Songs that reference books

[Baron Samedi]

'The red shoes' another Kate Bush ( Christ almighty woman make your own songs up ) .

 

[Brockway]

What about 'Cloudbusting'?

That's about Wilhelm Reich. And in the video Donald Sutherland has a book sticking out of his pocket which was the biography of Reich written by his son.

 

[northernhord]

Hawkwind - Farenhiet 451 (dont remember the Authors name)

 

[Baron Samedi]

'Hiroshima Mon Armour' - Ultravox - it was a book as well as a brillaint film.

 

[twistedAM]

There was an obscure German band called Buddy & the Huddle who did a soundtrack album to Cormac McCarthy's "Suttree"

Also, the band Blood Meridian are named after another book by McCarthy.

 

[Augie March]

Hawkwind - Farenhiet 451 (dont remember the Authors name)

Ray Bradbury, which reminded me of this one too:

Something Wicked This Way Comes - Siouxsie & The Banshees

 

[danny la rouge]

Dan - allusions are allowed too. My mistake for not making it clearer in the initial post.

Oh, OK.

Anyway, I'll have Bob Dylan's (Just Like) Great Expectations Blues:

Hey, evidently Pip is in the marsh and the mists,
No, there ain’t no prison ship can be tougher than this,
And just like a little boy who came into some unexplained money,
I’m looking for a reason you chose me,
So tell me please honey,
Is that wedding cake fresh, or should I talk to my attorney?

 

[exosculate]

Have you forgotten The Police and Sting (No peace be upon him)

The book by Nabokov - Don't stand so close to me

Not to mention Jung - Synchronicty

Or

Ghost in the Machine - Koestler


He liked books and nose jobs that fellow.

 

[northernhord]

Killing Joke - Aha (Aha by Alistair Crowley)
Killing Joke - Brighter than a thousand suns LP (Crowley, Barowski, Eliphas levi, Coleman et el)
Rudimentri Peni - death Church Lp (H. P Lovecraft)

 

[Haller]

A couple of ropey oldies:

'Who would have guessed Milton's Paradise Lost would have been found?'
- from 10cc's 'The Dean and I'

'To Be Or Not To Be' - BA Robertson

 

[Haller]

David Bowie - Big Brother

Also:

1984
Strangers When We Meet
Absolute Beginners
The Man Who Sold The World (from Robert Heinlein's The Man Who Sold The Moon)

 

[danny la rouge]

He liked books and nose jobs that fellow.

He liked people to think he liked books.

 

[souljacker]

Iron Maiden had a few I think. The Ryhme of the Ancient Mariner, Murder in the Rue morgue and the Phantom of the Opera

 

[Termite Man]

The Fall are named after The Fall !

 

[Chorlton]

Fairy Tale of NY was named after the J. P. Donleavy story

 

[Donna Ferentes]

Have you forgotten The Police and Sting (No peace be upon him)

The book by Nabokov - Don't stand so close to me

Not to mention Jung - Synchronicty

Or

Ghost in the Machine - Koestler


He liked books and nose jobs that fellow.

I also think he has a song which references the start of The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock, does he not?

 

[Baron Samedi]

Don't be ridiculous. And this thread's not about literary merit. Got any more?

Just as well with that one

 

[Baron Samedi]

Sympathy for the Devil - The Master and Margarita

Coming up for air ( Pnentration) - George Orwell

 

[Donna Ferentes]

Sympathy for the Devil - The Master and Margarita

Really?

 

[badseed]

Nephilim - Moonchild

Didn't Lloyd Cole base his career on this kind of thing?

 

[billy_bob]

He liked people to think he liked books.

What's with the past tenses? Is there some Sting-related news we should be popping corks for?

 

[Reno]

Not a particular book, but feminist author Marilyn French gets name checked by Abba in The Day Before You Came. The song is probably the bubble-gum pop equivalent of an Ingmar Bergman film:

...I must have read a while
the latest one by Marilyn French
or something in that style...

 

[Dubversion]

What's with the past tenses? Is there some Sting-related news we should be popping corks for?

Oh Sting, where is thy death!!!

 

[milesy]

limahl - "the never ending story"

 

[Reno]

limahl - "the never ending story"

I hadn't thought of title songs from adaptations of books. That means most Bond films would qualify.

 

[Badger Kitten]

Charlotte Sometimes by Penelope Farmer ( The Cure: Charlotte Sometimes - the lyrics are almost totally lifted quotes from this famous and chilling children's book/ghost story/time travel yarn)

'Police Don't Stand so close to me' - Lolita

( ''It's no use, he sees her, he starts to shake he starts to cough. Just like that old man in that famous book by Nabakov)

edited: sorry, someone else got there first

 

[danny la rouge]

What's with the past tenses? Is there some Sting-related news we should be popping corks for?

Should be, yes. If there was any justice in the world...

 

[exosculate]

Should be, yes. If there was any justice in the world...

I think past tense is acceptable, as what he produces now is something less edible than dog shit.

 

[hiccup]

I think past tense is acceptable, as what he produces now is something less edible than dog shit.

Does he cook now as well?

 

[exosculate]

Does he cook now as well?

You could call it food. If you were anorexic.