Weekend Playlist: Mathematics

Weekend Playlist: Maths

Here's the weekend playlist created by Ian with help from guest curator Walt looking at X/twitter selections (13/03/2025) with Songs that reference mathematics.
This was inspired by International Mathematics Day on March 14

Final Mixtape

Here's the final playlist!

[Side 1] Formulae
Little Boots - Mathematics
Pirates of Penzance - Major-General's Song
Big Audio Dynamite - E=MC2
Kate Bush - Pi
Beta Band - B+A
Cherry Ghost - Mathematics

[Side 2] Numbers
Wilson Pickett - Land of 1000 Dances
Feist - 1234
Tom Robinson - 2-4-6-8 Motorway
Pixies - Monkey gone to Heaven
Barenaked Ladies - 7 8 9
De La Soul - Magic Number

[Bonus]
New Musik - Living by Numbers
Tom Lehrer - New math

Long list

• Barenaked Ladies - 7 8 9
• Jonathan Coulton - Mandelbrot Set
• Pirates of Penzance - Major-General's Song
• Little Boots - Mathematics
• Los Campesinos - Dont tell me to do the maths
• Tom Robinson - 2-4-6-8 Motorway
• Einstein a Go-Go
• Cardiacs - Signs
• Pixies - Monkey gone to Heaven
• So Solid Crew - 21 seconds
• Ed Sheeran - Castle on the hill
• Modest Mouse - Never ending math question
• Kate Bush - Pi
• Sham 69 - If the kids are united (we will never be divided)
• Wilson Pickett - Land of 1000 Dances
• Bobby Darin - Multiplication
• Proclaimers - I'm gonna be 500 miles
• Shinedown - It all adds up
• Counting Crows - Murder of one
• Equals - Baby come back
• Janis Joplin - Mercedes Benz
• David Gray & Talia Raw - Plus & minus
• Pet Shop Boys - Two divided by zero
• Supertramp - Logical Song
• Radiohead - 2+2=5
• Feist - 1234
• Sam Cooke - What a wonderful world
• Haircut 100 - Love plus 1
• Sons of Pythagoras - One man's thunder
• Wombats - Let's dance to Joy Division
• Beta Band - B+A
• De La Soul - Magic Number
• Sleaford Mods - Subtraction
• Jimi Hendrix - If 6 was 9
• Tenacious D - Tribute
• TOOL - Lateralus
• Violent Femmes - Add it up
• Ed Sheeran - Mathematics
• Paul Hardcastle - 19
• Radiohead - Karma Police
• Space - Neighborhood
• ABC - All of my heart
• Big Shaq - Man's not hot
• Erasure - Ship of fools
• Tom Lehrer - New ath
• Guru Josh - Infinity
• Jesus Jones v Prodigy - Zeros & Ones
• Robert Miles ft Maria Nayler - One & one
• New Musik - Living by Numbers
• Undertones - My perfect cousin
• Cherry Ghost - Mathematics
• Big Audio Dynamite - E=MC2