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Psychology playlist

Posted by sgspsychology at 09:29 AM on February 03, 2009

The previous blog about ape-pods got me thinking about creating a Psychology playlist. This would be a set of songs that all relate to the Core Studies in some way, probably because of their titles but maybe because of a lyric or video. Here's what I've got so far:

MILGRAM (1963)

"We Do What We're Told (Milgram's 37" is a rare example of a song that's deliberately about psychology - in fact, it's about the Milgram study. The "37" refers to the participants who went all the way to the maximum shock. It's a quiet, ominous song from the "So" album (1986).
"Boss of Me" by They Might Be Giants is famous for being the theme tune for "Malcolm In The Middle".

PILIAVIN et al (1969)

Two songs by the Jam: "Going Underground" or "Down in the Tube Station at Midnight" (OK, Piliavin was actually down in the tube station at about midday, but never mind)

REICHER & HASLAM (2006)

Got to be Elvis with "Jailhouse Rock" (1957)

LOFTUS & PALMER (1974)

So many "memory" songs... like "Memories" from the musical Cats... But how about Peter Gabriel's "I Don't Remember" (1980, from his third untitled album)
"Just a Car Crash Away" by Marilyn Manson or "Always Crashing in the Same Car" by David Bowie
... or anything by the Crash Test Dummies

BARON-COHEN et al (1997)

Peter Gabriel seems to have a thing for psychology-linked songs; how about his excellent ballad "In Your Eyes" - the one that's playing when John Cusack has his stereo outside Ione Skye's house in the film "Say Anything" (1989). It's another one from the "So" album.
How about Cat Stevens' "Sad LIsa" from 1970's "Tea For the Tillerman" - definitely one of those albums you must hear before you die. I'm not sure if "Sad Lisa" is supposed to be about someone with severe autism, but the lyrics fit...

SAVAGE-RUMBAUGH et al (1986)

Any more ape/monkey/jungle songs?

Tell you what, I'll even offer prizes for good suggestions from students: Chocolate bars! No kidding!

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14 Comments

Reply George Gilbert

12:14 PM on February 04, 2009

Piliavin
- Deeper Underground - Jamiroquai (off of the album Synkronized)

Loftus + Palmer
- Thnks fr th Mmrs (Pronounced "Thanks For The Memories") - Fall Out Boy

Reply sgspsychology

01:06 PM on February 05, 2009

And of course "Sound of the Underground" by Girls Aloud, for that matter!

Reply Jack Cunnington

01:08 PM on February 09, 2009

Loftus and Palmer
Metallica - The Memory Remains
Black Sabbath - In Memory...
Bad Manners - Memory Train
Dream Theatre - 'Scenes from a Memory' album
Spock's Beard - 'Octane' album
Rush - Making Memories

Savage-Rumbaugh
Guns and Roses - Welcome to the Jungle
Red Hot Chillis - Jungle Man

Milgram
Coal Chamber - Shock the Monkey
Buckethead - Shock Therapy Side Show
The Toasters - Shocker
Black Sabbath - Shock Wave

Piliavin
Ozzy Osbourne - Thunder Underground
Pantera - The Underground in America

Reigher and Haslam
Motorhead - Jailbait
System of a Down - The Prison Song

Reply Shane Bailey

05:01 AM on February 10, 2009

Loftus + Palmer
A Poor Mans Memory - Explosions In The Sky
Memory - The Shadows

Savage-Rumbaugh
Monkey Business - Skid Row
Monkeys - Mad Caddies
Monkey Man - Reel Big Fish
Monkeys For Nothing And Chimps For Free - Reel Big Fish (Album)

More soon (;

Reply sgspsychology

08:44 AM on February 10, 2009

Shane - an awseome ape related playlist! Others occurs to me, like the J Geils Band "Monkey Island" (seriously, explore the J Geils Band's Seventies output - they were terrific)
A milk chocolate delight for YOU, sir!

Reply sgspsychology

08:55 AM on February 10, 2009

You've been hard at work Jack and some of this stuff is impeccably obscure! Kudos for tracking down "Making Memories" by Rush. From the "Fly By Night" album, if memory serves. They were a band that liked high concept music and put out some other psychology related tunes, such as

"Hemispheres" - about the two sides of the brain, personified as Apollo and Dionysus.... there's also some gubbins about an astronaut and a black hole, but it fits with Sperry's split brain study (honest!)
"Red Barchetta" (from "Moving Pictures" LP) is about joy racing in the future where cars have been banned - kind of links to Loftus & Palmer
"The Camera Eye" (from the same album) contrasts film with memory in a way that would make Elizabeth Loftus' heart proud
"Subdivisions" (from "Signals" album) is about conforming to roles - very Zimbardo/Reicher & Haslam
Well, you could do this sort of list from any prog rock band's back catalogue I guess...

Reply Shane Bailey

12:58 PM on February 10, 2009

Well i've got some free time, so here's the selection from my 7987 itunes collection:

Milgram
Jane's Addiction - Nothings Shocking (Start off with some irony haha)
MGMT - Electric Feel (Or not as it turned out)
Metallica - Master Of Puppets

Piliavin
Blackstone Cherry - Lonely Train
Ozzy Osbourne - Crazy Train
Million Dead - Smiling At Strangers On Trains
Johnny Cash - On The Evening Train
Chiodos - ...And Then The Liver Screamed Help! (For the drunk condition)

Reicher + Haslam
Sublime - Jailhouse
Down - Jail
Rage Against The Machine - Take The Power Back

Baron Cohen
Parkway Drive - Don't Close Your Eyes
Scooter - Eyes Without A Face
Gordon Lightfoot - If You Could Read My Mind

If anything else comes up, i'll add more.

Reply Brandon Oliver

09:57 AM on February 16, 2009

Here's a compiled list of mah very own, I hope you enjoy or at least think Im not a musical freak of nature but anyway...

Milgram
Akron/family- Raising the sparks
Radiohead- You and whose army?/ I might be wrong ( both from the amnesiac album)
Beck- Nobody`s fault but my own
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds- Easy money

Piliavin
Sonic Youth- 100% ( the % people who helped in cane condition)
Vic Chesnutt- Everything I say- quite suitable taking into account the amount of ridiculous excuses given by women who didn`t help
Dirty Three- two songs from the "Cinder" album- ''It happened'' and ''too soon, too late''( deliberate help from confederate)
Angels of light- Not here/ Not now- possibly people's thoughts when the collapse happened

Reicher + Haslam
R.E.M.- I took your name
Grinderman- ( I don't need you to) set me free
Johnny Cash- Folsom prison blues
Massive Attack- Five man army ( 5 guards, 10 prisoners...)

Loftus + Palmer
Low- Words
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds- More news from nowhere ( Smashed glass or no smashed glass)
R.E.M.- Drive

Baron-Cohen
Swans- two songs from the "Various failures" compilation- " Drink to me only with thine eyes" ( pretty self explanatory) and " Blind" not only for the title but also the lyrics: " But I saw a man cry once, down on his knees, in a corner of a darkened room, his pain meant nothing to me" ( Autism in a nutshell, socially speaking at any rate)
Sonic Youth- Or
R.E.M.- laughing ( the only expression I could find in a song but does relate to the strange looks of emotions)

Savage- Rumbaugh
Animal Collective- Did you see the words?
Cat Power- Love and Communication
Joanna Newsum- Monkey & Bear

Reply Jackington

04:26 AM on February 18, 2009

ok. so here are some more tunes with psychology related-ness from my voluminous collection.. (9012 songs)

MILGRAM
'Nothing's Shocking' Album - Jane's Addiction
After Shock (Chaos Never Died) - Praxis
Sparks - Coldplay
The Final Command - Slayer
Lord of Command - Old Man's Child

PILIAVIN
Subway to Venus - Red Hot Chilli's
Collapse - Motograter
Collapse the Light Into Earth - Porcupine Tree
Can You Help Me? - Buckethead
Help Me - Buckethead
Please Help the People - Cherry Ghost
How May I Help You - Sikth

REICHER AND HASLAM
Eternal Prisoner - Axel Rudi Pell
The Glass Prison - Dream Theatre [although the emtire album 'Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence' is about a man's recovery from alcoholism]
Take No Prisoners - Megadeth
Prison Sex - Tool
Jail - Down
Throw Away Your Television - Red Hot Chilli's
Made for TV Movie - Incubus
TV Crimes - Black Sabbath
TV Song - Blue Man Group
TV Dinners - ZZ Top
TV Radio - Mudvayne

LOFTUS & PALMER
Crash Test - Buckethead
About to Crash - Dream Theatre
Crashing Foreign Cars - Helmet
Car Crash - Powerman 5000
Crash Victim / Black Science Navigator - Praxis
Runes To My Memory - Amon Amarth
Oceans Have No Memory - Porcupine Tree
Dead Memories - Slipknot
Bloodsoaked Memories - Hatebreed
Memories Can't Wait - Living Colour
Force Fed Broken Glass - Cannibal Corpse [it may sound disgusting, it is, but really, the participants were force fed the memory of the glass by making them think the car was moving faster than it really was]
Glass Arm Shattering - Porcupine Tree

BARON - COHEN
Eyes of Horror - Amon Amarth
The Eyes of the Lost - Axel Rudi Pell
Snake Eyes - Axel Rudi Pell
Evil Eye - Black Sabbath
Junior's Eyes - Black Sabbath
Bruised Eye Sockets - Buckethead
Eyes of a Criminal - Chimaira
Poison Eye - Chris Cornell
Green Eyes - Coldplay
The Big Eyeball in the Sky - C2B3
Eyes of the South - Down
Through Her Eyes - Dream Theatre
Closed Eye Visuals - Meshuggah
Look Who's Cross-Eyed Now - Nuclear Rabbit
Blackest Eyes - Porcupine Tree
Eyes of the Insane - Slayer
Eyeless - Slipknot
Third Eye - Tool
Black Widow's Eyes - The Who
Behind Blue Eyes - The Who
Naked Eye - The Who
Mind's Eye - Wolfmother

SAVAGE-RUMBAUGH
Speak - Godsmack
Speak Free - Incubus
You Speak My Language - Morphine
Speak to Me/Breathe - Pink Floyd
When Will The Forest Speak - Sikth
As We Speak - Soilwork
Jungle - ELO
The Jungle - Faith No More
Jungle Bill - Yello
Transylvanian Forest - Behemoth
Black Forest - Buckethead
Forest - System of a Down
Tales from the Forest of Gnomes - Wolfmother

Reply Becca Claxton

02:21 PM on March 17, 2009

MILGRAM

Danger! High voltage - Electric six
The body electric- Rush

LOFTUS & PALMER

Car Crash - Cloud Cult
Fast Car- Tracey Chapman

SAVAGE-RUMBAUGH

Bungle in the jungle- Jethro Tull
Cowboy In the Jungle- Jimmy Buffett
Somewhere in the jungle- Alice Cooper
Rumble In the jungle- The Fugees
The Lion Sleeps Tonight- The Tokens

Reply Chris Evans

06:27 AM on March 21, 2009

I found a few of my comedy songs which may fit the bill here, all by "Weird Al" Yankovic...

Loftus & Palmer - "She Drives Like Crazy" and "I Can't Watch This"
Savage-Rumbaugh - "Nature Trail to Hell" (Maybe not, but oh well)

Reply Charlotte Rogers

01:44 PM on April 30, 2009

Freud: "Mother" by Pink Floyd; Sex with your parents by Lou Reed
Thigpen and Cleckley: "21st century schizoid man" by King Crimson; me and I" by ABBA; Tonight, I'm Just Me by SheDaisy
Rosenhan: Am I going insane?" by Black Sabath
Milgram: We Do What We're Told by Peter Gabriel

Reply sgspsychology

08:06 AM on May 01, 2009

Inspired choices there, especially Sabbath and King Crimson. Top marks for spotting Floyd's "Mother" from "The Wall". The Doors have a great extended track on their debut album where Jim Morrison describes going to his father's bedroom and killing him, then in a strange strangled howl he shrieks "Mother, I want to gwarrrrgh you". I think we get the picture, Jim

Reply Joe Burwell

03:54 AM on May 15, 2009

sgspsychology says...
Inspired choices there, especially Sabbath and King Crimson. Top marks for spotting Floyd's "Mother" from "The Wall". The Doors have a great extended track on their debut album where Jim Morrison describes going to his father's bedroom and killing him, then in a strange strangled howl he shrieks "Mother, I want to gwarrrrgh you". I think we get the picture, Jim

Jim Morrison would be an excellent psychological case study...