Music Selections - from Dr. McCord

The goal is to have at least one song per day (sometimes more) that could in theory relate in some way to what we are covering in class (or not). This page is to be a listing of the songs that have been played. Hope you enjoy the effort. If the song is on Spotify, it will be on that playlist as well. - Dr. McCord

# day song artist year chemistry theme
1 1/21 I Gotta Feeling The Black Eyed Peas 2009 get ready for a "good" semester!
2 1/23 Changes David Bowie 1971 thermo / phase changes
3 1/26 Heat is On Glen Frey 1984 heating curves
4 1/28 Solid Ashford & Simpson 1984 solid part of phase diagrams
5 1/30 This is Gospel Panic at the Disco 2013 "let me go" solvation of ions
6 2/2 Cold as Ice Foreigner 1977 freezing point depression
7 2/4 Break Free Ariana Grande 2014 ions breaking free into solution
8 2/6 Take Me to Church Hozier 2014 preaching Ksp use
9 2/9 Love and Hope Ozomatli 2004 hoping for good exam score
10 2/11 The Middle Jimmy Eat World 2001 it will be alright
** 2/13 Shake it Off Taylor Swift 2014 ...moving on to chem equil
11 2/16 Peaches The Presidents of the US 1995 it's President's Day
12 2/18 Ice Ice Baby Vanilla Ice 1990 (r)ICE Tables
13 2/20 Friday Rebecca Black 2011 it is in fact, Friday
14 2/23 All About That Bass Meghan Trainor 2014 acids and BASES!
15 2/25 Hot N Cold Katy Perry 2008 opposites as in conjugate pair K strengths
16 2/27 Stuck In The Middle With You Stealers Wheel 1972 dilutions and weakness point to the middle of the pH scale
17 3/2 Just The Two Of Us Grover Washington 1981 conjugate PAIRS make the buffer
18 3/4 Who Are You The Who who are you? acid or base
19 3/6 Dead Man's Curve Jan & Dean 1964 titration curves / pH curves
20 3/9 Two Of A Kind Bobby Darin & Johnny Mercer 1961 buffers need pairs - conjugate pairs
21 3/11 Got To Give It Up Marvin Gaye 1977 compare to #22 - worth $7.4 million
22 3/11 Blurred Lines Robin Thicke 2013 a blurred line during pH transition through the buffer region
23 3/13 We're An American Band Grand Funk Railroad 1973 lots of bands coming for SXSW - don't forget to "party down"
24 3/23 Radioactive Imagine Dragons 2012 radioactive decay / nuclear chemistry.
25 3/25 Why Does The Sun Shine? They Might Be Giants 1993 H is built into He is fusion!
26 3/27 Mess Is Mine Vance Joy 2014 nuclear waste can make your mess mine.
27 3/30 Shine Collective Soul 1993 shine "light" is radiation.
28 4/1 Life In The Fast Lane Eagles 1976 FAST rates of reaction
29 4/3 Slow Ride Foghat 1975 SLOW rates of reaction
30 4/6 Easy Commodores 1977 elementary (easy) reaction steps make a mechanism
31 4/8 Show Me The Way - Live Peter Frampton 1976 mechanisms "show you the way" reactions proceed
32 4/10 Love Rollercoaster Ohio Players 1975 multistep potential energy diagram looks like a rollercoaster
33 4/13 With A Little Help From My Friends Joe Cocker catalysts help the rxn go faster.
34 4/15 Even The Losers Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers don't count on luck. Study!
35 4/17 My Generation The Who 1965 products are generated at the electrode
36 4/20 Gold On The Ceiling The Black Keys 2012 gold is a good inert electrode (Pt and C too)
37 4/22 Push It Salt-N-Pepa 1987 electrons are pushed/pulled through a circuit by voltaic cell
38 4/24 Power Kanye West 2010 P = I · E counting kJ via watts
39 4/27 Body Electric Lana Del Rey 2012 electricity calculations
40 4/29 One Thing Leads To Another The Fixx 1983 reduction is linked to oxidation
41 5/1 Take Me Out Franz Ferdinand 2004 nernst equation
42 5/4 It's a Long Way to the Top AC/DC ** 1975 Pb-acid batteries
43 5/6 Jeopardy - Theme Song tv show theme 1984 Chemistry Jeopardy day
44 5/8 Re-Education (Through Labor) Rise Against 2008

** not on Spotify

Spotify Playlist