''Here Comes Science'' is the fourth children's album and fourteenth studio album by American alternative rock band,

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, 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 ''Here Come the ABCs'' is the second children's album and eleventh studio album by alternative rock band They Might Be Giants, aimed at young children learning the alphabet. The CD and DVD were originally released separately but have since been r ...

'' and 2008's ''

Here Come the 123s ''Here Come the 123s'' is the third children's album and thirteenth studio album by They Might Be Giants. It is the sequel to the group's 2005 album ''Here Come the ABCs''. The songs are edutainment music, and like ''ABCs'', both a CD and DVD were ...

''. It was nominated for the "Best Musical Album For Children" Grammy.

Background

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

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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

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and drummer

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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

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commercial featuring kids inside a dinosaur museum.

Track listing

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.

Personnel

They Might Be Giants *

John Linnell John Sidney Linnell ( ; born June 12, 1959) is an American musician and multi-instrumentalist, and is one half of the Brooklyn-based alternative rock band They Might Be Giants, with John Flansburgh, which was formed in 1982. In addition to sing ...

- vocals, keyboard *

- vocals, guitar *

- drums *

- bass * Dan Miller - guitar Additional musicians *

Robin Goldwasser Robin Goldwasser (born August 14, 1966)Stan Harrison Stan Harrison (born December 8, 1953) is an American saxophonist who is also accomplished in playing other woodwind instruments, namely the French horn, flute and clarinet. He has also written music for television. Harrison released his first solo ...

- tenor saxophone, baritone saxophone, flute *Curt Ramm - trumpet, flugelhorn, trumpet solo *Michael Leonhart - trumpet, flugelhorn, mellophone *Jonathan Levine -

piccolo The piccolo ( ; ) is a smaller version of the western concert flute and a member of the woodwind family of musical instruments. Sometimes referred to as a "baby flute" or piccolo flute, the modern piccolo has the same type of fingerings as the ...

alto flute The alto flute is an instrument in the Western concert flute family, pitched below the standard C flute and the uncommon flûte d'amour. It is the third most common member of its family after the standard C flute and the piccolo. It is chara ...

alto saxophone The alto saxophone is a member of the saxophone family of woodwind instruments. Saxophones were invented by Belgians, Belgian instrument designer Adolphe Sax in the 1840s and patented in 1846. The alto saxophone is pitched in the key of E♭ ( ...

bass clarinet The bass clarinet is a musical instrument of the clarinet family. Like the more common Soprano clarinet, soprano B clarinet, it is usually pitched in B (meaning it is a transposing instrument on which a written C sounds as B), but it plays no ...

References

External links

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