Pet Sounds
25 Great Songs for Bird Lovers
Music to celebrate our feathered friends, the descendants of dinos, residents of blue skies and tree tops
Published in
4 min readMar 10, 2020
Birds are a reliable source of poetic imagery, representing beauty, freedom, and escape just for starters. So it’s no surprise our feathered friends appear in some of the coolest songs in existence. This playlist is a rollercoaster — or should I say, swan dive — of emotions, with songs you’ll know and songs that might surprise you. Enjoy!
1: “Bird of Prey” — Pixies
When you so dearly love a band’s older material it can be hard to listen to anything new, but Bird of Prey, from their 2019 album Beneath The Eyrie, generates much of the chaos and menace of classic Pixies tracks.
2: “Birdhouse in Your Soul” — They Might Be Giants
Compulsively upbeat with a hilarious quantity of key changes (eighteen!), “Birdhouse in Your Soul” belongs to the genre I call “Songs That…
