# Songs for Mad Scientists? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 27, 2004, 6:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-for-mad-scientists/276847 "2004-11-27T06:42:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![ReuvenB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9fc348/32.png) [@ReuvenB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ReuvenB)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2004, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-for-mad-scientists/276847/21 "2004-11-30T01:18:06Z")
The Cat with Two Heads, by the Aquabats. Frankenska, by the Toasters. Radiation Song, by the Aquabats. The Song of the Seven-Inch Cowboy, by Pain. ---
**Author:** ![Already\_in\_Use](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a9adbd/32.png) [@Already\_in\_Use](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Already_in_Use)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2004, 12:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-for-mad-scientists/276847/22 "2004-11-30T12:16:40Z")
> [@mbh](#): > > Spike Jones and the City Slickers’ version of “My Old Flame”. A must for any Peter Lorre fan. Yeah! Hmmm, I suggest Frank Zappa’s “Cheepnis,” about a monster poodle that can’t be stopped by bullets or rockets, anything by Kraftwerk because they’re robots, most of the Devo oeuvre, and also anything by eX-Girl because they’re from the planet Kero Kero and write songs about spaceship fuel for their frog king and prehistoric vegetable wars and such. ---
**Author:** ![DWMarch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dwmarch/32/1010_2.png) [@DWMarch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DWMarch)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2004, 12:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-for-mad-scientists/276847/23 "2004-11-30T12:17:25Z")
_Mad Professor_ by the Insane Clown Posse: “I’'m lonely/I need a homie/So I got some limbs/And made me a zombie…” 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2004, 12:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-for-mad-scientists/276847/24 "2004-11-30T12:35:31Z")
_Splitting the Genes_ by Uncle Bonsai (folk trio with brilliant, satiric lyrics; Tom Lehrer fans would probably like them) _Riding on the Rocket_ by Shonen Knife Lots of stuff by Peter Schilling, but start with _Lone Survivor_, _The Noah Plan_ and, of course, _Major Tom (Coming Home)_ [sub]And sometimes I think I’m the only person in the world who listens to all three of those.[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2004, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-for-mad-scientists/276847/25 "2004-11-30T12:55:28Z")
_Einstein A Go Go_ by Landscape. The entire _Soft Bulletin_ album by the Flaming Lips. [Including](http://www.flaminglips.com/main.php): > [@](#): > > **What Is The Light?** (An untested hypothesis suggesting that the chemical [in our brains] by which we are able to experience the sensation of being in love is the same chemical that caused the “Big Bang” that was the birth of the accelerating universe) ---
**Author:** ![jinty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/dbc845/32.png) [@jinty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jinty)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2004, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-for-mad-scientists/276847/26 "2004-11-30T12:57:18Z")
> [@Robot Arm](#): > > _Riding on the Rocket_ by Shonen Knife\* Good call. “Space food is marshmallow, asparagus, ice cream”. You can’t beat a wacky SK lyric. 😉 **Flaming Lips** “Race for the Prize” is a good counterpoint to all the mad scientist stuff (not meaning to break up the party, though). “Two scientists were racing / For the good of all mankind” “They’re just humans / With wives and children” ---
**Author:** ![jinty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/dbc845/32.png) [@jinty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jinty)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2004, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-for-mad-scientists/276847/27 "2004-11-30T12:59:11Z")
Gosh, my first simulpost. Thanks jjimm 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Walker\_in\_Eternity](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/46a35a/32.png) [@Walker\_in\_Eternity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walker_in_Eternity)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2004, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-for-mad-scientists/276847/28 "2004-11-30T13:30:21Z")
> [@Hunter Hawk](#): > > Hawkwind’s entire catalogue? > > . My personal favourites are “Damnation Alley” and PXR5. May I also add “Dr Stein” by Helloween to the list. ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2004, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-for-mad-scientists/276847/29 "2004-11-30T14:44:21Z")
> [@jinty](#): > > Gosh, my first simulpost. Thanks jjimm 😃 Was it as good for you as it was for me? Here, have a cigarette. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2004, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-for-mad-scientists/276847/30 "2004-11-30T14:51:52Z")
The very first, original recording of “Evita” has C.T. Wilkerson singing "The Lady’s Got Potential,’ including lyrics about Che’s new insecticide. A great hard rocking tune that was cut, but later included with different lyrics in the movie. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-for-mad-scientists/276847.md?page=1)