Songs that reference books
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danny la rouge
Ninja swords for all disabled people
You'll burn for that!stavros said:Anything featuring Qur'an Carpenter.
spanglechick
High Empress of Dressing Up
The Divine Comedy (itself a reference, of course) - neil Hannon seems rather literarily obsessed:
Something for the weekend - the line "something in the woodshed" -> "Cold Comfort Farm" by Stella Gibbons)
Three Sisters - title -> Chekhov
The Secret Garden - title -> Frances Hodgson Burnett
Theme From Casanova (From the album Casanova) -> "The Story of my Life" Giacomo Casanova
Woman of the World - the whole lyric is about the character Holly Golightly -> "Breakfast at Tiffanys" by Truman Capote
In and Out of Paris and London - the "...far, far better..." bit from "A Tale of Two Cities" by Dickens
Charge - "cannon to the left, cannon to the right" -> "Charge of the Light Brigade by Tennyson
I'm sure he has others too...
Something for the weekend - the line "something in the woodshed" -> "Cold Comfort Farm" by Stella Gibbons)
Three Sisters - title -> Chekhov
The Secret Garden - title -> Frances Hodgson Burnett
Theme From Casanova (From the album Casanova) -> "The Story of my Life" Giacomo Casanova
Woman of the World - the whole lyric is about the character Holly Golightly -> "Breakfast at Tiffanys" by Truman Capote
In and Out of Paris and London - the "...far, far better..." bit from "A Tale of Two Cities" by Dickens
Charge - "cannon to the left, cannon to the right" -> "Charge of the Light Brigade by Tennyson
I'm sure he has others too...
Baron Samedi
My eyes are black holes
Can we have names of authors in song lyrics?
Baron Samedi
My eyes are black holes
'and in Brendan Behan footsteps we danced up and down the sreets' - this friday in empseys if your in T
Donna Ferentes
jubliado
Ezra Pound and TS Eliot
Fighting in the captain's tower
Fighting in the captain's tower
rekil
to menny cranks
Thy Damnation Slumbereth Not - Half Man Half Biscuit. A character in Tess Of D'Urbervilles goes around painting it everywhere. HMHB have a few Thomas Hardy references,"mulch of the barton", is another I think.
The first line in That Petrol Emotion's tune Genius Move is 'Slaughterhouse number 5'.
Bertie's Brochures by Fatima Mansions is about Brinsley MacNamara's The Valley Of The Squinting Windows.
Tender Is the Night by Blur, and A Rebours by The fucking Libertines. Great books, shit songs.
The first line in That Petrol Emotion's tune Genius Move is 'Slaughterhouse number 5'.
Bertie's Brochures by Fatima Mansions is about Brinsley MacNamara's The Valley Of The Squinting Windows.
Tender Is the Night by Blur, and A Rebours by The fucking Libertines. Great books, shit songs.
Jesus Lizard - Rodeo in Joliet 
Baron Samedi
My eyes are black holes
Two on one album.
Join Hands by Siouxsie has teh Lords Prayer and Poppy Day which has the 'in Flanders fields ' poem as it's lyrics
Join Hands by Siouxsie has teh Lords Prayer and Poppy Day which has the 'in Flanders fields ' poem as it's lyrics
D'wards
IT'S YOUR DECISION DANIEL
Led Zeppelin - Ramble On
"T'was in the darkest depths of Mordor
I met a girl so fair,
But Gollum, and the evil one crept up
And slipped away with her"
Y'all know which book that is referencing (see all the other Led Zep songs in this thread - obsessed they were, obsessed)
"T'was in the darkest depths of Mordor
I met a girl so fair,
But Gollum, and the evil one crept up
And slipped away with her"
Y'all know which book that is referencing (see all the other Led Zep songs in this thread - obsessed they were, obsessed)
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
Do albums that reference books count?
Was thinking of "Christy Malry's Own Double Entry" by Luke Haines.
Was thinking of "Christy Malry's Own Double Entry" by Luke Haines.
Baron Samedi
My eyes are black holes
Heard on the radio last night that 'Piper at th egates of dawn' is the title of the first chapter of 'Wind in the Willows '
not sure whether sympathy for the devil directly references bulgakov, but it was certainly inspired by the novel.Donna Ferentes said:
erm... bomb the bass' bug powder dust has something to do with the naked lunch.
and, according to wikipedia, steely dan take their name from a dildo mentioned in the novel!
