List them all: songs that use Romeo & Juliet as inspiration

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'Exit Music (For A Film)' - Radiohead
'Here In Heaven' - Sparks

Les centimètres énigmatiques (snoball), Sunday, 7 November 2010 15:50 (fourteen years ago)

Romeo Had Juliette - Lou Reed

gospodin simmel, Sunday, 7 November 2010 15:56 (fourteen years ago)

romeo - wipers
romeo & juliet - dire straits

naked human hands and a foam rubber head (contenderizer), Sunday, 7 November 2010 16:03 (fourteen years ago)

Don't Fear the Reaper - Blue Oyster Cult ("romeo and juliet / are together in eternity / we'll be just like they are" etc)

the tune is space, Sunday, 7 November 2010 16:09 (fourteen years ago)

The Reflections -- "(Just Like) Romeo and Juliet"

Brad C., Sunday, 7 November 2010 16:15 (fourteen years ago)

(Just Like) Romeo & Juliet - The Reflections

Number None, Sunday, 7 November 2010 16:15 (fourteen years ago)

Damn

Number None, Sunday, 7 November 2010 16:15 (fourteen years ago)

Taylor Swift, "Love Story"

jaymc, Sunday, 7 November 2010 16:30 (fourteen years ago)

Does the West Side Story score count?

swvl, Sunday, 7 November 2010 16:32 (fourteen years ago)

ha yes it does!

Les centimètres énigmatiques (snoball), Sunday, 7 November 2010 16:56 (fourteen years ago)

Prokofiev - Romeo and Juliet

iago g., Sunday, 7 November 2010 17:21 (fourteen years ago)

TS: Thin Lizzy's 'Romeo and The Lonely Girl' vs. Dire Straits' 'Romeo and Juliet'

(Note mention of Steve Forbert's "Romeo's Tune.")

xhuxk, Sunday, 7 November 2010 17:55 (fourteen years ago)

Basement Jaxx - Romeo

/does it count?/

Moka, Sunday, 7 November 2010 18:00 (fourteen years ago)

In Spanish and Portuguese:

Jarabe de Palo - Romeo y Julieta
Los Hermanos – Romeu e Julieta
Ratones Paranoicos - El Balcon de Julieta

And of course there's this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VMCiewc7mE

Moka, Sunday, 7 November 2010 18:07 (fourteen years ago)

Yves Simon - Au Pays des Merveilles de Juliette
Taylor Swift - Romeo Save Me
Aventura - Romeo y Julieta

Moka, Sunday, 7 November 2010 18:16 (fourteen years ago)

I somehow opened this thinking the majority would be "Love Story".

That's not a "laugh track", it's an audience and you're in it. (MintIce), Sunday, 7 November 2010 18:17 (fourteen years ago)

"The Bottom Line" by Big Audio Dynamite ...Romeo oh Romeo ya gotta have your say

Alex in NYC, Sunday, 7 November 2010 18:42 (fourteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afF3XHW7mZ4

xhuxk, Sunday, 7 November 2010 19:35 (fourteen years ago)

William Shatner - Romeo and Juliet, from The Transformed Man

skip, Sunday, 7 November 2010 19:48 (fourteen years ago)

Dunno how far the inspiration is supposed to be drawn here, but "Leader Of The Pack" fits in somewhat, doesn't it?

You're Twistin' My Melody Man! (Geir Hongro), Sunday, 7 November 2010 19:48 (fourteen years ago)

Dylan - Desolation Row

Darin, Sunday, 7 November 2010 19:48 (fourteen years ago)

Elvis Costello, "Mystery Dance"

Romeo was restless, he was ready to kill.
He jumped out the window cause he couldn't sit still.
Juliet was waiting with a safety net.
He said "Don't bury me cause I'm not dead yet".

Brad C., Sunday, 7 November 2010 19:53 (fourteen years ago)

one month passes...

Craig Armstrong - Balcony Scene

Moka, Friday, 10 December 2010 18:06 (fourteen years ago)


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