Wednesday, October 28, 2009

Music to compost by: Top 20 Eco-Songs

Posted by Mickey Z on 10/28 at 04:13 AM
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  1. Nice article.

    Talking of socially and environmentally conscious music, my band <a href"www.douban.com/artist/expendable">Expendable</a> have a new song out soon called “Paris ‘68”. Will keep you posted. Making a great flyer right now of me and the singer in a Paris street with spray cans and Molotov cocktails and dead businessmen.

    The lyrics are modelled on the situationalist graffiti too, the chorus is based around the line “Beneath the concrete is the beach.”

    Posted by Andy from shanghai  on  10/28  at  04:57 AM

  2. ahhhh ... if only we could edit our comments .. boo hoo

    just one = sign out.

    Expendable

    Posted by Andy from shanghai  on  10/28  at  04:59 AM

  3. morning all.

    Some good tunes there.

    Posted by michael from not scotland  on  10/28  at  05:47 AM

  4. Andy...this one is for you…

    http://www.slapnickgriffin.co.uk

    Posted by michael from not scotland  on  10/28  at  06:10 AM

  5. Hello Michael and Andy. The eco-song list was fun to compile.

    Andy: I like this pic:
    http://www.douban.com/artist/expendable/photo/322512023

    Posted by Mickey Z. from Astoria  on  10/28  at  09:13 AM

  6. Hi Mickey,
    Wow, thanks. I’m an inveterate fan of lists.
    Speaking of songs about the environment, have you heard “Respétala” by Azul Tierra? Good stuff
    http://www.univision.com/uv/video/Respetala/id/276946600

    Posted by Noah from Santa Barbara, CA  on  10/28  at  09:13 AM

  7. Thanks, Noah. Cool video. Part of the fun of writing this list was knowing that I’d get tons of suggestions for songs I missed and probably never even heard.

    Posted by Mickey Z. from Astoria  on  10/28  at  09:16 AM

  8. Thanks Mickey and Michael.

    Mickey, if you send me a good picture, I’ll add you to the heroes gallery. I liked the one of you punching santa.

    Posted by Andy from shanghai  on  10/28  at  11:02 AM

  9. Sure, you can grab one from here, Andy:
    http://www.mickeyz.net/news/mickeyz/can_you_smell_what_the_mick_is_cooking

    Posted by Mickey Z. from Astoria  on  10/28  at  11:09 AM

  10. Also, there’s a story behind that picture.

    That bar is a basement dive with a stage area. It was the site of many cool rock and punk shows for a year or two.

    That night, for the first time ever, one of the ex-pat listings/review magazines had caught wind of a show there and sent down a kind of ‘event photographer’. It was very odd, a CBGB’s type place and this flash looking guy with his big camera, asking everyone to pose for him.

    So, the story behind my wife’s smile.

    The photographer rocks up to us and says, no joke, “hey, great couple, smile for me.”

    So I said, “Hey, pretentious asshole, go somewhere else.”

    Hey took it well and got ready for shot saying, “come on guys” ... so I gave him the finger and held it there ... and Evans thought it was funny so she was laughing for the shot.

    Epilogue: The next week we saw it on the magazine’s website, they put it in anyway, so fair play to them for having a sense of humor about it. And so I nabbed the photo and it’s one of my favourites of me and the wife.

    Posted by Andy from shanghai  on  10/28  at  11:12 AM

  11. Indeed, your wife’s beautiful smile speaks volumes.

    Posted by Mickey Z. from Astoria  on  10/28  at  11:19 AM

  12. I voted for your list, MZ. That must mean we have some democracy around here.

    I’d forgotten about “(Nothing But) Flowers”, but it’s one of the greats. So is “Fall On Me”; the short intro to that is sweet. Here’s a thrashy little apocalypse from 1990 http://tinyurl.com/d8nvyz

    Great photo, Andy, and the story behind it is just as good.

    Posted by Zen Prole from Pac NW  on  10/28  at  12:26 PM

  13. Great list MZ.

    The footage of the polar bear swimming brought a tear. So beautiful, but so quixotic. Last time I saw a polar bear was when you, JOS and I walked through the Central Park Zoo, before meeting up with Charles and James.

    Posted by Keir from here and there  on  10/28  at  12:28 PM

  14. speaking of nietzsche quotes...here’s a paraphrase of one I wrote down as soon as I read it in one of his books (I don’t remember which one) many, many years ago:

    live life like a child at play

    I wish I could follow that one more often.

    Posted by JOS from Chicago  on  10/28  at  12:37 PM

  15. Great stuff today, Mickey.  Watching the polar bear swim around was hypnotic. 

    Lately I’ve been watching a lot Bill Nye, The Science Guy on youtube.  He’s got some great parody videos on there with an eco-theme.  I’ve been posting them on my Facebook page.  Here’s one on recycling: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vaRlFwfIts4&feature=player_embedded

    Loved the poem, by the way.  I was just reading this article today on a new video in which you’re supposed to gun down green activists.  http://www.mnn.com/technology/computers/blogs/new-game-guns-down-environmentalists

    It also mentioned in the article that “a recent marketing study showed if the word ‘green’ is in a web-link users are 10x less likely to click on it over a non-green link.”

    People really don’t give a flying fuck.

    Posted by Charles from Jersey City  on  10/28  at  01:13 PM

  16. Thanks, all. I was also quite taken with the polar bear video. What’s a worse fate? Locked up in Central Park Zoo being stared at by obese tourists or swimming for days in search of polar ice until you drown? Ladies and Gentlemen, welcome to human culture, circa 2009.

    Charles:

    Posted by Mickey Z. from Astoria  on  10/28  at  01:19 PM

  17. The last page of the comic strip says it all.

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    Posted by Charles from Jersey City  on  10/28  at  02:03 PM

  18. Oops, here it is.

    http://www.vonshollywood.com/ff_heredoesntcome06.html

    Posted by Charles from Jersey City  on  10/28  at  02:04 PM

  19. Thanks, everyone.

    A new post is now up. See you there…

    Posted by Mickey Z. from Astoria  on  10/29  at  07:55 AM

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