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Top 10 eco-songs of all time!
April 21st, 2009 by
Dirty Water by the Standells - Over 40 years ago, this band from Los Angeles sang a love/hate song for the water in a city 3,000 miles away. Boston’s dirty water became an issue in the 1988 presidential race, and the song became a theme for the city’s sports teams. The Standells are a lot older now. The water’s a bit cleaner now. And the Red Sox rule.- Mercy, Mercy Me (The Ecology) by Marvin Gaye - “Oil wasted on the oceans and upon our sea, fish full of mercury.”
- Nothing but Flowers by the Talking Heads is a wistful view of development in reverse: “There was a shopping mall, now it’s all covered with flowers.”
- Big Yellow Taxi, originally by Joni Mitchell and covered by many, including the Counting Crows. “You pave paradise and put up a parking lot.”
- Tapestry by Don McLean - The guy who is often only remembered for “American Pie” also wrote this beautiful, foreboding message: “We’re poisoned by venom with each breath we take/from the brown sulfur chimney and the black highway snake.”
- My City Was Gone by the Pretenders - A mournful tale about the destruction of a city (Akron, Ohio) and the creation of soulless suburbs. I’ll never figure out how this became Rush Limbaugh’s radio theme song.
- Dead Heart by Midnight Oil - Peter Garrett, the lead singer for the band, has changed jobs. He’s now Australian’s Environment Minister. On an honorable mention note, John Hall, the lead singer of the 1970s band Orleans and a headliner in the No Nukes concert, is now a Congressman from upstate New York.
- Where Do the Children Play? - by the artist formerly known as Cat Stevens. He stopped performing after his conversion to Islam, but the man now known as Yusuf Islam has begun to perform his old tunes again, mostly for charity.
- Oh Lord Don’t Let Them Drop that Atomic Bomb on Me: Like Percy Mayfield, jazz legend Charles Mingus freaked out over the Cold War and originally recorded this in 1961.
- Before the Deluge: Jackson Browne has worked long and hard for environmental causes; this is the best of many songs that touch on the topic.
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