Songs W/ Lit References

[AlexLikestoRock]

I want common lit though. Like high school style.
I'm burning a cd for my English teacher hahaaah
I told her about MC Lars and Mr. Raven, and she wants it, but i'm finding more!

i only have that
and

Rapeth [Foul is Fair]
and
Fable by Gatsby's American Dream
i just found that one and got so excited!

i want more!

I know Panic! has i lot of references, but it's not too good for English class. I dunno.

[Darren McLeod]

murder by death's latest album, out on the 23rd, references dante's inferno

[AlexLikestoRock]

i dont know the band or the book. damnit.

i want basic high school stuff! :]
thanks though!
ill check em both out.

[AlexLikestoRock]

apparently GAB's Why We Fight refers to The Great Gatsby hah wtf i need to read more

[Darren McLeod]

i dont know the band or the book. damnit.

i want basic high school stuff! :]
thanks though!
ill check em both out.
also, you said gatsby's.... their whole album ribbons and sugar references orville's animal farm

[AlexLikestoRock]

apparently GAB's Why We Fight refers to The Great Gatsby hah wtf i need to read more classic shit

[AlexLikestoRock]

also, you said gatsby's.... their whole album ribbons and sugar references orville's animal farm

daaamn ok great
i know that one!
8th grade! :]

[zbrmike79]

Pink Floyd's Animals is refrences to Animal Farm too

[zbrmike79]

oh
and The Receiving End of Sirens

most of their songs from the full-length have Shakespeare refrences

...Then I Defy You, Stars
The apparitions tango to the sound of their heels tapping.
A procession of prosthetic limbs and mannequins.
They're all perfect models of imperfection,
With marrow made of cellophane.

Strap on your ballroom best.
Breathe in and don't exhale.
Oh, Juliet! Oh, Juliet! Deny your name, your father.

Rearrange the cells that form my skin.
See them through kaleidoscope eyes.
Because everybody feigns sometimes.

Blur your eyes,
Romeo.
Bend the lines,
Romeo.
Do you like what you see?
Oh, Romeo

Where art thou?
I've dressed up this canvas skin; Painted something colorful just for you.
Self-inflicted surgery is now routine.
It erases all traces of faces we have all known; We have all owned.

Stretch me over this two-by-four skeleton

that ones a good example

[AlexLikestoRock]

ohh Shakespeare! thanks!

[radjerryrad]

mc lars has a song about moby dick on the new disc called "Ahab" if that helps any

[uglystar03]

Smashing Pumpkins have a song thats a huge allusion to Romeo and Juliet...

[KidLightning]

The Ataris "Unopened Letter To The World" is all about Emily Dickinson

Good Charlotte's "My Bloody Valentine" is also based on an Edgar Allan Poe work

Mastodon's entire album Leviathan is based on Moby Dick

Metallica's "The Call of Ktulu" was inspired by H.P. Lovecraft's "The Call of Cthulhu"

oh, and the title of Forgive Durden's "Beware The Jub Jub Bird and Shun the Frumious Bandersnatch" is from Lewis Carroll

[YouAreTheDishes]

Panic! At The Disco's "Time To Dance" is based entirely on Invisible Monsters by Chuck Palahniuk

a lot of Boys Night Out songs were inspired by JD Salinger work (Conner told me that himself)

[calciumwaste]

Gatsby's American Dream has tons of literary refences. Fable is probably best for that, but Speaker for the Dead is about Jurassic Park to name another.

[aolsux]

this is a cool idea for a mix, but other than those mentioned i have none others

[The Revisionist]

A majority of songs on the Greatest Story Ever Told by the Lawrence Arms reference literary works, they are noted in the back.

"On With The Show" = Markus Kretzmann's 'These Onion Eyes'.

"Fireflies" = Don Delillio's Mao2.

"the March of the Elephants" = Tobias Jeg's The Luddite, Abigail Horton's "The Colors of Disgrace".

"Chapter 13: the Hero Appears" = Mikhail Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita, Gustav Weyrink's The Golem.

"Hesitation Station" = Farth Winden's The Mask Within.

"The Ramblin' Boys of Pleasure" = June Morris's The Last Tour Of General Buncombe.

"A Wishful Puppeteer" = the author Bulgakov.

"The Disaster March" = J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye.


Or... I could've bypassed typing all that and told you that on their newest album Oh! Calcutta!, they have a track called "Are You There Margaret? It's Me, God".

[Rock]

first i thought you wanted songs that contain the word "lit." then i thought you wanted songs about being "lit." then i finally understood what you were actually looking for. even after all of this, though, i still can't help you.

[punkysmurf]

Good job on the Larry Arms...also The Disaster March when it says "Transformation is a dream" is a reference to Kafka. Actually, that whole album is just filled with literary references, multiple ones in each song.

[Neo Cassady]

"if you really want to hear about it..." by the ataris is a reference to catcher in the rye, along with the song's closing line, taken from the book's closing line: "don't ever tell anyone anything, or else you'll wind up missing everybody."

[beefhung]

green day - who wrote holden caufield (catcher in the rye)

[KaraOphelia]

"Gangsta's Paradise" by Coolio quotes the Bible. Hehe...that's all I think of. Nice theme!

[AlexLikestoRock]

Panic! At The Disco's "Time To Dance" is based entirely on Invisible Monsters by Chuck Palahniuk

a lot of Boys Night Out songs were inspired by JD Salinger work (Conner told me that himself)

SHIT thats awesome
ive been reading JD's bio written by his daughter
that man was prettyyy cool