How then, do we move backwards? How does a society, with most of the people having no clue of future events, move from being dependent on a vast and intertwined network of goods and services produced by the indigenous people of whereever, to a local resource and renewable energy based society, and do so in the timeframe available (20-30 years using the most liberal extimates, 10-20 with resonable estimates, 5-10 with worst case scenarios), all the while prices on everything increasing, world politics getting more militaristic, governments continuously reducing civil liberties, shortages of goods on the market and weather patterns resembling bad Hollywood movies?
I know this is the Book/Media REVIEWS section, but I feel like this would be the most closely associated forum for this topic.
I was just wondering what songs make you think of Peak Oil? This may seem a little strange to some but for me when I'm listening to a song I try to envision some sort of imagery to accompany it, like a music video in my mind. Two songs that trigger post-Peak images in my mind are "In the Air Tonight" by Phil Collins and "When The Children Cry" by White Lion. More so White Lion, just because the lyrics really fit the situation and the song is very slow and sad.
Here is a small sample for those who are curious
What have we become
Just look what we have done
All that we destroyed
You must build again
When the children cry
Let them know we tried
Cause when the children sing
Then the new world begins
Posted: Fri Sep 30, 2005 8:41 am Post subject: Re: Peak Oil Songs / Music
Great topic kingmza!
Here are a couple from one of the two greatest bands in the world, Rush:
Subdivisions from the Signals album, Red Barchetta from Moving Pictures
Damn, as I'm sitting here thinking, I'll have to go through my entire collection, because themes relating to topics discussed here (sustainability, technology, individual freedom) are all through Rush's immense body of work!
Some from U2 also, who is the other "greatest band":
Beautiful Day, God's Country, Running to Standstill ... there's more
Another great band, the Police:
Synchronicity II, Walking in Your Footsteps, King of Pain, Invisible Sun, Secret Journey
It seems odd to me, thinking about music that I love, how much of it relates directly to my worldview on sustainability, a view I really did not know I had until recently. Perhaps it was how I was raised by my parents that instilled in me particular values? When I heard music that reflected those values, it resonated? _________________ Whoso would be a man must be a non-conformist.
Posted: Fri Sep 30, 2005 8:52 am Post subject: Re: Peak Oil Songs / Music
I heard this on the radio the other day. Hadnt heard this in awhile but for a older song it defiantely still holds true.
Mercy, Mercy Me (The Ecology)
(Marvin Gaye)
Woo ah, mercy mercy me
Ah things ain't what they used to be, no no
Where did all the blue skies go?
Poison is the wind that blows from the north and south and east
Woo mercy, mercy me, mercy father
Ah things ain't what they used to be, no no
Oil wasted on the ocean and upon our seas, fish full of mercury
Ah oh mercy, mercy me
Ah things ain't what they used to be, no no
Radiation under ground and in the sky
Animals and birds who live nearby are dying
Oh mercy, mercy me
Ah things ain't what they used to be
What about this overcrowded land
How much more abuse from man can she stand?
Oh, na na...
My sweet Lord... No
My Lord... My sweet Lord
_________________ "If you are a real seeker after truth, it's necessary that at least once in your life you doubt all things as far as possible"-Rene Descartes
"When you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains however improbable must be the truth"-Sherlock Holmes
Posted: Mon May 15, 2006 8:37 am Post subject: Re: [Peak Oil Songs / Music]
High Water from Dylan's Love And Theft.
"...Things are breakin' up out there"
Amen, Bob.
High water risin' - risin' night and day
All the gold and silver are being stolen away
Big Joe Turner lookin' East and West
From the dark room of his mind
He made it to Kansas City
Twelfth Street and Vine
Nothing standing there
High water everywhere
High water risin', the shacks are slidin' down
Folks lose their possessions - folks are leaving town
Bertha Mason shook it - broke it
Then she hung it on a wall
Says, "You're dancin' with whom they tell you to
Or you don't dance at all."
It's tough out there
High water everywhere
I got a cravin' love for blazing speed
Got a hopped up Mustang Ford
Jump into the wagon, love, throw your panties overboard
I can write you poems, make a strong man lose his mind
I'm no pig without a wig
I hope you treat me kind
Things are breakin' up out there
High water everywhere
High water risin', six inches 'bove my head
Coffins droppin' in the street
Like balloons made out of lead
Water pourin' into Vicksburg, don't know what I'm going to do
"Don't reach out for me," she said
"Can't you see I'm drownin' too?"
It's rough out there
High water everywhere
Well, George Lewis told the Englishman, the Italian and the Jew
"You can't open your mind, boys
To every conceivable point of view."
They got Charles Darwin trapped out there on Highway Five
Judge says to the High Sheriff,
"I want him dead or alive
Either one, I don't care."
High Water everywhere
The Cuckoo is a pretty bird, she warbles as she flies
I'm preachin' the Word of God
I'm puttin' out your eyes
I asked Fat Nancy for something to eat, she said, "Take it off the shelf -
As great as you are a man,
You'll never be greater than yourself."
I told her I didn't really care
High water everywhere
I'm getting' up in the morning - I believe I'll dust my broom
Keeping away from the women
I'm givin' 'em lots of room
Thunder rolling over Clarksdale, everything is looking blue
I just can't be happy, love
Unless you're happy too
It's bad out there
High water everywhere
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Posted: Mon May 15, 2006 9:46 am Post subject: Re: [Peak Oil Songs / Music]
Everything's Cool (Pop Will Eat Itself)
These eyes see only what they wanna see
These ears hear only what they wanna hear
These minds think only what they wanna think
These lies, these lies
You won't find no answers in this head
What you see is what you get
Watch as all the lights go out
Down and out, out for the count
Take your places, choose your sins
Everyone loses, noone wins
I have seen the future and this is how it begins
[CHORUS]
In chaos and riots, the screech of machines
No right and no wrong and no in between
Fall one by one, the queen to her fool
Dos dedos mis amigos - everything's cool
Everything's...
These arms hold whoever needs to be held
These hands take whatever they wanna take
These words fake whoever needs to be faked
These lies, these lies
Look for clues inside the baby's head
Hear the words yet to be said
Cue the music, fade to black
No such thing as no payback
Take this line, know where it ends
No return, no make amends
Is this the future or this is how it will end?
[CHORUS]
[CHORUS]
Everything's cool... (x2)
I challenge you to find a more relevant set of lyrics to peak oil than that.
Posted: Mon May 15, 2006 10:14 am Post subject: Re: Peak Oil Songs / Music
NeoPeasant wrote:
Don't forget "Nothing But Flowers" by the Talking Heads. David Byrne "got it" way back in the eighties.
"From the age of the dinosaurs, cars have run on gasoline. Where, oh where have they gone? Now, it's nothing but flowers"
or something like that.
Good call, I think he 'got it' in 1978 with The Big Country
Quote:
I see the shapes,
I remember from maps.
I see the shoreline.
I see the whitecaps.
A baseball diamond, nice weather down there.
I see the school and the houses where the kids are.
Places to park by the fac’tries and buildings.
Restaunts and bar for later in the evening.
Then we come to the farmlands, and the undeveloped areas.
And I have learned how these things work together.
I see the parkway that passes through them all.
And I have learned how to look at these things and I say,
(chorus)
I wouldn’t live there if you paid me.
I couldn’t live like that, no siree!
I couldn’t do the things the way those people do.
I couldn’t live there if you paid me to.
I guess it’s healthy, I guess the air is clean.
I guess those people have fun with their neighbors and friends.
Look at that kitchen and all of that food.
Look at them eat it’ guess it tastes real good.
They grow it in the farmlands
And they take it to the stores
They put it in the car trunk
And they bring it back home
And I say ...
(chorus)
I say, I wouldn’t live there if you paid me.
I couldn’t live like that, no siree!
I couldn’t do the things the way those people do.
I wouldn’t live there if you paid me to.
I’m tired of looking out the windows of the airplane
I’m tired of travelling, I want to be somewhere.
It’s not even worth talking
About those people down there
Posted: Sun Jul 09, 2006 2:30 pm Post subject: Re: [Peak Oil Songs / Music]
Hey how do we upload MP3s to the Resources section? I just finished a new song called "Energy Crunch." You can download it (and other songs) on my music site. I also have "Songs from Oil City" available for free download... it's the first PO-dedicated album that I am aware of.
I used the very enlightening National Geographic (Energy special issue) from February, 1981 for lyrics. Back then is when we should have taken action to prevent PO.
Pain of Salvation's BE is currently resonating a huge amount with me the moment.
While not strictly peak-oil related, it's a beautiful yet profoundly chilling tale recounting the tragic demise of mankind through his own actions and overconsumption.
I can see us read the signs
But spell them out in backward travesty
I see us close our eyes
To all the wounds that we inflict to this world by being "free"
We love this world to death
Purchasing our lifestyles with our lives
Defending our momentarily nations
With the loss of our priceless earthly home
- Nihil Morari
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