❌Monthly Song Challenge: Archived🎵

Day 14: A song involving math in any form you want.

What an odd coincidence that I just learned about this this week this from a video promoted to me because of the last time I searched for Aphex Twin. If you take this song and run it through a visualizer you get an image. It’s some deep deep deep nerd shit that wasn’t discovered until years later. More info here

https://www.bastwood.com/?page_id=10

Aphex Twin
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Day 14: A song involving math in any form you want.

30/90 - Jonathan Larson

Using my second song pass here!! Only because I kinda wish I had thought about this one first 🤭. I won't argue the math, if you can't figure it out from piano or lyrics then I am no help anyway. This is Jonathan Larson playing this song live before he was a known name in the Broadway community. In fact, I believe this show was off off-Broadway.

Some of you may recognize the song from Netflix's rendition of tick, tick... BOOM! You would be correct. This is who wrote that musical and who it was written about.

 
Day 14: A song involving math in any form you want

Happy Pi Day, pervs!

Random number generatiAnnotateon
All our feelings and thoughts
Expressed in ones and in oughts
In endless spiralling chains
You can't decode or explain
Cos you are so analog
God, dog, I, eye, I, God, dog

We're the random number generation
We are random number generated
We are random numbers

In the regime of the solid state
Wheels spin when you iterate
K is x² - 1
But .54321
When x is taken × 2
That's when we're coming for you

We're the random number generation
We are random number generated
We are random numbers

Mister Little started something huge
Iggy Pop, Iggy Stooge
All the children shout out
"Hey, here we are"

We're the random number generation
We are random number generated
We are random numbers


Random Number Generation - Hedwig And The Angry Inch
 
Day 14: A song involving math in any form you want.

This is the mathiest, puniest math song ever. It was written by a group of Northwestern University Mathematics grad students, and almost every lyric is a pun relating to some mathematics field. You may notice that The Klein Four Group has five members? That is because the group's name is a pun. (I would try to explain it, but to be honest? I have no fucking idea. I get about 20% of this song without looking stuff up. But it is still fun as hell).

"Finite Simple Group (of Order Two)," The Klein Four


 
"Beware the Ides of March."

–William Shakespeare, Julius Cesar, act I, scene II

The 15th is The Ides of March. "Ides” is just a fancy way of saying “the middle day of the month,” but for Julius Caesar it was the end as well, as, days after he claimed to be dictator for life, that was the day he was assassinated. (So I guess he was dictator for life. Good call, Julius!) The Ides of March was the end of Cesar, and Cesar ended the Roman Republic. So, in honor of that…

Day 15: Post a song about things ending.
 
Day 15: Post a song about things ending.

This was the last song ever performed live by Kent, as they exited stage left back in 2016 after three decades of making incredible music.

The music video is awe inspiring, no green screens, no digital effects; they had a veritable army of people marching through an empty Stockholm. Streets shut down, districts closed off, just to film a music video. That they got the permits to do that, even in the dead of night, just shows how incredibly loved they were!

It also includes the subjects from all of their album covers through the years. Including a frikkin TIGER!

Då, som nu, för alltid 💕

KENT - Then, like now, forever

 
"Beware the Ides of March."
–William Shakespeare, Julius Cesar, act I, scene II

The 15th is The Ides of March. "Ides” is just a fancy way of saying “the middle day of the month,” but for Julius Caesar it was the end as well, as, days after he claimed to be dictator for life, that was the day he was assassinated. (So I guess he was dictator for life. Good call, Julius!) The Ides of March was the end of Cesar, and Cesar ended the Roman Republic. So, in honor of that…

Day 15: Post a song about things ending.
March 15 is the day I left Australia to move internationally not once, but twice.
I moved to Japan on March 15.
I moved to America on March 15.

My father's birthday is March 15. Happy birthday, dad!
 
Day 15: Post a song about things ending.

Empty Chairs At Empty Tables - Les Misérables (performed by Eddie Redmayne)

This song hits home for me for this prompt. Not with the background @UnquietDreams gave for his reasoning of the prompt, but for things ending all the same. Music is one of those universal languages, where there's something for everyone for every and any mood.

When I lost my grandfather, his death hit me like a truck. I knew it was coming, by the end, it was a waiting game. Yet, when he finally left us, I bawled. I needed something to fill the air other than my own sobs during that grief. For two hours, I sat alone on the floor of my apartment with this song on repeat. Sometimes, I just let the meaning of the words and my new reality sink into my bones. Other times, I sang every word, as if singing them to him. It was my catharsis.

And before any musicals officianados at me for not picking Michael Ball or someone else's performance, I love the emotion that Eddie Redmayne brought to this performance. Does Michael Ball technically sing it better? Yes. But, his performance didn't leave me feeling the words as deeply as Eddie Redmayne's performance. So there.

 
Day 15: Post a song about things ending.

every new beginning comes from some other beginnings end...and while time is undefeated, the story is neverending...​

The Full Dustin and Suzie NeverEnding Story Scene | Stranger Things S3​

The Neverending Story • Theme Song​

 
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