Here Comes Science
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| Studio album by They Might Be Giants | ||||
| Released | September 1, 2009 | |||
| Genre | Children's, educational | |||
| Length | 39:46 | |||
| Label | Disney Sound /Idlewild | |||
| Producer | They Might Be Giants, Pat Dillett | |||
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| Source | Rating |
| Metacritic | (66/100) |
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| About.com |  |
| Allmusic |  |
| The A.V. Club | B+ |
| Billboard | (favorable) |
| PopMatters |   |
| Robert Christgau |  |
| Uncut | |
| Under the Radar | |
| Wired | (favorable) |
| Zooglobble | (favorable) |
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.
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.
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.
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