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mirco
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Topic: Prog & literature Posted: March 03 2005 at 07:58 |
Which band goes with which writer? And which album goes with which book?
I have one: Wakeman's Journey to the centre of the earth with Verne's Journey to the centre of the earth (Well, that was easy.. )
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Pixel Pirate
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Posted: March 03 2005 at 08:05 |
An equally easy one: "The Snow Goose" with............"The Snow Goose".
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Posted: March 03 2005 at 09:13 |
Alan Parsons' Projects' THE TALES OF MYSTERY AND IMAGINATIONS are dedicated to Ergar Allan Poe, I ROBOT - to Ayzek Azimov.
Hammill's THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER is from Poe once again 
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Posted: March 03 2005 at 10:22 |
should this not be in the trivia game section?
Bo Hanson's Lord Of The Rings with Tolkien
Lindh's Bilbo the Rabbit with Tolkien
Boring so far.....
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let's just stay above the moral melee prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword
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mirco
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Posted: March 03 2005 at 10:28 |
Sean Trane wrote:
should this not be in the trivia game section?
Bo Hanson's Lord Of The Rings with Tolkien
Lindh's Bilbo the Rabbit with Tolkien
Boring so far..... |
I was searching for the writer that matches the mood or character of a certain band, more than simply bibliographic references. But maybe there is not such a matching.
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Beau Heem
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Posted: March 03 2005 at 11:26 |
mirco wrote:
I was searching for the writer that matches the
mood or character of a certain band, more than simply
bibliographic references. But maybe there is not such a
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I think that it is almost impossible to find a match between an author
and an artist. Many an album could be said to match the mood (and
story) of a certain book, though.
Cheers
-Beau
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mirco
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Posted: March 05 2005 at 15:58 |
Pink Floyd, Animals -> Orwell, Animal farm
Rick Wakeman, 1984 -> Orwell, 1984
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Ivan_Melgar_M
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Posted: March 05 2005 at 20:25 |
Glass Hammer Middle Earth Album with Tolkien's work
Jeff Wayne's War of the Worlds with H.G. Welles War of the Worlds
Genesis White Mountain inspired in Jack London's White Fang (Just a song)
Aphrodite's Child 666 is an interpretation of St. John's Book of Apocalypse
Iván
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Posted: March 06 2005 at 02:58 |
TFTO with Autobiography of a Yogi or something like that, I can't remember
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Posted: March 06 2005 at 23:56 |
Rush's 2112 ---> Ayn Rand's Anthem
Rush's A Farewell To Kings ---> A Farewell to Arms (forgot author atm)
KC's Beat ---> Jack Kerouac (no particular book)
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Mategra
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Posted: March 21 2005 at 09:18 |
Isildurs Bane's Sagan om Ringen is yet another album inspired by The Lord of the Rings.
Glass Hammer's album Perelandra is based on a C.S. Lewis novel.
Close to The Edge (the title track) is based on something by Herman Hesse (I can't remember what).
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Matti
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Posted: May 24 2005 at 04:04 |
An interesting topic from last March (before I was around). Any interests to continue it and show how civilized you are? The idea: name (prog) songs or albums that are inspired by some literature. (Naturally the most obvious are mentioned already! See earlier posts first.)
Fountain of Salmacis re-tells the Greek myth of Hermafroditis (Pablo Ovid Naso: Metamorphoseon)
I Robot (Parsons) > Isaac Asimov's novel. (The debut on Poe's works is great!)
Leper's Song (BJH) > Graham Greene: A Burnt-out Case
Dust and Dreams (Camel album) > John Steinbeck: Grapes of Wrath
Piper at the Gates of Dawn was named after a chapter in Grahame's Wind in the Willows (no further links, I guess)
Grendel (Marillion) > John Gardner: Grendel, a re-narrative of Beowulf.
I'm sure many of you will remember some other cases.
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Posted: May 24 2005 at 04:18 |
Edgar poe inspired some bands and ther's even a band which is called like that.
The first Alan Parsons is inspired by the Tales of mystery and imagination.
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Posted: May 24 2005 at 07:13 |
Mervyn Peake's 'Gormenghast' goes well with 'Tales From Topographic Oceans' - overlong, ridiculously detailed, yet highly enjoyable.
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Posted: May 24 2005 at 09:02 |
Two KrautRock-Bands:
Faust with Goethe
Novalis with Novalis
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oliverstoned
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Posted: May 24 2005 at 13:38 |
"Piper at the Gates of Dawn was named after a chapter in Grahame's Wind in the Willows (no further links, I guess)"
Yes, and inspired from chinese poetry.
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