GeoRock!
10November 16, 2012 by EK Ohio
I’ve been working on this for a while, a playlist of geology related/inspired/themed/named songs and artists for a little playlist. It surely isn’t the be all/end all of geoRock, but hey, no playlist ever is. If you do track down all the songs, they will fit nicely into a normal CD-R, but for our purposes, I’ve linked to YouTube for your listening enjoyment (sorry about any ads).
GeoRock
- Eruption – Van Halen
- Megalodon – Mastodon
- Ring of Fire – Johnny Cash
- Lava – The B-52s
- If You Want to Rock, Go to the Quarry – Last Hard Men
- Earthquake – Labrinth featuring Tinie Tempah
- Will Do – TV on the Radio
- Volcano – Presidents of the United States of America
- Tidal Wave – Apples (In Stereo)
- Missing Link – Dinosaur Jr. and Del the Funky Homosapien
- Pompeii – Sleater-Kinney
- Volcanoes – Islands
- Radioactivity – Kraftwerk
- Mammoth – Interpol
- Dinosaur Act – Matthew Sweet
- Metal Guru – T Rex
- Mica – Mission of Burma
- RUT! – B for Brontosaurus
- Ice Age – Joy Division
- Mutual Core – Bjork
- Coal – Michael Penn
- Diamonds and Gold – Tom Waits
Feel free to add suggestions of other GeoRock songs in the comments.
Ain’t No Mountain High Enough” from Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell and “Continental Drift” from Rolling Stones
“Heart of Gold”-Boney M; “The World Is Stone”-Cyndi Lauper
Utterly unknown, Grupo ‘MU’ from Asturias/Spain, ‘Bajo el Volcán’ (Under the Volcano), but way cool! Definitely in my Musical Hot Lava List!
In Dutch this one’s called Dancing on the Volcano, ‘Dansen op de vulkaan’, by De Dijk (the Dike)
Another one to consider: “Lava Love” by Maika Makovsky…
Grateful Death: Fire on the Mountain! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KJKiCGjHZk
Bauhaus: King Volcano: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rdnodEzOXI
Seaside shuffle by terry dactyl & the dinosaurs
Another earthquake-related song:
“Valdivia 1960″, Schwenke y Nilo
Lyrics:
http://www.schwenkeynilo.scd.cl/cancionero/disco2/letras/valdivia1960.html
“Dance On A Volcano” by Genesis – one cannot ignore a song that has the line “and the lava’s the lover who licks your boots away”
Eric Johnson – “Cliffs of Dover”
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OI9qcTwRN4&w=640&h=480%5D
How about “Landslide” by Stevie Nicks?
Here’s one I’d never heard before that just played at IZ: “Cinder Cone,” by Floating Action. (This is more raw, doesn’t sound as good as version that just played here.) http://floatingactionmusic.bandcamp.com/track/cinder-cone