songs with refrences to books or movies

[hienz429]

any ideas?

[Hamlet]

Panic at the Disco's first album.

[JJJ]

came to say that ^

[checkered.stars]

Showbread- 'Welcome to Plainfield, Tobe Hooper' (refers to the director to the Texas Chainsaw Massacre)
Showbread- 'George Romero Will Be At Our Wedding' (refers to the director of Night of the Living Dead)
Cursive- 'Driftwood: A Fairytale' (refers to Pinocchio)

[wewascontenders]

Streetlight Manifesto - Here's to Life (mentions Holden Calfield and JD Salinger)

[Anderson]

Evergreen Terrace - No Donnie, These Men Are Nihilists
Casey Jones - No Donnie, These Men Are Straight Edge
Daggermouth - The Dude Just Wants His Rug Back (All The Big Lebowski)
Parkway Drive - Looks Like Yoda (Empire Strikes Back)
Send More Paramedics - All their stuff is inspired by George Romero movies
Bloodhound Gang - The Bad Touch (X-Files)
Blink 182 - A New Hope (Star Wars)
Beastie Boys - Sure Shot (Got more action than my man John Woo)
Paint It Black - Atticus Finch

[mx41]

How I go -Yellowcard (about the movie Big Fish)

[OtherBen]

barenaked ladies - one week (refers to kurosawa films, amongst others)

[xlasthopex]

hawthorne heights - niki fm (refers to the movie say anything)

[Momo32T]

Gastbys American Dream- Fable (refers to book Lord Of The Flies)

[leezer]

Deep blue something - Breakfast at tiffanys. Explains itself

[leezer]

Kinda off the theme but Brand new's original version of aloc acoc was called lions or something like that and had completely different lyrics, which were inspired by Rudyard Kiplings 'if'. I think

[heeeeeey]

playradioplay- sometimes i doubt your commitment to sparkle motion (donnie darko)
gatsbys american dream - "speaker for the dead" and "the giant's drink" (ender's game)
"my name is ozymandias" (ozymandias)
mary lou lord - "i don't wanna get over you" (mentions Camus)
anberlin - a heavy hearted work of staggering genius (dave egger's A Heartbreaking Work of
Staggering Genius)
Jeff Buckley - "hallelujiah" (samson/delilah... the Bible?)
the audition - "dance halls turn to ghost towns" (dr. jekyll and mr. hyde)
coheed and cambria - "cassiopeia" (greek mythology)
dire straits - "romeo and juliet"
fall out boy - "champagne for my real friends, real pain for my sham friends" (25th hour)
nightmare of you - thumbelina
northstar or off by one - cinderella
rooney - daisy duke
santogold - my superman
sarah bareilles - fairytale (snow white, cinderella, etc)
team america world police - pearl harbor sucks

and LFO's summer girls is a gold mine:
"i like kevin bacon but i hate footloose"
"macauley coulkin wasn't home alone
"michael j. fox was alex p. keaton"

[Neo Cassady]

The Ataris - "So Long, Astoria," "If You Really Want to Hear About It," and "Up Up Down Down..."

[sunflowerradio]

"Lillian, Egypt" - Josh Ritter. Allusions to Huck Finn.

[Sammiwithani]

our lady peace - all for you ("jack kerouac on the road and in my head")

[Iwudstilldie4u]

I think everything by Meg and Dia, but if not, I'm sure "Monster" and "Courage Robert" are based on books.

[googirl8907]

I think everything by Meg and Dia, but if not, I'm sure "Monster" and "Courage Robert" are based on books.
Really? I didn't know that.

[Iwudstilldie4u]

Actually, I was wrong. I quick visit to Meg and Dia's wikipedia page will tell you all the songs based on books, which include "Monster" but not "Courage Robert."

[adam289]

Bob Dylan - Desolation Row, Just Like Tom Thumbs Blues

[FayeQC]

Nirvana's 'Scentless Apprentice' is about the book Perfume

[putup or shutup]

pretty much anything by brand new

sic transit gloria is a reference to rushmore
sowing season has if by rudyard kipling in it
pretty much everything on tdag have references to the bible.

also: i'm stoked i found this thread. i need 50 allusions for school tomorrow. thanks to brand new, i'm almost done, but more are always good.

[Lirr168]

Off the top of my head:

The Hold Steady - Stuck Between Stations is a reference to On the Road
MCS - Calling All Cops references Transformers
Eve 6 - Rescue references Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Four Year Strong - Heroes Get Remembered, Legends Never Die is a line from The Sandlot

I'll think of more.

[kafe]

Green Day - Who Wrote Holden Caulfield
some Fall of Troy songs i guess :shrug:
Alexisonfire - That Girl Possessed (about the girl in the Exorcist)
Alexisonfire - .44 Caliber Love Letter (from a line in Blue Velvet)

[Mynor]

(Classic) Fall Out Boy- Growing Up

reference to the movie Rushmore

[hf57]

circa survive = eternal sunshine of the spotless mind

[Mynor]

circa survive = eternal sunshine of the spotless mind

Ahh, also Backseat Goodbye then!

[dcase06]

+44 chapter 13 = dante's inferno

[ABL0W]

alkaline trio - sadie

in reference to the book helter skelter about charles manson

[decisionpending]

Of Montreal - The Past Is A Grotesque Animal references Batille (sp?) who wrote The Story of the Eye, one of the most shocking books I have ever read.

[PleasureRyland]

circa survive = eternal sunshine of the spotless mind


whats the name of the song?

[adam289]

Bob Dylan - Bob Dylan's 115th Dream

[hf57]

whats the name of the song?

well theres references to it throughout the Juturna album, most notably in wish resign and meet me in montauk though.

[jster2000]

misty mountain hop-led zepplin (the hobbit)

[SteveD]

Bayside - Montauk (Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind)
Four Year Strong - Vash: The Stampede (Trigun)
MC Lars - Mr. Raven (The Raven)
Chiodos has tons of stuff throughout their catalogue as well.

[Laur3l]

playradioplay- sometimes i doubt your commitment to sparkle motion (donnie darko)
gatsbys american dream - "speaker for the dead" and "the giant's drink" (ender's game)
"my name is ozymandias" (ozymandias)
mary lou lord - "i don't wanna get over you" (mentions Camus)
anberlin - a heavy hearted work of staggering genius (dave egger's A Heartbreaking Work of
Staggering Genius)
Jeff Buckley - "hallelujiah" (samson/delilah... the Bible?)
the audition - "dance halls turn to ghost towns" (dr. jekyll and mr. hyde)
coheed and cambria - "cassiopeia" (greek mythology)
dire straits - "romeo and juliet"
fall out boy - "champagne for my real friends, real pain for my sham friends" (25th hour)
nightmare of you - thumbelina
northstar or off by one - cinderella
rooney - daisy duke
santogold - my superman
sarah bareilles - fairytale (snow white, cinderella, etc)
team america world police - pearl harbor sucks

and LFO's summer girls is a gold mine:
"i like kevin bacon but i hate footloose"
"macauley coulkin wasn't home alone
"michael j. fox was alex p. keaton"


suckerpunch by envy on the coast refrences dr. jekyll and mr hyde too

[takeiteasy_]

brand new - degausser (donnie darko)

[Konfusion28]

basically all of Chiodo's bone palace ballet but mostly Teeth the size of piano keys is a allusion to bukowski and takes parts of his poem im in love

[Sammiwithani]

brand new - degausser (donnie darko)

stupid question, but where in the song is the donnie darko reference? i never picked up on it...

[takeiteasy_]

stupid question, but where in the song is the donnie darko reference? i never picked up on it...

When it says, "The storm is coming". I'm pretty sure there are more parts too but I haven't seen the movie in a while.

[Un'Aria Ancora]

William Blake - The Tyger and Circa Survive - Mandala
Bruce Springsteen's "The Ghost of Tom Joad"... you know.
The Sound Of Animals Fighting - Act III and Peter Pan.

[lillie6]

pretty much anything by brand new

sic transit gloria is a reference to rushmore
sowing season has if by rudyard kipling in it
pretty much everything on tdag have references to the bible.

also: i'm stoked i found this thread. i need 50 allusions for school tomorrow. thanks to brand new, i'm almost done, but more are always good.

also, "okay I believe you, but my tommy gun don't" is actually a line in home alone

[lillie6]

Spores - Say Anything ("I was watching Demolition Man")
Baby Seat - Barenaked Ladies ("I'll renounce Jack Kerouac")

[c_rob2700]

Yellowcard/How I Go (whole song is about the movie "Big Fish")

[isubird33]

Motion City Soundtrack- Antonia (She's scared to death of cobra snakes, just like Indiana Jones)

[thebestkylever]

weezer references On The Road by Jack Keroac in their song 'holiday.'

the hold steady's 'stuck between stations' and okkervil river's 'john allyn smith sails' are both about late poet john berryman.

[isubird33]

would Bukowski by Modest Mouse be too obvious?

[kaelynn]

chiodos has a lot of romeo and juliet in it.
like, in bulls make money, bears make money, pigs get slaughtered when they say,
"has my heart loved until now, 'cause i feel as though i've never seen beauty till the night. i'm forever, yeah i'm forever yours" that's from it.

but there's stuff from that play in a lot of their songs.
(:

[WarpedFan52]

don't know if this has been posted, doubt it since it's very odd but "Lotion" by Greenskeepers is great and somewhat hilarious, entire song is about The Silence of the Lambs

[YourFalseHope]

The Crimson by Atreyu

Anne Rice referance and a quote from Interview With A Vampire