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Best Climate Anthem? Here’s Your Earth Day Playlist
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Three years ago, I made the case that Taylor Swift should write a climate anthem because movements need their own music. It hasn’t happened yet. But if you dig a little deeper than the Billboard Hot 100, there are songwriters today who include environmental messages in their music and they follow in the footsteps of …
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CONTINUE READINGWe Forgot The Horse!
It’s been a while since we discussed Great Environmental Songs. But we missed an important one. In 1972, when I was seven, if your radio was not playing Don McLean’s “American Pie,” it was playing “Horse With No Name” by a new band called “America” — a somewhat ironic name since the band was in …
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CONTINUE READINGCity of Light – City of Magic
While writing yesterday about Charles Haar’s work as a special master on the Boston Harbor cleanup, it occurred to me that in our list of great environmental songs, we (although not our commenters) missed an obvious one: The Standells’ Dirty Water, which of course is all about that: [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5apEctKwiD8] It might not be the best …
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CONTINUE READING“Please Don’t Murder Me”
Musical accompaniment to Justin’s post below. “I cut my deck to the Queen of Spades, but the cards were all the same”: [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hhqyg_dTaTg] More information here.
CONTINUE READINGMore on Great Environmental Songs
Two more great environmental songs: or is one of them an ANTI-environmental song?
CONTINUE READINGEven more green songs
Okay, if Jonathan and Tim are going to go there, I feel compelled to follow up as a former performing musician. Plus, someone has to mention a song written after 1974. Here are mine: 10. “Earth Song” by Michael Jackson. Yes, I know, but the guy did just die, and this song is as explicitly …
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CONTINUE READINGLegal Planet Top 10 List
No, not top 10 posts, silly. That’s boring. I mean that Top 10, except with a Legal Planet twist, to wit; What are the Top 10 Environmental Pop Songs of all time? My initial nominee is The Pretenders’ classic “My City Was Gone,” which is known more for its infectious bass guitar hook, but is …
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