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The closing music for all podcasts, and opening music for lectures 1-10, 13, 18, 25. 41
is:
Song: We’re All Light
Artist: XTC
Album: Wasp Star (Apple Venus, Pt. 2)
Year: 2000
Opening music for lectures 11 and 12
Song: A Quake! A Quake!
Album: Yakko’s World
Year: 1994
Opening music for lecture 14
Song: By the Beautiful Sea
Artist: Spike Jones and the City Slickers
Album: Musical Depreciation Revue Anthology
Year: 1950
Opening music for lecture 15
Song: Several Drops of Rain
Album: Yakko’s World
Year: 1994
Opening music for lecture 16
Song: Once in a Lifetime
Album: Stop Making Sense
Year: 1984
Opening music for lecture 17
Song: Run Straight Down
Album: Transverse City
Year: 1989
Opening music for lecture 19
Song: You and the Clouds Will Still Be Beautiful
Artist: XTC
Album: Wasp Star (Apple Venus, Pt. 2)
Year: 2000
Opening music for lecture 20
Song: Weather With You
Album: Woodface
Year: 1991
Opening music for lecture 21
Song: Hot Fun in the Summertime
Album: Greatest Hits
Year: 1969
Opening music for lecture 22
Song: Air on a G string (BWV 1068)
Year: written between 1717 and 1723
Opening music for lecture 23
Song: Hott Bizness
Album: Later That Day
Year: 2003
Opening music for lecture 24
Song: The Greenhouse Effect
Album: Kung Fu . . . That’s What I Like
Year: 1989
Opening music for lecture 26
Song: I’ll Set Myself on Fire
Artist: XTC
Album: White Music
Year: 1978
Plus a sample of Milton from Office Space
Opening music for lecture 27
Song: Post Cold-War Politics
Album: In Your Face
Year:1986
Opening music for lecture 28
Song: Sweet Life
Album: Crazy
Year: 1995
Opening music for lecture 29
Song: Life in the Foodchain
Album: Life in the Foodchain
Year: 1978
Opening music for lecture 30
Song1: Mr. Darwin
Album: Family Reunion
Year: http://buddyhoughtaling.net/frord.html
Artist: Geoff Sirmai and David Fisher
The Singing Steves were Daryl Colquhoun, Noel Debien, Robert Green, and Geoff Sirmai.
The Steve Song was written for The Science Show, on ABC Radio National. 8th March 2003.
Opening music for lecture 31
Song: Life Is So Peculiar
Album: Five Guys Named Moe: Original Decca Recordings Vol. 2
Year: 1992 (original recording in 1943)
Opening music for Lecture 32
Song: I Live
Album: Shuttered Room
Year: 1982
Opening music for Lecture 33
Song: Doublin'
Artist: Si Kahn with the Freighthoppers
Album: Where Have All the Flowers Gone: The Songs of Pete Seeger
Year: 1998
Opening music for Lecture 34
Song 1: People
Album: People
Year: 1964
Song 2: One World
Album: Swing to the Right
Year: 1982
Rev-up is from Todd Rundgren's "Heavy Metal Kids" from the Todd album, 1974. There is also an embedded sample of Bill Hicks from the Revelantions show.
Opening music for Lecture 35
Song: Life Is
Album: All I Got
Year: 2002
Opening music for Lecture 36
Song: If A Tree Falls
Album: Big Circumstance
Year: 1988
Opening music for Lecture 37
Song: Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger
Album: Discovery
Year: 2001
Opening music for Lecture 38
Song: Electric Avenue
Album: Killer on the Rampage
Year: 1983
Opening music for Lecture 39
Song: Money
Album: Everything Playing
Year: 1968
Tragedy of the commons music
Sunrise Song: The William Tell Overture
Artist: Spike Jones and the City Slickers
Album: Musical Depreciation Revue Anthology
Year: 1950
Tragedy outro/Morrisey Song: Meat is Murder
Album: Meat is Murder
Year: 1985
Opening Music for Lecture 40
Song : Money
Album: Swing to the Right
Year: 1982
Opening Music for Lecture 42
Song: Yakko's Universe
Album: Yakko’s World
Year: 1994
Prokofiev's Universe
Opening Music for Lecture 43
Song: Morning Has Broken
Album: Teaser and the Firecat
Year: 1971
Opening Music for Lecture 44
Song: Jig of Life
Album: Hounds of Love
Year: 1985
Opening Music for Lecture 45
Song: Amoeba
Album: The Big One is Coming
Year: 1988
Opening Music for Lecture 46
Song: At the Zoo
Album: Bookends
Year: 1968
Opening Music for Lecture 47
Song: Fishin' Blues
Album: Do You Believe in Magic
Year: 1965
Opening Music for Lecture 48
Song: Insects
Album: Nothing to Fear
Year: 1982
Opening Music for Lecture 49
Song: When I Was a Dinosaur
Album: Big Trouble
Year: 1991
Opening Music for Lecture 50
Song: Monkey Tuesday
Album: The Penn Jillette Radio Show
Year: 2008
Opening Music for Lecture 51
Song: Walking Man
Album: Walking Man
Year: 1974
Opening Music for Lecture 52
Song: Only Human
Album: Swing to the Right
Year: 1982
Opening Music for Lecture 53
Song: Afterlife
Album: Liars
Year: 2004
Opening Music for Lecture 54
Song: The Caves of Altamira
Album: Royal Scam
Year: 1976