Geek Pop: December 2012
Posted: December 5, 2012 Filed under: podcast 1 Comment »
Happy Christmas and bye bye to @jimothybell for now. He’ll be experiencing Christmas upside down in a hot place, which is just wrong. Anyway, as has become tradition here at Geek Pop, for the festive period we’re bringing you a selection of the most niche songs ever – Christmas science songs. Extra props to Jonny Berliner for writing a power ballad about Michael Faraday’s Christmas lectures.
In January, we’re kicking off a new series called ‘Desert Island Scientist’. Here’s a trailer. Stay tuned to the same podcast feed and it will reach your earholes very soon.
I Want an Alien for Christmas – Fountains of Wayne
Post Apocalypse Christmas – Gruff Rhys
Merry Christmas if that’s Okay – Mystery Science Theater 3000s (YouTube link)
Mistletoe – Colbie Calliat (iTunes link)
The Christmas Power Ballad of Michael Faraday – Jonny Berliner (Bandcamp link)
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Great collection. And if I can humbly add our little ditty, written to mark the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 8 mission: “We’re Going to the Moon for Christmas”?
http://music.arbelos.eu/track/were-going-to-the-moon-for-christmas