Forests: July 12, 2011

Continuing with our month of themes focusing on the natural features of the Kootenays here in BC, this week's theme is Forests.

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One of the reasons people come visit the Kootenays is that they're tired of concrete streets and civilized gardens.

Editors - "I Want a Forest" - In This Light and on This Evening (2009)

The Fiery Furnaces - "Evergreen" - EP (2005)

Let's check out a variety of evergreen tree found in these here forests.

Boats - "Arms As Straight As Cedar Trees" - Intercontinental Champion (2007)

Ha Ha Tonka - "Thoreau in the Woods" - Novel Sounds of the Nouveau South (2009)

The woods are often a place to find and foster love.

Stars - "The Woods" - Heart (2003)

A.A. Bondy - "I Can See the Pines Are Dancing" - When the Devil's Loose (2009)

Old Man Luedecke - "Sad As a Forest" - Proof of Love (2008)

However, forests can also be menacing places.

Logan Whitehurst and the Junior Science Club - "The Forests Are Plotting Their Revenge" - Very Tiny Songs (2008)

Dead Kennedys - "Forest Fire" - Plastic Surgery Disasters (1982)

Hellblinki - "Don't Go Down to the Woods Tonight" - These Bubbles Come from Ants (2010)

Let's continue in a scary direction.

Benjy Ferree - "In the Woods" - Leaving the Nest (2006)

Ohbijou - "The Woods" - Swift Feet for Troubling Times (2006)

Blood Meridian - "In the Forest, Under the Moon" - Kick Up the Dust (2006)

We end with a classic forest song.

The Cure - "A Forest" - Seventeen Seconds (1980)