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For several years now, members of the Geek Pop crew have been great admirers of the WeAreAllBadgers.com website. It really is a thing of pure joy and you'll have to investigate it yourselves to truly appreciate it... but in any case, it's the inspiration for this month's Geek Pop Sessions pod. Yes, we've hunted down the man responsible for WeAreAllBadgers' official song, 'Undergound', and persuaded him to talk to us. Jimothy Bell has also extracted some spurious facts from the WeAreAllBadgers website and used them to quiz Hayley with. As you will find out, Hayley is not as easily fooled as she looks. (She has, however, just cried with laughter until her stomach hurt whilst taking WeAreAllBadgers' good or evil test.)
Thanks to Big Cheese Badger for making all this possible. And to Daniel Beswick and others for the listener-sourced badger artwork accompanying this post.
THE SONG: Underground by Andy Brown
Live session downloads available here.
I remember I took her underground, it's the best place I have found
There's a mystery deep underground, where we keep warm and sleep sound
Come with me, come with me, it's a kind of heaven and it's not in the sky
So use your best endeavours, try
Have you seen the setting sun? It's the best time to play and run
Come with me, come with me, it's a kind of heaven and it's not in the sky
So use your best endeavours, try
When I took you across the road, we took care because of what we've been told
Didn't stray from the beaten track and know our way back
Come with me, come with me, it's a kind of heaven and it's not in the sky
So use your best endeavours, try... (repeat)
More badger art what we promised we would publish. Thanks Sophie (left), Martin (top right) and Beki (bottom right). Do send us other badger art via the comments section - we're quite enjoying it.
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This month, we asked you for the weirdest songs you could think of, and here they are. Somehow, whilst striving for "weird", everything got a bit sexy and/or rude, so brace yourselves, listeners.
Here is our extra-weirdo Spotify list for January and here's the one with *everything ever* on it. Download links below.
Walking on the Moon - William Shatner
Quantum Physics (from Quantum Physics/Remarkable medley) - Onion Flavored Rings
FULL PLAY: The Cervival Smear Song (Get on the Bed and Don't Run Away) - Zeph Churchill (YouTube link)
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This month's session cast is our first Twitter-sourced song. It features the talents of Ardie Collins, the man behind the Cooper365 project, in which he wrote, recorded and published a song for every day of 2011. Including this geeky New Year song, that's a new song every day for 366 days! The theme we gave him was "scientific resolutions" - perfect for a New Year podcast. Happy 2012 Geek Poppers!
For more sciencey songs from Ardie, go here. If you have some of your own scientific resolutions, why not post them in the comments or tweet them at us?
THE SONG: My Scientific New Year's Resolutions - Ardie Collins
Live session downloads available here.
Lyrics: Currently being typed up by the lyric fairies...
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Look at that! It's a man wakeboarding with magnesium flares! What a dude!
For more stuff about magnesium, boron and indeed a number of other elements, dive into our Christmas "chemistry" themed podcast, which despite our best efforts actually turned out to be more about the things we hated at school (ahem, the nitrogen cycle), suicide, the water content of pensioners and mince pies. With some chemistry jokes thrown in for good measure. Thanks to Chemistry World and Jim's podcasting students, Jean and Leo, for their contributions.
December's Spotify list has a few extra chemically-oriented tracks, including the rather wonderful Oxygen by Willy Mason. This is the bumper Spotify list for the Geek Pop podcast, featuring all the songs (well, all the not-ridiculously-obscure ones) we've played. And December's download links are below. Happy Christmas one and all!
Rapping the Elements - Oort Kuiper (YouTube link)
Carbon Monoxide - Regina Spektor
Water Leaking, Water Moving - Jeffrey Lewis
FULL PLAY: Chemistry Set - Peter and the Wolf
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Onwards with our new two-podcasts-a-month mission. And this month we're bringing you a song specially commissioned by Geek Pop (yes, by us!) for Bright Club Bristol. Hoorah!
We asked Bristol-based musician Lori Campbell to write us something a bit silly for a sciencey sort of show. And well, she's done us proud.
Thanks to Lori's friend John Hendicott for putting all the mics in the right places and to Mr Lori for the inspiration.
THE SONG: The First Time - Lori Campbell
Live session downloads available here.
I can't remember the first time I saw your face, but faces change and so have I I always knew there was something unique about you and I let my curiosity get the better of me This is the first time I have loved an intellectual, mathematical, he always corrects my grammaticals Ever so practical, exceptional, electromagnetical man, who says things like: "The colours of the rainbow, so pretty in the sky, but that's not only blue and yellow you see floating high It's a phenomenological phenomenon, a trick of the light... The light is first refracted, entering the surface of the raindrop, reflected off the back of the drop and again refracted as it leaves the drop The overall effect is that the incoming light is reflected back over a wide range of angles, with the most intense light at the angle of 40 to 42 degrees The angle is independent of the size of the drop but it does depend on the refractive index." He's so romantic like that He is an intellectual, mathematical, he always corrects my grammaticals, ever so practical, exceptional, electromagnetical man If science and art could agree to agree that they're fighting the same battle, kind of like you and me Freedom from ignorance, striving for excellence There's a first time for everything - wouldn't you agree? Still I don't know how you ended up with me Because I am idealistic and slightly autistic, artistic and generally I like to risk it I'm hardy but tardy, I have a good heart, I erratically cry and compulsively lie and I can't tell you why I do what I do, I can not find my shoe And I can't tell you how I ended up with, probably can't live without, youSubscribe to our podcast feed through iTunes or Google. It's like, totally free. That's not all though. You'll also receive a bunch of free music downloads from our previous festivals. And if you're looking for the archive, it's here.
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This month's podcast is a chocolate box of geeky treats - songs about dinosaurs, robots, space and... er... baked beans. Hayley wonders what the point of a mayfly is. Jim plays teacher, sending us all off to do our homework like good little children (see below in the Geek Poll). And The Hornblower Brothers do some right proper Northern accents. Lovely.
Here is November's Spotify list. Click here for the bumper list - all the songs we've ever played on the Geek Pop podcast, which is millions. Oh, alright, it's not... but nearly. This month's download links are below:
Here Come the Dinosaurs - MJ Hibbett
Autumn Constellations Song (YouTube link)
Android with a Heart - The Hornblower Brothers
FULL PLAY: His Last Few Days: Mayfly - Mind Map That (Mind Map That link)
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Standard Podcasts [48:40m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download | Embeddable Player | Hits (438)(1 ratings) Hello dear friends. Today we're beginning a trial of a new podcast format, so bear with us. Instead of releasing Geek Pop live sessions on our live sessions page as we have done for the last year, we're going to be releasing them right here in the podcast feed. We'll be sticking to the 5-song format for the regular monthly podcast, which means in total... (maths required)... you get 6 podcasts instead of 5!
In the coming months we hope to be bringing you interviews and all sorts of extra goodies in our live sessions podcasts, but while we get ourselves sorted out, here's a quick one from Nerd Song. Oh, also, they made a little video of it just for us (but you probably already saw that). Thanks to SciCast for alerting us to their genius.
THE SONG: The Particle Zoo - Nerd Song
Live session downloads available here.
People used to think that An atom was fundamentally indivisible Now we really know that Matter is made of 24 different particlesWe've classified these fundamentals Into groups called quarks and leptons 12 in each makes 24
Now, quarks are really kinda strange Because of their gluon exchange They only come in 2s or 3s
Up quark, down quark, strange quark, charm quark, top quark, and a bottom too. These 6 things are all a part of the standard particle zoo
It's time for us to move along From quarks over to the lepton The other fundamental group
Now, half the leptons carry charge The other half, by and large, Don't really interact at all
Electron, muon, tau and corresponding neutrinos too These 6 things are all a part of the standard particle zoo
Some of you may have figured out That particles have been left out Exactly half, to be precise
Each particle has got a twin, An opposite-behaving thing That's called an antiparticle
Every quark and lepton has an antiparticle too These 12 things are all a part of the standard particle zoo
The particles aren't finished yet We've got some things called bosons That are carriers for every force
Electromagnetic and weak and strong Are carried by 4 gauge bosons But gravity is unresolved
Photons, gluons, w and z bosons for force mediation But we haven't yet confirmed the particle for gravitation
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***Contains graphic descriptions of dinosaur sex (heh)***
So it's the MONSTERS podcast that you all voted for and you've made some right good song suggestions for it. Emmy the Great prompts a very frank discussion of stegosaurus sex, Jonathan Richman stumbles across a yeti in the freezer section and we ask whether Jim's sister is an alien. Remember to cast your vote in this month's Geek Poll (below) and enter our Monster Moves competition by emailing crew@geekpop.co.uk
We've made a MONSTER playlist on Spotify, including a bunch of other listener suggestions we collected but couldn't fit on the podcast. Click here for the bumper list of songs played on the podcast. This month's download links for iTunes below:
Abominable Snowman in the Market - Jonathan Richman (YouTube link)
Monsters in the Parasol - Queens of the Stone Age
FULL PLAY: Tianchi Lake - The Mountain Goats
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Time for some topical science-based music on the podcast. This is a special show to coincide with the news that neutrinos *might* be able to travel faster than light, and therefore some of Einstein's theories *might* have been a bit wrong, and therefore time travel *might* be possible... Anyway, thanks to Andrew Pontzen, Geek Pop 2011 alumnus, for making that into a song and sending us a live recording of it. We were so pleased, we had to tell you all straight away.
Don't forget that next month's show is MONSTER themed. Send your song suggestions to crew@geekpop.co.uk
P.S. Sorry for any sound quirks - it was all a bit ad hoc and the usual equipment was on loan...
THE SONG: Spare A Thought - Andrew Pontzen (also on our live sessions page here)
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Everything seems to be wildly out of place this month, what with oranges in ovens, universes in cornflake boxes and POETRY sneaking into our music podcast... Oh and can anyone tell us whether Einstein once turned down the presidency of Israel? WHAT? It seems like we've come back from Green Man Festival and completely lost the plot. But while we were there we did record a lovely little live session with Johnny & the Chemists on Green Man FM. The full length version, including TWO whole songs is on our live sessions page. And you can listen to Jim's radio show in its entirety (including some Geek Pop classics) on the Green Man FM Mixcloud channel.
Don't forget to vote in the Geek Poll (below) and send your suggestions for next month's MONSTER themed podcast to crew@geekpop.co.uk
There are full-length versions of some of this month's songs on Spotify. The uber-list of all the songs we've ever played on the podcast is here. (Or about three quarters of them, because sometimes we get quite obscure). Download links for iTunes below:
Splitting the Atom - Massive Attack
Storm - Tim Minchin (You Tube link)
240 Years Before Your Time - The Black Keys
LIVE SESSION: American Now - Johnny & the Chemists (full two-song session here)
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Image: by Matt Kay. Stupidly, no one thought to take a picture of Johnny & the Chemists while they were doing their live session, so here's one of Johnny tuning up at Hayley's wedding 
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