A while back, I wrote about the palaeontology of pop, suggesting an increasing appreciation of fossils in the world of popular music.
A year on, and things have taken a fascinating new turn. A project called Credible Likeable Superstar Role Model is trying to create a palaeontologist pop star! Her name is Catherine Bennett, and on Thursday I'm off down to London to meet her.
In advance of that and the inevitable subsequent rise of #PalaeoPop, here's a short playlist of the most fossiliferous tunes I can think of:
1. "I Am A Paleontologist" by They Might Be Giants (though I am a palaeontologist):
2. "Rock Lobster" by the B-52s: (which, as a shrimp-harassing ichnologist, is my favourite):
3. "Walk The Dinosaur" by Was (Not Was) (also ichnological, but with some dubious geochronology):
4. "Dinosaur Sex" by Emmy The Great (did it really lead to nothing? The birds say not):
5. "Velociraptor!" by Kasabian:
6. "Holocene" by Bon Iver:
7. "Children of the Revolution" (or, perhaps, "Children Who Love Evolution" would be better) by T Rex (which should really be T. rex, but anyway):
8. "Just Like Heaven" by Dinosaur Jr (yes it's a cover, but from an album called 'Fossils'):
9. "What's Golden" by Jurassic 5 (I'm afraid I'm not cool enough to know any of their tracks, so this is just a track selected randomly from YouTube):
And last but not least, a little taster of music from Catherine Bennett herself:
10. "Apathy" by Catherine Bennett:
When the Palaeo Pop behemoth has yielded some monsters of rock, you can say you heard it here first!
A year on, and things have taken a fascinating new turn. A project called Credible Likeable Superstar Role Model is trying to create a palaeontologist pop star! Her name is Catherine Bennett, and on Thursday I'm off down to London to meet her.
In advance of that and the inevitable subsequent rise of #PalaeoPop, here's a short playlist of the most fossiliferous tunes I can think of:
1. "I Am A Paleontologist" by They Might Be Giants (though I am a palaeontologist):
2. "Rock Lobster" by the B-52s: (which, as a shrimp-harassing ichnologist, is my favourite):
3. "Walk The Dinosaur" by Was (Not Was) (also ichnological, but with some dubious geochronology):
4. "Dinosaur Sex" by Emmy The Great (did it really lead to nothing? The birds say not):
5. "Velociraptor!" by Kasabian:
6. "Holocene" by Bon Iver:
7. "Children of the Revolution" (or, perhaps, "Children Who Love Evolution" would be better) by T Rex (which should really be T. rex, but anyway):
8. "Just Like Heaven" by Dinosaur Jr (yes it's a cover, but from an album called 'Fossils'):
9. "What's Golden" by Jurassic 5 (I'm afraid I'm not cool enough to know any of their tracks, so this is just a track selected randomly from YouTube):
And last but not least, a little taster of music from Catherine Bennett herself:
10. "Apathy" by Catherine Bennett:
When the Palaeo Pop behemoth has yielded some monsters of rock, you can say you heard it here first!
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