iTunes Word Search: "Tree"

In honour of all the saplings that have been destroyed recently -- and of all those trees I saw over the weekend, and of all those leaves people will be raking up soon -- here are the "Tree" songs that showed up on my iPod yesterday:

1. Above the Treeline (Jane Siberry)
2. Birds in the Trees (The Residents)
3. Boy in a Tree (Nits)
4. Gazebo Tree (Kristin Hersch)
5. Hairy Trees (Goldfrapp)
6. Living in a Tree (Adrian Belew)
7. Marble Tulip Juicy Tree (Ween)
8. Red Maple Tree (Field Trip)
9. Shimmy Tree (Deerfoot)
10. Sitting in the Palmtree (ABBA)
11. Sitting Under a Tree (Wild Carnation)
12. Tree is Falling (Nits)
13. The Treehouse (The Cheebacabra)
14. Treehugger (Edward Ka-Spel)
15. Underneath the Big Green Tree (Stan Ridgway)
16. With Used Furniture We Make a Tree (Nits)

These songs tend to use trees as markers, containers, and supporters. There's the usual absurdist stuff, but also some ecology and -- from Jane Siberry -- a glorious song about the North.

I'm also noticing that The Residents ALWAYS show up in these lists, as do Nits. They must have song titles with a wide variety of nouns in them. And I think that I'm showing a great ABBA-loyalty by having "Sitting in the Palmtree" on my iPod.