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