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
Don McLean – “Winter Has Me In Its Grip”
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 – “Noble Experiment”
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”
Windsor For The Derby – “The Melody of a Fallen Tree”
Linda Perhaps – “Morning Colors”
Animal Collective – “Winters Love”
Novos Baianos – “Acabou Chorare”
Meat Puppets – “Up on the Sun”
of Montreal – “Sleeping in the Beetle Bug”
Midlake – “We Gathered in Spring”
Art Garfunkel – “Waters of March”
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: