The Backroom 4.22.25

Earth Day, The Musical? Songs to celebrate our plant and lament pollution. If the dying planet needs CPR, apply Concerted Political Resistance.

  • Planetary Citizen — John McLaughlin & Mahavishnu Orchestra
  • Hand Me Down World — The Guess Who
  • Big Yellow Taxi (live) — Joni Mitchel with Tom Scott & the L.A. Express
  • Pollution — Tom Lehrer
  • Pollution — Bo Diddley
  • Solution for Pollution — Charles Wright & The Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band
  • Dirty Water — The Standells
  • Clean Water — Dr. John
  • Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology) — Marvin Gaye
  • Mother Nature — The Temptations
  • Of The Earth — Tower of Power
  • (The World Is a Bit Under the Weather) Doodle Oop — The Meters
  • Planet Earth — William Shatner (f. Steve Howe)
  • Burn On — Randy Newman
  • Nature’s Way — Spirit
  • Ecology Song — Stephen Stills
  • Mother Earth — Cyndi Lauper (f. Allen Toussaint)
  • Last Lonely Eagle — New Riders of the Purple Sage
  • A Day in the Life of a Tree — The Beach Boys
  • Our World — Blue Mink
  • Mother Earth — Tom Rush
  • The Air That I Breathe — The Hollies
  • The Air I Breathe — The O’Jays
  • Despite Repeated Warnings — Paul McCartney
  • The Warnings — David Axelrod
  • Song For a Dying Planet — Joe Walsh
  • Paradise — John Prime