Dr Joan Bushwell makes a find: Mitch Benn’s rock anthem to Richard Dawkins. It is most excellent party music.
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Dr Joan Bushwell makes a find: Mitch Benn’s rock anthem to Richard Dawkins. It is most excellent party music.
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.
Catchy tune. I hope Mitch Benn performs in the United States some time. I’d like to go see him.
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.
Great tune. Intelligent lyrics. I’d like to see Benn perform with Bad Religion!
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.
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.
Don’t forget Frameshift: Unweaving the Rainbow, an entire concept album based on Richard Dawkins.
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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He’s almost as good as Bill Evans.
Hey Scotty, did William Dembski hire you? Please fuck off.
Seconded.
Thrash guitar, unintelligible lyrics.
Can’t you do better?
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?
Don’t forget Frameshift: Unweaving the Rainbow, an entire concept album based on Richard Dawkins.
Now that’s more like it. Yeahhh! Kudos.
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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”
“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.
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’?
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.