The first band that springs to mind is of course LZ
zep's best hobbit jam
But what else is there? The only others I know off the top of my head are the Pearls Before Swine song and the Nimoy one.
― pun lovin criminal (polyphonic), Thursday, 13 December 2012 23:51 (twelve years ago)
Blind Guardian to thread.
― Bound by Habitrails (J3ff T.), Thursday, 13 December 2012 23:58 (twelve years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XC73PHdQX04
― If I was a carpenter, and you were a douchebag (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 13 December 2012 23:58 (twelve years ago)
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_8-9TjeeuxLU/ScWLmTxg_yI/AAAAAAAAANE/c3KdUOcbLeM/s400/o906308%5B1%5D.jpg
Bo Hansson, 1972
― nerve_pylon, Thursday, 13 December 2012 23:58 (twelve years ago)
http://thecimmerian.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/nightfall-in-middle-earth.jpg
Concept album about the Silmarillion!
― Bound by Habitrails (J3ff T.), Friday, 14 December 2012 00:00 (twelve years ago)
Caught red-handed! Let's try that again:
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-0-oGj07cLGQ/T2IqV8laI0I/AAAAAAAAB6E/NcRfxhey5Po/s1600/Nightfall+in+Middle-Earth.jpg
― Bound by Habitrails (J3ff T.), Friday, 14 December 2012 00:02 (twelve years ago)
'Rivendell' - Rush'Nimrodel/The Procession/The White Rider' - Camel
― The Jupiter 8 (Turrican), Friday, 14 December 2012 00:11 (twelve years ago)
Everything by Silmaril and Marillion? (Cheating, I know, sorry.)
― emil.y, Friday, 14 December 2012 00:43 (twelve years ago)
is that dr. evil hanging out in the upper-right hand corner of that 'music inspired by lotr' cover?
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Friday, 14 December 2012 00:58 (twelve years ago)
The entire Ottawa side of the Ottawa / Jihad split LP. Tolkien hardcore onslaught.
― Oblique Strategies, Friday, 14 December 2012 01:00 (twelve years ago)
3 Inches Of Blood - "Destroy The Orcs"
― sleeve, Friday, 14 December 2012 01:07 (twelve years ago)
big up that bo hansen album
― ❏❐❑❒ (gr8080), Friday, 14 December 2012 01:09 (twelve years ago)
Here is my playlist rough draft
http://grooveshark.com/playlist/Hobbiton/80672417
― pun lovin criminal (polyphonic), Friday, 14 December 2012 02:24 (twelve years ago)
(not actually about LOTR)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nmc1bjLKVyQ
― Liechtenstein's very first biracial citizen (get bent), Friday, 14 December 2012 02:26 (twelve years ago)
Really? Dang, it seemed like it was.
― pun lovin criminal (polyphonic), Friday, 14 December 2012 02:26 (twelve years ago)
actually i haven't heard it in like a decade, obv i'm talking out my butt
― Liechtenstein's very first biracial citizen (get bent), Friday, 14 December 2012 02:28 (twelve years ago)
Sally Oldfield's first album The Water Bearer had a three part epic about the elves, "three elven kings under the sky" etc.
― Tim F, Friday, 14 December 2012 03:00 (twelve years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KidMy5mW3ZQ
― Chris S, Friday, 14 December 2012 03:16 (twelve years ago)
also, see:
http://www.last.fm/tag/tolkien+black+metal
― Chris S, Friday, 14 December 2012 03:18 (twelve years ago)
and http://www.last.fm/tag/tolkien%20metal
― Chris S, Friday, 14 December 2012 03:21 (twelve years ago)
that Sally Oldfield stuff is great except for the lyrics which near kill it
― A fat, shit, jittery fraud of a messageboard poster (Noodle Vague), Friday, 14 December 2012 03:26 (twelve years ago)
Pearls Before Swine, "Ring Thing"
― Tom D is secretly an important person (Tom D.), Friday, 14 December 2012 11:31 (twelve years ago)
Pretenders "Brass In Pocket"
― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Friday, 14 December 2012 16:29 (twelve years ago)
Pretenders, "Precious"
― Gollum: "Hot, Ready and Smeagol!" (Phil D.), Friday, 14 December 2012 16:33 (twelve years ago)
Pretenders, "My City Was Gone" is about the scouring of the Shire iirc.
(I like this idea that we can create a narrative whereby Pretenders were a Tolkein concept band.)
― Gollum: "Hot, Ready and Smeagol!" (Phil D.), Friday, 14 December 2012 16:34 (twelve years ago)
Glass Hammer's first album was about Lord of the Rings and it is spectacularly awful.
― frogbs, Friday, 14 December 2012 16:49 (twelve years ago)
this far without any mention of summoning? no better band about this than summoning
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Friday, 14 December 2012 16:51 (twelve years ago)
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-r_Vh41OuXbk/TnpjEMcKO2I/AAAAAAAAAh8/xmospNP79j4/s1600/495146.jpg
http://theredhippieteenager.blogspot.com/2011/09/gandalf-grey-grey-wizard-am-i-1972.html
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 14 December 2012 17:44 (twelve years ago)
The Hobbits - Down to Middle Earth
― a Christmas .gif for you from (seandalai), Friday, 14 December 2012 18:06 (twelve years ago)
The Smoke "Hobbit Symphony"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysEl-ZhXqTE
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 14 December 2012 18:17 (twelve years ago)
Btw, how do u embed youtube vids these days? Ever since they changed the site all my links show up only as links.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 14 December 2012 18:18 (twelve years ago)
Glass Hammer's first album was about Lord of the Rings
same deal with their fifth album
http://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/glass_hammer/the_middle_earth_album/
don cherry liked him some tolkien
http://www.last.fm/music/Don+Cherry/_/Gandalf%27s+Travels
so did leonard nimoy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGF5ROpjRAU
an italian band, Ainur, has three (!) concept albums about the silmarillion
http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=2886
Mostly Autumn did a tolkien concept album
http://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/mostly_autumn/music_inspired_by_the_lord_of_the_rings/
and let us never forget Summoning precursors, The Nazgul
http://rateyourmusic.com/artist/the_nazgul
― reggie (qualmsley), Friday, 14 December 2012 22:33 (twelve years ago)
oh, and there's also this rick wakeman thing
http://rateyourmusic.com/release/comp/rick_wakeman/songs_of_middle_earth__inspired_by_the_lord_of_the_rings/
and jon anderson singing in elvish!
http://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/the_fellowship/in_elven_lands/
― reggie (qualmsley), Friday, 14 December 2012 22:36 (twelve years ago)
Chicago - Hard Hobbit To Break
― Albert Crampus (NickB), Friday, 14 December 2012 23:41 (twelve years ago)
(chuckle)
― I'm okay, Eurogay (Paul in Santa Cruz), Friday, 14 December 2012 23:46 (twelve years ago)
Led Zeppelin, but I dont know which songs. I heard that Marc Bolan was obsessed with Tolkien but I dont know his music well enough to say if he wrote songs about that.
Greenslade did a LotR album I'm sure, and a discworld one too!
I'm not sure how I feel about this sort of thing, I heard there is a metal album based on Hodgson's House On The Borderland, one of my favorite books but I'm afraid it might taint my love of the book somehow. I like Lovecraft and many bands inspired by him, but actual songs about his work leave me a bit uncertain that it really works that well. I like "Ancient Ones" by Morbid Angel but I think a soundtrack approach is generally best if you want to make an album about a book.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, 15 December 2012 16:13 (twelve years ago)
Hey what's up RAG!!!??!?!?!?!??!
The Zep ones are:
"The Crunge": About the Fellowship's attempts at locating The Bridge at Khazad-Dum."The Ocean": About the Elves vanquishing Middle Earth to sail off to the Grey Havens."Kashmir": About the special wool that Bilbo's sweaters are made of.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Saturday, 15 December 2012 16:22 (twelve years ago)
A childhood pal o mine was half of this duo:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2f86R_Z0_xI
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Saturday, 15 December 2012 16:59 (twelve years ago)
Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli) says "Hey what's up RAG!!!??!?!?!?!??!"
Do I know you?
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, 15 December 2012 18:08 (twelve years ago)
Sucklord's "Sauron Speaks" mixtape:
http://www.undergroundhiphop.com/the-super-sucklord-sauron-speaks-fat-beats-from-the-dark-tower/SUCK02CD/
― los blue jeans, Sunday, 16 December 2012 20:27 (twelve years ago)
RAG!!!
You don't remember me? Ahhh man, well... let's catch up soon #bro!
ALB~~
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Sunday, 16 December 2012 21:04 (twelve years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBWGjT-XV6g
― reggie (qualmsley), Tuesday, 18 December 2012 12:40 (twelve years ago)
A guy I knew from my scout troop and high school put out a self-released Christian hip hop tape in 1992 or 1993 that featured a couplet ending in "...just like the hobbit bilbo baggins". I wish I could remember the rest. I've never been a big fan of Tolkien, but some of my hippie friends just fell out when they heard that line.
― how's life, Tuesday, 18 December 2012 13:51 (twelve years ago)
http://www.last.fm/music/Appendix+Out/_/The+Grey+Havens
― reggie (qualmsley), Tuesday, 18 December 2012 13:57 (twelve years ago)