Thursday, July 12, 2007

Element titled albums

Chembark and Carbon based curiosities recently spoke about a connection between music and chemistry (Tom Lehrer and Heavy Metal).

So, there is a connection between music and elements. There are many album with an element title .
There are 'metal element titled albums'.


Palladium by Autopsia

Plutonium by Inca Babies

Or 'two metal elements titled albums'.

Silver & Gold - Neil Young


There are 'non-metal element titled albums'.
Helium by Urban Myth club



Oxygene by Jean Michel Jarre


There are album titles with element symbols as well.
H2O by Hall & Oates

H2SO4 by The Waves

But these are 'compound titled albums' instead of 'element titled albums'.

This raises the question : 'Are there chemical reaction titled albums?'

Chemical reaction by Vodka Collins

Nice try, but this doesn't qualify.

This may qualify.

H to He (Who am the only one) - Van der Graaf Generator

Okay, the sun's conversion of Hydrogen to Helium by nuclear fusion is not a real chemical reaction, but it is a reaction and they use the element symbols. English 70's progressive rock by Peter Hammill et al featuring the fabulous Robert Fripp is nice for a while.

7 comments:

Anonymous said...

speaking of songs (not albums) with a chemical title, there's another "Palladium" by Weather Report (in the album "Heavy Weather"), and of course many will remember Nirvana's "Lithium". Moreover, I think I read somewhere that the members of Phish studied chemical engineering, but I don't know if they actually graduated.

Ψ*Ψ said...

There's an obscure band called Acroma that had an album called Orbitals.
Awesome post idea, btw.

Wavefunction said...

We also have The Chemical Brothers.
Also, have you already done a "Top 5/10 musician chemists" post? If not, now is the time!

Anonymous said...

I'm amazed that you know all of this stuff. I had no idea...

Excimer said...

slightly off-topic but still apropros, but there's a periodic table on the CD of john mayer's "room for squares" album. cause the elements are...squares. I love John Mayer. People tell me that this makes me a bad person, even more so than my love of killing babies. People are dumb.

Vincent said...

Remember Sting and his album "Mercury Falling"? There's a song entitled Lithium Sunset on it!

birdcage said...

table of elements discography
http://reveille.org.uk/tote/index.html

myspace.com/tableoftheelements