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Here Comes Science | 
| Artist: They Might Be Giants
Label: Disney Sound
Category: Music
List Price: $18.98
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Rating:  119 reviews
Sales Rank: 74
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 2
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 5.5 x 4.9 x 0.4
MPN: 000456600
UPC: 050087148997
EAN: 0050087148997
ASIN: B002FKZ4UO
Release Date: September 8, 2009
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Tracks:
Disc 1
| • | Science Is Real | | • | Meet the Elements | | • | I Am a Paleontologist w/Danny Weinkauf | | • | The Bloodmobile | | • | Electric Car w/Robin Goldwasser | | • | My Brother the Ape | | • | What Is a Shooting Star? | | • | How Many Planets? | | • | Why Does the Sun Shine? | | • | Why Does the Sun Really Shine? | | • | Roy G. Biv | | • | Put It to the Test | | • | Photosynthesis | | • | Cells | | • | Speed and Velocity w/Marty Beller | | • | Computer Assisted Design | | • | Solid Liquid Gas | | • | Here Comes Science Bonus Track | | • | The Ballad of Davy Crockett (in Outer Space) |
Disc 2
| • | Science Is Real [video content] | | • | Meet the Elements [video content] | | • | I Am a Paleontologist w/Danny Weinkauf [video content] | | • | The Bloodmobile [video content] | | • | Electric Car w/Robin Goldwasser [video content] | | • | My Brother the Ape [video content] | | • | What Is a Shooting Star? [video content] | | • | How Many Planets? [video content] | | • | Why Does the Sun Shine? [video content] | | • | Why Does the Sun Really Shine? [video content] | | • | Roy G. Biv [video content] | | • | Put It to the Test [video content] | | • | Photosynthesis [video content] | | • | Cells [video content] | | • | Speed and Velocity w/Marty Beller [video content] | | • | Computer Assisted Design [video content] | | • | Solid Liquid Gas [video content] | | • | Here Comes Science [video content] Bonus Track | | • | The Ballad of Davy Crockett (in Outer Space) [video content] |
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Album Description
This 2 disc CD+DVD set from GRAMMY® winners, They Might Be Giants creates a new creative way for kids to learn. Here Comes Science, follows up their successful past two children's albums Here Come the ABCs and GRAMMY® winner Here Come the 123s. With songs like Electric Car, Photosynthesis and Solid Liquid Gas (among others) kids will learn about science while having fun. The album features 19 songs and 19 entertaining videos.
Album Description
This 2 disc cd+dvd set from grammy winners, they might be giants creates a new creative way for kids to learn. Here comes science, follows up their successful past two children's albums here come the abcs and grammy winner here come the 123s. With songs like electric car, photosynthesis and solid liquid gas (among others) kids will learn about science while having fun. The album features 19 songs and 19 entertaining videos!
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 Catchy Science Music September 9, 2009
Jason S. Schneiderman (NYC)
71 out of 73 found this review helpful
While not a kid, I am a fan of TMBG, a scientist and I love this album. There are too few songs for kids done by good musicians about some of the most wonderful things about the world around us. The videos add a level of detail without weighing down the music or the level of fun. What particularly impressed me about the album is that it is more then just a series of facts set to song. The songs "Why Does the Sun Shine?" and "Why Does the Sun Really Shine?" TMBG captures the self-correcting nature of science, while "Science is Real" and "Put it to the Test" convey that science is an active ongoing process.
I highly recommend this album to parents out there, as well as science fans of all ages.
Catchy, educational, AND cheap?? September 10, 2009
J. F. Halsey (North Carolina, USA)
38 out of 40 found this review helpful
Just got this album in today and already I'm raving about it. The songs are fun and catchy, but the real deal-closer for me was the DVD. Over 45 minutes long, every single track on the CD has an animated video, each in a different creative style, that really bring the educational part home for the younger viewers. I have a daughter who is 4, and watching her stare with rapt attention as the "bloodmobile" explained how the cardiovascular system carries oxygen, nutrients, white blood cells, hormones, and waste to the different parts of the body--and seeing that she was really getting it--is incredibly rewarding. Or "Meet the Elements"... it's a bit too advanced for a 4 year old, but I can tell that she is at least getting some groundwork laid down in the basic concepts--that everything, and everyone, is made up of the same "stuff".
As a huge "fan" of science (I read science blogs while my coworkers check out ESPN), I can't tell you how fantastic it feels to have an entire album dedicated to, *ahem*, "singing the praises" of everything from anatomy to geology, astrophysics to zoology, the Big Bang to DNA. When I was a little kid, I was a little too late for Sagan's COSMOS, but I would watch hours of this silly little HBO show called ENCYCLOPEDIA, where they did silly sketches and songs about a lot of science facts and history. I know my fascination for learning new things about the How's and Why's of the world were, in part, kindled at that early age by such educational entertainment. I can't tell you how much it thrills me to see my kids starting on the same path of knowledge and discovery.
Thank you, John and John.
Catchy songs with a good message. September 9, 2009
Michael Lawson
29 out of 32 found this review helpful
TMBG's biggest strength is their ability to make music that people of all generations can enjoy. It's rare that I find an album of kid's music that is tolerable, let alone something that I'll actually listen to on my own time -- "Here Comes the Science" is definitely the later.
Totally awesome for the sciencey families and childlens! September 11, 2009
Lalak
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
I got this CD/DVD combo yesterday and, as soon as I was off work, put the CD on in my car. I love TMBG and had preordered this CD as soon as I saw it was for sale. Our family is very big on science and our daughter is six and quite musically inclined, so I thought this would be just perfect for all of us.
The songs are catchy and fun and, gasp!, informative for kids. They may seem like very basic stuff to us adults, but anything that will help the youngers remember their planets (and millions of other things), the colors of the rainbow, and what elements are is good in my book.
Today I popped in the DVD and watched it. There are both the songs in alphabetical order and a show that goes through the songs in the same order as they are on the CD. The show is hilarious and I laughed out loud at more than one part. I also learned a few things, such as what sand is made out of and that there is more than one dwarf planet in our solar system. Maybe everyone already knew these things, but I didn't.
A warning for those who take their respective holy books literally, this CD/DVD set is about science, meaning it does deal with evolution. That's not an issue in my book, but I know it can be for some. Off the top of my head, the songs "Science Is Real," "My Brother The Ape," and "I'm A Paleontologist" all either deal with the concept or at least mention it.
One thing to note that I really liked, though others might not or might find it confusing. The song "Why Does The Sun Shine?" (an older TMBG song that was rerecorded for this album) contains some outdated scientific information. Instead of changing the song, TMBG added another right after that one called "Why Does The Sun Really Shine?" which discusses the differences between the two songs (we now know the sun is made of "a miasma of incandescent plasma" instead of "a mass of incandescent gas"), defines what plasma is, and--if you're inclined to talk with your child about such things--is a great example of the scientific method at work. I have a very strong inkling that this is the reason the new song was added instead of the original being altered or left out all together.
One of the best CDs of the year, in any genre. September 15, 2009
Greg Peterson (Minneapolis, MN)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
There's been a lot of discussion and not a little hand-wringing lately about "communicating science," with books with titles like "Unscientific America" and "Don't be SUCH a Scientist" recommending ways to make science more appealing and attractive to non-scientist citizens. And then along comes They Might Be Giants with THE answer: a shovelful of masterful pop artistry helps the medicine go down.
Did I say "medicine"? That's not fair because it makes the science on this CD sound like something good for you, but bitter and hard to swallow. On the contrary, TMBG demonstrates just how fun knowing stuff can be, with wonderful wordplay, irresistible fun facts, and marvelous imagery. Even as a collection of poems this work would be outstanding.
But the lyrics are wed to some of the best music I've heard in some time. U2s latest CD disappointed me considerably, Green Day's latest was good but not great, and the novelty of Fleet Foxes and Vampire Weekend has largely worn off by now. But the fresh sounds and infectious hooks on "Here Comes Science" are something special. I'll play this one a lot. Oh...and my kids are both in college. This is a great kids' CD, of course, but it's for all ages, thanks to quirky and accomplished musicianship.
While there are a variety of sounds on "Here Comes," many of the songs reminded me a great deal of the old "School House Rock" collection. And far from damning with faint praise, I mean that as the highest compliment...the songs from "School House Rock" were invariably interesting, skilled, and memorable.
Perhaps my favorite feature from the CD is the fact that it follows one crucial element within the scientific method: correction with better information. Song 9 is "Why Does the Sun Shine?" It's a great song, but features some lyrics describing the sun as being a mass of gas. And then in song 10, "Why Does the Sun Really Shine?" that "earlier information" is corrected--the sun is actually plasma, a fourth state of matter. We are urged to forget the misinformation in the previous song. EXACTLY! That is how science itself progresses, one "song" at a time! And to make that implicit point completely clear, song 12, "Put It to the Test," explains the experimental method for improving our knowledge.
If you have kids of any age, this unbelievably fun introduction to science is essential. And if you don't have kids but can still access a childlike sense of jumping-on-the-bed whimsy and wonder...this unbelievably fun introduction to science is essential.
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