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Lovers of Literature
| Lovers of Literature | |
| Created by: | johnny_luddite |
| Tracks: | 13 |
| Length: | 01:00:29 |
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1. Literature 2. influence 3. names |
| Created on | 11/15/06 10:49pm |
| Level | 6 |
| Points | 2608 |
| Total visitors | 63 |
| Unique visitors | 40 |
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A simple concept. Here are acts that have taken their name from literature, either from a book title or something in the book, or from the name of the author! Err, that's it!
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| 1 | Steely Dan : Don't Take Me Alive |
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I wanted to pick a relatively obscure Steely Dan track, and this tale of 'A Fool with a gun' fitted right in. [...]
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Track 3 from The Royal Scam
Length: 00:04:16 Year: 1976 |
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I wanted to pick a relatively obscure Steely Dan track, and this tale of 'A Fool with a gun' fitted right in. As for the literary reference, Steely Dan was a steam powered dildo in William Burrough's 'The Naked Lunch.' SHOW LESS
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| 2 | The Fall : There's A Ghost In My House |
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'The Fall' was written by Albert Camus, and The Fall were John Peel's favourite band! Mark E Smith is the real [...]
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'The Fall' was written by Albert Camus, and The Fall were John Peel's favourite band! Mark E Smith is the real thing, whatever the real thing actually is! SHOW LESS
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| 3 | our lady peace : Boy |
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The inspiration here is not from the title of a book, but of a poem by Mark Van Doren.
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Track 7 from Healthy In Paranoid Times
Length: 00:04:35 Year: 2005 |
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The inspiration here is not from the title of a book, but of a poem by Mark Van Doren. SHOW LESS
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| 4 | Killdozer : Free Love In Amsterdam |
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'Killdozer' is a sci-fi novel by Theodore Sturgeon. The only thing I got in Amsterdam was mugged, but there yo [...]
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Track 9 from 12 Point Buck
Length: 00:04:42 Year: 1989 |
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'Killdozer' is a sci-fi novel by Theodore Sturgeon. The only thing I got in Amsterdam was mugged, but there you are! SHOW LESS
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| 5 | The Mekons : Ghosts of American Astronauts |
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This might be pushing the definition of 'literature' a bit far, but the Mekon was the evil bad guy alien in 'D [...]
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Track 2 from So Good It Hurts
Length: 00:03:53 Year: 1988 |
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This might be pushing the definition of 'literature' a bit far, but the Mekon was the evil bad guy alien in 'Dan Dare' a comic strip that ran in 'The Eagle' comic when I was a small person! SHOW LESS
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| 6 | The Black Crowes : By Your Side |
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The Black Crowes were first called 'Mr Crowes Garden' after a favourite children's book! Bluesy rock may be ol [...]
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Track 3 from By Your Side
Length: 00:04:28 Year: 0000 |
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The Black Crowes were first called 'Mr Crowes Garden' after a favourite children's book! Bluesy rock may be old hat, but I like the sound they made! SHOW LESS
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| 7 | Moby : God Moving Over the Face of the Waters |
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One of the more well known name origins. Moby is an ancestor of Herman Melville, who wrote 'Moby Dick.' I alwa [...]
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Track 12 from Everything is Wrong
Length: 00:07:21 Year: 1995 |
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One of the more well known name origins. Moby is an ancestor of Herman Melville, who wrote 'Moby Dick.' I always thought Moby Dick was some kind of disease! SHOW LESS
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| 8 | The Divine Comedy : The Certainty Of Chance |
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The name comes from 'The Divine Comedy' by Dante. Neil Hannon is a brilliant songwriter, with just the right a [...]
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Track 8 from Fin De Siecle
Length: 00:06:08 Year: 1998 |
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The name comes from 'The Divine Comedy' by Dante. Neil Hannon is a brilliant songwriter, with just the right amount of whimsey and despair! SHOW LESS
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| 9 | Mott the Hoople : Laugh At Me |
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Wifred Manus wrote the novel 'Mott The Hoople' about a strange person who worked in a freak show. Sounds like [...]
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Track 3 from Mott The Hoople
Length: 00:06:03 Year: 1969 |
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Wifred Manus wrote the novel 'Mott The Hoople' about a strange person who worked in a freak show. Sounds like anyone in the music business really. This is very early Mott, when they were dishevelled but good. SHOW LESS
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| 10 | The Amboy Dukes : Pony Express |
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The Amboy Dukes was hunting, fishing, shooting guitar slinger Ted Nugents first band, and 'The Amboy Dukes' is [...]
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Track 3 from The Call Of The Wild
Length: 00:05:21 Year: 0000 |
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The Amboy Dukes was hunting, fishing, shooting guitar slinger Ted Nugents first band, and 'The Amboy Dukes' is also a book about street gangs written in the 1940's by Irving Shulman. SHOW LESS
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| 11 | Ice-T : Pimp Or Die |
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According to one thing I read, Ice-T's name was inspired by an old time pimp called Iceberg Slim who later wro [...]
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Track 6 from Gangsta Rap
Length: 00:03:57 Year: 2006 |
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According to one thing I read, Ice-T's name was inspired by an old time pimp called Iceberg Slim who later wrote novels with subtle names like 'Pimp'. SHOW LESS
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| 12 | Collective Soul : She Gathers Rain |
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The band name comes from a term used in the book 'The Fountainhead' by Ayn Rand.
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Track 8 from Collective Soul
Length: 00:04:31 Year: 1995 |
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The band name comes from a term used in the book 'The Fountainhead' by Ayn Rand. SHOW LESS
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| 13 | The Doors : The Crystal Ship |
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Jim Morrison was influenced by both William Blake and Aldous Huxley. Blake wrote that "if the doors of percept [...]
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Track 3 from The Doors
Length: 00:02:34 Year: 0000 |
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Jim Morrison was influenced by both William Blake and Aldous Huxley. Blake wrote that "if the doors of perception are cleansed, everything would appear to man as it truly is, infinite. " Huxley quoted Blake for the title of his book about drug experimentation, 'The Doors Of Perception.' In it, he wrote, "There are things known and things unknown, and inbetween are the doors." It is not true that the first draft of Blakes poem "Tiger Tiger, burning Bright" originally featured the line "Come On tiger light my fire." SHOW LESS
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The Divine Comedy made it onto my latest mix!
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I had to give this one a high score because it's allllllllllllll smartypants.
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