Songs that mention writers or books

[Captain Willard]

I think the title is pretty self explanatory. Here’s a starter : 
 

Country house by Blur ; “He's reading Balzac, knocking back Prozac” 

 

[Captain Howdy]

“You’ve been through all of F Scott Fitzgeralds books, your very well read it’s well known”

 

Ballad of a thin man. Dylan

 

[Carvalho Diablo]

Goodbye Sky Harbour by Jimmy Eat World is about A Prayer For Owen Meany by John Irving.

[Carvalho Diablo]

There's a metal band called Ice Nine Kills, which is a clear reference to Kurt Vonnegut's brilliant Cat's Cradle.

[Captain Willard]

Don’t stand so close to me by the Police mentions Nabakov. 

[Captain Howdy]

“ In my house he wrote his red right hand, that I’m told is from paradise lost “

 

song of joy…..Nick Cave and the bad seeds

[Carvalho Diablo]

Iron Maiden's Rime of The Ancient Mariner is a literal take of the Samuel Colridge poem of the same name.

[Captain Howdy]

1 minute ago, Captain Willard said:

Don’t stand so close to me by the Police mentions Nabakov. 

As does “ there she goes my beautiful world” by Nc&tbs which also mentions Dylan Thomas, Karl Marx and St John of the cross.

[Captain Willard]

Tender by Blur references the F Scott Fitzgerald book who in turn nicked it from Keats ode to a nightingale. 

[Mook]

Edgar Allen Poe

 

 

[AngryOfTuebrook]

17 minutes ago, Captain Willard said:

I think the title is pretty self explanatory. Here’s a starter : 
 

Country house by Blur ; “He's reading Balzac, knocking back Prozac” 

 

That couplet has always annoyed me; straight out of a smart-arse's rhyming dictionary.

[Trumo]

Jefferson Airplane's 'White Rabbit' is basically Lewis Carroll's 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'.

[Mook]

Jack Kerouac 

 

 

[Carvalho Diablo]

The old band The Bible.

[AngryOfTuebrook]

Edgar Allan Poe, Anne Frank and William Blake.

 

 

[Captain Willard]

Wuthering heights by Kate bush. 

[Jack the Sipper]

Cemetery Gates by The Smiths:  Keats and Yeats are on your side, while Wilde is on mine 

[Jack the Sipper]

The sensual world and Flower o the Mountain by kate Bush are both homages to Ulssyes

[Captain Willard]

3 minutes ago, Jack the Sipper said:

Cemetery Gates by The Smiths:  Kents and Yeats are on your side, while Wilde is on mine 

Good spot. I’ve been trying to think of a Smiths one.
 

The opening line to How soon is now “ I am the son and heir to nothing in particular” is from Middlemarch by George Elliot but it’s not a reference just a bit of Morrissey plagiarism from a Victorian novel. 

[SasaS]

Lupus took the life of Flannery O'Connor
She wrote many books before death came upon her
 

 

[polymerpunkah]

XTC

 

"Dear God" 

 

Dear God, don't know if you noticed but
Your name is on a lot of quotes in this book
Us crazy humans wrote it, you should take a look
And all the people that you made in your image
Still believing that junk is true
Well I know it ain't, so do you

[AngryOfTuebrook]

42 minutes ago, Captain Willard said:

Wuthering heights by Kate bush. 

1984 by Bowie

[AngryOfTuebrook]

1 hour ago, Captain Willard said:

I think the title is pretty self explanatory. Here’s a starter : 
 

Country house by Blur ; “He's reading Balzac, knocking back Prozac” 

 

What about something like Springsteen's The Ghost of Tom Joad or Everybody's Happy Nowadays by Buzzcocks, which are inspired by books (The Grapes of Wrath & Brave New World, respectively) but don't mention them by name?

[AngryOfTuebrook]

Emily Dickinson and Robert Frost.

 

[AngryOfTuebrook]

Walt Whitman