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by **Analogue** » Mon Sep 25, 2006 3:42 pm

... or rather, literarily. I was wondering how many NW songs either interpret or allude to works of literature or poetry. Two that come to mind are 'Dream Within A Dream' by Propaganda and 'All In The Golden Afternoon' by Alphaville. Both provide an awesome musical score and accompanying vocals to classic written works. The first by Edgar Allan Poe and the latter, a poem which serves as a preface to Lewis Carroll's 'Alice's Adventures In Wonderland'.

by **DonGately** » Mon Sep 25, 2006 3:49 pm

Cemetary Gates by The Smiths.

Ol' Keates and Yates, they're on your side....

by **Frau_Blucher** » Mon Sep 25, 2006 8:50 pm

I'll regurg an obvious one... "that book by Nabokov" referring to Lolita by Vlidimir Nabokov in "Don't Stand So Close to Me".

by **hutter** » Mon Sep 25, 2006 9:07 pm

It's once removed, but Limahl's "Neverending Story" counts, right?

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by **waldnorm** » Mon Sep 25, 2006 11:52 pm

"The Sensual World"--Kate Bush (James Joyce's Ulysses)

by **plagiarism** » Tue Sep 26, 2006 12:03 am

"Wuthering Heights" - Kate Bush

by **egg-roger** » Tue Sep 26, 2006 3:14 am

Cure - Killing An Arab @ Camus - The Stranger

by **waldnorm** » Tue Sep 26, 2006 3:17 am

"The Kick Inside"--Kate Bush
"Mercy Street" (For Anne Sexton)--Peter Gabriel
"Hey Jack Kerouak"--10,000 Maniacs
"For Whom the Bell Tolls"--Fad Gadget
"King of the Flies"--Fad Gadget (for Lord of the Flies)
"The Infant Kiss"--Kate Bush (based on the film, The Innocents, based on Henry James' "The Turn of the Screw")

by **SomebodySomewhere** » Tue Sep 26, 2006 4:34 am

Burning Sensations - "Belly of the Whale" (The Hebrew Bible. I think. I don't know; it wasn't on my list of required reading.)

by **waldnorm** » Tue Sep 26, 2006 7:01 am

"Cloudbusting"--Kate Bush (Book of Dreams)
"The Stand"--Alarm (Steven King's novel)

by **birdmadgirl** » Tue Sep 26, 2006 7:33 am

Lots of Cure entries:

"At Night"--Franz Kafka (At Night)
"How Beautiful You Are"--Charles Baudelaire (The Eyes of the Poor)
"Treasure"--Christina Rossetti (Remember)
"Bananafishboes"--J.D. Salinger (Bananafishbones)

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by **My Aural Stimulator** » Tue Sep 26, 2006 10:02 am

"Opus IV" -- The Art of Noise ("November," by Thomas Hood)

by **iposse** » Tue Sep 26, 2006 12:18 pm

Big Audio Dynamite's "The Bottom Line" has a pair of Shakespeare references:

"...perchance to dream..." (from Hamlet)
"Romeo oh Romeo you gotta have your say"

Elvis Costello's "Man Out of Time" has references to Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse Five

Joy Division's "Interzone" is the original title of William S. Burrough's "Naked Lunch"

Morrissey has tons of references to Shakespeare

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