Ballard-influenced music

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I have been reading a lot of JG Ballard and want to know has he inspired more acts than the ones i already know.

Search: Joy Division, the Normal, the Comsat Angels.

― Fergal Cussen (Burger), Saturday, 1 March 2003 20:19 (twenty-two years ago)

naturally, High Rise.

― mosurock (mosurock), Saturday, 1 March 2003 20:24 (twenty-two years ago)

Unless I'm very much mistaken, Crash is referenced on the sleeve of the Art Of Noise's Close To The Edit 12"

― Nathan Webb (Nathan Webb), Saturday, 1 March 2003 20:53 (twenty-two years ago)

''naturally, High Rise.''

damn you I wanted to say that ;-)

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Saturday, 1 March 2003 20:56 (twenty-two years ago)

Alanis

― Adam A. (Keiko), Saturday, 1 March 2003 21:09 (twenty-two years ago)

Throbbing Gristle

― Chris Barrus (xibalba), Saturday, 1 March 2003 21:34 (twenty-two years ago)

Manics - "Mausoleum" (on THB)

― Justyn Dillingham (Justyn Dillingham), Saturday, 1 March 2003 22:23 (twenty-two years ago)

"Me & J.G. Ballard" by the Dan Melchior Broke Revue (well ok, not really having anything to do with Ballard's writing, but it's a good song)

― Dave M. (rotten03), Saturday, 1 March 2003 22:25 (twenty-two years ago)

I was hoping this would be about Hank Ballard.

― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Saturday, 1 March 2003 23:31 (twenty-two years ago)

John Foxx is the clear winner in this category...

"my sex" or "underpass" could easily have been in 'the atrocity exhibition'

for example the line:
"my sex is invested in suburban photographs, skyscrapers, shadows on a car crash overpass"....c'mon even ballard isn't that ballardian

― geeg, Sunday, 2 March 2003 02:47 (twenty-two years ago)

gary numan's "cars," obviously. probably lots more gary numan, though i can't be sussed to think this through.

― Tad (llamasfur), Sunday, 2 March 2003 02:56 (twenty-two years ago)

I was hoping this would be about Russ Ballard. "On the Rebound" ruled. Alanis Morrissette and Daltrey on the McVicar soundtrack did not, although "Free Me" was a dope single.

― Neudonym, Sunday, 2 March 2003 03:41 (twenty-two years ago)

Russ Ballard was cool. Didn't he like write some songs for Nazareth or the Edgar Winter Band or something like that?

― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Sunday, 2 March 2003 03:48 (twenty-two years ago)

bowie "always crashing in the same car" &c.

― MatBo, Sunday, 2 March 2003 04:45 (twenty-two years ago)

sonny crockett was a russ ballard fan.

― keith (keithmcl), Sunday, 2 March 2003 04:53 (twenty-two years ago)

I was hoping this would be about fish ladders

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Sunday, 2 March 2003 05:03 (twenty-two years ago)

theres a female hair metal track (ealry 80's)called "pile up on the highway" by i forget who. escaping from a multicar pileup the protagonist (a foxy chick with blonde feathered hair) begins hitching out ("pile up on the highway, anyone going my way?") with barely contained sexual arousal.
its a favourite memory of mine. anyone know the track, have a copy?

― gaz (gaz), Sunday, 2 March 2003 08:55 (twenty-two years ago)

Hawkwind did a song of "HIGH RISE", written by the poet Robert Calvert. The version on the "PXR5" album is pretty good, but the one on the "Weird Tapes: Free Festivals" album is better.

"Flat block
Of two dimensions
Neon totem pole to the sky
Keeping scores of people stacked up so high Above the ground
But all they can hear is the sound
Of the wind in the antennae
It's a human zoo
A suicide machine"

― jovike, Sunday, 2 March 2003 10:53 (twenty-two years ago)

Ballard ripped off his whole shtick from r'n'r anyway

― dave q, Sunday, 2 March 2003 13:37 (twenty-two years ago)

"Everything is wrong since me and my baby parted
All day long I'm walkin' 'cause I couldn't get my car started
Laid off from job and I can't afford to check it
I wish somebody'd come along and run into it and wreck it"

― dave q, Tuesday, 4 March 2003 17:25 (twenty-two years ago)

six years pass...

http://open.spotify.com/user/davidm2000ad/playlist/0Y1dSLqN4R9ER0g6Rq28Mp

RIP

― DavidM, Monday, 20 April 2009 15:44 (sixteen years ago)

BBC is THERE

― The Devil's Avocado (Gukbe), Monday, 20 April 2009 16:13 (sixteen years ago)

Outside the cancerous city spreads
Like an illness
It's symptoms
In cars that cruise to inevitable destinations
Tailed by the silent spotlights
Of society created paranoia

(Anne Clark, Sleeper In Metropolis)

― no-nonsense, Monday, 20 April 2009 16:24 (sixteen years ago)

That playlist is good, but requires the addition of "Warm Leatherette" by the Normal.

― zero learnt from nero (Neil S), Monday, 20 April 2009 16:26 (sixteen years ago)

On my playlist? It's on there!

― DavidM, Monday, 20 April 2009 17:05 (sixteen years ago)

I like that BBC article, I didn't realise there was quite so much of his influence in music.

I was watching Empire of the Sun on Saturday night, by coincidence, and the Sci-Fi Lullabies sleeve absolutely leapt out when Jim discovers the crashed plane early on. There's no way that wasn't deliberate (and I suppose the title's a bit of a giveaway too)

― Ismael Klata, Monday, 20 April 2009 22:38 (sixteen years ago)

One thing I loved about that BBC article was finally learning where the SF Lullabies plane photo was taken, though I have since forgotten.

― The Real Dirty Vicar, Monday, 20 April 2009 22:58 (sixteen years ago)

KK Null - Terminal Beach

― Mr. Hal Jam, Tuesday, 21 April 2009 01:38 (sixteen years ago)

Exodus--The Atrocity Exhibit

― i, grey, Tuesday, 21 April 2009 05:55 (sixteen years ago)

Oops sorry DavidM too cursory a glance obviously!

― zero learnt from nero (Neil S), Tuesday, 21 April 2009 09:05 (sixteen years ago)

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