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bobbyb5
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Location: New York
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- #1
- Posted: 08/27/2017 17:49
- Post subject: What songs are named after literary characters?
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Heres some famous fictional literary characters with songs named after them: what other ones are there?
Tales of Brave Ulysses. Cream
Tom Sawyer. Rush
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Tha1ChiefRocka
Yeah, well hey, I'm really sorry.
Location: Kansas
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bobbyb5
Gender: Male
Location: New York
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- #3
- Posted: 08/27/2017 19:34
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Heres some more
Don Quixote. Gordon Lightfoot
Waiting for Superman Flaming Lips
Superman. The Kinks
Prince Charming. Adam and the Ants
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CharlieBarley
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Age: 48
Location: Mount Olympus
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- #4
- Posted: 08/28/2017 02:19
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Good call.
I got:
Charlotte Sometimes - The Cure
Wuthering Heights - Kate Bush
White Rabbit - Jefferson Airplane
Romeo and Juliet - Dire Straits (sorry, a Shakespeare one, T1CR, BUT I LOVE THAT SONG)
Moby Dick - Led Zeppelin
Don Quixote - Nik Kershaw
Billy Budd - Morrissey
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bobbyb5
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Location: New York
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- #5
- Posted: 08/28/2017 02:33
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All you guys came up with some awesome ones
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Onater
Gender: Male
Age: 24
Location: Kelowna, BC, Canada
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- #6
- Posted: 08/28/2017 05:43
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| bobbyb5 wrote: |
Waiting for Superman Flaming Lips
Superman. The Kinks
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Going off of this, The Superman by David Bowie, Superman's Song by Crash Test Dummies, and Superman by R.E.M.
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indieshins
Age: 25
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- #7
- Posted: 08/28/2017 08:58
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Hey Orpheus/Oh Eurydice - Arcade Fire
Adam Raised a Cain/Ghost of Tom Joad - Bruce Springsteen (the Bible's still literature, right?)
Miss Macbeth/I Thought I'd Write to Juliet/Romeo's Seance - Elvis Costello
King Kunta - Kendrick Lamar
Things Fall Apart - The Roots (not a character, but I'm going to stretch it)
On that note : 2 + 2 = 5 - Radiohead and Soma - The Strokes/Smashing Pumpkins both reference literature, but not characters.
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CharlieBarley
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Age: 48
Location: Mount Olympus
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- #8
- Posted: 08/28/2017 09:56
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Two Smiths songs refer to literature:
Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others mentions Antony and Cleopatra
Sheila Take a Bow refers to playwright Shelagh Delaney who wrote A Taste of Honey, which Morrissey is obsessed with.
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indieshins
Age: 25
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- Posted: 08/28/2017 10:39
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| Stover75 wrote: | Two Smiths songs refer to literature:
Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others mentions Antony and Cleopatra
Sheila Take a Bow refers to playwright Shelagh Delaney who wrote A Taste of Honey, which Morrissey is obsessed with. |
Shakespeare's Sister as well - refers to Viriginia Woolf's essay A Room of One's Own, in which she imagines that Shakespeare had a sister as talented as he was, who couldn't get her plays performed or published because she was a woman. She ends up committing suicide. Given the lyrics of the song, it seems likely that's what it's referring to.
This is why doing Literature at uni is awesome!
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Jimmy Dread
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