Green Grass of Tunnel explained

"Green Grass of Tunnel" is a song by Icelandic band Múm. It was released as a single from their 2002 album Finally We Are No One, on FatCat Records on 29 April 2002.^[1] It peaked at number 90 on the UK Singles Chart. Pitchfork listed it 484th on its countdown of the Top 500 tracks of the 2000s.^[2]

Music video

The music video was created in computer graphics by Semiconductor's Joe Gerhardt and Ruth Jarman.^[3] It follows the view of a flock of birds, and presents a lighthouse, presumably very similar to the house in which they stayed. Brad Osborn has noted how the craggy, icy peaks depicted in the video are linked to the pentatonic leaps in the lead vocal melody, and also to the cold, metallic timbres used in the recording.^[4]

Track listing

The promo CD includes "Green Grass of Tunnel" (video version).

Cover version

The song was covered by British Sea Power on their 2005 single "It Ended on an Oily Stage".

Notes and References

1. Web site: FatCat Records : Releases . . 1 February 2009 . https://web.archive.org/web/20081115184734/http://fat-cat.co.uk/fatcat/release.php?id=51 . 15 November 2008 . dead.
2. Web site: The 200 Best Songs of the 2000s . . 17 August 2009 . 18 August 2009 . 9 May 2014 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140509163614/http://pitchfork.com/features/staff-lists/7685-the-top-500-tracks-of-the-2000s-500-201/ . dead.
3. Web site: Múm "Green Grass Of Tunnel" Fatcat Records . . 24 January 2009 . https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211218/l5hBkQT3-C8 . 18 December 2021 . live.
4. Hearing Heima: Ecological and Ecocritical Approaches to Meaning in Three Icelandic Music Videos . Osborn . Brad . 2013 . Analyzing the Music of Living Composers . 232–234 . Cambridge Scholars Press . 13 September 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150924133002/http://www.cambridgescholars.com/analyzing-the-music-of-living-composers-and-others-15 . 24 September 2015 . dead.
5. Web site: Official Singles Chart on 5/5/2002 . . 13 November 2024.