- “Darkmatter,” Andrew Bird
- “21st Century (Digital Boy),” Bad Religion
- “Some Fantastic,” Barenaked Ladies
- “Desolation Row,” Bob Dylan
- “Total Eclipse of the Heart,” Bonnie Tyler
- “Gravity Fails,” the Bottle Rockets
- “Protons, Neutrons, Electrons,” The Cat Empire
- “Alien,” Chris Whitley
- “Under the Milky Way,” the Church
- “White Russian Galaxy,” the Crimea
- “Ziggy Stardust,” David Bowie
- “Monkey to Man,” Elvis Costello
- “Laser Show,” Fountains of Wayne
- “I Am a Scientist,” Guided by Voices
- “Satellite,” Guster
- “Galileo,” Indigo Girls
- “The Future Soon,” Jonathan Coulton
- “Satellite of Love,” Lou Reed
- “Elvis is Everywhere,” Mojo Nixon
- “Supermassive Black Hole,” Muse
- “Thrasher,” Neil Young
- “Dance Like a Monkey,” New York Dolls
- “The Boy in the Bubble,” Paul Simon
- “Ask DNA,” Raju Ramayya
- “Four Eyed Girl,” Rhett Miller
- “Now’s Not the Right Time for Love,” the Rugburns
- “Nuclear,” Ryan Adams
- “Wonderful World,” Sam Cooke
- “Magnet’s Coil,” Sebadoh
- “Chemistry,” Semisonic
- “Black Hole Sun,” Soundgarden
- “Everybody Wants to Rule the World,” Tears for Fears
- “Particle Man,” They Might Be Giants
- “She Blinded Me With Science,” Thomas Dolby
- “I’m Pretty Sure I Can See Molecules,” Troubled Hubble
- “Ultraviolet (Light My Way),” U2
- “The Whole of the Moon,” Waterboys
- “Lousy Reputation,” We Are Scientists
- “Our Retired Explorer (Dines with Michel Foucault In Paris, 1961),” the Weakerthans
(I’m leaving early Friday morning for a weekend get-together with friends from college, so this will serve as a weekend post. Obviously, only a handful of these are actually about science, though most of them at least reference science or something science-y. Feel free to suggest songs that I may have omitted, quibble with my choice of songs, or lament my apppalling taste in music, but I won’t respond before Monday.
(Have a good weekend, everybody.)