This is one of my favorite 10K Maniacs songs. There are not too many songs with a "Science p0wns religion" theme; even better, not many ironic songs with that theme. The line “Science is Truth for Life” is great. About as funny as Dow’s “A Better Life through Chemicals”. It’s like something out of 1984, like the “Ministry of Truth”. I guess you could take the song at face value, but lines like “Technology as nature”, “Man so near perfection”, and the list of obsoletes seem a bit over the top. I don’t understand why Merchant doesn’t write songs like this anymore.
The line “In fortran tongue the Answer” refers the early computer language FORTRAN. I would think the answer could be found in Lisp myself.
The music adds to the theme too. It kinda’ reminds me of “Still Alive” from Valve’s game “Portal”. I could totally imagin Glados singing this.
This is one of my favorite 10K Maniacs songs. There are not too many songs with a "Science p0wns religion" theme; even better, not many ironic songs with that theme. The line “Science is Truth for Life” is great. About as funny as Dow’s “A Better Life through Chemicals”. It’s like something out of 1984, like the “Ministry of Truth”. I guess you could take the song at face value, but lines like “Technology as nature”, “Man so near perfection”, and the list of obsoletes seem a bit over the top. I don’t understand why Merchant doesn’t write songs like this anymore.
The line “In fortran tongue the Answer” refers the early computer language FORTRAN. I would think the answer could be found in Lisp myself.
The music adds to the theme too. It kinda’ reminds me of “Still Alive” from Valve’s game “Portal”. I could totally imagin Glados singing this.