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Norton Anthology of ROCK!
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XTC
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Garden of Earthly Delights
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Elf Power
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Walking With the Beggar Boys
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The Shins
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Know Your Onion!
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They Might Be Giants
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Where Your Eyes Don't Go
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The Smiths
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Cemetary Gates
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The Russian Futurists
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Let's Get Ready to Crumble
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John Vanderslice
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White Plains
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Ivy
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The Best Thing
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Elliott Smith
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In the Lost and Found (Honky Bach)
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Radiohead
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Fake Plastic Trees
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Kraftwerk
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Computer Love
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Talking Heads
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Heaven
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The Pogues
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Sally MacLennane
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The Decemberists
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The Chimbly Sweep
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Iron and Wine
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Passing Afternoon
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Wilco
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When You Wake Up Feeling Old
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David Byrne and Rufus Wainwright
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Au Fond Du Temple Saint
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Beulah
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Me and Jesus Don't Talk Anymore
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Ben Folds
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Songs of Love
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Of Montreal
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It's Easy to Sleep When You're Dead
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Comment:
A disc brewed up for my British Literature professor as a way of thanking him for a fantastic semester. Each song corresponds to a story or concept we covered this year. See if you can guess what they might be... or something (note: all works covered were written between 1800 and 1991).
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Oh my God, this is a great mix! You have my absolutely favorite They Might Be Giants tune, plus killer songs by Talking Heads, XTC, Shins, Ben Folds, etc. And I only wish I had thought of the title first because it is ingenious. Great job.
Well a couple sound like Charles Dickens, but I'm lost without the scorecard. Plenty of good songs here though.
#16, Picture of Dorian Gray? Just a random idea, interesting mix.
Is that a Bosch painting? I know I've seen it before!
Yes. It's "Garden of Earthly Delight", which also happens to be the name of the first song on the mix.
Also, if anyone's curious, here's a list of the ideas/authors/stories that these songs are meant to represent:
1) Robert Browning - Fra Lippo Lippi
2) Gerard Manley Hopkins
3) Lord Byron/ The Byronic Hero
4) Freudian Theory/ Heart of Darkness
5) Oscar Wilde
6) Matthew Arnold - Dover Beach
7) Modernism - Uncertainty
8) Virginia Woolf
9) Elizabeth Barrett Browning
10) Modernism - Artificiality
11) Modernism - Alienation/ Technological Revolution
12) Romanticism - Glorification of the Commonplace
13) James Joyce - Dubliners
14) William Blake - Songs of Experience
15) John Keats
16) William Butler Yeats - Sailing to Byzantium
17) Romanticism - Influence of the Classical
18) Percy Bysshe Shelley
19) William Wordsworth
20) Romanticism - Impermanence
As a former English major (who has become nearly illiterate since medical school), I think this is very cool--references to Keats (since I'm a physician, he is naturally my favorite), Byron, Wordsworth, Shelley, Browning, and Hopkins make me smile. A question--where's the Coleridge?
