Comments on: On Music: Major-General’s Song

By: Zach

Zach — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 04:33:24 +0000

Neatorama wrote about this video last month. “The Model of a Psychopharmacologist”. Animated, of course.

By: Average Jane

Average Jane — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 20:00:37 +0000

Tom Lehrer’s “The Elements” is the only thing that got me a halfway decent grade in high school chemistry class.

By: Julie

Julie — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 16:28:47 +0000

For any Gilmore Girls fans out there, this is the song that Luke’s daughter April’s (science?) class sang on the bus when they went on a field trip.

By: Roger

Roger — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 14:18:01 +0000

Wow – lot of good stuff here. If you’re new to the genius of Tom Lehrer and enjoy send-ups of Gilbert and Sullivan, he also does a ‘style parody’ of them at the end of his reworking of ‘Clementine.’

By: PJZ

PJZ — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 12:58:37 +0000

I have always said that if anything is put to music, I will remember it forever. That’s how I learned all the states and their capitals – thanks to the Anamaniacs.

By: Aemi

Aemi — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 12:20:31 +0000

I had to memorize them in order, but since I heard Tom Lehrer all the time as a kid, it was only natural to memorize them to that tune.