Psychologist summer playlist
July 15, 2023 8:45 AM Subscribe
I'm looking for songs/albums titled or inspired by different principles, models or philosophies, for example, "Occam's Razor" by Frank Zappa or "Murphy's Law" by Róisín Murphy.
Has someone written a ballad for Pavlov's Dog? What about the Dunning Kruger effect? I'm here for them all, even the tangentially related ones.
Has someone written a ballad for Pavlov's Dog? What about the Dunning Kruger effect? I'm here for them all, even the tangentially related ones.
Would "The Pleasure Principle" by Janet Jackson do?
posted by sigmagalator at 9:26 AM on July 15, 2023
posted by sigmagalator at 9:26 AM on July 15, 2023
The Magnetic Fields - The Death of Ferdinand de Saussure
posted by LionIndex at 9:27 AM on July 15, 2023 [1 favorite]
posted by LionIndex at 9:27 AM on July 15, 2023 [1 favorite]
Schrodinger's Cat Tears For Fears
Compendium: The Philosopher's Song - Monty Python.
Not a song but an advert for Dunning Kruger whiskey
posted by BobTheScientist at 9:48 AM on July 15, 2023
Compendium: The Philosopher's Song - Monty Python.
Not a song but an advert for Dunning Kruger whiskey
posted by BobTheScientist at 9:48 AM on July 15, 2023
The Police (featuring Sting) had "Synchronicity I" and "Synchronicity II" which are loosely inspired by Carl Jung and for some reason the Loch Ness monster.
(And I must now link to this completely amazing Revolver interview that I cannot believe is real where Stewart Copeland just razzes Sting over and over about it.)
posted by credulous at 10:04 AM on July 15, 2023 [3 favorites]
(And I must now link to this completely amazing Revolver interview that I cannot believe is real where Stewart Copeland just razzes Sting over and over about it.)
posted by credulous at 10:04 AM on July 15, 2023 [3 favorites]
They Might Be Giants - Dinner Bell had some Pavlovian lyrics
posted by knile at 11:15 AM on July 15, 2023 [1 favorite]
posted by knile at 11:15 AM on July 15, 2023 [1 favorite]
Has someone written a ballad for Pavlov's Dog?
There was a whole band called Pavlov's Dog.
posted by flabdablet at 11:52 AM on July 15, 2023
There was a whole band called Pavlov's Dog.
posted by flabdablet at 11:52 AM on July 15, 2023
From Friends: Joey sings in a musical called Freud!
Alanis Morissette did a song called The Couch (he content matches the title as well)
posted by underclocked at 11:56 AM on July 15, 2023
Alanis Morissette did a song called The Couch (he content matches the title as well)
posted by underclocked at 11:56 AM on July 15, 2023
Maybe Deja Vu, the album by Crosby Stills Nash and Young - ?
posted by JonJacky at 1:10 PM on July 15, 2023 [1 favorite]
posted by JonJacky at 1:10 PM on July 15, 2023 [1 favorite]
Joan Baez's 1968 anti war album Baptism would seem to fit the bill.
posted by jamjam at 2:10 PM on July 15, 2023
posted by jamjam at 2:10 PM on July 15, 2023
Would "The Pleasure Principle" by Janet Jackson do
Note that Gary Numan's first solo record has the same title.
posted by Rash at 2:38 PM on July 15, 2023
Note that Gary Numan's first solo record has the same title.
posted by Rash at 2:38 PM on July 15, 2023
I recommend Songs of Couch and Consultation (1961) by Katie Lee. It's a clever concept album about Freudian Therapy, with sardonic and well-researched lyrics.
posted by ovvl at 5:28 PM on July 15, 2023
posted by ovvl at 5:28 PM on July 15, 2023
Cool idea! Here are a few suggestions:
"Newton's Laws" by The 49 Americans
"The Golden Rule" by SNOG
"Indoctrination (A Design for Living)" by Dead Can Dance
"Newton's Gravitätlichkeit" by Einstürzende Neubauten
"The Rule of Thirds" by Death in June
"Supertheory Of Supereverything" by Gogol Bordello
posted by abraxasaxarba at 5:49 PM on July 15, 2023
"Newton's Laws" by The 49 Americans
"The Golden Rule" by SNOG
"Indoctrination (A Design for Living)" by Dead Can Dance
"Newton's Gravitätlichkeit" by Einstürzende Neubauten
"The Rule of Thirds" by Death in June
"Supertheory Of Supereverything" by Gogol Bordello
posted by abraxasaxarba at 5:49 PM on July 15, 2023
Does math count? Jonathan Coulton - Mandelbrot Set
(And I must now link to this completely amazing Revolver interview that I cannot believe is real where Stewart Copeland just razzes Sting over and over about it.) holy … that is amazing
posted by Mchelly at 7:51 PM on July 15, 2023
(And I must now link to this completely amazing Revolver interview that I cannot believe is real where Stewart Copeland just razzes Sting over and over about it.) holy … that is amazing
posted by Mchelly at 7:51 PM on July 15, 2023
Parliament had an album called Funkentelechy vs the Placebo Syndrome, which includes the track Funkentelechy in which lyrical references are made to the pleasure principle
posted by cubeb at 6:35 AM on July 16, 2023
posted by cubeb at 6:35 AM on July 16, 2023
Tears for Fears’ album The Hurting was inspired by the primal theory work of Arthur Janov.
posted by jabes at 7:00 AM on July 16, 2023 [1 favorite]
posted by jabes at 7:00 AM on July 16, 2023 [1 favorite]
May not be specific enough to serve as an answer:
https://www.mindingtherapy.com/the-therapist-song/
And I think ~half of Dar Williams' catalog might fit. Heck, her 1993 album was literally called "The Honesty Room." After All, and What Do You Hear in These Sounds
... “Look, you come here every week
With jigsaw pieces of your past
Its all on little soundbytes and voices out of photographs
And that’s all yours, that’s the guide, that’s the map
So tell me, where does the arrow point to?…
And when I talk about therapy, I know what people think
That it only makes you selfish and in love with your shrink
But oh how I loved everybody else
When I finally got to talk so much about myself…
posted by adekllny at 9:22 AM on July 16, 2023
https://www.mindingtherapy.com/the-therapist-song/
And I think ~half of Dar Williams' catalog might fit. Heck, her 1993 album was literally called "The Honesty Room." After All, and What Do You Hear in These Sounds
... “Look, you come here every week
With jigsaw pieces of your past
Its all on little soundbytes and voices out of photographs
And that’s all yours, that’s the guide, that’s the map
So tell me, where does the arrow point to?…
And when I talk about therapy, I know what people think
That it only makes you selfish and in love with your shrink
But oh how I loved everybody else
When I finally got to talk so much about myself…
posted by adekllny at 9:22 AM on July 16, 2023
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