Buffy ,'Same Time, Same Place'
There's a lady plays her fav'rite records/On the jukebox ev'ry day/All day long she plays the same old songs/And she believes the things that they say/She sings along with all the saddest songs/And she believes the stories are real/She lets the music dictate the way that she feels.
OK, so, I'm putting together a playlist for my project. We're having a big launch day thing, giving away swag, projecting videos and stuff on walls, being shiny, and I feel there needs to be an audio component.
The project is called Spark, and it's basically Innocentive - crowd-sourced open innovation. Someone posts a tough problem and offers an award, and whoever solves it gets the award.
Everyone goes for "Light My Fire" first - do you guys have more interesting suggestions?
Everyone goes for "Light My Fire" first - do you guys have more interesting suggestions?
Are we looking for incendiary things, or more generally sparks of innovation/genius?
Fire
Baby's on Fire - Eno
Secret Fires - Gun Club
Fire of Unknown Origin - Blue Oyster Cult
Senses on Fire - Mercury Rev
Oooh, How about "Senses Working Overtime" by XTC?
Or, "Making Plans for Nigel" - XTC?
I like this one...
"Fire Coming Out of the Monkey's Head" - Gorillaz
Brainiac's Daughter - Dukes of Stratosphere
Collideascope - Dukesof Stratosphere
Have a Heart Betty, I'm Not Fireproof - Soft Boys
You Talk Sunshine, I Breathe Fire - Lee Harvey Oswald Band
Serpentine Fire - Earth Wind and Fire
Let me go find some more brain/science ones...
Race for the Prize - Flaming Lips (specifically about scientific competition!)
Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots - Flaming Lips
She Blinded Me With Science - Thomas Dolby
Sandra's Having Her Brain Out - Soft Boys
Creature With the Atom Brain - Roky Erikson
I Am a Scientist - Guided By Voices
Final Solution - Pere Ubu
Think For Yourself - the Beatles
A Free Thinker - Laura Nyro
Everything You Can Think - Tom Waits
Think - Aretha Franklin
Sparks - The Who
Shine a Light - Rolling Stones
Brilliant Mind - Furniture
The Young Idea - Squire
Ancient Chinese Secret Blues - Clem Snide
Do It! - The Pink Fairies
You Give Me Problems - The Vipers
Hardest Geometry Problem In the World - Mark Mothersbaugh (instrumental from Rushmore)
Figure Eight - Schoolhouse Rock
Fire - Sister Sledge
Hot Hot Hot - Buster Poindexter
The Rhythm of the Heat - Peter Gabriel
Heat Wave (multiple)
The Heat Is On - Glenn Frey
Burning Down the House - Talking Heads
Hot Blooded - Foreigner
If it's fire related - Kerosene: Big Black. It is a bit extreme, though.
In keeping with my philosophy of not being ashamed of any song that I like, I suggest Katy Perry's "Firework."