Monday, February 1, 2021

Songs for The Uninhabitable Earth Soundtrack

        I'm a little ashamed to admit that it took reading David Wallace-Wells' book, The Uninhabitable Earth two years ago to really send me spiraling into a doom loop about the environment (as I should have been residing in that doom loop a lot longer).  While a doom loop may, understandably, have negative connotations, I think it's kind of a necessary space if it propels climate activism and actions, however small, to reduce carbon emissions.  Now I do realize that making a compilation of environmental songs does nothing to improve the environment, but.....it was kind of oddly therapeutic for me and maybe they can use some of the more obscure cuts when they're making the anthology series about the book.  (I just found out about this.)

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Wildfire

Hand Habits

Don't Go Near The Water

Johnny Cash

Fall On Me

R.E.M.

Monkey Gone to Heaven

Pixies

I Had a Dream I Was Falling Through a Hole in the Ozone Layer

Deee-Lite

New World Water

Mos Def

Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology)

Marvin Gaye

Every Planet We Reach Is Dead

Gorillaz

The Trees Are All Gone

Roger McGuinn

Before the Deluge

Eliza Gilkyson

Last Great American Whale

Lou Reed

Terra

Caetano Veloso

Blacktop

Calexico

Humans From Earth

T-Bone Burnett

The New Pollution

Beck

And It Rained All Night

Thom Yorke

Earth Intruders

Bjork

Here Comes The Flood

Robert Fripp


4 comments:

heartsofstone said...

What a great comp. Thanks so much.

Ishkabibliophile said...

@Hearts,

Quite welcome. Appreciate the kind words!

Ish

apothecary-and-co said...

Tom Waits. The Earth Died Screaming!

Ishkabibliophile said...

@apothecary-and-Co,

I will definitely include that one if I ever do Volume 2. Or if I ever do a broader apocalyptic theme compilation....

best,
Ish