So no "that book by Nabokov"...I can't think of one right now, weirdly
― iago g., Friday, 1 October 2010 00:32 (fourteen years ago)
Destroyer - your blues (The Fall.or was it the band?)
The Fall - Bend Sinister (album included?)
― Zeno, Friday, 1 October 2010 00:37 (fourteen years ago)
"The Killer Inside Me", Dead Milkmen - Sri Lanka Sex Hotel
― kkvgz, Friday, 1 October 2010 00:37 (fourteen years ago)
The Catcher in the Rye - Belle & Sebastian - "Le Pastie De La Bourgeoisie" (gotta be some more from them)
― like a musical album. made by a band. (fucking in the streets), Friday, 1 October 2010 00:38 (fourteen years ago)
hold steady - hornets! hornets! (Lolita, not directly)
― Zeno, Friday, 1 October 2010 00:39 (fourteen years ago)
Story of the Eye in "The Past is a Grotesque Animal" (ecch)
― eatandoph, Friday, 1 October 2010 00:39 (fourteen years ago)
zeno! are either of those book titles? tsk tsk
― iago g., Friday, 1 October 2010 00:41 (fourteen years ago)
Tom Sawyer - Rush
― kornrulez6969, Friday, 1 October 2010 00:42 (fourteen years ago)
oh yeah, band names, please ("Past is a Grotesque Animal", what's that?)
― iago g., Friday, 1 October 2010 00:42 (fourteen years ago)
yes:
the fall - camusbend sinister - nabokov
― Zeno, Friday, 1 October 2010 00:42 (fourteen years ago)
xp
Of Montreal
― eatandoph, Friday, 1 October 2010 00:43 (fourteen years ago)
led zep - moby dick
― Zeno, Friday, 1 October 2010 00:44 (fourteen years ago)
thanks--i meant what is hold steady and what is hornets hornets...sometimes, alice, you make me wanna...!
― iago g., Friday, 1 October 2010 00:44 (fourteen years ago)
also destroyer - your blues - the plague by camues
― Zeno, Friday, 1 October 2010 00:45 (fourteen years ago)
hornets got Humbert Humbert in the lyrics, so it's Lolita, not directly
― Zeno, Friday, 1 October 2010 00:46 (fourteen years ago)
we're up to 9 if i can count all these fragmentary, poorly phrased responses. 10?
― iago g., Friday, 1 October 2010 00:46 (fourteen years ago)
but thanks for the responses, really!
― iago g., Friday, 1 October 2010 00:47 (fourteen years ago)
felt - sunlight bathed the golden glow - a season in hell by arthur rimbaud
― hypnopriapism (electricsound), Friday, 1 October 2010 00:47 (fourteen years ago)
So like, does the song have to actually mention the book (as a book)? Like, the one I picked the lyric is
Call the Sheriff a cocksucker/See if he's read "The Killer Inside Me".
Because you could also go down the route of songs that reference book titles that don't actually talk about reading (such as Metallica's For Whom the Bell Tolls, which loosely follows the concept of the Hemingway novel of the same name.
― kkvgz, Friday, 1 October 2010 00:49 (fourteen years ago)
does 'wuthering heights' count?
also, cannibal corpse - 'fucked with a knife' ("sense and sensibility")
― charlie h, Friday, 1 October 2010 00:49 (fourteen years ago)
If songs named for books (or movies based on them) count:
Sonic Youth - Mildred Pierce
― eatandoph, Friday, 1 October 2010 00:52 (fourteen years ago)
15. 1984 - David Bowie16. Animal Farm - The Kinks
― kornrulez6969, Friday, 1 October 2010 00:56 (fourteen years ago)
I think that the spirit of the thread is to identify songs where the lyric specifically mentions the name of a book, as in the thing that is read/has been written. I probably wouldn't count the Rush song, for instance, since they are singing about the character and not the thing with words and pages and stuff. (Same with the multitudes of Lolita songs.) But hey, that's just me.
― henry s, Friday, 1 October 2010 01:00 (fourteen years ago)
Sorry, I myself did not phrase my thread title precisely enough. I was looking for book titles that are mentioned by name--not references to books, but the exact title--in the song, but i think if the book title is the song title, that's good too! thanks and sorry again
― iago g., Friday, 1 October 2010 01:11 (fourteen years ago)
Yes! So Tom Sawyer counts, beeeatch! Suck on that fool!!!!!!!
― kornrulez6969, Friday, 1 October 2010 01:13 (fourteen years ago)
the book title is The Adventures of Tom Sawyer sorry u lose
― zvookster, Friday, 1 October 2010 01:15 (fourteen years ago)
also, cannibal corpse - 'fucked with a knife' ("sense and sensibility")― charlie h, Friday, October 1, 2010
― charlie h, Friday, October 1, 2010
I'm sure Jane Austen would've been really flattered to be namechecked in the song "fucked with a knife"!
― iago g., Friday, 1 October 2010 01:15 (fourteen years ago)
she would have been flattered if it were true.
but, does 'wuthering heights' count?:
― charlie h, Friday, 1 October 2010 01:22 (fourteen years ago)
the book title is The Adventures of Tom Sawyer sorry u loseOh man. That blows.
Now, what about instances where the lyric contains the complete book title, but isn't necessarily referring to the book? Some examples would be:
Breathe - Pink Floyd (Run Rabbit Run dig that hole...)Gates Of Eden - Bob Dylan (Of war and peace the truth just twists...)
― kornrulez6969, Friday, 1 October 2010 01:25 (fourteen years ago)
The Mountain Goats' song "Cubs in 5" wishes grand things for The Canterbury Tales.
― Spectrist, Friday, 1 October 2010 01:27 (fourteen years ago)
is mentioning Momus here cheating
― third-strongest mole (corey), Friday, 1 October 2010 01:33 (fourteen years ago)
Hedda Gabler - John Cale
It's a play that's been published as a book
― kornrulez6969, Friday, 1 October 2010 01:34 (fourteen years ago)
I suppose it's cheating if a book was named after a song...
― rhythm fixated member (chap), Friday, 1 October 2010 01:43 (fourteen years ago)
The Sirens of Titan - Al Stewart
― dsb, Friday, 1 October 2010 01:44 (fourteen years ago)
3 Minute Rule - Beastie Boys
― Spectrist, Friday, 1 October 2010 01:51 (fourteen years ago)
Sorry; the book is "On the Road."
― Spectrist, Friday, 1 October 2010 01:52 (fourteen years ago)
itt: indie preciousness
― The Managing Director of Being (nakhchivan), Friday, 1 October 2010 01:54 (fourteen years ago)
re story of the eye
# of Montreal's song "The Past Is a Grotesque Animal" references both author Georges Bataille and the book.# The song "Bluestocking" by Momus also references the author and the book.# Eyehategod references this book in a song on their 1993 album, Take as Needed for Pain.
thank god for eyehategod
― The Managing Director of Being (nakhchivan), Friday, 1 October 2010 01:59 (fourteen years ago)
she would have been flattered if it were true.but, does 'wuthering heights' count?:― charlie h, Friday, October 1, 2010 1:22 AM
― charlie h, Friday, October 1, 2010 1:22 AM
I'm as thick as a brick...you made that up? very funny--sick, but funny
― iago g., Friday, 1 October 2010 02:08 (fourteen years ago)
"Rocky Racoon" mentions Gideon's Bible
(I don't care if mentioning the Bible here is cheating)
― V79, Friday, 1 October 2010 02:16 (fourteen years ago)
Was just going to post this:
Does the Bible count? 'Cos, like, a million songs to thread (Rocky Racoon, Locomotive Breath, etc.)
― henry s, Friday, 1 October 2010 02:17 (fourteen years ago)
Elvis Costello - Pony Street (Das Kapital)
― kornrulez6969, Friday, 1 October 2010 02:20 (fourteen years ago)
Stranger in a Strange Land gets a namecheck in We Didn't Start the Fire, but what doesn't.
― Spectrist, Friday, 1 October 2010 02:21 (fourteen years ago)
_The Sound of Waves_ by Yukio Mishima on 'This Lamb Sells Condos' by Final Fantasy
― silence is a rhythm too (Turangalila), Friday, 1 October 2010 04:13 (fourteen years ago)
"Forbidden Colors" by Mishima as well in the David Sylvian/Ryuichi Sakamoto song of the same name.
― silence is a rhythm too (Turangalila), Friday, 1 October 2010 04:15 (fourteen years ago)
Soul on Ice (A Tribe Called Quest's "Electric Relaxation")
― mod future admin gang ban them all (The Reverend), Friday, 1 October 2010 04:22 (fourteen years ago)
the Roots album titles to thread
― mod future admin gang ban them all (The Reverend), Friday, 1 October 2010 04:23 (fourteen years ago)
For some reason all I can think of is newspapers . . . "News Of The World" in The Pretenders' "Back On The Chain Gang," and the Times and Daily News in Billy Joel's "New York State of Mind." Book titles are escaping me.
― a seminar on ass play for kids or something (Phil D.), Friday, 1 October 2010 05:05 (fourteen years ago)
40. Van Morrison - Dharma Bums - "On Hyndford Street" cool blog post here http://www.litkicks.com/BeatsInRock
― nope (Zachary Taylor), Friday, 1 October 2010 06:31 (fourteen years ago)