# Topic Playlist (Part 3)

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-3/996687>\
**Category:** Thread Games\
**Created:** [January 26, 2024, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-3/996687 "2024-01-26T15:37:03Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 20\
**Page:** 202

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**Author:** ![dirtball](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dirtball/32/18772_2.png) [@dirtball](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dirtball)\
**Post date:** [April 26, 2025, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-3/996687/4021 "2025-04-26T00:51:54Z")

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**Songs About Science or Other STEM subjects**

1. She Blinded Me With Science - Thomas Dolby
2. The Mathematics of Love from _Square One Television_
3. Better Living Through Chemistry - Queens of the Stone Age

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**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\
**Post date:** [April 26, 2025, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-3/996687/4022 "2025-04-26T01:48:39Z")

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**Songs About Science or Other STEM subjects**

1. She Blinded Me With Science - Thomas Dolby
2. The Mathematics of Love from _Square One Television_
3. Better Living Through Chemistry - Queens of the Stone Age
4. The Future’s So Bright, I Gotta Wear Shades - Timbuk 3

“I study nuclear science, I love my classes  
I got a crazy teacher, he wears dark glasses  
Things are going great, and they’re only getting better  
I’m doing all right, getting good grades  
The future’s so bright, I gotta wear shades”

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**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\
**Post date:** [April 26, 2025, 6:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-3/996687/4023 "2025-04-26T06:02:58Z")

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**Songs About Science or Other STEM subjects**

1. She Blinded Me With Science - Thomas Dolby
2. The Mathematics of Love from _Square One Television_
3. Better Living Through Chemistry - Queens of the Stone Age
4. The Future’s So Bright, I Gotta Wear Shades - Timbuk 3
5. Wonderful World - Sam Cooke

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**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\
**Post date:** [April 26, 2025, 12:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-3/996687/4024 "2025-04-26T12:12:53Z")

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**Songs About Science or Other STEM subjects**

1. She Blinded Me With Science - Thomas Dolby
2. The Mathematics of Love from _Square One Television_
3. Better Living Through Chemistry - Queens of the Stone Age
4. The Future’s So Bright, I Gotta Wear Shades - Timbuk 3
5. Wonderful World - Sam Cooke
6. Particle Man - They Might Be Giants

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**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\
**Post date:** [April 26, 2025, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-3/996687/4025 "2025-04-26T12:48:56Z")

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**Songs About Science or Other STEM subjects**

1. She Blinded Me With Science - Thomas Dolby
2. The Mathematics of Love from _Square One Television_
3. Better Living Through Chemistry - Queens of the Stone Age
4. The Future’s So Bright, I Gotta Wear Shades - Timbuk 3
5. Wonderful World - Sam Cooke
6. Particle Man - They Might Be Giants
7. Chemistry Between Us - Something Fierce

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**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\
**Post date:** [April 26, 2025, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-3/996687/4026 "2025-04-26T14:53:02Z")

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**Songs About Science or Other STEM subjects**

1. She Blinded Me With Science - Thomas Dolby
2. The Mathematics of Love from _Square One Television_
3. Better Living Through Chemistry - Queens of the Stone Age
4. The Future’s So Bright, I Gotta Wear Shades - Timbuk 3
5. Wonderful World - Sam Cooke
6. Particle Man - They Might Be Giants
7. Chemistry Between Us - Something Fierce
8. The Big Bang Theory Theme - Barenaked Ladies

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**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\
**Post date:** [April 26, 2025, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-3/996687/4027 "2025-04-26T14:54:51Z")

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**Songs About Science or Other STEM subjects**

1. She Blinded Me With Science - Thomas Dolby
2. The Mathematics of Love from _Square One Television_
3. Better Living Through Chemistry - Queens of the Stone Age
4. The Future’s So Bright, I Gotta Wear Shades - Timbuk 3
5. Wonderful World - Sam Cooke
6. Particle Man - They Might Be Giants
7. Chemistry Between Us - Something Fierce
8. The Big Bang Theory Theme - Barenaked Ladies
9. The Galaxy Song - Eric Idle

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**Author:** ![Bicycle\_Bill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bicycle_bill/32/6208_2.png) [@Bicycle\_Bill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bicycle_Bill)\
**Post date:** [April 26, 2025, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-3/996687/4028 "2025-04-26T19:54:01Z")

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**Songs About Science or Other STEM subjects**

1. She Blinded Me With Science - Thomas Dolby
2. The Mathematics of Love from _Square One Television_
3. Better Living Through Chemistry - Queens of the Stone Age
4. The Future’s So Bright, I Gotta Wear Shades - Timbuk 3
5. Wonderful World - Sam Cooke
6. Particle Man - They Might Be Giants
7. Chemistry Between Us - Something Fierce
8. The Big Bang Theory Theme - Barenaked Ladies
9. The Galaxy Song - Eric Idle
10. [New Math](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tptnsm5rOT4) – Tom Lehrer

And having played the Tom Lehrer trump card, I pass.

_ **-“BB”-** _

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**Author:** ![dirtball](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dirtball/32/18772_2.png) [@dirtball](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dirtball)\
**Post date:** [April 26, 2025, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-3/996687/4029 "2025-04-26T20:12:43Z")

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**Songs by multi-nationality bands  
(nationality based on where band members were born)**

1. Radar Love - Golden Earring (band members born in the Netherlands and India)

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**Author:** ![gkster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gkster/32/14107_2.png) [@gkster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gkster)\
**Post date:** [April 26, 2025, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-3/996687/4030 "2025-04-26T20:21:48Z")

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**Songs by multi-nationality bands  
(nationality based on where band members were born)**

1. Radar Love - Golden Earring (band members born in the Netherlands and India)
2. ABBA - 3 of the band members were born in Sweden, but Anni-Frid Lyngstad was born in Norway, to a Norwegian mother and a German father

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**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\
**Post date:** [April 26, 2025, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-3/996687/4031 "2025-04-26T20:36:47Z")

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@gkster, were you supposed to pick a song by them? The list title does say “Songs by…”

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**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\
**Post date:** [April 26, 2025, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-3/996687/4032 "2025-04-26T21:05:56Z")

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**Songs by multi-nationality bands  
(nationality based on where band members were born)**

1. Radar Love - Golden Earring (band members born in the Netherlands and India)
2. ABBA - 3 of the band members were born in Sweden, but Anni-Frid Lyngstad was born in Norway, to a Norwegian mother and a German father
3. Up on Cripple Creek - The Band (Levon Helm was American, the others were Canadian)

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**Author:** ![dirtball](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dirtball/32/18772_2.png) [@dirtball](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dirtball)\
**Post date:** [April 26, 2025, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-3/996687/4033 "2025-04-26T21:25:50Z")

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> [@Thudlow\_Boink](#):
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> @gkster, were you supposed to pick a song by them? The list title does say “Songs by…”

That was my thought starting this one, in keeping with the thread title including “playlist.”

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**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\
**Post date:** [April 26, 2025, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-3/996687/4034 "2025-04-26T21:31:05Z")

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**Songs by multi-nationality bands  
(nationality based on where band members were born)**

1. Radar Love - Golden Earring (band members born in the Netherlands and India)
2. ABBA - 3 of the band members were born in Sweden, but Anni-Frid Lyngstad was born in Norway, to a Norwegian mother and a German father
3. Up on Cripple Creek - The Band (Levon Helm was American, the others were Canadian)
4. Feels Like the First Time - Foreigner (original band line-up, with three Americans and three Englishmen)

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**Author:** ![Si\_Amigo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/si_amigo/32/2877_2.png) [@Si\_Amigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Si_Amigo)\
**Post date:** [April 26, 2025, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-3/996687/4035 "2025-04-26T23:14:24Z")

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**Songs by multi-nationality bands  
(nationality based on where band members were born)**

1. Radar Love - Golden Earring (band members born in the Netherlands and India)
2. ABBA - 3 of the band members were born in Sweden, but Anni-Frid Lyngstad was born in Norway, to a Norwegian mother and a German father
3. Up on Cripple Creek - The Band (Levon Helm was American, the others were Canadian)
4. Feels Like the First Time - Foreigner (original band line-up, with three Americans and three Englishmen)
5. Ohio - Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young (Young is Canadian)

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**Author:** ![gkster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gkster/32/14107_2.png) [@gkster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gkster)\
**Post date:** [April 26, 2025, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-3/996687/4036 "2025-04-26T23:15:57Z")

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**Songs by multi-nationality bands  
(nationality based on where band members were born)**

1. Radar Love - Golden Earring (band members born in the Netherlands and India)
2. ABBA - Dancing Queen- 3 of the band members were born in Sweden, but Anni-Frid Lyngstad was born in Norway, to a Norwegian mother and a German father
3. Update on Cripple Creek - The Band (Levon Helm was American, the others were Canadian)
4. Feels Like the First Time - Foreigner (original band line-up, with three Americans and three Englishmen)

Oops! Corrected. Sorry, I didn’t read the category title properly.

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**Author:** ![gkster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gkster/32/14107_2.png) [@gkster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gkster)\
**Post date:** [April 27, 2025, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-3/996687/4037 "2025-04-27T00:33:37Z")

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**Songs by multi-nationality bands  
(nationality based on where band members were born)**

1. Radar Love - Golden Earring (band members born in the Netherlands and India)
2. Dancing Queen- ABBA- 3 of the band members were born in Sweden, but Anni-Frid Lyngstad was born in Norway, to a Norwegian mother and a German father
3. Update on Cripple Creek - The Band (Levon Helm was American, the others were Canadian)
4. Feels Like the First Time - Foreigner (original band line-up, with three Americans and three Englishmen)
5. Ohio - Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young (Young is Canadian)

Correcting again and housekeeping

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**Author:** ![penultima\_thule](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/penultima_thule/32/3833_2.png) [@penultima\_thule](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/penultima_thule)\
**Post date:** [April 27, 2025, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-3/996687/4038 "2025-04-27T00:59:42Z")

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**Songs by multi-nationality bands**  
(nationality based on where band members were born)

1. Radar Love - Golden Earring (band members born in the Netherlands and India)
2. Dancing Queen- ABBA- 3 of the band members were born in Sweden, but Anni-Frid Lyngstad was born in Norway, to a Norwegian mother and a German father
3. Update on Cripple Creek - The Band (Levon Helm was American, the others were Canadian)
4. Feels Like the First Time - Foreigner (original band line-up, with three Americans and three Englishmen)
5. Ohio - Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young (Young is Canadian)
6. Friday On My Mind - Easybeats (Dick Diamonde & Harry Vanda - Netherlands, Stevie Wright & Snowy Fleet - England, George Young - Scotland, Tony Cahill - Australia)

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**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\
**Post date:** [April 27, 2025, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-3/996687/4039 "2025-04-27T02:21:18Z")

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**Songs by multi-nationality bands**  
(nationality based on where band members were born)

1. Radar Love - Golden Earring (band members born in the Netherlands and India)
2. Dancing Queen- ABBA- 3 of the band members were born in Sweden, but Anni-Frid Lyngstad was born in Norway, to a Norwegian mother and a German father
3. Update on Cripple Creek - The Band (Levon Helm was American, the others were Canadian)
4. Feels Like the First Time - Foreigner (original band line-up, with three Americans and three Englishmen)
5. Ohio - Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young (Young is Canadian)
6. Friday On My Mind - Easybeats (Dick Diamonde & Harry Vanda - Netherlands, Stevie Wright & Snowy Fleet - England, George Young - Scotland, Tony Cahill - Australia)
7. Little Green Bag - George Baker Selection (three members are Dutch, two from Belgium)

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**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\
**Post date:** [April 27, 2025, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-3/996687/4040 "2025-04-27T02:45:44Z")

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**Songs by multi-nationality bands**  
(nationality based on where band members were born)

1. Radar Love - Golden Earring (band members born in the Netherlands and India)
2. Dancing Queen- ABBA- 3 of the band members were born in Sweden, but Anni-Frid Lyngstad was born in Norway, to a Norwegian mother and a German father
3. Up on Cripple Creek - The Band (Levon Helm was American, the others were Canadian)
4. Feels Like the First Time - Foreigner (original band line-up, with three Americans and three Englishmen)
5. Ohio - Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young (Young is Canadian)
6. Friday On My Mind - Easybeats (Dick Diamonde & Harry Vanda - Netherlands, Stevie Wright & Snowy Fleet - England, George Young - Scotland, Tony Cahill - Australia)
7. Little Green Bag - George Baker Selection (three members are Dutch, two from Belgium)

Housekeeping (it’s not “Up_date_ on Cripple Creek”).

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