cutting-edge band, to total irrelevance.

missquo
(Austin, TX)
Posted: Feb 23, 2011 - 14:45
 
The best part is, they recently gave a musical correction to the assertions of this song:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLkGSV9WDMA 

{#Sunny} 

unclehud
(300 feet above the planet)
Posted: Feb 23, 2011 - 14:43
 
These guys crack me up!  Love it, love it, love it!  (They bring out the geek in me, I'm afraid.)

xtalman
(What dimension?)
Posted: Feb 23, 2011 - 14:41
 

My kids love this!!

 

So do I actually.



smackiepipe
(Western North Carolina)
Posted: Nov 21, 2010 - 06:03
 
Holy cow, our class sang this song back in 3rd grade (early 70s...).

Talk about the WayBack Machine™....

Orodrigues
(Resende (RJ), Brazil)
Posted: Oct 20, 2010 - 14:08
 
They want to be Squeeze.

ziggytrix
(Dallas, TX)
Posted: Oct 20, 2010 - 13:58
 
I love this album.  They somehow managed to get all the energy of one of their shows into that shiny plastic disc!

badgerv
Posted: Oct 20, 2010 - 13:58
 
ugggghhhh

Cynaera
(South of Neanderthal)
Posted: Sep 18, 2010 - 21:06
 
 garycha wrote:


Turd rock.
 
Get a sense of humor.  This is funny, informative stuff. If you want introspective, hang out for five minutes here, and it'll show up. That's just the way RP is.{#Sunny}

yadayada2705
Posted: Sep 18, 2010 - 21:04
 
Lmao, funny stuff


garycha
(Bristol, UK)
Posted: Jun 15, 2010 - 02:38
 
 rtrudeau wrote:
Nerd rock.
 

Turd rock.

wallyworld17
Posted: May 14, 2010 - 07:42
 
This is awesome; I grew up with the original version and all of the Science Song records way back in the early 60s. All of the originals are at:  http://www.acme.com/jef/singing_science/



Cynaera
(South of Neanderthal)
Posted: May 14, 2010 - 07:30
 
 flyboy wrote:
You mean the sun heats the Earth?  That can't be good for global warming.  We must do something about this.
 
{#Roflol} Absolutely right!  Let's get Maria McKee and Grace Potter to sing the rings off Saturn, then use the rings to lasso the sun and move it somewhere else...

I can't help it - I grin whenever I hear this song.  Kinda hard to pogo through the house to it, but I do it anyway.


Rotterdam
Posted: May 14, 2010 - 07:26
 
 Govi wrote:
Humorous and intelligent lyrics can't overcome the Pogue-ness of this mindblasting rhythm: bang bang bang bang bang bang bang...
 

I like that, too. These guys are brilliant!!!!!!!

Govi
(Left Coast)
Posted: May 14, 2010 - 07:25
 
Humorous and intelligent lyrics can't overcome the Pogue-ness of this mindblasting rhythm: bang bang bang bang bang bang bang...



ihategrapejuice
(Bloomington, IN)
Posted: May 14, 2010 - 07:25
 
this is really helping me study for my qualifying exam....

ick
(S.E. La Jolla)
Posted: May 14, 2010 - 07:25
 
Thank you for the astronomical instruction.

The_Enemy
(The Sewer)
Posted: Apr 12, 2010 - 12:52
 
I'm always impressed how these guys can write a song about virtually anything and it sounds great.

jmsmy
(Music Town, Klein, Texas)
Posted: Apr 12, 2010 - 12:50
 
a bruce springsteen quote "i learned more from a 3 minute song then i ever learned in school"



toterola
(Further)
Posted: Apr 12, 2010 - 12:49
 
I live in the mountains above San Jose. I get what you're saying, Bill. We've had rain, sleet, snow, and hail... and that's just in the last 3 hours! Come on Spring time! {#Clap}

mandolin
(...drifting...)
Posted: Apr 12, 2010 - 12:49
 
...so now you know, and knowing is approximately fifty percent of the conflict...

isayhoomhom
(Bethel, CT)
Posted: Apr 12, 2010 - 12:48
 
This version is so much better than the re-recorded version they did for their recent Here Comes Science kids' album.

xtalman
(What dimension?)
Posted: Apr 12, 2010 - 12:48
 

Just got their Science album.

 

Cool stuff for us geeks.{#Cowboy}



hkarr
Posted: Mar 11, 2010 - 22:02
 
you nailed it.

 dggeek wrote:
{#Dancingbanana}{#Roflol}{#Dancingbanana_2}
 



dggeek
Posted: Feb 08, 2010 - 09:14
 
{#Dancingbanana}{#Roflol}{#Dancingbanana_2}

FlatCat
(Chicago)
Posted: Feb 08, 2010 - 09:12
 
Cute once.

flyboy
(Sarah Palin's Hometown)
Posted: Jan 27, 2010 - 15:59
 
 yodasan_magoo wrote:

Hello Comrade Flyboy...can you see me waving to you?

  Yes, yes I can.



rtrudeau
(Bay Area, California)
Posted: Jan 07, 2010 - 22:34
 
Nerd rock.

Sloggydog
(UK)
Posted: Jan 07, 2010 - 22:33
 
This describes how i'm feeling all the time

yodasan_magoo
Posted: Dec 07, 2009 - 13:59
 
 flyboy wrote:
You mean the sun heats the Earth?  That can't be good for global warming.  We must do something about this.
 
Hello Comrade Flyboy...can you see me waving to you?


window
(Richmond, VA)
Posted: Dec 07, 2009 - 13:54
 

The most hilarious part is just after the song ends, and one of the Johns says "The sun, ladies and gentlemen!"  That cracks me up.



peter_james_bond
(The Burg)
Posted: Dec 07, 2009 - 13:54
 
 azdcryan wrote:
of course we all know "don't let's start" "particle man" and others, and I enjoyed them back in high school when they were released in the late 80's.  but now, as a man, and a father I have re-discovered TMBG as an exceptional children's music act.  This song and especially "zeroes" are awesome sing-alongs for kids, and there is truly a million times more important information contained in this music than Dora the Explorer's entire cannon of skin-crawling drivel...(assuming that the sum of multiplying by zero creates a result greater than zero, only in this special circumstance) 

IMO, of course,
 
{#High-five} What an excellent suggestion!