My flatmate bought a book of Audens poetry last week, and pointed out that The Pastels had stolen quite a bit of the poem "If I Could Tell You" for their song of the same name. We tried to think of others, but i could only think of Yoko Ono pinching "Who Has Seen the Wind?" from Christina Rossetti.So, others then?
― zappi, Thursday, 11 September 2008 09:55 (sixteen years ago)
There's hundreds of 'em, if not thousands
― Tom D., Thursday, 11 September 2008 09:57 (sixteen years ago)
Pearls Before Swine - Footnote (Auden)Pearls Before Swine - Epitaph (AE Housman)Pearls Before Swine - Sonnet #65 (Shakey)
― Tom D., Thursday, 11 September 2008 10:00 (sixteen years ago)
The Verve - History (William Blake)
― The Real Slim Whitman (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 11 September 2008 10:18 (sixteen years ago)
Slapp Happy - Mr Rainbow (Rimbaud)
― Wrinkled Aeneas (Tom D.), Thursday, 11 September 2008 10:20 (sixteen years ago)
The Doors - End of the Night (Hey it's Blake again I'm detecting a theme here)
― The Real Slim Whitman (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 11 September 2008 10:21 (sixteen years ago)
Syd Barrett - Golden Hair (James Joyce)Incredible String Band - Douglas Traherne Harding (Thomas Traherne)
― Wrinkled Aeneas (Tom D.), Thursday, 11 September 2008 10:26 (sixteen years ago)
Propaganda: Dream Within a Dream (E A Poe)Blue Aeroplanes: Journal of an Airman (W H Auden again)
― anatol_merklich, Thursday, 11 September 2008 10:50 (sixteen years ago)
The Beach Boys - The Beaks of Eagles (Robinson Jeffers) <-------------- load of rubbish
― Wrinkled Aeneas (Tom D.), Thursday, 11 September 2008 11:01 (sixteen years ago)
Fugs to thread!
― Mike McGooney-gal, Thursday, 11 September 2008 11:36 (sixteen years ago)
Oh yes!
― Wrinkled Aeneas (Tom D.), Thursday, 11 September 2008 11:36 (sixteen years ago)
Lindsay Buckingham - Gift of Screws (Emily Dickinson)
― dlp9001, Thursday, 11 September 2008 11:53 (sixteen years ago)
Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich - Legend of Xanadu (Coleridge)Rush - Xanadu (Coleridge)Frankie Goes to Hollywood - Welcome to the Pleasuredome (Coleridge)
― Wrinkled Aeneas (Tom D.), Thursday, 11 September 2008 12:12 (sixteen years ago)
Iron Maiden-Rime of the Ancient Mariner (Coleridge)
― Bill Magill, Thursday, 11 September 2008 14:16 (sixteen years ago)
"Slouching Toward Bethlehem," Joni Mitchell, Night Ride Home--"Second Coming," (Yeats)
― ellaguru, Thursday, 11 September 2008 15:39 (sixteen years ago)
divine comedy, lucy (wordsworth)
― ledge, Thursday, 11 September 2008 15:59 (sixteen years ago)
The Byrds - I Come and Stand At Every Door (Nazım Hikmet)
― Wrinkled Aeneas (Tom D.), Thursday, 11 September 2008 16:09 (sixteen years ago)
Chumbawamba: "Rage" - lyrics are an excerpt from Dylan Thomas's "Do Not Go Gentle into That Sweet Night".
― Tuomas, Thursday, 11 September 2008 16:10 (sixteen years ago)
John Cale - Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
― Wrinkled Aeneas (Tom D.), Thursday, 11 September 2008 16:13 (sixteen years ago)
Haha, sorry, it's indeed "good night", not "sweet night".
― Tuomas, Thursday, 11 September 2008 16:16 (sixteen years ago)
http://img95.imageshack.us/img95/1667/robinwilliamson031wn7.jpg
― Wrinkled Aeneas (Tom D.), Thursday, 11 September 2008 16:17 (sixteen years ago)
Sinéad O'Connor, "Troy": borrows liberally from WB Yeats, "No Second Troy"
― rogermexico., Thursday, 11 September 2008 16:19 (sixteen years ago)
Farmer in the City!
― Vaguely Threatening CAPTCHAs, Thursday, 11 September 2008 20:16 (sixteen years ago)
Sly Stone's "We Can Do It," from Ain't But the One Way, is stolen almost entirely from a Nikki Giovanni poem, I think of the same name.
And then there's that Ambrosia song that borrows a stanza from T.S. Eliot's "Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock," but I can't think of which one it was ...
― Joseph McCombs, Friday, 12 September 2008 05:16 (sixteen years ago)
Dust - fleetwood mac (Rupert Brooke)
― velko, Friday, 12 September 2008 05:43 (sixteen years ago)
The Fall - Dog is Life/Jerusalem (W. Blake again)
― milling through the grinder, grinding through the mill (S-), Friday, 12 September 2008 06:13 (sixteen years ago)
Your Attention Please - Scars (Peter Porter)
― Ward Fowler, Friday, 12 September 2008 06:15 (sixteen years ago)
Björk - Sun in my mouth (E. E. Cummings)Astor Piazzolla & Ney Matogrosso - 1964 (Jorge Luis Borges)
― Moka, Friday, 12 September 2008 07:20 (sixteen years ago)
Billie Holiday - Strange Fruit (Abel Meeropol)
― Moka, Friday, 12 September 2008 07:22 (sixteen years ago)
Electrelane - "The Valleys" (Siegfried Sassoon)
― etc, Friday, 12 September 2008 07:22 (sixteen years ago)
If you must describe in prose and poems, the words you use should be your ownDon't plagiarize or take on loan
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 12 September 2008 11:35 (sixteen years ago)
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v165/noodle_vague/gina_mckee_gallery_1.jpg
― Rhythm of Cutlery (Noodle Vague), Friday, 12 September 2008 11:39 (sixteen years ago)
The Godz - Crusade (Bertolt Brecht)
― Tom D (Tom D.), Thursday, 18 September 2008 17:05 (sixteen years ago)
Ambrosia also did Jabberwocky, didn't they?
― nickn, Thursday, 18 September 2008 23:53 (sixteen years ago)
Antony - The Lake (Poe)
― casino royale with cheese (Roz), Friday, 19 September 2008 14:40 (sixteen years ago)
TMBG - I Should Be Allowed to Think (Ginsberg)
― aconner2, Friday, 19 September 2008 19:38 (sixteen years ago)
richard buckner - the hill - edgar lee masters
― bnw, Friday, 19 September 2008 19:43 (sixteen years ago)