» From ABBA to Zeppelin, Led: using music to teach economics
- the page’s title is self-explanatory, but, just in case:
- most of the songs whose lyrics have been used can be found performed on YouTube
- the Stumblng Tumblr’s checked all the links below to make sure that they work, but he hasn’t listened to all of each clip; for old time’s sake, he did listen right through to Bob Dylan’s Like a Rolling Stone (which also meant listening to the British national anthem!)
- here are the links:
She Works Hard for the Money - Donna Summer
Shitloads of Money - Liz Phair
I’d Love to Change the World - Ten Years After
Pain in the Gas - Billy Ray Cyrus
1 2 3 4 (Sumpin’ New) - Coolio
Diamonds are a Girl’s Best Friend - Marilyn Monroe
Open up the Border - Clutch
Youngstown - Bruce Springsteen
Allentown - Billy Joel
Cash Machine - Hard Fi
Why Don’t You Get a Job? - The Offspring
Like a Rolling Stone - Bob Dylan
eBay - Weird Al Yankovic
The Taxman - The Beatles
Fly Like an Eagle - Steve Miller Band
Share the Land - The Guess Who
The Trees - Rush
Fat Cats, Bigga Fish - The Coup
Unemployable - Pearl Jam
The Day the Dollar Die - Peter Tosh
40 Hour Week (For a Livin’) - Alabama
No Man’s Land - Billy Joel
- if you had been given the list of songs above and asked what their common thread was, would you have guessed that they taught one economics?
