Playlist
A guide to the music I've played at the beginning of lecture

At the beginning of my lectures, I'll play music that has some connection to that day's lecture topic. I can't promise that the connection will be obvious, so this page explains the connection.


Date Title Artist Comment
12/7 Queen & David Bowie Under Pressure Being under pressure can cause stress, which can compromise your immune system. Great bass line for health psychology.
12/5 Green Day Basket Case Punk ode to psychopathology. The song was written by lead-singer Billie Joe Armstrong about his anxiety. He was later diagnosed with a panic disorder.
11/30 Blink-182 She's Out of her Mind Transition to punk after the past few old-timey songs...
11/28 Pokey LaFarge Something in the Water Ode to understanding the causes of psychological disturbances?
11/16 Woody Guthrie All You Fascists Another good Woodie Guthrie song to rally against the fascists. This song's lyrics speak out against racism, poll taxes, and Jim Crow, among other topics.
11/14 Woody Guthrie Tear the Fascists Down Good song to rally against the fascists. Guthrie is best known for writing This Land is Your Land, but he was a strident antifascist and wrote this song about opposing Hitler and Mussolini in World War 2.
11/9 Talking Heads Stay Up Late When it's your kid, you don't want them to stay up late, David.
11/7 Guns N' Roses Sweet Child O' Mine Not really a song about development. Having 'child' in the title is close enough.
11/2 Nathaniel Rateliff and The Night Sweats Never Get Old You might like to never get old, but development happens.
10/26 Neon Trees Everybody Talks Spoken language is natural--everybody talks.
10/24 The Go-Gos Our Lips are Sealed Hard to produce language when your lips are sealed. Can't produce the phonemes.
10/19 Fall Out Boy Thnks fr th mmrs Doesn't matter if the memories aren't so great, sometimes they're still in LTM.
10/17 Tommy Tutone 867-5309/Jenny Chunk those digits. But don't forget to rehearse--otherwise you'll lose them! (FYI, there is an urban legend surrounding this song--read about it here.).
10/12 Weezer Memories Bittersweet lyrics about remembering how things were back in the day. Good example of episodic memory.
10/10 Hoodoo Gurus Waking Up Tired Maybe it's because you're not getting enough REM sleep...
10/5 Raconteurs Attention Now that you have my attention, I can become aware....
10/3 Hunters & Collectors Do You See What I See? Australian alternative take on visual perception.
9/28 Blondie Eat to the Beat You got a sweet tooth, but it's not because of your teeth. It's the fungiform papillae.
9/21 Howard Jones Conditioning Welcome to conditioning, '80s alternative style..
9/19 The Rolling Stones Bitch "When you call my name, I salivate like a Pavlov dog." Love's a bitch, according to Mick and Keith on the Sticky Fingers album.
9/14 Alex Chilton Make a Little Love There are a ton of songs for sexual motivation. Alex Chilton covered this Lowell Fulsom song with backup by the Memphis Horns
9/12 The Black Keys Fever Paradoxically, you feel cold, have the shivers, and tuck down inside of your comfy blankets. But, your temperature is above normal. How does that work? It's because your set point has increased.
9/7 Ramones Bad Brain From Einstein's brain the The Ramones' Bad Brain. That's quite the range...
9/5 The Polecats Make a Circuit With Me Make a circuit with neural plasticity.
8/31 The Imagineers Albert Einstein Einstein's brain gives us a nice way to look at how the brain makes us who we are. See the links page for more info on Einstein's brain.
8/29 The Dandy Warhols Scientist Try to live on science alone...
8/24 The Rolling Stones Connection Mick and Keith needed a connection, but you now have one to Wilhelm Wundt.
8/22 Talking Heads Psycho Killer Great late-70s synthpop beat which highlights the stereotypical view of psychology as dealing primarily with mental disorders.