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Points: 29630 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 12 2008 at 04:39
Originally posted by Weston Weston wrote:

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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You are correct, I was about to mention it when I saw your post.  I'm not a fan of the band but I have/like the soundtrack.
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Points: 143 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 13 2008 at 09:24
There's a Dead Can Dance song called 'The Lotus Eaters', it could be from either Homer's The Odyssey or Joyce's Ulysses, or perhaps both!! I presume the new Opeth track to be referencing DCD and not The Odyssey or Ulysses though...
An album based on Ulysses, now that would be amazing! Or maybe a series of albums? Hmm...
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Points: 1155 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 13 2008 at 14:14
Also, Porcupine Tree's latest was based on a book called "Lunar Park" by Brett Easton Ellis. 
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David Bowie has a song entitled 1984.
    -"Beware the savage jaw, of 1984"
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Points: 188 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 13 2008 at 22:01
Originally posted by zachfive zachfive wrote:

David Bowie has a song entitled 1984.
    -"Beware the savage jaw, of 1984"


How did we all forget THAT?  Good one.

And while we're at - Tull's A Passion Play was very loosely based on Dante's inferno - maybe.

Sort of . . . .

Well, the afterlife is mentioned, anyway.

OK, never mind.
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Pink Floyd's album "Animals" is based on George Orwells "Animal Farm". Both are awesome.
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Points: 380 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 24 2008 at 12:19
Since someone mentioned Arthur C. Clarke, there is also "The Songs of Distant Earth". Mike Oldfield did an album entitled the same and inspired by the novel. It is pretty much ambient music, but high rated in the archives here. Mike Batt recorded an album with the London Symphony Orchestra and some vocalists about "The Hunting of the Snark", a nonsense poem by Lewis Carroll. Blind Guardian's music is heavily influenced by the books of J.R.R. Tolkien, and to his "Silmarillion" there is the concept album "Nightfall in Middle-Earth".
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Eurythmics' Sex Crime (1984)Smile.
 
Many Iron Maiden songs were influenced by science fiction authors: Zeleazny's Creatures of Light and Darkness, R.A. Heinlein's Stranger In a Strange Land, Asimov's Foundation series, works of H.P. Lovecraft, etc.
 
Jefferson Airplane's White Rabbit was influenced by Alice, of course. Like National Health's Borogoves.
 
Isildur's Bane made an album called Sagam Om Rigen. Self-explanatory. Not to mention the band's name. Oh, and Marillion too. (Silmarillion).
 
Indexi's Modra Rijeka  was influenced (taken) by poetry of excellent Bosnian poet, Mak Dizdar.
 
 
 
Speaking of Orwell and Huxley, I'm really curious to know if any other (prog) band was inspired by other anti-uthopia novels or movies (THX 1138, Zamyatin, Fahrenheit 451).
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Points: 47 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 27 2008 at 08:30
David Bedford has recorded several SiFi themed songs including bits of works by Arthur C Clarke and Ursula LeGuin and a whole LP based on the Rime of The Ancient Mariner with ol' Jesus himself Robert Powell as narrator.
 
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Every musical movement that is big enough has to produce some good musicians who wouldn't have had the incentive to start playing without it.

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Not an album but an excellent track by 'The Records' 1984
I told you I was ill - quote from Spike Milligan's gravestone
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Todos desfallecieron
esperando su muerte,
su corta muerte diaria,
y su quebranto aciago de cada día
era como una copa negra que bebían temblando
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i'm so glad for that. 1984 is one of my favorite novels and pink floyd my favorite band. thanks for sharing that.
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Points: 1317 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 23 2009 at 03:53
Randy California's Spirit also recorded a song inspired by 1984,it was simply titled 1984:great song.I also read long time ago a novel by Anthony Burgess clearly inspired by 1984,great book.George Orwell was a great writer and he fought against fascism.The least one can say is that he also had a difficult life(poverty and illness).I also like his writings about  his harsh time in Paris.
I was born in the land of Mahavishnu,not so far from Kobaia.I'm looking for the world

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Points: 10964 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 24 2009 at 17:43
2012 is just the new 1984, that's all...
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