Songs that mention writers or books

[AngryOfTuebrook]

John Donne 

 

[SasaS]

 

[easytoslip]

Summertime in England by Van Morrison. 

WB Yeats, Wordsworth and Coleridge etc. Also in his Cleaning Windows track he mentions Jack Kerouac. 

[SasaS]

 

[TheHowieLama]

There have to be a ton with Kerouac in them.

 

 

 

Does the Bible count? Pretty sure you could get hundreds.

[Pidge]

 

 

[TheHowieLama]

1 hour ago, Trumo said:

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

 

[TheHowieLama]

Elton John - Mona Lisas and Mad Hatters.

[SasaS]

 

[TheHowieLama]

Great track from BT of the Roots:

 

 

[TheHowieLama]

26 minutes ago, TheHowieLama said:

 

Does the Bible count? Pretty sure you could get hundreds.

Too late, I am running with it - plus it has prime Pfeiffer.

 

 

[Carvalho Diablo]

Anthrax's Skeletons In The Closet references Stephen King's novella Apt Pupil from his Different Seasons book.

 

Anthrax also have Among The Living, about The Stand and Randall Flagg, and Misery Loves Company, about er Misery.

[TheHowieLama]

Always thought he was talking about Star Trek  - will leave it up to the mighty GF to decide.

 

Well I'm Dr. Spock and I here to rock y'all

 

 

[SasaS]

Star Trek is a book? Didn't know that.

[TheHowieLama]

@SasaS

Dr. Spock wrote one of the best selling books of all time. Certainly some of the lefties in the Russian thread must know him. Hint - he is not Leonard Nimoy.

[SasaS]

6 minutes ago, TheHowieLama said:

@SasaS

Dr. Spock wrote one of the best selling books of all time. Certainly some of the lefties in the Russian thread must know him. Hint - he is not Leonard Nimoy.

Ah, that Spock. I assumed it had to be a literary book.

[TheHowieLama]

Kerouac's best is fiction?

 

That track also belongs in the Songs that Mention Other Artists thread for name dropping the late great Eddie Harris.

[SasaS]

14 minutes ago, TheHowieLama said:

Kerouac's best is fiction?

 

That track also belongs in the Songs that Mention Other Artists thread for name dropping the late great Eddie Harris.

Isn't it?

[TheHowieLama]

I think it is a recount of his travels with his amigos who have been given different names. That is just my take on it.

Of course I also think that Zen and the Art of MM and all of Hunter Thompson's work is non fiction. Maybe it is just me.

That said I am fuzzy on the factual content of the Bible so...

[Captain Howdy]

Bukowski, Berryman and Hemingway 

 

We call upon the author……Nick Cave again

[Total Longo]

10 hours ago, AngryOfTuebrook said:

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

It's up there with their worst songs anyway, don't think even Albarn is a fan of it.

[Paulie Dangerously]

D12 Fight music

 

 

[Captain Willard]

9 hours ago, AngryOfTuebrook said:

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?

I think they’ve got to mention them by name. 

[Scooby Dudek]

The Pogues

Streams of whiskey

 Brendan Behan

[Bjornebye]

Ace of Base

Life is a Flower

 

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