2006年 Jun 21日 Wednesday, 0:30

Hit me with some. I'm looking for songs about literary works/inspired by literary works or literary figures. Preferably streamable, but I'll make an exception to my usual uptight policy of only tagging streamable stuff, as I wouldn't mind having them as a reference list. So far I've got:

Wuthering Heights
Sun in My Mouth
Bernice Bobs Her Hair
Lucy
A Woman Of The World
Three Sisters
White Rabbit
1984
Diamond Dogs
A Rose For Emily
Colony
Killing an Arab
Cloudbusting
Avalon
Calypso
Houses in Motion
California
Fool On The Hill
I Am The Walrus
The Crying of Lot G
Riki Tiki Tavi
La Chanson de Prevert (only because the original Gainsbourg song isn't streamable)
Pauvre Lola
Angela Carter
Sympathy For the Devil

Albums:

Histoire De Melody Nelson
Hmm I'm not sure what The Raven is like, so I've just tentatively tagged the title track.

Some of these I found thanks to the Songs Inspired By Literature database. You can look up the works the songs are based on there.

Which have I read from the list?

Breakfast At Tiffany's('Woman of The World'), 1984, The Outsider ('Killing An Arab'), 'Bernice Bobs Her Hair'… umm I think that's it, maybe Wuthering Heights but I can't remember. And 'Lucy' is the only poem from there I'd previously sat down and read, but any song that is a poem put to music, you could technically count, as you've just had it read to you. ;)

Click here to listen to the tag.

Artist connections:
Serge Gainsbourg
April March
The Divine Comedy
Lou Reed
Jefferson Airplane
Donovan
The Beatles
David Bowie
The Cure
Joy Division
Kate Bush
Suzanne Vega
Talking Heads
Roxy Music
Jack Frost
The Rolling Stones