#mindtunes
February 22, 2013
Last Friday, we asked Twitter for songs about the brain or the mind to add to a playlist the Barbican is putting together for Wonder. Below is a Storify of what people suggested.
You can also hear the whole playlist on Spotify
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Know any good songs about the mind or brain? We’re helping @BarbicanCentre with #wonderseason playlist. Tag #mindtunes & we can find them.
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@wellcometrust Saw someone walking along High Holborn playing Insanse in the Brain out loud on a boombox the other day…. #mindtunes
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@ayasawada @wellcometrust that particular #mindtunes sounds better played on a stereo hoisted on someone’s shoulder. Just a suggestion.
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#mindtunes There She Goes by The La’s #wonderseason
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@wellcometrust general science tunes: Science Is Real by They Might Be Giants. The entire album. #mindtunes #wonderseason
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@wellcometrust Lee Scratch Perry – “I’m a psychatrist” from “Panic in Babylon” #lesserknown #mindtunes
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The Lunatics (have taken over the asylum) – Fun Boy Three #mindtunes
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@wellcometrust @BarbicanCentre How about “insane in the brain” by Cypress Hill (clean version of course) #WonderSeason #MindTunes
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@wellcometrust @BarbicanCentre We do! ‘I Turn My Arm’ by@gazelletwin is about phantom limb/neurology: youtube.com/watch?v=WkwDAam… #mindtunes
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#MindTunes The theme tune from Pinky and the Brain (sorry, yes this one’s a bit weak…) #wonderseason
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@wellcometrust #mindtunes I have a song ‘Perfect World’ (by KTB) about psychosis and distortion of reality.
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@wellcometrust All In Your Mind, Beck; You Don’t Know My Mind, Leadbelly; Where is My Mind? Pixies #mindtunes
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#mindtunes soft machine – les rhythm digitales
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Ohh, @wellcometrust @BarbicanCentre Mania by @kristinhersh and #throwingmuses is great (and I think she’d enjoy #wonderseason) #mindtunes
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@wellcometrust @barbicancentre Serotonin by Simple Kid. The best neuropharmacology song I’ve heard. #mindtunes
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@wellcometrust From ‘mind’ search of my iTunes: the Pixies one you have; Suspicious Minds (Presley) & Pretty Vacant (Sex Pistols) #mindtunes
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@wellcometrust Angry Again – Megadeth #mindtunes
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Great #mindtunes suggestions so far (click the hashtag to see). Keep them coming! #wonderseason
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@wellcometrust #mindtunes Pet Shop Boys – Always on my mind
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#TMBSKids @wellcometrust after after tunes that involve the brain and mind #CanUHelp ??? Tweet suggestions to them with hashtag #mindtunes
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@wellcometrust Brain damage pink floyd #mindtunes
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@wellcometrust Out of my mind – Dane Bowers and Victoria Beckham #mindtunes
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@wellcometrust ‘I just can’t get you out of my head’/Kylie #mindtunes
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#mindtunes Way in my Brain, SL2, Crash Course in Brain Surgery (Metallica), Brainstorm (Arctic Monkeys)’
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@wellcometrust Oo, iTunes also lists Mastermind (Divine Comedy); Read My Mind (The Killers) & Always Something There To Remind Me #mindtunes
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@wellcometrust @barbicancentre #wonderseason #mindtunes
Suspicious Minds -Elvis, Aht Uh Mi Hed – Shuggie Otis, Voices inside my Head -Police -
Following on from @amyplatypus with another Elvis classic – “You were always on my mind” #mindtunes
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Surely must have been said already but….Where’s your head at?! Basement Jaxx #mindtunes
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‘Where is my mind’ Pixies, ‘Schizophrenia’ Sonic Youth, ‘Sound & Vision’ Bowie, ‘What goes on (in your mind)’ Velvet Underground #mindtunes
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@wellcometrust #mindtunes Aretha Franklin – Think, Radiohead- Scatterbrain, anything by Stevie #Wonderseason ?
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#wonderseason #mindtunes @wellcometrust @barbicancentre Mad World — Tears for Fears. Oh You Pretty Things (Bowie) is about mental illness
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Robyn Hitchcock: the Abandoned Brain youtube.com/watch?v=3gELBko… #wonderseason #mindtunes @wellcometrust
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Re: your brains by Jonathan Coulton #wonderseason #mindtunes
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Crash Course in Brain Surgery (Budgie – Metallica version is a cover) #mindtunes
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Brain Salad Surgery, b-side to Emerson, Lake and Palmer’s Fanfare for the Common Man, although not on the album of that name #mindtunes
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And let’s not forget Josh Wink’s Higher State of Consciousness #mindtunes
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@ayasawada Couldn’t possibly have #mindtunes without a bit of classic acid 😉
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insane in the membrane, you were always on my mind, losing my mind #mindtunes
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Thanks for all your #mindtunes suggestions – a great eclectic mix! Keep them coming. You’ll hear them @ #wonderseason wellc.me/12OPWwB
More suggestions? Put it in the comments or tweet us on #mindtunes or #wonderseason.
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