Unrest in the Forest...

[Zzzptm]

Fauna and Flora - Living nature, animals and plants etc whether real or fictional.

That's the subject for this thread, and to kick it off, I gotta use the track that gives us the thread title:

Rush "Trees"

I remember hearing it the first time and loved the story... dude, it's about TREE REVOLUTION!!! 

[KiloDeltaCharlie]

I don't have a complete list yet, but I have one ready to go...

Rush - Dog Years

I probably wouldn't have gone with The Trees, it's fine but they have better!

This is from the vastly underrated Test For Echoes (1996), a light-hearted look at life through a dog's eyes!

[Vyn]

Let's keep the mini-theme within a theme going:

Rush with By-Tor and The Snow Dog! Those animals make an appearance in a future song by those crazy talented Canadians.

I think By-Tor is more of a kind of beast-thing rather than a canine, but the Snow Dog...well, he'd be a dog all the way!

[Zzzptm]

YEAH! RUSH!

Jethro Tull will likely be also playing at this festival...

[Charger]

I've been away for a bit so sorry for being late to the party here...

Hmm this is going to require some thinking....

But I'll kick things off with a track that did not quite fit to my Horror listing.

So this is a track about a wolf that once was a man...

MIDNIGHT DREAMS by Solitude Aeturnus

[KiloDeltaCharlie]

Inspired by Chargers pick, my 2nd pick is...


Motorhead - In The Year Of The Wolf

From the fabulous album Inferno... and this is one of the best songs on it.

[Charger]

For my second pick I'll go with a Black Sabbath tune that is about a mythical creature that flies in the night...or simply about an owl...take your pick.

[Vyn]

This: Propagandhi “March of the Crabs"

 

[KiloDeltaCharlie]

Not been round much this weekend so I'm a little late with my 3rd pick...

Hawkwind - Into the Woods

A take on the Hansel and Gretel story or similar!

If you go into these woods you're in for a big demise!

[Charger]

For my 3rd one I'm gonna go for some DOOOM!


This is about a Serpent

[KiloDeltaCharlie]

Pick number 4

Iced Earth - Order of the Rose

From 2006 album Framing Armageddon. As it's a concept album I'm not quite sure how this stands on its own, but I rather like it still as I do the whole album.

[Vyn]

That Iced Earth release is a good one!

Number 4:

The Cult sing about some dangerous flora on their late 1980's release, "Wild Flower":

[Zzzptm]

I am behind three days... but I have the first of my makeup work ready to go.

I'll start off by saying I recently did "Poultry Week" on The Magic Time Warp Show. 36 songs about Duck, Turkey, and Chicken. Mostly chicken. So I got animal songs, for sure!

But the folks here like their 70s rock and metal, so I wondered if Deep Purple did any nature stuff and came up blank. I thought of Iron Maiden, but those guys sing mostly about other topics and HOLD ON WAIT A MINUTE...

Maiden sang about The Beast. Not just *any* beast, *THE* BEAST!!!

Sure, there's devils and stuff in the song, but it's about *** T H E ___ B E A S T ***

And as we all know, beasts are animals!

[Zzzptm]

Speaking of beasties... there's a song from Blue Oyster Cult about a wee little lizard that had a bit of fun in Japan...

HOLY SHIT! IT'S GODZILLA!

[Charger]

For my 4th pick I'll have some rockin' occult metal by SAVAGE MASTER!

This one has Blood On The Rose but it also has some Wolves!