Songs based off of Stories/poems

I'm burning a cd for my english teacher, and I'm trying to get a whole bunch of songs based off of stories or poems. I'm doing this because we just read the Odyssey, so I was going to just burn that for him then i found out that Symphony X also did Through the Looking glass. So now I want to fill up a cd with songs based off of Stories or poems.

 

Does anyone know any other good ones?

The Following are all albums

Journey to the Center of the Earth – Rick Wakeman

Olias of Sunhillow – Jon Anderson

King Aruther and the Knights of the Round Table - Rick Wakeman

The Snow Goose -Camel

The Six Wives of Henry the VII - Rick Wakeman

 

Iron Maiden's Rime of the Ancient Mariner is from a Samuel Taylor Coleridge poem.

And Rush's Xanadu is based on a poem by the same poet.

1. White Mountain by Genesis: Based in Jack London's White Fang
2. Eleventh Earl of Mar by Genesis is based in the misadventures of Sir John Erskine ( http://www.bartleby.com/65/ma/Mar-John6.html )
3. All the songs from the album Tales of Mystery and Imagination by Alan Parsons Project, each and every song is based in a tale by Edgar Alan Poe
4. All the Album The War of the Worlds is based in the homonimous book by H.G. Wells.
5. Have a lot to choose in Rick Wakeman (Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne, Myths and Legends of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table and of course The Six Wives of Henry the VIII)
6. 666 by Aphrodite's Child is based in The Book of Revelations (The end of your Bible )
7. Spartacus by Triumvirat is based in the story of the gladiator.
8. Moby Dick by Banco del Mutuo Soccorso based in the Novel by Herman Melville
9. Leonardo the Absolute Man by Trent Gardner, inspired of course in Leonardo Da Vinci
10. Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Iron Maiden, based in the work by Samuel Taylor Coleridge.

You got a lot to impress your teacher

Iván

ivan_2068 wrote: White Mountain by Genesis: Based in Jack London's White Fang Eleventh Earl of Mar by Genesis is based in the misadventures of Sir John Erskine ( http://www.bartleby.com/65/ma/Mar-John6.html ) All the songs from the album Tales of Mystery and Imagination by Alan Parsons Project, each and every song is based in a tale by Edgar Alan Poe All the Album The War of the Worlds is based in the homonimous book by H.G. Wells. Have a lot to choose in Rick Wakeman (Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne, Myths and Legends of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table and of course The Six Wives of Henry the VIII) 666 by Aphrodite's Child is based in The Book of Revelations (The end of your Bible ) Spartacus by Triumvirat is based in the story of the gladiator. Moby Dick by Banco del Mutuo Soccorso based in the Novel by Herman Melville Leonardo the Absolute Man by Trent Gardner, inspired of course in Leonardo Da Vinci Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Iron Maiden, based in the work by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. You got a lot to impress your teacher Iván

Ivan, I read "White Fang", and I know the lyrics of "White Mountain". There is absolutely no connection between them except that both are stories about wolves, and in one story there is a wolf called "Fang", in the other a semi-wolf called "White Fang".
An album I recommend is "Fairy Tales" by Mother Gong, based on 3 Fairy Tales ("Wassilissa", a Russian Fairy Tale, "The Three Tongues" and "The Pied Piper", which seems to be connected to "The Three Tongues". "The Pied Piper even quotes Robert Browning's poem of the same title a good deal, so this may impress your teacher even more).


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Los Jaivas "Alturas De Macchu Picchu" are based on "Canto Generale" by Nobel prize winner Pablo Neruda, but I doubt whether it would be useful for your English lesson.

We also forgot one important song -  "Gates Of Delirium", based on "War And Peace".

"1984" by Rick Wakeman is a whole album based on George Orwell's novel under the same title, it is with direct references to the book.

"Scheherezade" by Renaissance is based on "Arabian Nights" main plot.

"Thick As A Brick" by Jethro Tull is basically the music composed to the long poem by unknown genius Gerald Bostock

"Nimrodel" by Camel (album "Mirage") has references to Tolkien

Dark Side Of The Moon, especially "Breathe" was inspired by John Updike's book about Rabbit.

"White Hammer" by Van Der Graaf Generator is about book "Maleus Maleficarum" about how to burn witches.

"Dancing With The Moonlit Knight", "Firth of Fifth" and "Cinema Show" are based on T.S. Eliot's "Waste Land"

"Grendel" by Marillion is basically "Beowulf" told from the monster's point of view

and wait a minute I shall send you the link to the website, where all the literary references in prog rock are shown.

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"Thick As A Brick" by Jethro Tull is basically the music composed to the long poem by unknown genius Gerald Bostock

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In this you're wrong, I'm afraid. Ian Anderson made that story up!

RaphaelT wrote:   "Thick As A Brick" by Jethro Tull is basically the music composed to the long poem by unknown genius Gerald Bostock

No, thats was just a joke...

Bo Hanson's Lord Of The Rings too - but there are a number of characters from LOR used by other musicians.

Red Barchetta, my favourite Rush tune, is based on a SF story.

C.S.Lewis's Narnia tales have been referenced by some including Steve Hackett (Please Don't Touch). The hymn music for Jersulem, based on a poem by the 18th/19th century socialist poet William Blake, has been progged by Emerson and Vangelis.

Songs from Bernstein's West Side Story (based on William Shakespeares Romeo and Juliette) have been attacked by many, e.g. Todd Rundgren, Chick Corea, Steve Vai, etc. (P.J.Proby).

"Nightfall in Middle Earth" - Blind Guardian (no prog)

(based on Tolkien's "Silmarillion")

"Non al denaro nè all'amore nè al cielo" - Fabrizio De André (italian)

from E L Masters "Spoon River"