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Playlist: Colors of the Moon

By | The Y! Music Playlist Blog – Tue, Oct 13, 2009 3:10 PM EDT

There have been thousands of songs recorded about the moon. So many in fact, that you could easily put together a series of moon-centric compilations, and all of them could be jam-packed with timeless tracks. Here at the Y! Radish we have previously published a playlist of Moon Songs and a playlist of Acoustic Moon Songs.  But for this playlist of moon songs I've limited the selections to only include those tracks that have the name of a color in the song title. The moon can take on different meanings based on its hue and this playlist includes 15 different songs that describe the moon as seen in 15 different colors. I've chosen to use any particular color only one time, so many worthy songs had to be left off the final list. But what would you include that I have not?

Playlist: Colors of the Moon

   1. Yellow Moon - The Neville Brothers 

   2. Pink Moon - Nick Drake 

   3. Kiko And The Lavender Moon - Los Lobos

   4. Silver Moon - Blitzen Trapper 

   5. Orange Moon - Erykah Badu 

   6. Red Moon - The Walkmen 

   7. White Moon - White Stripes 

   8. Black Moon - Emerson, Lake & Palmer 

   9. The Night Of The Purple Moon - Sun Ra 

   10. Violet Moon - Rebecca A. 

   11. If The Moon Turns Green - Billie Holiday 

   12. Big Brown Moon - Dodgy 

   13. When My Blue Moon Turns To Gold Again - Elvis Presley 

   14. Ochre Moon - Jeff Platz  

   15. Blue Moon Revisited (Song For Elvis) - Cowboy Junkies 

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