Songs that mention writers or books

[Pidge]

 

 

[Babb'sBurstNad]

If you're going to quote from the Book of Revelation
Don't keep calling it the Book of Revelations

 

Half Man Half Biscuit - Shit Arm, Bad Tattoo

[NoelM]

Not a fan of Sting but his first solo album is okay this one is based on "Interview with a Vampire" by Anne Rice.

 

 

[Captain Howdy]

The book of Leviticus 

 

Hard on for love…… Cave again

[Captain Willard]

8 minutes ago, Captain Howdy said:

The book of Leviticus 

 

Hard on for love…… Cave again

I should have called this thread “Apart from songs by Nick Cave, which songs mention books or writers”

[Captain Willard]

2 hours ago, Babb'sBurstNad said:

If you're going to quote from the Book of Revelation
Don't keep calling it the Book of Revelations

 

Half Man Half Biscuit - Shit Arm, Bad Tattoo

That’s brilliant. We need a thread dedicated to favourite Half man half biscuit song titles. 

[VERBAL DIARRHEA]

7 minutes ago, Captain Willard said:

That’s brilliant. We need a thread dedicated to favourite Half man half biscuit song titles. 

Trumpton Riots!

[VERBAL DIARRHEA]

Romeo and Juliet- Dire Straits

Withering Heights-Kate Bush

Lear-Paperback Writer-The Beatles.

[Captain Willard]

4 minutes ago, VERBAL DIARRHEA said:

Trumpton Riots!

“No one cares about your creative hub so get your fucking hedge cut”

 

Best album title of all time 

[El Rojo]

'It's the way you don't read Camus or Bret Easton Ellis' - Obsessions by Suede. Great band when at their best, but it's a poor song on an awful album. 

[Captain Howdy]

59 minutes ago, Captain Willard said:

That’s brilliant. We need a thread dedicated to favourite Half man half biscuit song titles. 

National shite day 

[Pidge]

1 hour ago, El Rojo said:

'It's the way you don't read Camus or Bret Easton Ellis' - Obsessions by Suede. Great band when at their best, but it's a poor song on an awful album. 

Haha, that's the perfect Suede review.

[AngryOfTuebrook]

2 hours ago, Captain Howdy said:

The book of Leviticus 

... and Deuteronomy

The law of the jungle and the sea 

Are your only teachers.

 

[AngryOfTuebrook]

Verlaine and Rimbaud.

 

[AngryOfTuebrook]

17 hours 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” 

 

He's reading Dante 

Having tea with his auntie

 

He's reading Milton

Wolfing down Stilton

 

He's reading Göthe 

With a prozzie called Bertha

 

Piece of piss this songwriting lark.

[redinblack]

An indirect reference but in "Philadelphia" by Magazine Howard Devoto says

 

"Everything would be just fine

If I'd had a different pastime

I'd have been Raskolnikov

But Mother Nature ripped me off"

 

Had that on in the car this morning.

[Captain Willard]

2 hours ago, AngryOfTuebrook said:

He's reading Dante 

Having tea with his auntie

 

He's reading Milton

Wolfing down Stilton

 

He's reading Göthe 

With a prozzie called Bertha

 

Piece of piss this songwriting lark.

He’s reading Shelly

Whilst eating jelly

 

He’s reciting Zola

with a rum and coca cola

 
He’s quoting Wilfred Owen

to try and get her going 

 

 

 

[Jarvinja Ilnow]

The Boo Radleys - two for one: "Charles Bukowski is Dead" by the band named after a character in "To Kill a Mockingbird".

[VladimirIlyich]

Xanadu by Olivia Neutron Bomb and ELO or Dave Dee Dozy,Beaky,Mick and Titch with The Legend of Xanadu. I believe they quote a passage in the Dave Dee song also.

Deacon Blue and Dignity

'And I'm reading Maynard Keynes and all that that means.'

[Pidge]

One by Carvalho's favourite band.

 

 

[Captain Willard]

“Lennon read a book on Marx” in American Pie, a Beatle and  a writer in the same song. 

[Harry's Lad]

Sheryl Crow - Run Baby Run.

 

' She was born in November 1963, the day Aldous Huxley died'.

[AngryOfTuebrook]

On 12/04/2022 at 09:27, Bjornebye said:

Ace of Base

Life is a Flower

 

Mentions Catcher in the Rye 

As does Gin-Soaked Boy by The Divine Comedy.

[AngryOfTuebrook]

Neil Diamond Done Too Soon mentions Wells, Poe, Marx & Camus.

 

 

[Bjornebye]

21 minutes ago, AngryOfTuebrook said:

As does Gin-Soaked Boy by The Divine Comedy.

What a band. 
 

Something for the Weekend used to be like drugs to me and my mates when we were in our 20’s. Enough in-fact that on our way home from a festival after 4 days of carnage, one lad suggested the pub to a chorus of “fuck off nobhead” then he decided to play that song on the stereo we’d managed not to have robbed and we all went straight the pub and I think all but one of us were still officially in a relationship the next day and that was only because his missus was with us.