9/6/2023 0 Comments Protest songs by pearl jam![]() Dave Matthews Band-Proudest Monkey (1996)ĭave Matthew's Band 1996 smash album "Crash" featured not one, but two environmental anthems. Using apocalyptic imagery, The Pixies sing about the shrinking ozone ("now there's a hole in the sky and the ground's not cold") and water pollution in the form of "ten million pounds of sludge from New York and New Jersey." Fortunately, since the Pixies released the song, the cities have taken huge strides to limit sewer system discharge thanks to better rules and regulations. The Pixies-Monkey's Gone To Heaven (1989) ![]() To prove the point, here are 8 killer rock songs-all released in the last 20 years-that you probably didn't realize were also environmental anthems. But you're simply not listening close enough. To the untrained ear, it may sound as though rock artists' priorities have shift. And the Beach Boys didn't mince words on their 1971 track " Don't Go In The Water" when they sang, in their trademark six-part harmony, "Don't you think it's sad what's happened to the water?" There's no question that the early 1970s was a golden age of conservation choruses (The Kinks' " Apeman" and The Doors' " Ship of Fools" are two personal favs). Just one year later on " Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology)," Marvin Gaye silky smooth voice warned of the impact of pollution on birds and fish. ![]() Mitchell blazed a trail for other rock artists, and in the months that followed, dozens of popular songs explicitly tackled themes of pollution and environmental destruction. ![]() Not only was a tremendous hit in 1970, but it also brought environmental concerns to the popular radio waves. To this day, " Big Yellow Taxi" is Joni Mitchell's most well-known song. That same month, an emerging Canadian singer-songwriter released a simple song about "paving paradise to put up a parking lot." Earth Day, the brainchild of Senator Gaylord Nelson, has been a worldwide celebration of nature and conservation every year since.īut music historians could also argue that April 1970 also marks the birth of the modern environmental rock anthem. For many political historians, April 1970 marks the beginning of the modern environmental movement in America. ![]()
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