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Topic: 1984
Posted By: anoah
Subject: 1984
Date 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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Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: May 11 2008 at 21:03
| van halen released an album called 1984.lol |
Posted By: Shakespeare
Date Posted: May 11 2008 at 21:04
| We've always been at war with Eurasia! |
Posted By: Valdez
Date Posted: May 11 2008 at 21:04
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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? ------------- https://bakullama1.bandcamp.com/album/sleepers-2024 |
Posted By: Atavachron
Date 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 |
Posted By: Mikerinos
Date 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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Posted By: ClassicRocker
Date Posted: May 11 2008 at 21:27
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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)
Hivemind? I mean "Whoops, didn't see your post there right before mine."  ------------- 
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Bluesaga wrote:Posted By: VanderGraafKommandöh
Date 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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Posted By: Shakespeare
Date Posted: May 11 2008 at 21:32
Weren't these three soundtracks to films, rather than actually inspired by or based on them? |
Posted By: Shakespeare
Date Posted: May 11 2008 at 21:33
| Sleepytime Gorilla Museum's Helpless Corpses Enactment borrows its lyrics from James Joyce. |
Posted By: VanderGraafKommandöh
Date 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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Posted By: VanderGraafKommandöh
Date 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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Posted By: Weston
Date 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. ___________________ Currently listening to: Brand X - The X Files |
Posted By: Moatilliatta
Date 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. ------------- www.last.fm/user/ThisCenotaph  
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Posted By: listen
Date Posted: May 11 2008 at 23:36
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Alan Parson's Project- Tales of Mystery and Imagination
based on edgar allen poe stories |
Posted By: ghost_of_morphy
Date Posted: May 12 2008 at 00:29
| While we are talking about 1984, let's not forget to mention Utopia's take on it from the album Oblivion, Winston Smith Takes It On The Jaw. A pretty good track for latter day Utopia. |
Posted By: sean
Date Posted: May 12 2008 at 02:56
Wuthering Heights is a pretty good band if you're into prog/power/folk metal stuff. Not completely prog, I know, but they are listed here so I'll mention them: many of Iron Maiden's songs are based on literature. "2112" and "Anthem" by Rush are both based on Ayn Rand's novel Anthem. "The Odyssey" by Symphony X is based on, guess what, The Odyssey. I'm not sure if there's a connection between the two, but I think Arthur C. Clarke's "Childhood's End" might have influenced the Van der Graaf Generator song "Childlike Faith in Childhood's End". Many of Peter Hammill's lyrics are influenced by literature. King Crimson's album "Beat" was influenced by the beat writers, as was Jim Morrison's work with the Doors, who took their name from the Aldous Huxley book "The Doors of Perception. ELP's Jerusalem was an adaption of the poem by William Blake I believe. |
Posted By: ExittheLemming
Date Posted: May 12 2008 at 03:46
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Inquire's 2003 album 'Melancholia' was based on Jean Paul Sartre's novel 'Nausea' Museo Rosenbach's 1973 album was based on 'Also Sprach Zarathustra' by Nietzsche Solaris 1999 album 'Book of Phrophecies' is based on those of Nostradamus and ELP's Love Beach was inspired by the writings of Winnie the Pooh |
Posted By: fuxi
Date Posted: May 12 2008 at 03:50
| Large parts of THE LAMB LIES DOWN ON BROADWAY were 'inspired' by Lewis Carroll's ALICE books. 'The Cinema Show' parodies a section of T.S. Eliot's 'The Waste Land'. I also have the impression Ian Anderson must have been reading Eliot when he wrote 'Baker St. Muse'. It is sometimes said 'The Gates of Delirium' was 'based on' Tolstoy's WAR AND PEACE but I'm sure Jonnie A. didn't get very far beyond the title! Many tracks on Steve Hackett's solo albums refer to fairy tales and fantasy literature, from the Narnia books to A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM. Also, Novalis' best-known track is a lovely setting of a poem by the German poet... Novalis! |
Posted By: gray
Date Posted: May 12 2008 at 04:08
Well, Pink Floyd's Animals was loosely inspired by Orwell's Animal Farm. And the album cover image is that of the Battersea Power Station that represented the Ministry of Love in the 1984 movie. ------------- http://neverdream.awardspace.com - Release Dates 
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Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: May 12 2008 at 04:39
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. ------------- Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened... 
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Posted By: tremulant
Date Posted: May 13 2008 at 09:24
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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... ------------- My solo music: http://www.myspace.com/anthropiate - ANTHROPIATE |
Posted By: sean
Date Posted: May 13 2008 at 14:14
| Also, Porcupine Tree's latest was based on a book called "Lunar Park" by Brett Easton Ellis. |
Posted By: zachfive
Date Posted: May 13 2008 at 16:28
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David Bowie has a song entitled 1984. -"Beware the savage jaw, of 1984" |
Posted By: Weston
Date Posted: May 13 2008 at 22:01
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. |
Posted By: jetblue1717
Date Posted: May 24 2008 at 10:23
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Pink Floyd's album "Animals" is based on George Orwells "Animal Farm". Both are awesome. |
Posted By: Luke. J
Date 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". |
Posted By: clarke2001
Date Posted: May 24 2008 at 12:27
Eurythmics' Sex Crime (1984) .
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). ------------- |
Posted By: Karyobin
Date Posted: May 27 2008 at 08:30
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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.
K ------------- 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. Alexis Korner |
Posted By: Raimondo
Date Posted: May 27 2008 at 10:21
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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 |
Posted By: jerome
Date Posted: May 27 2008 at 14:20
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camel - nude judas priest - nostradamus ------------- Todos desfallecieron esperando su muerte, su corta muerte diaria, y su quebranto aciago de cada día era como una copa negra que bebían temblando |
Posted By: chuckmusic
Date Posted: January 22 2009 at 17:49
| i'm so glad for that. 1984 is one of my favorite novels and pink floyd my favorite band. thanks for sharing that. |
Posted By: fusionfreak
Date Posted: January 23 2009 at 03:53
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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 of searchers with the help from crimson king |
Posted By: darkshade
Date Posted: January 24 2009 at 17:43
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2012 is just the new 1984, that's all...
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