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Readers’ Rock List: Best “Green” Songs

4/21/08, 5:17 pm EST

Last week, in honor of tomorrow’s Earth Day and yesterday’s “Sit on the couch and watch The Big Lebowski repeatedly” Day, we asked our readers to pick their favorite Earth-friendly/colorful/wake n’ bake songs. With bloodshot eyes we tallied the picks, and the double entendre that is Black Sabbath’s “Sweet Leaf” was deemed the Best “Green” Song. Without further ado, here’s our Readers’ Top Ten picks. Why only ten? We’re trying to decrease our carbon footprint.

1. Black Sabbath – “Sweet Leaf”
2. Booker T. and the MG’s – “Green Onions”
3. Gorillaz – “O Green World”
4. Weezer – “Hash Pipe”
5. Creedence Clearwater Revival – “Green River”
6. Coldplay – “Green Eyes”
7. The Kinks – “The Village Green Preservation Society”
8. Sublime – “Smoke Two Joints”
9. Joni Mitchell – “Big Yellow Taxi”
10. Elvis Costello – “Green Shirt”

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sy | 4/21/2008, 6:47 pm EST

how is a big yellow taxi earth friendly?? just wondering…

Anonymous | 4/21/2008, 7:10 pm EST

sy- she talks about paving paradise and putting up a parking lot…good tune…

MM | 4/21/2008, 8:28 pm EST

Fall on Me by REM (about Acid Rain)

The Dude | 4/21/2008, 10:29 pm EST

No “Burn One Down’ by Harper? Surprising. I vote Champagne Supernova. Always a good time.

Tiffany | 4/21/2008, 11:00 pm EST

How about the song That Green Gentlemen by Panic At The Disco. That could be a great green song for Earth Day!:)

ben | 4/22/2008, 12:33 am EST

things behind the sun by nick drake

Black Sabbath? | 4/22/2008, 12:39 am EST

Maybe the most environmentally unfriendly band, ever!

rebel | 4/22/2008, 9:10 am EST

“All I Can Do Is Write About It” by Lynyrd Skynyrd should have been on this list.

brent | 4/22/2008, 10:16 am EST

Burn One Down- Ben Harper (unbelievable you left this one off)
High- Feeder
Hits from the Bong- Cypress Hill
With a Little Help from My Friends- The Beatles
I Got Stoned and Missed It- Dr. Hook
High- Jimmie’s Chicken Shack
Oasis- Champagne Supernova

Comic Book Guy | 4/22/2008, 11:31 am EST

Yeah sy, big yellow taxi is a great tune. The Amy Grant version is sick. This list makes me want to punch a hippie and pour motor oil in a dolphin’s blow hole.
Worst rock list Ever.

Comic Book Guy | 4/22/2008, 11:35 am EST

Yeah Sy,
Big yellow taxi is a great tune. The Amy Grant Version is my fave. This list makes me want to punch a hippie and pour motor oil down a dolphin’s blow hole.
Worst Rock List Ever.

Michael Duffy | 4/22/2008, 1:06 pm EST

One of the first, Fresh Garbage by Spirit

matric | 4/22/2008, 3:02 pm EST

Pepper-Butthole Surfers
Metatron- The Mars Volta
In The Light- Zepplin
Only Shallow- My Bloody Valentine

Sherry | 4/22/2008, 5:21 pm EST

Sy – Who the heck ARE you? How can you not know that Joni Mitchell’s Big Yellow Taxi is THE eco-friendly song long before anyone was jumping on that bandwagon. It’s a great song on it’s own, by a genius songwriter/singer, but also it’s way green.

brntorun81 | 4/23/2008, 11:28 am EST

OASIS CHAMPAGNE SUPERNOVA
SKYNYRD ALL I CAN DO IS RIGHT IT IN A SONG
SABBATH SWEET LEAF

Jack | 4/23/2008, 11:39 pm EST

Hendrix – Are You Experienced?

Deep Purple – Smoke on the Water (about a hotel fire but just as easily about a bong)

ddot | 4/24/2008, 2:27 pm EST

natures way by spirt,i does think that be 2 by spirt

karan | 4/24/2008, 11:10 pm EST

i can’t believe you don’t have ‘because i got high’ by afroman… ya its corny, but i don’t there has been a greener song ever

karan | 4/24/2008, 11:11 pm EST

i can’t believe you don’t have ‘because i got high’ by afroman… ya its corny, but i don’t think that there has been a greener song ever

coasterman73 | 4/25/2008, 1:31 pm EST

Greenhouse Effect by Testament

frank | 5/7/2008, 9:41 am EST

what about weed war by kottonmouth kings

Jon | 8/8/2009, 10:26 am EST

“The Last Resort” (Eagles.)

“How the west was lost,” as Henley put it. Anyway, I like green songs, but it is important to remember that rock & roll is inherently bad for the environment. It owes its existence to oil. All that excess, all that touring – oil. Not good.

mamagrimm | 8/29/2009, 2:39 pm EST

Have you ever heard the lyrics for Big Yellow Taxi?

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