What are the literary equivalents of various artists, albums, or songs?

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Pretty much any Jandek album = http://images.amazon.com/images/P/067973452X.01._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-dp-500-arrow,TopRight,45,-64_AA240_SH20_SCLZZZZZZZ_.gif

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Take it away.

― Mickey (modestmickey), Monday, 2 January 2006 02:58 (twenty years ago)

Er, sorry for that huge pic

― Mickey (modestmickey), Monday, 2 January 2006 02:58 (twenty years ago)

Wrong and Wrong.

Aphex Twin's Selected Ambient Works Volume II is the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus though.

― I Am Sexless and I Am Foul (noodle vague), Monday, 2 January 2006 03:06 (twenty years ago)

Metal Machine Music = Tender Buttons
Closer = Catcher in the Rye

― The Brainwasher (Twilight), Monday, 2 January 2006 03:11 (twenty years ago)

High Fidelity Soundtrack = High Fidelity

― Tape Store (Tape Store), Monday, 2 January 2006 03:23 (twenty years ago)

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00002JV45.01._SCMZZZZZZZ_.jpg = http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0811204839.01._BO2-59_AA240_SH20_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

― Wub-Fur Internet Radio (wubfur), Monday, 2 January 2006 20:39 (twenty years ago)

Jean Rhys, Good Morning Midnight - anything by The Sound

― flowersdie (flowersdie), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 10:14 (twenty years ago)

By Grand Central Station I sat Down and Wept - Viva Hate, Morrissey

― flowersdie (flowersdie), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 10:26 (twenty years ago)

Let's be obvious: Crash - Warm leatherette

― Jean Tully de Molinaire, Tuesday, 3 January 2006 22:46 (twenty years ago)

"Sonny's Blues" by James Baldwin = "Straight, No Chaser" by Monk

― silence dogood (catcher), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 00:07 (twenty years ago)

William Carlos Williams = Jens Lekman

― silence dogood (catcher), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 00:36 (twenty years ago)

Arcade Fire - Neighbourhood #1 = Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Haruki Murakami

― pinder (pinder), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 01:12 (twenty years ago)

Sixteen Horsepower=Cormac McCarthy, specifically Blood Meridian

― Morley Timmons (Donna Brown), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 17:50 (twenty years ago)

Lick My Decals Off, Baby (Captain Beefheart) = A Confederacy Of Dunces (John Kennedy Toole)

Germ Free Adolescents (X-Ray Spex) = The Edible Woman (Margaret Atwood)

― Myonga Von Bookworm (Myonga Von Bontee), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 22:40 (twenty years ago)

The Frogs = Naked Lunch (Burroughs) ?

― Tape Store (Tape Store), Thursday, 5 January 2006 01:48 (twenty years ago)

h.p. lovecraft = h.p. lovecraft

okay, not really. maybe the musical equivalent of h.p. lovecraft would be jandek? maybe if jandek were a little more surreal. maybe it is nurse with wound or something. i dunno. pick some arbitrary album that makes you feel bummed.

― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Thursday, 5 January 2006 07:04 (twenty years ago)

http://home.swipnet.se/~w-58871/cd/sleeves/085.jpg = http://www.satanicrituals.com/hcbooks/michelleremembers.jpg

― latebloomer: Grab my puffy nipples and make a wish. (latebloomer), Thursday, 5 January 2006 07:50 (twenty years ago)

http://www.ginosprio.com/_images/Mark+E+Smith_bySprio.jpg

ihttp://yalepress.yale.edu/yupbooks/images/full/0300082096.jpg

― Dr Benway (dr benway), Thursday, 5 January 2006 14:55 (twenty years ago)

Alright then,
= http://www.library.otago.ac.nz/exhibitions/Book_Jackets/gfx/large/14lewis.jpg

― Dr Benway (dr benway), Thursday, 5 January 2006 14:57 (twenty years ago)

Surely Wittgenstein requires a more heavyweight equivalent than Aphex Twin? Something serialist maybe.

― Ogmor Roundtrouser (Ogmor Roundtrouser), Thursday, 5 January 2006 15:09 (twenty years ago)

one year passes...

Frank Zappa = Thomas Pynchon

Zaniness and wild virtuosity rooted in a monstrous command of the instrument and medium. Respected and cited more than actually played/read, so they have that in common as well.

― hearditonthexico (rogermexico), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 04:18 (nineteen years ago)

Arcade Fire - Neighbourhood #1 = Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Haruki Murakami
-- pinder (pinde...), January 4th, 2006.

Dammit, I was excited about reading this.

Lester's Psychotic Rxns=Raw Power obv.

― Hoosteen (Hoosteen), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 04:38 (nineteen years ago)

Colin Wilson is in every way The Fall in writer form.

― Jawbone (Jawbone), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 05:14 (nineteen years ago)

Harrison's All Things Must Pass = Tennyson's All Things Must Die

― Cunga (Cunga), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 05:45 (nineteen years ago)

Arcade Fire - Neighbourhood #1 = Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Haruki Murakami

lol they fuckin wish

― ZR (teenagequiet), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 05:48 (nineteen years ago)

I wrote a piece about how Thom Yorke's Eraser makes a great soundtrack to the Harlin Ellison PC game I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream. It isn't a piece of literature, but it's based on one...

― Mordechai Shinefield (Mordy), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 21:00 (nineteen years ago)

Gates Of Delirium was conceived as a music version of War And Peace. I've not actually got around to the book yet, but that's what Jon Anderson claims.

― You've Got Scourage On Your Breath (Haberdager), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 21:08 (nineteen years ago)

i saw the title of this post and thought "that's a dumb idea." then i clicked on it and realized i started it a year ago.

― critique de la vie quotidienne (modestmickey), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 21:11 (nineteen years ago)

you're a dumb idea!

― VALLEY OF BLIZZARDZ (Mr.Que), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 21:12 (nineteen years ago)

... was that supposed to zing?

― critique de la vie quotidienne (modestmickey), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 21:15 (nineteen years ago)

Syd Barrett = Lewis Carroll

― David Fernig (dave f), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 02:41 (nineteen years ago)

David Fernig = Charles Pooter

― Boom Dershowitz (noodle vague), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 02:43 (nineteen years ago)

2112 = Ayn Rand --Duh!!

― Matt Olken (Moodles), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 05:18 (nineteen years ago)

I wrote a piece about how Thom Yorke's Eraser makes a great soundtrack to the Harlin Ellison PC game I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream. It isn't a piece of literature, but it's based on one...

-- Mordechai Shinefield (lubbarluba...), January 9th, 2007.

Most disconcerting computer game ever in life.

― Hoosteen (Hoosteen), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 05:37 (nineteen years ago)

Boom Dershowitz = Anne Rice

― David Fernig (dave f), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 05:46 (nineteen years ago)

Actually, my current reading project is 19th-century poet Gerard Manley Hopkins, on whom I am writing a dissertation. His arrhythmical blasts of awed and coiled turmoil share many similarities with the music of, as I believe, Xiu Xiu. I'm no great fan of the latter group, but from what I've heard, the method of creating distorted, strangely-stressed, damaged yet tangible statements of art is consistent to both. Moreover, both have a primary subject of frustration, confession and awe to battle within their brains: for GMH it is God, his Catholic God, and for Xiu Xiu it is (homo)sexual desire. The two, one might argue, are in all seriousness closer than you might first suspect.

― You've Got Scourage On Your Breath (Haberdager), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 06:31 (nineteen years ago)

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