Songs about literature/poetry

[ho...@earlham.edu]

A few days ago, people seemed interested in songs having to do
with literature and poetry. I came up with the following:
1. Wuthering Heights -- Kate Bush
2. James Joyce Is Fucking My Sister --Therapy?
3. Flannery O'Connor -- Killdozer
4. Killing An Arab --The Cure
5. Cemetary Gates -- The Smiths
6. To Sir With Love -- that cheeky british woman who sang it with Soul Asylum
on Unplugged.
7. Hey Jack Kerouac -- 10,000 Maniacs
8. My Baby Loves A Bunch of Authors -- Moxie Fruvus (probably the best
rhyme for Gabriel Garcia Marquez ever.)

If you have more, send 'em to me, as I am trying to compile a mix for my
fellow English majors.
Gabby
ho...@yang.earlham.edu

[Scott Levine]

In article <1994Mar8.1...@earlham.edu> ho...@earlham.edu writes:
>
>
> A few days ago, people seemed interested in songs having to do
>with literature and poetry. I came up with the following:
>1. Wuthering Heights -- Kate Bush
>2. James Joyce Is Fucking My Sister --Therapy?
>3. Flannery O'Connor -- Killdozer
>4. Killing An Arab --The Cure
>5. Cemetary Gates -- The Smiths
>6. To Sir With Love -- that cheeky british woman who sang it with Soul Asylum
> on Unplugged.
>7. Hey Jack Kerouac -- 10,000 Maniacs
>8. My Baby Loves A Bunch of Authors -- Moxie Fruvus (probably the best
> rhyme for Gabriel Garcia Marquez ever.)
>
>

"Stranger in a Strange Land" (from "October") -- U2.

--
Overly longwinded and wordy signature.

[Janet M Daly]

Kate Bush, on just about every album, incorporates
Irish/British literature: Tennyson is the primary influence
on _Hounds of Love_, and the title cut of _The Sensual World_
was subject to scrutiny by the estate of James Joyce, as it
is setting Molly Bloom's chapter of _Ulysses_ to music. Stories
told that the earlier lyrics were a complete palgiarism of
the chapter.

U2, in its first three releases, made frequent biblical references,
the best known probably being "40" (psalm 40) from _War_.

[PROF.MORIARTY]

"sister i'm a poet" morrissey

[Kate M Armstrong]

My personal fave song about lit/poetry may be kind of hard to find. It is
called "Emma" by the Halifax group Jale and it is off of Derivative Records
in Montreal. Reference is (obviously) Flaubert's Madame Bovary.
Consolidated's Sexual Politics of Meat is an interesting song about an
interesting book but I don't know if you would define it as either
literature or poetic.

[T'Vusa Llewellyn]

Oingo Boingo's "No Spill Blood" and 'Wake Up! It's 1984" were based on,
respectively, _The Island of Dr. Moreau_ by H.G. Wells (I think) and
_1984_ (obviously) by George Orwell. Both songs are on the "Good For your
Soul" album.
~T'Vusa

[Michael Graham]

who is the artist responsible for the amzing painting on Paris au
Printemps. It is one of my favorite album covers.

any info on the artist would be appreciated
mike

...1980...when PIL were actually interesting

[Zenon M. Feszczak]

Here are a few additional references . . .

- Laurie Anderson - Gravity's Angel (Thomas Pynchon, "Gravity's
Rainbow")
- Material (Seven Souls) - William S. Burroughs reads from his novels.
- Lloyd Cole (Mainstream) - Mr. Malcontent, about the film "My
Beautiful Laundererette", quotes "Shall I part my hair behind?", a
reference to the poem by T.S. Eliot: "The Love Song of J. Alfred
Prufrock". Lloyd Cole includes many literary references in his lyrics,
even referring to the exemplary poetry of Sean Penn.
- Enigma - "Principles of Lust" - readings from de Sade.
- Don Henley - "Driving With Your Eyes Closed" - "Some guys dig to
Rimbaud, some breathe to Baudelaire . . . "
- Peter Gabriel - "Mercy Street" - about poetess Ann(e?) Sexton.
- In The Nursery - "Red Harvest" - readings from literature.
- In The Nursery - "Meccano" - "Something was dead . . . and what was
dead . . . was hope." After Oscar Wilde, "Something was dead in each
of us . . . " etc.

[c...@waikato.ac.nz]

In article <2m520t$a...@netnews.upenn.edu>, MacZMF.Hema.Chop.Edu (Zenon M. Feszczak) writes:
> Here are a few additional references . . .

> - Lloyd Cole (Mainstream) - Mr. Malcontent, about the film "My
> Beautiful Laundererette", quotes "Shall I part my hair behind?", a
> reference to the poem by T.S. Eliot: "The Love Song of J. Alfred
> Prufrock". Lloyd Cole includes many literary references in his lyrics,
> even referring to the exemplary poetry of Sean Penn.

Also, his song Rattlesnakes - he refers to Simone De Beauvoir and:
Are yoy Ready to be Heartbroken - refers to Norman Mailer
Speedboat - Leonard Cohen (I think)
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[Aaron Mandel]

Zenon M. Feszczak (MacZMF.Hema.Chop.Edu) wrote:
: - In The Nursery - "Red Harvest" - readings from literature.

: - In The Nursery - "Meccano" - "Something was dead . . . and what was
: dead . . . was hope." After Oscar Wilde, "Something was dead in each
: of us . . . " etc.

I keep hearing about In The Nursery... do you happen to know if they got
their name from the Wire song?

Aaron Mandel
ama...@husc.harvard.edu
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[Ned Raggett]

In article <2mb1is$o...@scunix2.harvard.edu>,
Aaron Mandel <ama...@husc9.harvard.edu> wrote:

>I keep hearing about In The Nursery... do you happen to know if they got
>their name from the Wire song?

Not to my knowledge. Great group, in any event; check 'em out.