Jay said:
"Sad story indeed. Unless we get the good fortune of offspring, Man will have yet again driven a species to extinction. Something it seem to be ve..." [read]
said: "OK, why isn't the option of voting to NOT tax gas guzzlers? There can be no shift to more fuel efficient vehicles unless more fuel efficient vehic..." [read]
Carl Trimble said: "I think its cell phone interference. If you talk to bees like I do, they hate cell phones. They want us to go back to land lines...." [read]
Used Pellet Stoves said: "Pellet Stoves are selling like hot cakes this year and I think the trend will continue to increase. Regards, Chris..." [read]
said: "I'm on disability income. My 17 year old vehicle is beginning to smoke. I don't continue to drive it because I'm ignorant. I continue to drive it b..." [read]
said: "OK, why isn't the option of voting to NOT tax gas guzzlers? There can be no shift to more fuel efficient vehicles unless more fuel efficient vehic..." [read]
Carl Trimble said: "I think its cell phone interference. If you talk to bees like I do, they hate cell phones. They want us to go back to land lines...." [read]
Used Pellet Stoves said: "Pellet Stoves are selling like hot cakes this year and I think the trend will continue to increase. Regards, Chris..." [read]
said: "I'm on disability income. My 17 year old vehicle is beginning to smoke. I don't continue to drive it because I'm ignorant. I continue to drive it b..." [read]
Does 'Monkey Gone to Heaven' by the Pixies count?
Les Cowboys Fringants - Plus Rien
It's a french song, really good.
The best environmental song is either 'Blackened' by Metallica or 'The Last Good Day of the Year' by Cousteau. The best environmental revenge song is 'Nothing but Flowers' by the Talking Heads.
Morpheus Laughing by Skinny Puppy
long line of cars by cake, subtle and unlike the rest of the songs on here, rockin.
"Mama Nature Said", by Thin Lizzy.
"The Rape of the World" - Tracy Chapman
"Fall on Me" REM
(Nothing but) Flowers by the Talking Heads, of course!
nothing but flowers, duh.
Paradise by John Prine
Blue Light Of The UnderWater Sun
By Moby
'Earth Song' by Michael Jackson and
'Mama Nature' by Pato Banton And The Reggae Revolution
Tapestry by Don McLean
Hands down it's Bruce Cockburn's, If a Tree Falls
An excerpt:
Cut and move on
Cut and move on
Take out trees
Take out wildlife at a rate of species every single day
Take out people who've lived with this for 100,000 years -
Inject a billion burgers worth of beef -
Grain eaters - methane dispensers.
Through thinning ozone,
Waves fall on wrinkled earth -
Gravity, light, ancient refuse of stars,
Speak of a drowning -
But this, this is something other.
Busy monster eats dark holes in the spirit world
Where wild things have to go
To disappear
Forever
Alice's Restaurant
I concur with the vote for the the Bruce Cockburn song; If a Tree Falls. Monkey Gone to Heaven is a close second!
Garbage Dump by Charles Manson.
Manson became obsessed with the environment during prison, professing a philosophy around 'ATWA' (air-trees-water-animals) and recorded songs such as 'ATWA - Message to the People of Earth' while in prison, but his stream of consciousness style of music doesn't stay coherent for very long. But, Garbage Dump was recorded when he had pop star aspirations (Neil Young was supposedly to produce his 1st album) in the late 60s.
In interviews while in prison, Manson goes as far as partially blaming the 'r@pe of the earth' as reasoning behind the violence. He is also in the camp that are pro-War as means of population control. That's CM forya!
This track is fun and was made by a group of people literally living off our garbage.
Alice's Restaurant was a song about the draft.
Joni Mitchell? I've never heard the song, but I can't imagine a Joni Mitchell song ranking up there on the 'fun to listen to' scale.
Marvin Gaye, all the way. Good message, good music, and it is popularly successful, which is important if you're trying to make an activist song. None of the other songs seem to meet those three criteria for me.
Throwing Stones by the Grateful Dead is worth a listen. Great message, great song!
Rainbow Stew by Merle Haggard
"There's a big, brown cloud in the city,
And the countryside's a sin.
An' the price of life is too high to give up,
Gotta come down again.
When the world wide war is over and done,
And the dream of peace comes true.
We'll all be drinkin' free bubble-ubb,
Eatin' that rainbow stew.
When they find out how to burn water,
And the gasoline car is gone.
When an airplane flies without any fuel,
And the satellite heats our home.
One of these days when the air clears up,
And the sun comes shinin' through.
We'll all be drinkin' free bubble-ubb,
An' eatin' that rainbow stew."
Death of Mother Nature Suite by Kansas
Bruce Cockburn, Mighty Trucks of Midnight. Or any of a half-dozen other of his songs.
I know it's all very gushy and middle-of-the-road, but I don't think you can go past Julian Lennon's "Saltwater". It was more holistic than Big Yellow Taxi, and appealed to a lot of average joes (as opposed to young, hip people who were au fait with environmental issues anyway. It was also the junior Lennon's sweetest melody - his own answer to "Imagine".
Big, Beautiful Planet by Raffi.
It's called Someday You'll Understand by Jackopierce
Big Yellow Taxi is the WORST environmental song ever.
Cast my vote for Rocky Mountain High by John Denver.
I think the song that did it for me was the song "Silent Running" sung by Joan Baez. It was the theme song to the movie of the same name.
Where do the children play?
Cat Stevens
stand - REM
think about the place where you live
wonder why you havent before
"We Care A Lot" by Faith No More!
If memory serves:
We care a lot!
About pollution fires floods and killer bees!
Etc. Etc. Rocks on and on. MeTaL!
i voted for mercy mercy me, but honorable mention to up-and-comer postal service's "sleeping in." lyrics here:
http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/postalservice/sleepingin.html
Garbage (featuring Oscar the Grouch) from the album "Pete Seeger and Brother Kirk Visit Sesame Street" (1974)
Clearly the best (and most important) environmental song.
"Monster", by Steppenwolf.
Not only environmentalist, but anti-war and anti-stupidity at the same time. Great, great song.
nature anthem by grandaddy.
"I wanna walk up the side of the mountain
I wanna walk down the other side of the mountain
I wanna swim in the river and lie in the sun
I wanna try to be nice to everyone"
repeat
Neil Young's "Natural Beauty"
painfully beautiful.
Revelation by Charles Earland - probably the most unknown environmental (jazz) song
Louis Armstrong, What a Wonderful World. Think positive.
Red Tide by Rush
crazy horses by the Osmond Brothers(best thing they ever did)
There’s a message talkin', in the Airodrome
Crazy horses ridin’ everywhere
It’s a warning message, every town's gotta
Stop them crazy horses on the run
What a show, there they go smokin’ up the sky, yeah
Crazy horses are the riders in you and I
Crazy horses, crazy horses, crazy horses
Never stop and they never die
They just keep on pumpin' on their motorbikes
Crazy horses ridin', never halt
Keep on movin' and it's all a ball
What a show, there they go smokin’ up the sky, yeah
Crazy horses are the riders in you and I
Crazy horses, crazy horses, crazy horses
So take a good look around, see what they’ve done
What they’ve done...they’ve done...they’ve done...they’ve done...they’ve done
Crazy horses
Crazy horses
Crazy horses
Crazy horses
Emergency On Planet Earth from Jamiroquais first album. Since this is also the title of the album, there are other enviromental themed songs on it. Mighty good ones, I migh add :-)
lynyrd skynyrd - "All I can do is write it in a song"
R ape of the world by Tracy Chapman - a great song!
Convenient Parking by Modest Mouse
The Green Child - Coil
This reminds me: the David Suzuki Foundation is holding a concert "Too Hot to Handle" in Montreal this coming Monday, December 9, at the end of the UN climate change conference. Les Cowboys Fringants -- they were mentioned by EricF -- will be playing.)
It's a pretty impressive list of songs people have mentioned here. If someone at some point organises a Treehugger concert, there would be no shortage of appropriate music (and willing musicians, I bet).
The Chemical Workers Song by Great Big Sea
Garbage by Bill Steele (Pete Seeger added a verse and popularized it, along with Oscar the Grouch)
Alice's Restaurant is about the consequences of dumping garbage, as well as the draft, so I think it counts, but I like Garbage better.
hmmm
no body mentioned EARTH CRISIS?
geeeeze to many treehuggers!
lol
Don't Go Near the Water by the Beach Boys
as far as the Grateful Dead, "we can run but we can't hide" seems a bit more ecological
but my money is still on "Nothing But Flowers" like those two up there. it's the opposite of big yellow taxi, and besides it has a sense of humour, kinda still important, right?
Wow, I don't know if anyone has heard this, or if anyone has voted for this, but Grandaddy's Nature Anthem, I think, is THE enviroment song. Google it and look for the video, it's great. Anyways, here are the lyrics (you might know it from the Honda Civic Hybrid commercials):
I wanna walk up the side of the mountain
I wanna walk down the other side of the mountain
I wanna swim in the river
Lie in the sun
I wanna try to be nice to everyone
I can't drive 55