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Posted on: May 28, 2007 4:10 PM, by PZ Myers
Dr Joan Bushwell makes a find: Mitch Benn's rock anthem to Richard Dawkins. It is most excellent party music.
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You can hear Mitch Benn on BBC Radio 4's The Now Show. It's off air at present but if you subscribe to the podcast version via iTMS you'll get the next series. URL below:
http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=142201060
Or search in Podcasts on iTMS.
Posted by: Ian Robinson | May 28, 2007 4:24 PM
Catchy tune. I hope Mitch Benn performs in the United States some time. I'd like to go see him.
Posted by: Paguroidea | May 28, 2007 4:37 PM
Catchy tune. I hope Mitch Benn performs in the United States some time. I'd like to go see him.
Okay. Thank you Mr. person who is not affiliated with Mitch Benn.
Posted by: 386sx | May 28, 2007 4:52 PM
Great tune. Intelligent lyrics. I'd like to see Benn perform with Bad Religion!
Posted by: Bradley J. Fikes | May 28, 2007 5:12 PM
386sx- I got a good laugh from your comment. I'm really not affiliated with him. I noticed on his blog that he has a bunch of upcoming shows.
If he gets enough publicity via the internet, maybe we'll get to see him on tour in the States.
Posted by: Paguroidea | May 28, 2007 5:24 PM
Honestly, I liked the "Size Zero" song better than the Richard Dawkins one. I thought musically it was lame, but that's just me. It doesn't mean I believe in God or anything.
Posted by: Mike Haubrich, FCD | May 28, 2007 6:10 PM
Don't forget Frameshift: Unweaving the Rainbow, an entire concept album based on Richard Dawkins.
Posted by: jpf | May 28, 2007 6:44 PM
Mitch Benn's song 'Happy Birthday, War', from the last series of the Now Show, is also pretty good.
The idea of Mitch Benn touring the US is a bit ironic as the last series of his comedy show 'Mitch Benn's Crimes Against Music' started with the premise that Mitch Benn's tour had been refused access to the US (his James Blunt satire 'I may just have to', on the MySpace page linked above, was from this series, and it's funnier with the intro it had in the show).
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Posted by: scotty | May 28, 2007 8:07 PM
He's almost as good as Bill Evans.
Posted by: John Danley | May 28, 2007 9:52 PM
Hey Scotty, did William Dembski hire you? Please fuck off.
Posted by: John Danley | May 28, 2007 9:54 PM
Seconded.
Posted by: Mystic Olly | May 28, 2007 10:23 PM
Thrash guitar, unintelligible lyrics.
Can't you do better?
Posted by: Chris Thompson | May 28, 2007 10:23 PM
Thrash guitar, unintelligible lyrics.
I have to agree with that. It's good, but it should be a lot heavier. And the word "nerd" shouldn't be in it. That's silly. Enough with the silly science songs already. Why is it that when people write science songs they think they have to make it sound like a television commercial or something?
Posted by: 386sx | May 28, 2007 10:40 PM
Don't forget Frameshift: Unweaving the Rainbow, an entire concept album based on Richard Dawkins.
Now that's more like it. Yeahhh! Kudos.
Posted by: 386sx | May 28, 2007 10:56 PM
heloo
Posted by: scot | May 29, 2007 9:52 AM
HA! Makes me think of MC Hawking, nerdcore king of gangsta rap:
"Creationists always try to use the second law / to disprove evolution, but their theory has a flaw: / the second law is quite precise about where it applies, / only in a closed system must the entropy count rise. / The Earth's not a closed system, it's powered by the sun. / So fuck the damn creationists! Doomsday, get my gun." -- from "Entropy"
Posted by: mojojojo | May 29, 2007 3:55 PM
"I have to agree with that. It's good, but it should be a lot heavier. And the word "nerd" shouldn't be in it. That's silly"
The title "king of the nerds" isnt to do with the science. It is to do with the fact that he married a Dr Who assistant. And that does give him a VERY high ranking indeed in the society of nerds.
Posted by: Donalbain | May 30, 2007 5:23 AM
And Mitch Benn is himself a huge Doctor Who fan, as shown by several jokes about that on The Now Show. He's effectively saying Dawkins is his role model.
Anyway, how can you not like a song that rhymes 'blasphemer' with 'lemur'?
Posted by: Barney | May 30, 2007 7:50 PM
The title "king of the nerds" isnt to do with the science. It is to do with the fact that he married a Dr Who assistant. And that does give him a VERY high ranking indeed in the society of nerds.
Okay. Sorry about that! It's probably the greatest song ever written except for too much reverb on the vocals.
Posted by: 386sx | May 30, 2007 8:16 PM