Edu-rock: What can you actually learn from pop music?

"rocknrollandcolawarican'ttakeitanymore!!'

Those are bad examples.

'Here's a little something that's sure to please ya
It's just a little town down in Indonesia'

On the other hand, I'd never heard of East Timor until Robert Wyatt recorded a song of that name.

jonathan richman's "walter johnson" is a good primer on the early 20th century baseball great.

warren zevon's "boom boom mancini" gives you the who, what and why of the controversial boxer.

bruce springsteen's "nebraska" can fill you in on the plot of terence malick's "badlands."

ain't that more like miseducation?

Don't you mean, "just axin'"?

If you get too much Love or Oxygen, you get too high.

Meher Baba told Pete Townsehend that a little love was enough. Then he told us.

And iodine and thorium and thulium and thallium.

There's yttrium, ytterbium, actinium, rubidium,
And boron, gadolinium, niobium, iridium,
And strontium and silicon and silver and samarium,
And bismuth, bromine, lithium, beryllium, and barium.

Isn't that interesting?

I knew you would.
I hope you're all taking notes, because there's going to be a short quiz next period.

There's holmium and helium and hafnium and erbium,
And phosphorus and francium and fluorine and terbium,
And manganese and mercury, molybdenum, magnesium,
Dysprosium and scandium and cerium and cesium.
And lead, praseodymium, and platinum, plutonium,
Palladium, promethium, potassium, polonium,
And tantalum, technetium, titanium, tellurium,

And cadmium and calcium and chromium and curium.

There's sulfur, californium, and fermium, berkelium,
And also mendelevium, einsteinium, nobelium,
And argon, krypton, neon, radon, xenon, zinc, and rhodium,
And chlorine, carbon, cobalt, copper, tungsten, tin, and sodium.

These are the only ones of which the news has come to Ha'vard,
And there may be many others, but they haven't been discavard.

Lentil soup is mental fruit
and ginger root is good for the youth
Fresh vegetables with the mayatl stew
sweet yam fries with the green calalloo
careful how you season and prepare your foods
cause you don't wanna lose vitamins and minerals
and that's the jewel
life brings life, it's valuable, so I eat what comes
from the ground, it's natural
let your food be your medicine (uh huh)
no Excederin (uh uh)
strictly herb, generate in the sun, cause I got melanin
and drink water, eight glasses a day
cause that's what they say

They say you are what you eat, so I strive to be healthy
my goal in life is not to be rich or wealthy
cause true wealth comes from good health, and wise ways
we got to start taking better care of ourselves

-Dead Prez: "Be Healthy"