Songs · Skopia

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4 songs

Big Yellow Taxi

1970 · From Ladies of the Canyon

Mitchell threw back a Hawaii hotel curtain, saw mountains above a parking lot, and wrote pop's sunniest protest song.

★ 7.1

1989 · From Doolittle

Gil Norton brought in two cellos and two violins, and Black Francis rhymed ocean pollution with borrowed numerology.

★ 7.0

1996

Glazer put the set on wheels and never moved the floor; four VMAs followed, Video of the Year among them.

★ 6.0

1986

Conceived as an acid rain protest, the melody rewritten before release; Stipe called it a general oppression song.

★ 6.0