Parsons Playlists: Nature Metaphor

Welcome back to Parsons Playlists! Today’s playlist is curated by Music Library student assistant Georgia (class of 2025) which features some songs featuring songs that use nature as a metaphor.

Nature Metaphor

Trees

Don McLean – “Winter Has Me In Its Grip”

Brian Eno – “Golden Hours”

Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 – “Noble Experiment”

Nick Drake – “River Man”

Labi Siffre – “Cannock Chase”

Radiohead – “Bloom”

Stereolab – “Come and Play in the Milky Night (Demo)”

Mount Eerie – “Through the Trees Pt. 2”

800 cherries – “honeydew blue”

You’ll Never Get to Heaven – “Setting Sun”

Rufus Wainwright – “Poses”

Windsor For The Derby – “The Melody of a Fallen Tree”

Dave Bixby – “Morning Sun”

Linda Perhaps – “Morning Colors”

Animal Collective – “Winters Love”

Vashti Bunyan – “Diamond Day”

Novos Baianos – “Acabou Chorare”

Meat Puppets – “Up on the Sun”

of Montreal – “Sleeping in the Beetle Bug”

Midlake – “We Gathered in Spring”

Mitski – “The Frost”

Art Garfunkel – “Waters of March”

Angel Olsen – “Spring”

Here is a link to the whole playlist on YouTube: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLU94rco57ZeyAnA1CU_3oNnKxFq7NvBoy&si=6WeT7enIBOXllTtA

And here it is on Spotify:

Parsons Playlists: Spring Equinox

Welcome back to Parsons Playlists! Today’s playlist is curated by Music Library student manager Amy (class of 2025) and features songs to play this Spring.

Spring Equinox

cherry blossoms

Spring cannot come soon enough, and I’m so excited to celebrate the warmer days, blooming flowers, and sunny afternoons. Here are a few songs I think are the best to play to welcome in Spring.

Angel Olsen – “Spring”

Weyes Blood – “Wild Time”

John Denver – “Season Suite: Spring”

Simon & Garfunkel – “Keep the Customer Satisfied”

Paul Simon – “Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard”

Kacy Hill – “Damn”

Norah Jones – “Sunrise”

Rising Appalachia – “The Bones”

Gerry Rafferty – “Right Down the Line”

Talking Heads – “This Must Be the Place”

Simon & Garfunkel – “April Come She Will”

Nick Drake – “One of These Things First”

Fleetwood Mac – “Never Going Back Again”

The Crystals – “Then He Kissed Me”

The 1975 – “You”

Lake Street Drive – “Rich Girl”

beabadoobee – “Sunny day”

Jalen Ngonda – “If You Don’t Want My Love”

Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young – “Our House”

Joni Mitchell – “Both Sides Now”

Here is a link to the whole playlist on YouTube: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSwAwMtTLDwjC-sBH-eLuCC8sebunuhBM&si=-4ZvDYCUdBRZlDac

And here it is on Spotify: