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literary mix
| Artist | Song | |
| The Cure | Killing An Arab | |
| Gary Numan | Are "Friends" Electric | |
| David Bowie | 1984 | |
| Quasi | Our Happiness Is Guranteed | |
| Failure | Solaris | |
| Rage Against the Machine | The Ghost of Tom Joad | |
| The Anniversary | The Heart is a Lonely Hunter | |
| The Lilys | Socs Hip | |
| Jawbox | Bullet Park | |
| Birthday Party | Hamlet (pow,pow,pow) | |
| Sparklehorse | Heart of Darkness | |
| Placebo | Lady of the Flowers | |
| Joy Division | Interzone | |
| Failure | The Nurse Who Loved Me | |
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Each song has a reference to a literary work in its title. I challenge anybody to name all of them. If you can.....who knows....I might just be so impressed that i'll make you a mix.....Feedback:
Off the top of my head...
"1984" George Orwell
Ghost of Tom Joad from "The Grapes of Wrath" by Steinbeck
"Hamlet" Shakespeare
"Heart of Darkness" Conrad
"Interzone" the incomprable William S. Burroughs
& I would guess "Are 'friends' Electric" would be a reference to Kesey's the "Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test," but I could be wrong 'cause it's a guess.
I'm off to wrack my brain for the others that I know but just can't remember. Nice mix, btw.
Oh, the "Socs hip" must be a reference to S.E. Hinton's "The Outsiders"
and "Bullet Park" is by John Cheever
"1984" George Orwell
Ghost of Tom Joad from "The Grapes of Wrath" by Steinbeck
"Hamlet" Shakespeare
"Heart of Darkness" Conrad
"Interzone" the incomprable William S. Burroughs
& I would guess "Are 'friends' Electric" would be a reference to Kesey's the "Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test," but I could be wrong 'cause it's a guess.
I'm off to wrack my brain for the others that I know but just can't remember. Nice mix, btw.
Oh, the "Socs hip" must be a reference to S.E. Hinton's "The Outsiders"
and "Bullet Park" is by John Cheever
Great mix concept. Kicking off with the greatest literary rock tune inspired by Camus' "The Stranger". "Solaris" is from the awesome Polish Sci-Fi writer Stanislaw Lem. The Birthday Party's track is pretty obvious (& awesome, KIDS! BY THESE REISSUES!). The Quasi track is really bugging me. Somebody help me out.
the nurse who loved me... either Hemingway (A Farewell to Arms) or Dalton Trumbo's "Johnny Get Your Gun."
Killing an Arab is from one of my all time favorite reads - Camus' "The Stranger" Coul Lady of the Flowers be another reference to "Hamlet?" Probably not, but It was worth a shot.
If you ever feel like making a second version of this mix/challenge, How about "Suddenly Last Summer." The performer of the song escapes me right now, but the play the title references is by Tennesse Williams. It was published in the '50s and dealt with cannibalism and transexuals. Springer should be paying royalties. Also, the Smith's song "Shakespeare's Sister" borrows its title from a litcrit gem by V Woolf. I think there's a concrete blonde song by the same name as well.
Killing an Arab is from one of my all time favorite reads - Camus' "The Stranger" Coul Lady of the Flowers be another reference to "Hamlet?" Probably not, but It was worth a shot.
If you ever feel like making a second version of this mix/challenge, How about "Suddenly Last Summer." The performer of the song escapes me right now, but the play the title references is by Tennesse Williams. It was published in the '50s and dealt with cannibalism and transexuals. Springer should be paying royalties. Also, the Smith's song "Shakespeare's Sister" borrows its title from a litcrit gem by V Woolf. I think there's a concrete blonde song by the same name as well.
wow, you guys are pretty well read. But there's a couple that were left out.....
well, i considered myself well-read, but i only know three. "killing an arab" is in reference to "the stranger." "the ghost of tom joad is in reference to "the grapes of wrath" by john steinbeck. and, of course, "the heart is a lonley hunter" is in reference to "the heart is a lonely hunter" by carson mccullers.
oh yeah, and you should have included "who wrote holden caulfield?" by green day and "i wrote holden caulfield" by screeching weasel. :)
oh, and of course i know what "1984" is in reference to. duh.
What about "Wuthering Heights" by Kate Bush and "Atrocity Exhibition" by Joy Division? Good mix, otherwise.
jeff kicks ass :)
So was Candra right about the Numan reference? Other literary suggestions: "Girlfriend in a Coma" was later used as the title of a novel by Douglas Copeland (recommended!), which makes several other musical references in the text. And of course the Police reference 'Lolita' in "Don't Stand So Close to Me." Actually, Suzanne Vega has a song entitled "Lolita."
Err, that should be "Coupland" not "Copeland"...
actually I considered "Don't Stand So Close to Me" but these were mostly title references. By the way, what is "Atrocity Exhibition" from
oh, and the Numan reference was incorrect. And
was the gary numan reference to a philip k. dick novel? maybe even "do androids dream of electric sheep", the same basis for "blade runner?"
Dewey figured it out
I can't believe I missed a Philip K. Dick reference. I am deeply, deeply shamed. Have we figured them all out except for the Quasi song? What about a mix of bands whose names are literary references, like Moloko's from "A Clockwork Orange"
...or Ranier Maria to the poet Rilke or Samiam?
i seem to have also forgotten "Ultraviolence" by New Order. Damn, that would have been a good one.
Wasn't the album title 'Power, Corruption & Lies' taken from the back cover text of 'Brave New World'? Here's an idea: how about "buried" literary references like the aforementioned Police song?
You could also put on the song "Afternoons And Coffeespoons" by Crash Test Dummies, which is from the poem "LoveSong of J. Alfred Prufrock" by TS Eliot.
this is such an amazing mix. not only the songs but the theme is ingenious. lovely.
you could put beck's "feather in your cap" as a reference to Catch-22 :)... late response, i'm sorry.
"l'etranger" by kamus is numero uno, 'heart of darkness' by conrad is obvious, as is '1984', numan's song makes me think of 'do androids dream of electric sheep' but who knows if i'm even close.
"Atrocity Exhibition" is by J G Ballard who also wrote "Crash" (also the name of a Dave Matthews Band song).