# Great science/edutainment songs & videos by TMBG

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [June 1, 2011, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-science-edutainment-songs-videos-by-tmbg/584013 "2011-06-01T22:08:31Z")\
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**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\
**Post date:** [June 1, 2011, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-science-edutainment-songs-videos-by-tmbg/584013/1 "2011-06-01T22:08:31Z")

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I don’t know why it’s coming to my attention now, as I’m usually interested in **They Might Be Giants** projects, but I completely missed **Here Comes Science (2009),** and I think it’s some of the best stuff aimed at kids to general interest.

Sorry if this is old news, but I particularly love this one… [**Meet the Elements.**](http://youtu.be/Uy0m7jnyv6U)

[iTunes has the whole album](http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/here-comes-science-audio-video/id328074265) as songs and their respective animations for $15.

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**Author:** ![AlsoNamedBort](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alsonamedbort/32/3213_2.png) [@AlsoNamedBort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AlsoNamedBort)\
**Post date:** [June 1, 2011, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-science-edutainment-songs-videos-by-tmbg/584013/2 "2011-06-01T22:20:51Z")

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Yeah, I love **Here Comes Science.** Not only is it their best kids album, I think it’s one of their best albums in general in recent times.

Also, non-kids album “Join Us” comes out July 19th.

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**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\
**Post date:** [June 1, 2011, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-science-edutainment-songs-videos-by-tmbg/584013/3 "2011-06-01T22:26:59Z")

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> [@AlsoNamedBort](#):
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> Yeah, I love **Here Comes Science.** Not only is it their best kids album, I think it’s one of their best albums in general in recent times.
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> Also, non-kids album “Join Us” comes out July 19th.

Sweet!

I bought **“NO!”** for the kids when it came out, I thought that was pretty great too. The last actual album I bought/listened to was **The Else.**

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**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\
**Post date:** [June 1, 2011, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-science-edutainment-songs-videos-by-tmbg/584013/4 "2011-06-01T22:31:30Z")

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(Also, I didn’t mean to limit this thread to They Might Be Giants… any other suggestions for the same sort of thing would be cool.)

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**Author:** ![Nicest\_of\_the\_Damned](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/8baadc/32.png) [@Nicest\_of\_the\_Damned](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nicest_of_the_Damned)\
**Post date:** [June 2, 2011, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-science-edutainment-songs-videos-by-tmbg/584013/5 "2011-06-02T00:13:28Z")

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I can’t resist a TMBG thread!

Here is a video of them performing the song live in the studio during their Science Friday appearance: [http://www.sciencefriday.com/program/archives/200909256](http://www.sciencefriday.com/program/archives/200909256)