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Here Comes Science

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Released
  
September 1, 2009

Label
  
Disney Sound /Idlewild

Artist
  
They Might Be Giants

Producer
  
Pat Dillett

Length
  
39:46

Here Comes Science(2009)
  
Join Us(2011)

Release date
  
1 September 2009

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Genres
  
Children's music, Educational music

Nominations
  
Grammy Award for Best Musical Album for Children

Similar
  
They Might Be Giants albums, Children's music albums

They might be giants science is real official tmbg video


Here Comes Science is the fourth children's album from Brooklyn-based band They Might Be Giants, packaged as a CD/DVD set. The album is (as the title suggests) science-themed, and is the third in their line of educational albums, following 2005's Here Come the ABCs and 2008's Here Come the 123s. It was nominated for the "Best Musical Album For Children" Grammy.

Contents

Background

The band began hinting that the next children's album would be science-themed via interviews around the release of 123s, but the actual title of the album was not confirmed until an August 2008 interview with John Flansburgh for Blogcritics Magazine. The album had been in production since at least late 2007, as a very short sample clip of the music video for the song "How Many Planets" was posted in January 2008 to Colourmovie's website. The band also hired a scientific consultant for this project because, as Flansburgh admitted, "frankly, I was a terrible science student in high school. My last memory of the periodic table was right before I lost consciousness."

Here Comes Science features the songs "I Am a Paleontologist" and "Speed and Velocity", on which bass guitarist Danny Weinkauf and drummer Marty Beller sing their own compositions (respectively). This idea has been a common theme for the band's children's albums, but has never been put in place on any of their adult-oriented albums. "I Am a Paleontologist" features spoken appearances from Weinkauf's two children, Lena and Kai.

"I Am a Paleontologist" was featured in a Payless ShoeSource commercial featuring kids inside a dinosaur museum.

Track listing

The CD track listing is the same as the DVD track listing, with the exception of the bonus track "Waves", which is absent from the DVD.

Personnel

They Might Be Giants
  • John Linnell – lead vocals on 2, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 12, 14, 17, 19, 20; backup vocals on 10, 16; keyboards; etc.
  • John Flansburgh – lead vocals on 1, 7, 8, 10, 11, 13, 16, 18, 19; backup vocals on 5, 17; guitar; etc.
  • Dan Miller – guitar
  • Danny Weinkauf – bass guitar; lead vocals on 3
  • Marty Beller – drums; lead vocals on 15
    • Additional vocalists
  • Robin Goldwasser – lead vocals on 4, 5, 8; minor vocals on 13
  • Hannah & Niffer Levine – vocals on 16
  • Lena & Kai Weinkauf – vocals on 3
    • Horn arrangement
  • Dan Levine – arrangement on 5; trombone on 1 and 5; bass trombone on 1 and 5; alto horn on 5; euphonium on 5
  • Stan Harrison – tenor saxophone on 1 and 5; baritone saxophone on 1 and 5; flute on 5
  • Curt Ramm – trumpet on 1 and 5; flugelhorn on 5
  • Michael Leonhart – trumpet on 1 and 5; flugelhorn on 5; mellophone on 5
  • Jonathan Levine – piccolo on 5; alto flute on 5; alto saxophone on 5; bass clarinet on 5
    • Production

    Songs

    1Science Is Real1:54
    2Meet the Elements3:19
    3I Am a Paleontologist2:32

    References

    Here Comes Science Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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