10 years Rock & Ecology

We celebrate the ten years of our blog, by choosing some of our favorite rock songs:

Our first post Bob Dylan-A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall” (5 of July 2007)

and some of our faves:

Enjoy!!

"Be the rain" by Neil Young & The Crazy Horse, album: Greendale (2003)

Save the planet for another day

"attention shoppers, buy with a conscience and save"

Save the planet for another day

"save alaska! let the caribou stay"

Don't care what the governments say

"they're all bought and paid for anyway"

Save the planet for another day

"hey big oil, what do you say?"

We were runnin' through the night

Never knowin' if we would see the light

Paranoid schizophrenic visions

Livin' in fear of the wrong decisions

We got to wake up

We got to keep goin'

If they follow us

There's no way of knowin'

We got a job to do

We got to 

Save mother earth

Be the ocean when it meets the sky

"you can make a difference, if you really try"

Be the magic in the northern lights

"six days....six nights"

Be the river as it rolls along

"it has three eyed fish and it's smellin' strong"

Be the rain you remember fallin'

"be the rain, be the rain"

Yeah rain was fallin' and we're soakin' wet

Hail is beatin' down on our heads

The wind is blowin' through our hair 

Faces frozen in the frigid air

We got to get there

Alaska

We got to be there 

Before the big machines

We got a job to do

We got to

Save mother earth 

Dream the hunter on the western plain

"the birds are all gone, where did they go?"

Dream the fisherman in his boat

"he's comin' home empty, he's barely afloat"

Dream the logger in the great northwest

"they're runnin' out of trees, they got to give it a rest"

(there's no other way to cut it)

Dream the farmer in the old heartland

"corporate greed and chemicals are killin' the land"

Next mornin' sun was up at dawn

She looked around and earth was gone

Dark visions he had last night

He needed peace, he needed light

He heard the rumble and

He saw the big machines

The green army rose

It was a bad dream

He had a job to do

He had to 

Save mother earth

Be the ocean when it meets the sky

"greek freighters are dumping crap somewhere right now"

Be the magic in the northern lights

"the ice is melting!"

Be the river as it rolls along

"toxic waste dumpin' from corporate farms"

Be the rain you remember fallin'

"be the rain, be the rain"

Save the planet for another day

"be the rain, be the rain"

Be the river as it rolls along

"be the rain, be the rain"

We think it's the best choice for the day of the environment

Anne Clark – Poem For A Nuclear Romance, album: Changing places (1983)

What will it matter then 
When the sky's not blue but blazing red 
The fact that I simply love you 
When all our dreams lay deformed and dead 
We'll be two radioactive dancers 
Spinning in different directions 
And my love for you will be reduced to powder 
The screams will perform louder and louder 
Your marble flesh will soon be raw and burning 
And kissing will reduce my lips to a pult 
Hideous creatures will return from the underground 
And the fact that I love you 
Will die 
You don't have to sleep to see nightmares 
Just hold me close 
Then closer still 
And you'll feel the probabilities pulling us apart.

"Radioactivity" by Kraftwerk, album "Radio-Activity" (1975), remix (1991)

Lyrically, the 1975 version of the song plays upon the meaning of its title, with the line "Discovered by Madame Curie (In fact, Natural radioactivity was discovered by Henri Becquerel (and independently by Silvanus Thompson); induced radioactivity by Irène Joliot-Curie, Marie Curie's daughter. Curie coined the term "radioactivity").

The song was re-recorded as a radically different version for The Mix album in 1991 and was issued as a single in an edited form with remixes by François Kevorkian and William Orbit. While the original does not offer a value judgement on the safety of radioactivity, the 1991 version drops all references to radio and incorporates additional lyrics with a pointed anti-nuclear theme, remaking the central lyrical hook as "stop radioactivity" and also referring to "contaminated population" and mentioning by name Chernobyl, Harrisburg (Three Mile Island), Sellafield and Hiroshima.

The band performed the Mix version at the "Stop Sellafield" concert in 1992. The song was performed during Kraftwerk's set at Coachella to commemorate the anniversary of the Chernobyl incident on April 26 (the date of the band's performance). Live versions of "Radioactivity" feature on both English and German versions of the band's 2005 live album Minimum-Maximum.

In 2012, Kraftwerk performed the new remix of "Radioactivity" during No Nukes 2012, held in Japan. To commemorate the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster, Hütter sang alternate lyrics to the song in Japanese, at one point even name checking Fukushima. This version of the song also has notable lyric changes such as "Chernobyl, Harrisburg, Sellafield, Fukushima". This altered version of the song is also the version Kraftwerk performs live to this day, albeit with the second chorus switching back to the English or German lyrics sung on the Mix version, depending on where they perform. (Wikipedia)

"April 2031" by Warrant, album: Dog Eat Dog (1992)

They say the sky used to be blue
I don't quite believe it
It's probably always been the color that it is
And there were cotton candy clouds
And birds to fly through it
Just stories we all love to tell our kids

So I'll close my electronic door
And keep the cold outside
And hug my aluminium pillow
Oh so tight
And pray the radiation doesn't
Make me sick tonight

They say there used to be wind
That wasn't caused by fans
I wonder how it would have felt in my hair

And the nuclear ring
Around the Moon was caused by man
If it was, then it's much to late to care

So I'll put my safety goggles on
And gaze out at the sun
As the artificial atmosphere machines
Give off a constant hum
In a world that's cold and
peaceful April 2031

No more sky and no more trees
April 2031
No more oxygen to breathe
April 2031
No more hate and no more war
April 2031
Nothing left worth fighting for
April 2031

As far back as Vietnam
We should have learned our lessons
But we closed our eyes
And sent our sons away

And they told us we were winning
As they sold more ammunition

Some were angry most just looked the other way

And the night's illuminated
By the endless glowing sand
That swallowed all the oceans
And choked off all the land
In a world beyond resuscitation
Even by God's hand

No more mountains no more sea
April 2031
No more you and no more me
April 2031
No more music no more songs
April 2031
No God left to blame it on
April 2031

No more children playing
April 2031
No more need for praying
April 2031

a post-apocalyptic song after a nuclear warfare. 1992-2017 we thought that this threat was on its way to dissapearance, but american people elected a person that declares to bring back this nightmare again.

OMNIA - Earth Warrior, album Earth Warrior (2014)

Borknagar, album: "Urd" (2012)

The Beauty Of Dead Cities

Concrete cracks, gives way to green

forests fall come glass and steel

The beauty of dead cities

the splendor of nature

Glass framed cities

untamed gardens

Wings in the meadow

asphalt hardens

Everything in its place

the duality of the natural order

An unforgiving faceless warder

Powerful green forces gray away

steel constructions lead life astray

The beauty of dead cities

the splendor of nature

Nature regains its natural place

cities absorb their needed space

The duality of the natural order

The Earthling

Children, behold the elders falling

hear nature chime, the widow calling

See that moldered face, once gazing

throughout horizons, throughout seasons

Men, behold the nature tolling

hear the depravity of man

See the sunshine blurring, once sharp and gleaming

Throughout winters, throughout summers

Nature, the venomous path of man

the existential gravity, the blinder of light

Mankind, bestride the glimpse of the Sun

instinctively oppose, the harvester of light

Elders, hear the mountains calling

behold the certainty, the leaves of future falling

See the downfall, in midst of the havoc

throughout ages, throughout generations

Nature, the venomous path of man

the existential gravity, the blinder of light

Mankind, bestride the glimpse of the Sun

instinctively oppose, the harvester of light

Dwelling the night towards further sight

I am the earthling, bearer of the past

I am the earthling, dwelling the presence

I am the earthling, exploring the future vast

I am the weaver of the Sun

I am the earthling, I am the weaver of the Sun

"Hunters Will Be Hunted" by Heaven shall burn , album: VETO (2013)

This is the end of all endurance,

No mercy for assasins

Violence against violence

And hunters will be hunted

Until the slaughter ceased to be

Believe me, you'll regret your deeds

We took a stand and won't retreat

Until their malice ceased to be

Nothing justifies your greed

You will not succeed

You shall regret your felonies

We took a stand and won't retreat

And hunters will be hunted

Until the slaughter ceased to be

Across the open seas, together through the storm

You'll make no creature bleed, nevermore, forevermore

No drawing back, direct actions strike upon you

No compromise, no giving in

Defending those who cannot fight

Justice must prevail

A campaign for relief

Across the open seas, together through the storm

You'll make no creature bleed, nevermore

I looked him straight in the eye

This moment of compassion

I found my mission in life

We send them to the bottom

Forevermore

An anti-hunt song with brutal lyrics and a very beautiful and meaningful video clip:

Neil Young - The monsanto years, album (2015)

"Monsanto Years"

You never know what the future holds in the shallow soil of Monsanto, Monsanto

The moon is full and the seeds are sown while the farmer toils for Monsanto, Monsanto

When these seeds rise they're ready for the pesticide

And Roundup comes and brings the poison tide of Monsanto, Monsanto

The farmer knows he's got to grow what he can sell, Monsanto, Monsanto

So he signs a deal for GMOs that makes life hell with Monsanto, Monsanto

Every year he buys the patented seeds

Poison-ready they're what the corporation needs, Monsanto

When you shop for your daily bread and walk the aisles of Safeway, Safeway

Find the package to catch your eye that makes you smile at Safeway, at Safeway

Choose a picture of an old red barn on a field of green

With the farmer and his wife and children to complete the scene at Safeway, at Safeway

Dreams of the past come flooding back to the farmer's mind, his mother and father

Family seeds they used to save were gifts from God, not Monsanto, Monsanto

Their own child grows ill near the poisoned crops

While they work on, they can't find an easy way to stop, Monsanto, Monsanto

Don't care now what the Bible said so long ago not Monsanto, Monsanto

Give us this day our daily bread and let us not go with Monsanto, Monsanto

The seeds of life are not what they once were

Mother Nature and God don't own them anymore

The Monsanto Years is the thirty-sixth studio album by Canadian singer-songwriter Neil Young, released on June 29, 2015 on Reprise Records. A concept album criticizing agribusiness Monsanto, the album is a collaboration with Willie Nelson's sons Lukas and Micah, alongside Lukas' bandmates in Promise of the Real.

"A Rock Star Bucks A Coffee Shop"

If you don't like to rock Starbucks A coffee shop

Well you better change your station 'cause that ain't all that we got

Yeah, I want a cup of coffee but I don't want a GMO

I like to start my day off without helping Monsanto

Monnnnnn-sannnnnn-toooooooo

Let our farmers grow what they want to grow

From the fields of Nebraska to the banks of the Ohio

The farmers won't be free to grow what they want to grow

When corporate control takes over the American farm

With fascist politicians and chemical giants walking arm in arm

Monnnnnn-sannnnnn-toooooooo

Let our farmers grow what they want to grow

When the people of Vermont wanted to label food with GMOs

So that they could find out what was in what the farmer grows

Monsanto and Starbucks through the Grocery Manufacturers Alliance

They sued the state of Vermont to overturn the people's will

Monnnnnn-sannnnnn-toooooooo (and Starbucks)

Mothers want to know what they feed their children

Monnnnnn-sannnnnn-toooooooo

Let our farmers grow what they want to grooooooow

"A Rock Star Bucks a Coffee Shop" is a protest song aimed at Starbucks and Monsanto recorded by Neil Young that has attracted world-wide attention. It is a criticism of Starbucks. It's about Starbucks and its alleged use of GM food. The lyrics include "I want a cup of coffee but I don't want a GMO," Young sings. "I'd like to start my day off without helping Monsanto." In the song there were references to the lawsuit by Monsanto which is against Vermont because the state and its attempt to pass a GMO labeling law. It also mentions “the poison tide of Monsanto” and about a farmer who signs a GMO deal. In a brief review on the song, Stephan Schmidt of The National in the Singles Roundup said: The album’s opening track, A Rock Star Bucks a Coffee Shop, does not pull any punches, attacking Starbucks as well as Monsanto and suggesting Young has not lost his appetite for tackling the big issues of the moment

An acoustic version of the song was debuted in Maui, Hawaii by Young and his backing band called The Promise of The Real. The reason for it being done there was to bring to attention the attention to Monsanto’s destructive practices in Hawaii. Paul Towers of the Pesticide Action Network said that Hawaii was the global epicenter for GMO seed testing.

Cattle Decapitation "Manufactured Extinct", album: The Anthropocene Extinction (2015)

In the beginning of this, the anthropocene era
Life was pristine, resonating impact …the instigator’s arrival
Densely populating smashing biodiversity

Altered climate accelerating exacerbated by our human activities

We used it up, we wore it out, we made it do what we could have done without

Machines to make machines fabricating the end of all living things
Sacrificing all morality, the ends never justify the means

Technology defines the ages - Our human history burns its own pages

Under the sun and in the light of day we throw this all away
Instinctual devotion to annihilation
Eradication, mass predation - manufactured extinction
The powers that be are you and me

These enemies of inconvenience = undertakers

Entire species erased
Millions of acres defaced
Nonrenewable

Fuck this flesh
Curating distress
Composing our dirge
True nature emerged

Under the sun and in plain sight a tragedy has been designed
by hands of cultures intertwined in greed and cruel ways of life

The Anthropocene Extinction is the upcoming seventh studio album of American deathgrind band Cattle Decapitation. It is set to be release on August 7, via Metal Blade Records. The last record, Monolith of Inhumanity, dealt with future of Earth, if mankind keep its current style of life. The Anthropocene Extinction now deals with the results of mankinds influence on the environment, such as the Great Pacific garbage patch.

You can hear this song n Youtube