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Moatilliatta 
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 Posted: May 11 2008 at 22:57 |
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Well, I've never heard them, but there is a band called Wuthering Heights, and their most recent album is called Far from the Madding Crowd. The band's name is a novel by Emily Bronte and the title is a novel by Thomas Hardy. I enjoyed both of those books.
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Weston
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Posted: May 11 2008 at 22:56 |
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I have vague memories of a soundtrack to a movie version of 1984 that
was done by - The Eurythmics? Or something like that. It was pretty
good. I'll have to Wikipedia it. Awful how the memory goes with age.
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VanderGraafKommandöh
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Posted: May 11 2008 at 21:38 |
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Suisse symphonic band Nautilus' name and albums are inspired by Jules Verne.
20,000 Miles Under the Sea is an obvious one. Not sure if Space Storm is though.
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VanderGraafKommandöh
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Posted: May 11 2008 at 21:34 |
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Well yes, obviously but as the films came out in the silent-movie era (don't know about The Fall of the House of Usher, 'cause I didn't know there was a film version), they are their interpretations of the film, I should think.
They're not just going to make music and think "hey, that'd go well with the that silent film Metropolis!". They had the film in mind when they made it.
Therefore it's both.
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Shakespeare
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Posted: May 11 2008 at 21:33 |
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Sleepytime Gorilla Museum's Helpless Corpses Enactment borrows its lyrics from James Joyce.
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Shakespeare
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Posted: May 11 2008 at 21:32 |
 James wrote:
Art Zoyd - La chute de la maison Usher
Art Zoyd - Nosferatu (actually based on a film, rather than a book)
Art Zoyd - Metropolis (again, film-based, rather than literature-based)
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Weren't these three soundtracks to films, rather than actually inspired by or based on them?
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VanderGraafKommandöh
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Posted: May 11 2008 at 21:29 |
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Eros - Dun
Peter Hammill - The Fall of the House of Usher
Art Zoyd - La chute de la maison Usher
Art Zoyd - Faust
Art Zoyd - Nosferatu (actually based on a film, rather than a book)
Art Zoyd - Metropolis (again, film-based, rather than literature-based)
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ClassicRocker
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Posted: May 11 2008 at 21:27 |
Brave New World's Impressions On Reading Aldous Huxley. [Krautrock] (Aldous Huxley is the author and Brave New World is the book and band's name)
Bluesaga wrote:
Brave New World - Impressions on Reading Aldous
Huxley. Don't think I have to say what that's based on (well, it's
entirely on BNW, not anything else by Huxley), it's an excellent
obscure Kraut album.
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Hivemind? I mean "Whoops, didn't see your post there right before mine." 
Edited by ClassicRocker - June 07 2008 at 22:07
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Mikerinos
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Posted: May 11 2008 at 21:21 |
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Brave New World - Impressions on Reading Aldous Huxley. Don't think I have to say what that's based on (well, it's entirely on BNW, not anything else by Huxley), it's an excellent obscure Kraut album.
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Atavachron
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Posted: May 11 2008 at 21:07 |
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wasn't the mood of Rush's comatose Grace Under Pressure loosely based on it being released in 1984
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Valdez
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Posted: May 11 2008 at 21:04 |
L. Ron Hubbards "my philosophy" (1971 Axioms records) is based on his book DIANETICS with moog composed by Jazzer Buddy Prima.
Didn't Hawkwind base a few of it's albums on Michael Moorcocks books?
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https://bakullama1.bandcamp.com/album/sleepers-2024
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Shakespeare
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Posted: May 11 2008 at 21:04 |
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We've always been at war with Eurasia!
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Posted: May 11 2008 at 21:03 |
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van halen released an album called 1984.lol
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anoah
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Posted: May 11 2008 at 21:00 |
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I've noticed that there have been many albums based of Orwell's classic, 1984.
In fact, Anthony Phillips and Rick Wakeman both released albums in 1981 entitled "1984."
In 1972, Hugh Hopper released his solo debut, "1984" and, while not 100% prog, David Bowie released his album, "Diamond Dogs," in 1974 which also followed the concept of "1984."
So, does anyone else have any examples of albums based on Orwell's story, or albums based on other works of literature, like Camel's "Snow Goose," Wakeman's "Journey to the Centre of the Earth" or Jeff Wayne's "War of the Worlds?"
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