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
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."
You know I love that song too. Ultimately, I think the lyrics don't make a lot of sense, but it is so catchy and earworms like nobody's business. I had that in my head all summer.
You haven't heard Firework until you've heard it filked as a pro-WWI propaganda song as part of a suffragism role-playing game in a college history class.
