They Might Be Giants "Why Does the Sun Shine?"

[MrJohnarmor]

What about Volataire

[XxAlice13xX]

This is what's going to happen on 2012, they'll sing this song and the sun will come through the telescope and then it'll dance and it'll explode XD

[OhMyGoshCookies97]

Who is this version by?

[ps3xpert]

KABLAM

[LuminOfMoonlight]

@aliasxyy You really don't get it. They have another song, "Why does the sun Really shine." Go listen to that.

[SteamTeamRedubUK]

My English teacher once played this in class and immediately I thought of "Owchies!"

[lockergnome15]

I live how back then Gingers were accepted as people.

[EbonyKyuubi]

Oh good lord. Nostalgia



[AlexMitan]

This is my high music.

[robrickshaw]

@AlexMitan Yes!

[trousersnake91]

im fairly sure it wouldnt work out that well if the sun was sitting in your building

[LuminOfMoonlight]

@erynsyoutubification yes.

[demonking55]

WARNING: if sun comes out of telescope either A: lay off the drugs or B: run for your life!!!!

[maddog8211]

my fuckin gay ass scince teacher showed me this cum on shit vid

[xTangerineFarmer]

@maddog8211 Then you must have some kind of strange fetish, to have searched it out and watched it again...

[RobotSPACEclown]

@xTangerineFarmer A strange GAY fetish huh?

[videogamegrl806]

0:48 Justin Bieber!

[skezness]

@erynsyoutubification it would if it didn't

[julianabieberluver]

my teacher has this song on a cd and she plays it alot so i looked it up on here she is the best teacher ever and she;s really into sience she's so cool love you mrs.crowe

[Paranoiasonik]

@julianabieberluver You may need to spend more time with your English teacher. And a shrink for your username.

[julianabieberluver]

@Paranoiasonik hey i listened to what you said and spent some time with my english teacher not only did i learn a new word but i learned a new phrase guesse what it is....

YOUR A BITCH!!

[Paranoiasonik]

@julianabieberluver Apparently not too much time with them or you'd realize that you used the wrong version of "you're." So what about my bitch? My bitch is fun to play with and makes me smile. Dogs normally do that. Not only that, but you spelled "guess" wrong.

COME AT ME BRO! WHAT ELSE YOU GOT!?

Seriously though, try me you little insignificant piece of refuse.

[Paco7597]

hahahaha this song brings back SO many memories! :D

[Monkeeperson]

This song helped me SOOO much in 9th grade scince. I was the only one to know this stuff about the Sun.

THANKS TMBG!!! :)

♥

[mjrulz321]

lol nick

[nayr3195]

the scientist looks like a combination of neil patrick harris and the proffesor from back to the future

[NanashiYami]

I need to pipe this into the physics grad student offices at my school. I want to see how many of them would remember exactly how it goes.

[13Yeared]

21 people didn't know that the sun is a mass of incandescent gas, a gigantic nuclear furnace where hydrogen is built into helium at a temperature of millions of degrees.

[PadfootLivesFree]

So wait...is the sun a mass of incandescent gas or a miasma of incandescent plasma.... i'm confused

[megansmedia]

This song saved my ass on my Finals.

[1darkwingotaku]

Wow. He's a passionate teacher. He scares me!

[39gaz39]

woah... that sun just travelled WAY faster than the speed of light... did anyone else pick up on that?

[iracundiarock]

And I thought the sun was plasma...

[dethjack]

funny and educational

[ZimMan2]

I would like to thank Ka-Blam for introducing me to They Might Be Giants at a very young age.

[dookey4635532]

Ahh......yes. The wrong song. But I do like it better that the other one. Can't they say "the sun is a miasma of incandescent plasma" fast enough?

[Thrsanappforthat]

augh s cathcey

[Hitlerrrchan]

im learning AND having fun

thanks nickelodeon!

-adolf hitler

[IZEASGT]

1:02 - Not according to Wolfram Alpha: goo. gl/yujJ0

Close, though.

[bluedragonjersey1]

Later they found out that they were wrong and the sun is miasma of incandescent plasma and changed the song but it never caught on.

[ChapperIce]

@bluedragonjersey1 probably because it wasn't as fast paced and catchy as this one.

[rkt739]

Wow, that sun is pretty hot. XD

[Midgetdragon1234]

Who else was brought here by the Lone N00b?

[muisho]

@Midgetdragon1234 yo

[TheBigFuckingGun32]

My teacher was about to start explaining the sun in science class last year, but before she could start talking, I raised my hand and said I'd like to explain. She told me to go ahead, and I plugged my MP3 player into the speaker and played it. Ever since, I have been like a god at my school.

[JamesMajdali]

@TheBigFuckingGun32 But the glory is They Might Be Giants'.

[BellaswanEdwardcull]

OH MY GOSH THIS IS AWESOME!!! I wish I'd seen this before my big test!!!

[WooWooWooZackRyder]

Holy crap the nostalgia!

[samtyler42]

The first two verses appear at the end of Scruffy the Cat's "Tiny Days" (1987). Great song. Great band. Hi Charlie!

[jennlovesjed]

the lyrics to this song are literally one of the answers to my physics exam next week! how i LOVE this song!

[TABmusicIncorporated]

this is my jam

[Ikenike567]

Wow we had 2 do this song in camp

[LuminOfMoonlight]

The sun's a miasma of incandescant plasma, and your thesis has been rendered invalid.

[Waluigiman]

@LuminOfMoonlight They used this song using information from like the 50s. They fixed it up in an 'answer' song Why Does The Sun Really Shine? But I just like to sing the appropriate words to this song. The sun's a miasma of incandescent plasma, a gigantic nuclear quagmire..

[MeganSilver13]

@LuminOfMoonlight Incandescent.

[aliasxyy]

@LuminOfMoonlight plasma is ionized gas. YOUR Thesis has been rendered invalid.

[Kemonokami]

I want to see Amaterasu sing this song.

[prideofclouds]

@Kemonokami  AHHHH I SEE WHAT YOU DID THERE!

[rndomprtyr0916]

THE SUN IS A MASS OF INCANDESCENT GAS A GIGANTIC NUCLEAR FURNACE

[DrStu2]

Dude, I remember watching this on ka-blam when I was in grade school!!!! hahaha fond memories

[Petalstripe28]

I'm in 8th grade and we watched this. I randomly cracked up during this, and then skipped down to chorus singing the only line I knew: "The sun is a mass of incandescent gas".

[osweetie246]

THIS IS LIKE FRICKIN BILL NYE THE MUSICAL!

[mangoismycat]

I don't like this version... The version I grew up to was made by Lou Singer

[aliyaisawsome]

lol ;]



[SuperDuperManMark3]

this is the one of the only things i remembered seeing when i was younger and i always think of it whenever some says "the sun is a mass of incandescent gas"

[tuseroni]

this is my fav from the album. so catchy the sun is a mass of incandescent gas a gigantic nuclear furnace where hydrogen is built into helium at a temperature of millions of degrees.

its so catchy.

[TheHalftimelord]

i love this song :) it's sexy ^^

[rsvp0]

Hah, in my day it was "Our Mr. Sun" (or something like that) from Bell Labs. Talk about 16mm film! Warbley B&W film. But this is MUCH more fun and probably just as informative. I'm sure the old version is on here somewhere.

[NCJuggalo17]

oh the childhood memories of great tv...

[patty584]

i love this song i heard it when i was at Masta camp

[jp1960ad]

Its been a long time since I was in a science class.Thanks for the update.

[CharlieAndKrista14]

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO­OOOOOOOOOOOW

[jamesian0525]

i can sing this from memmory even faster then this in 30 secents

easy

[TheSickHumanBeing]

This song is awesome. Me and my crew be clubbin' to it. :)

[LordAmbitious]

i wish the scientist guy was Neil Patrick Harris

[zemysticmuffin]

@LordAmbitious At first glance I totally thought is was him...

[SaraSohma7]

i remember this! i would always remember this song in science class wow! yay

[goldfishmonster]

i went to camp and heard this song XD

[ClubPenguinGirl2009]

now if everything we needed to study in school was a song like this, then I would probably pass every test

[KitsuneWolf222]

My sister had to sing this in her music class and she got it stuck in my head. XD

[pinksoccerfish]

this song is so catchy

[InlovewithNile]

I haven't heard this song in forever!!! The visuals in this video really stuck out to me. Can't believe I found it. Thanks for posting!

[Wh3nYour3Strang3]

Hormones are raging inside that kid. He can't even pull his eyes away from the vaguely-feminine sun.

[candylicicous13]

I mite sing this song for extra credit

[ItachisGurl146]

love iiiiit!

[sollie7]

Is it me, or does that scientist look a hell of a lot like the lovechild of Neil Patrick Harris and Christopher Tidus...possibly via Bill Nye?

[snowyswag]

@sollie7 What about William H. Macy?

[ZombieGreaser501]

why does he say the sun is a he when the sun is dressed like a girl?

[iggyman91]

Theres a party in my tummy!

Yeah I mosh and hxc dance to this song.

HAIL SATAN.

[ConJonBlizzard1]

Awesome song. But it still doesn't explain why the sun shines.

[kanonochi]

@ConJonBlizzard1 That's actually a good point. it's because hydrogen is being used in a fusion reaction to make new elements, which releases HUGE amounts of energy.

[Macroinvertebrates15]

we had to sing this song on the moring anouncements in front of the school

[doubletrouble467]

@Macroinvertebrates15 cool,is it fun doing the song on the moring anouncements in front of the school

[Sparcalin]

LOVE this song!!! My teacher put it on in our class!!!! LOVE IT!!!! :)

[badspeller101]

... the distance is wrong... 92,955,887.6 miles to be presise.. Lol...

[PrincevonMetternich]

You must realize, of course, as we have an elliptical orbit that any measure of our distance from the sun will be inaccurate the moment after it is said.

[sydneysue62]

my second favorite song by them. my first is birdhouse in your soul.

[TheRealSiguy]

Just for the record, trying to view the sun through a telescope like that with only welding goggles would burn your retinas to a crisp.

[forestpirate]

Yeah and if the sun flew into the room you were in you wouldn't have time to dance with it before you were burn to a crisp. Duh!

[nicholaswright2006]

@TheRealSiguy So would the sun dancing around in an observatory room.

[Cocksalsa]

@TheRealSiguy no because as we can see through that telescope the kid was looking through the sun is a cartoon and cartoons do not give out heat

[pbruce]

@Cocksalsa

GENIUS OBSERVATION. WELL PLAYED SIR

[TonTonthelilpiggy]

I watched this at astro camp LOL

[Gekkou1Neko]

We watched this in science class :P

[awesomepeeps12345]

we have to learn this song for science class ;) lol i love all of the songs mr. k makes us learn! they r all super cheesey!!!! (INCLUDING THIS ONE)

[spot5461]

i like this song and band

[Dabidigu]

THE SUN IS A MASS OF INCANDESCENT...plasma?

[commiepig]

the sun is a miasma of incandescent plasma!

[Dabidigu]

@commiepig Oh! True! I forgot about that song! lol

[TedLee810]

Sol? Sol de Earth?!

[NervousBreakdance]

So, where can I find *this* version of the song? So far I have mp3s of three different versions, one with a glockenspiel and a slower tempo, another 'rocking' version (almost identical to this one, but with the spoken parts sang), and the live version on "Severe Tire Damage". Does the recording in this video clip appear on an album anywhere?

[asteriskpix]

@NervousBreakdance I think it's the "Severe Tire Damage" version, you should check against that.

If its not that, I don't think it's on record.

[NervousBreakdance]

No, the 'Severe Tire Damage' version has cheers and applause, this one is clearly a studio recording.

[Drworm89]

@asteriskpix

You're correct. It's on there.

[sonamy123]

@asteriskpix Google: Youtube to Mp3 Converter

[weedbix]

@asteriskpix It IS the Severe Tire Damage version

[DrStu2]

@asteriskpix severe tire damage is their greatest hits album... why does the sun shine originally was on why does the sun shine - ep in 1994

(^_^)

[deeray41]

@asteriskpix It is on Severe Tire Damage.

[cmadfrenchpleat]

@NervousBreakdance

yea its on sever tire damage

[animegramma]

@NervousBreakdance This is the "Severe Tire Damage" version. It's just been cut a little shorter.

[abyssquick]

Yes, this is most certainly the version from 1998 - "Severe Tire Damage" - it's actually as live recording, if you can believe that. TMBG are tight, knocking out studio quality in concert every time.

[purplemutantas]

@NervousBreakdance When you watch the video the song gets downloaded to your temp folder. Look for a flash file in your temp folder. If you need it in MP3, VLC can convert from flash to MP3.

[taylebell]

@NervousBreakdance It's on the album "here comes science" by They Might be Giants

[loudmouth5996]

@NervousBreakdance It was released on an EP way back when along with Whirlpool, Jessica, and the original version of Spy. I have it somewhere.

[Koshka42]

@NervousBreakdance It's definitely the live track from Severe Tire Damage. My favourite version!

[waw303]

this song is beast!!!

[SuperPivottv]

ha they said the sun is hot and hey made t look like hot looking lol

[horses529]

Love this song!!! I heard it in science class! We are learning about the sun in Science.

[untiuu]

@horses529 you should probably be listening to why does the sun REALLY shine instead, they even say how this song is wrong :P

[horses529]

@untiuu: Uhh I do. I'm not an Idiot I'm a straight A student.

[Raveseeker]

Yeah, but THAT one isn't anywhere near as catchy as this one.

[htonehero]

Fuckin" awesome.

[dddproject]

yaa this song is killer.

[catlover876]

lol this song is going to be in a play at my school!

[cwluvr713]

we had to learn this at school

[ThoGunArm]

just like old times.

[TheSpartan1693]

My science teacher is testing us over this damn song.

[chocoandme232]

We are singing this (the slower version) at the winter celebration

[Whisper95Productions]

holy shit my science teacher is doing the same thing on the test this friday! Coincidence? (not being sarcastic)

[shkipipow]

are you from solon? i have a test over this song on friday too

[squibble2]

best be trollin, this song is old and the thesis backed by the song is invalid. look for "why does the sun really shine"

[siyuntz]

play "if we had no moon", by Christine Lavin for your science teacher

[Alokue]

hahahahaha. tell her some guy on youtube thinks she's amazing.

[zunevsipod1]

@TheSpartan1693

You're teacher is doing it right.

[XemokidpaintedblackX]

oh my...that video is so LOL...

[TacoBoat2]

the 90s was fucking legit

[KookiesnKreem]

...he looks like Dr. Horrible in this video. LOL love this song.

[Fireicee1]

But plasma is a form of gas. Me dun't understand! But then again... plasma reacts to electromagnetic fields, whereas gas does not. But still, make a whole new song about it?!?!?! This is better, a catchier tune.  :3

[eldiosdedios]

For everyone correcting the the song for not saying plasma, they corrected the lyrics in their new album.

[samo314159]

In fact, the sun is a miasma of incandescent plasma. Forget what you've been told in the past...

[Janitor3711]

My science teacher showed this to our class. Thank you Mrs. Brown!!!

[mainiacjoe]

Using a filter between your eye and the eyepiece, instead of between the sun and the telescope's objective, is a great way to go blind.

[hardrockman911]

Mr.Bent showed us this

[Shashanyaara]

We have to sing this in science. XD

Imagine that, a seventh grade advanced science class singing that on the class announcements channel. In front of the whole school. Haha......

[smearyllama]

lucky, i have biology instead of astronomy, at lewast i got to make a cell out of lego

[scottbaioisdead]

too bad it's wrong. the sun is a miasma of incandescent plasma, not a mass of gas.

[Shashanyaara]

Haha, I got an update today.

It's gonna broadcast on Friday. We're all dressing up as nerds, even the teacher. She's getting a pocket protecter. I'm putting my hair up in a ponytail, popped the lenses out of 3-D glasses, and I'm putting masking tape on the nose... XD

[anubite001]

realize... when TMBG made this song... it was like 1995 :/

they're released another version which I think updates the actual factualness of this song

[scottbaioisdead]

actually it was 1993 off the why does the sun shine album(the sun is a mass of incandescant gas) album but the song is from 1959 by tom glazer

[Mikay1357]

"the sun is a miasma of incandescent plasma" haha they were talking about that mistake they made on NPR. ...("mass of incandescent gas")

[TedLee810]

1:49 A door sound?

[Maus5000]

I remember this, I used to search for it, but I couldnt remember what show it was from. Thanks for posting!

[ieatsushieveryday]

i love the sun

[nollaangel]

I have to sing this in science

[Wuzzup222]

Lucky!

[EeveEH]

you should rather sing the correct one... "why does the sun REALLY shine?"

[bambam111992]

thats not a good thing...

you should tell your teacher that the lyrycs are wrong. its not gas, its made of plasma.(the fourth state of matter).

[Dogmantra2]

You could sing them "Why does the sun really shine" then!

[Shashanyaara]

I'm so gonna get after her for this. o_o