Music in Brett Easton Ellis books

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Inspired by the Huey Lewis thread (Huey Lewis: The Joke Nobody Got), how's about one exploring the music referenced/ corrupted/ slaughtered in Brett Easton Ellis's novels?

In particular, anyone know anything aboutthe significance of the Wings song that's employed to trigger the destruction of the aeroplane towards the end of Glamorama?

Or, anyone wish to rhapsodise at extraordinary length about Against All Odds by Mr Collins?

― M Carty (mj_c), Thursday, 13 November 2003 16:07 (twenty-two years ago)

Talking Heads in Rules of Attraction, played by the suicide girl

Billy Idol at the dance ij same book

endless references to X in Less Than Zero

hmmm....

― enoughrope, Thursday, 13 November 2003 16:18 (twenty-two years ago)

Against All Odds is nothing without the video. The seminal synergy of the film clips with the dazzling talent of P-Daddy Collins' vocal perfomance elicits the devastating crescendo of emotion often associated with greek tragedy and pro-sports. Jeff Bridges as Collins' doppleganger, failing with his seduction of Rachel Ward, is a presentation of folding multiple levels onto one another by finding the creases of their similarities, is a dynamic that few short of Fellini and Truffaut have mastered with a sympathetic eye and ear for the audience. The cavorting on the sand. We know Phil wants to be there. He has been there. Rachel Ward was his. The grisled, bearding face of Jeff Bridges, weathered with anger and frustration. Wards' tanned body and impossible breasts cut against Phil's ruptured heart vocal stylings. They were one with the tropic of cancer sun! But now she's left him, and he may never win her back. "Against the odds. Indeed.

― Michael G, Thursday, 13 November 2003 17:30 (twenty-two years ago)

bret easton ellis got young blount into x and elvis costello!!!

― cinniblount (James Blount), Thursday, 13 November 2003 17:31 (twenty-two years ago)

I like the bit in American Psycho where Bateman says "Mick Jagger...yeah I know who he is...'just another night, just another night...'"

― dave q, Thursday, 13 November 2003 17:33 (twenty-two years ago)

How about in Rules of Attraction where "the new Talking Heads record" is playing everywhere anybody goes?

― antexit (antexit), Thursday, 13 November 2003 19:58 (twenty-two years ago)

((How about in Rules of Attraction where "the new Talking Heads record" is playing everywhere anybody goes?))

Same in American Psycho. It's mention about 3 times in the first 60 pages.

― Sasha (sgh), Friday, 14 November 2003 01:29 (twenty-two years ago)

I like how Bono is the devil in 'American Psycho'

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 14 November 2003 02:24 (twenty-two years ago)

Bono is the devil in real life.

He really is the most evil man in the world. Edge is a dick as well.

― Sasha (sgh), Friday, 14 November 2003 03:15 (twenty-two years ago)

"bearding" must be one of the best words I've ever heard!

― M Carty (mj_c), Friday, 14 November 2003 10:05 (twenty-two years ago)

five years pass...

not quite the thread description, but does anyone know who this version of Colors is by or where it can be found from the Rules of Attraction splitscreen scene, which I still think is pretty kickass so you can all just stfu.

― Plaxico (I know, right?), Sunday, 19 April 2009 03:25 (sixteen years ago)

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