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Amie - Damien Rice"Amie, come sit on my wall and read me the Story of O".
"Kerouac" - Willie Alexander and the Boom Boom Band
"Bukowski" by Modest Mouse"Two Against Nature" by Steely Dan ('Against Nature' by J.K. Huysmans)
Steely Dan is a reference to a dildo in 'Naked Lunch' by William Burroughs.
The Doors is a reference to 'The Doors of Perception" by Aldous Huxley.
From 'Horses' by Patti Smith:And I fill my nose with snow and go Rimbaud,
Go Rimbaud, go Rimbaud,
Led Zeppelin were notorious for placing many Lord of the Rings references in their songs.The Battle of Evermore (The Ringwraiths ride in black)
Rambling On (In the darkest depths of Mordor, I met a girl so fair. But Gollum and the Evil One crept off away with her)
To name a couple....
"Neal and Jack and Me" by King Crimson."Jack and Neal/California Here I Come," by Tom Waits.
"Lead us not into Penn Station," by Professor and Maryann.
'We Call Upon the Author' - Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds.
Christopher wrote: "Led Zeppelin were notorious for placing many Lord of the Rings references in their songs.
The Battle of Evermore (The Ringwraiths ride in black)
Rambling On (In the darkest depths of Mordor, I me..."
I never knew that...how fun, I'll be listening more carefully from now on!
The Battle of Evermore (The Ringwraiths ride in black)
Rambling On (In the darkest depths of Mordor, I me..."
I never knew that...how fun, I'll be listening more carefully from now on!
Every Day I Write The Book - Elvis Costello
The Dead Milkmen -- "Sri Lanka Sex Hotel""Let's call the sheriff a cocksucker / See if he's read The Killer Inside Me"
Crash Test Dummies - Afternoons and Coffeespoons
“Someday I’ll have a disappearing hairline.
Someday I’ll wear pajamas in the daytime.
Oh, afternoons will be measured out –
Measured out, measured with –
Coffeespoons and T. S. Eliot.”
“Someday I’ll have a disappearing hairline.
Someday I’ll wear pajamas in the daytime.
Oh, afternoons will be measured out –
Measured out, measured with –
Coffeespoons and T. S. Eliot.”
Thought of another....Metallica seemed to be big Lovecraft fans (The Thing That Should Not Be and The Call of Cthulu are two of their song titles)Also their song "One" is based off of "Johnny Got His Gun"
*snaps fingers* How could I forget Jefferson Airplane's "White Rabbit" as well?
Hookah smoking Caterpillars anyone?
Ooh, what about Nirvana's "Pennyroyal Tea"?"Give me a Leonard Cohen afterworld so I can sigh eternally."
Great minds, Harry...great minds.
Don't Stand So Close To Me - The Police
“Loose talk in the classroom –
To hurt they try and try.
Strong words in the staffroom –
The accusations fly
It’s no use. He sees her.
He starts to shake and cough
Just like the old man in
That book by Nabokov."
(The book is Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov)
“Loose talk in the classroom –
To hurt they try and try.
Strong words in the staffroom –
The accusations fly
It’s no use. He sees her.
He starts to shake and cough
Just like the old man in
That book by Nabokov."
(The book is Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov)
Nice one, Amelia! I use Nabokov as a stumping word in Spontuneous
I'm almost positive that the song "Rosemary" by The Grateful Dead is referencing Hawthorne's "Rappaccini's Daughter"Swath of heaven, a breath of cologne
*her mirror* was a window she sat quite alone
All around her the garden grew
Scarlet and purple and crimson and blue
She came and she looked and at last went away
The garden was sealed when the flowers decayed
On the wall of the garden, a legend did say
"No one may come here, since no one may stay"
Amelia wrote: "Don't Stand So Close To Me - The Police“Loose talk in the classroom –
To hurt they try and try.
Strong words in the staffroom –
The accusations fly
It’s no use. He sees her.
He starts to shake an..."
I was going to post this one with a few of the others but I decided to see who else would come up with them. This is a fun thread - Amelia! :)
Dylan - "You're Gonna Make me Lonesome When You Go"Situations have ended sad
Relationships have all been bad
Mine’ve been like Verlaine’s and Rimbaud
The greatest song ever about punctuation also throws in a mention of 'English Dramas".'Oxford Comma" by Vampire Weekend
Who gives a fuck about an Oxford comma?
I've seen those English dramas too
They're cruel
So if there's any other way
To spell the word
It's fine with me, with me
De Kift - Knoeck http://youtu.be/FoZV9Ct0sog
If you don't understand Dutch you'll have to trust me when I say most of the lyrics come straight from the Dutch translation of Waiting for Godot. It begins and ends with Lucky's 'thinking' monologue.
"In aanmerking genomen dat uit de recente werken van Knipper en Wattmann blijkt dat er een persoonlijke God bestaat Quaquaquaqua met een witte baard Quaqua buiten tijd en ruimte die ons vanuit de grote hoogten van zijn goddelijke apathie zijn goddelijke athambie zijn goddelijke afasie liefheeft op enkele uitzonderingen na men weet niet waarom maar dat komt nog wel en naar het voorbeeld van de goddelijke Miranda lijdt met hen die zijn men weet niet waarom maar men heeft de tijd in de kwellingen in het vuur waarvan het vuur de vlammen voor de korte tijd dat het nog duurt en wie kan het betwijfelen tenslotte de balken in brand steken dat wil zeggen de hel opstuwen naar de wolken zo blauw vandaag nog en vredig zo vredig van een vredigheid die niet lang duurt maar daarom niet minder welkom is maar laten we niet op de zaken vooruitlopen en in aanmerking genomen dat van de andere kant als gevolg van de onvoltooide onderzoekingen laten we niet op de zaken vooruitlopen van de onvoltooide maar..."
"Inderdaad mensen. Hardop. Hij kan hardop denken. Vroeger kon hij zelfs heel mooi denken, urenlang kon ik naar hem luisteren... Nu... Nou ja, daar is niks meer aan te doen. Vindt u het goed dat hij voor ons denkt of heeft u liever dat hij voor ons danst? Ik heb liever dat hij voor ons danst, dat is veel vrolijker. Vroeger danste hij de farandole, de almee, de branle, de fandango, en zelfs de horlepijp. Zonder hem zou ik nooit iets anders gedacht en nooit iets anders gevoeld hebben dan die lage dingen die te doen hebben met mijn beroep van... dat is niet belangrijk. Het schone, de genade, de laatste waarheden waren voor mij ontoegankelijk en daarom heb ik een knoeck genomen."
"Wat is een knoeck?"
"Zijn jullie niet van hier? Zijn jullie wel van deze eeuw? Vroeger had men narren. Nu heeft men knoecks. Althans, zij die het zich kunnen veroorloven. Ik heb een knoeck genomen."
"Wat is een knoeck?"
"Dat zeg ik net. Dat komt omdat hun geheugen niet meer zo goed is. Mensen, ik ben blij dat u er bent. Heus, oprecht blij. Ziet u, de weg is lang wanneer men onderweg is gedurende... twintig jaar, ja, dat klopt, twintig jaar achter elkaar. En ziet u, mijn vrienden, wij kunnen niet lang zonder het gezelschap van onze gelijken, zelfs als de gelijkenis maar onvolkomen is. En daarom zullen wij, als u het goed vindt, een ogenblik bij u blijven, voor we het
wagen verder te gaan. Prettige avond. Onvergetelijk. En het is nog niet afgelopen. ’t Schijnt van niet. Het begint pas. Het is verschrikkelijk mooi. Net als in het theater. Net als in het circus."
"Dozy! Tennis! Stenen! De schedel! Verdomme!"
Paulusma - Ridin' the true companionI'd rather stroll with my true companion
I'd rather read Kerouac
I'm better off in a pinball wizard
Than get caught in the trap
Or is it my imagination?
Indigo Girls - Virginia Woolf10000 Maniacs - Hey Jack Kerouac
Caged Bird - Alicia Keys
A Rose For Emily - The Zombies
Wuthering Heights - Kate Bush
Stranger than Fiction - Bad Religion - mentions Kerouac, Woolf (or Wolfe? not sure), Vonnegut, Hemingway
Sylvia Plath - Ryan Adams
1984 - Bowie
The Raven- Lou Reed
We Didn't Start the Fire - Billy Joel
And of course Moxy Fruvous - My Baby Loves A Bunch of Authors: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9F_XH...
Oh, and whichever Tori Amos song has her and Neil hangin' out with the Dream King. It was from Little Earthquakes.
Barb wrote: "I believe that would be Tear in Your Hand."Thanks!
Do band names as literary references count?Billy Pilgrim?
The Ellen James Society?
Red Sammy?
June Star?
Rush, "The Wreckers"""This Daphne Du Maurier novel Jamaica Inn describes these people called 'The Wreckers' on the coast of the Cornwall in Britain." he explained. "They would not would not only plunder shipwrecks, but they would actually put up a fake light and attract the ships in a storm to crash on their shores so they could loot them. It's just a shocking example of inhumanity, and it happens to be a true story. I wove it all of that into the story of this album." Neil Peart, to Rolling Stone.
Christopher wrote: "Led Zeppelin were notorious for placing many Lord of the Rings references in their songs.
The Battle of Evermore (The Ringwraiths ride in black)
Rambling On (In the darkest depths of Mordor, I me..."
"Misty Mountain Hop"
The Battle of Evermore (The Ringwraiths ride in black)
Rambling On (In the darkest depths of Mordor, I me..."
"Misty Mountain Hop"
Sarah Pi wrote: "Do band names as literary references count?
Billy Pilgrim?
The Ellen James Society?
Red Sammy?
June Star?"
Totally count. "The Ellen James Society", Love Garp!
Billy Pilgrim?
The Ellen James Society?
Red Sammy?
June Star?"
Totally count. "The Ellen James Society", Love Garp!
The Ellen James Society were a 90s Atlanta band. I thought they were great.
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Paperback Writer - The Beatles