• Question: Have you considered writing some more-upbeat science songs that could help with learning/revising gcse and a-level physics?

    Asked by blatantlyninja to Martin on 19 Mar 2012.
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      Martin Zaltz Austwick answered on 19 Mar 2012:

      I hadn’t, but someone has asked me to write some science songs for younger people. Do you think people would find a revision album useful? Would that be fun to listen to? Or would it just remind people of exams too much?

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    blatantlyninja commented on :

    To be honest, with the ease that people pick up lyrics, I’m surprised people haven’t really made revision/learning songs before. People always get songs stuck in their heads; a tune seems to make things easier to remember. The most useless use of my memory is probably the part filled with song lyrics, so I personally always wished that for my GCSES there were songs for various science topics. I did actually make up a few of my own: just by trying to put something to a few chords meant I learnt it. =]

    Just the word revision makes me quiver with fear, so if an album were written for ‘fun’, not ‘revision/exams’, had some decent tunes and were a laugh to listen to (some humour is always good), then I’d probably invest in it (rather demanding I know..).

    Maybe something like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0kXkWXSXRA
    And of course, there’s the elements song that’s on constant replay in the RI’s museum: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGM-wSKFBpo

    So all in all, I think what you plan to do with the money if you win, is a fantastic idea =D