We spontaneously decided to build a collaborative playlist in my Plant Ecology class. If you have any fun plant/ecology song suggestions, please share them!
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Definitely check out “Rhododendron” by Hooray for the Riffraff, lots of fun plants mentioned in that one, and the lyrics are oddly consistent with Rhododendron’s “into the tropics” evolutionary radiation
Bill Callahan - Sycamore
Jens Lekman - Maple Leaves
Pulp - Weeds / Weeds II
English Teacher - Nearly Daffodils
Half Man Half Biscuit - Stuck Up A Hornbeam
White Stripes - Blue Orchid
Bowerbirds - Bur Oak
Maybe plant adjacent, but I loved playing Season of the Sticks in my Plant Tax class this fall! Especially relevant as I pushed them to get their plants collected before first frost and all the deciduous leaves dropped (winter comes early up here in Maine!) 🥶🥶🥶
Chaos ahead: At some point you'll have to do "Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology)". And I don't see getting through a semester on plants without something from Little Shop of Horrors.
Other plant-themed songs:
"The Trees" - Rush
(cont)
"Autumn Leaves" (I'm partial to the Sinatra one)
"Sweet Leaf" - Black Sabbath (about a, uh, specific leaf)
"Fields of Gold" - Sting
"Willow, Weep for Me" (I like Billie Holiday's)
"Leaves that are Green" - Simon and Garfunkel
"Forget Me Nots" - Patrice Rushen (a must imo)
You know, I hadn't really gotten to the level of matching songs to the themes of each class... I was hoping to show my students that I'm cool but am now realizing I might do the exact opposite 🤓
We don't do r vs. K selection, but this is a fun suggestion anyways!
Where the Wild Roses Grow - Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
Eucalyptus - The National
Cherry Tree - The National
Sunflower - Rex Orange County
Weed Party - Band of Horses
Ecology - Over the Ocean
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"C is for Conifers" is a fun, catchy song about my kind of trees. 🌲
https://youtu.be/FijQbZeTGNc?feature=shared
- Photosynthesis, by Saba
- Rainforest, by Noname
- Butterfly, by UMI
- Metamorphosis, by Peter $un
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3KCl6_MlAs&ab_channel=MartinDerbyshire
Blue Flowers - Dr. Octagon
- Capullito de Alhelí
- Flor de Azalea
- Naranjo en flor
https://youtu.be/xik-y0xlpZ0?feature=shared
Also “Rattlin bog” is currently on our 1 year olds playlist…
Jens Lekman - Maple Leaves
Pulp - Weeds / Weeds II
English Teacher - Nearly Daffodils
Half Man Half Biscuit - Stuck Up A Hornbeam
White Stripes - Blue Orchid
Bowerbirds - Bur Oak
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6SbPv1Fu80
Other plant-themed songs:
"The Trees" - Rush
(cont)
"Sweet Leaf" - Black Sabbath (about a, uh, specific leaf)
"Fields of Gold" - Sting
"Willow, Weep for Me" (I like Billie Holiday's)
"Leaves that are Green" - Simon and Garfunkel
"Forget Me Nots" - Patrice Rushen (a must imo)
"Edelweiss" (from Sound of Music)
"In Bloom" - Nirvana
"Forest" - System of a Down
We don't do r vs. K selection, but this is a fun suggestion anyways!
Eucalyptus - The National
Cherry Tree - The National
Sunflower - Rex Orange County
Weed Party - Band of Horses
Ecology - Over the Ocean