This is a list of songs that retell, in whole or in part, a work of literature. Albums listed here consist entirely of songs retelling a work of literature.
Albums
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!Album!!Musical artist!!Literary work!!Author!!Comments!!Citations
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|An Alien Heat, The Hollow Lands, and The End Of All Songs - Part 1||Spirits Burning & Michael Moorcock||The Dancers at the End of Time||||Three albums covering the three books of the trilogy.||
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|'||Kamelot||Faust||||The Black Halo is a concept album based on Faust, Part Two. It is a follow-up to Epica, which was based on Faust, Part One.||
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|Cacophony||Rudimentary Peni||||||All 30 tracks are related to Lovecraft or his work.||
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|'||Hawkwind||||||Based on aspects of the works of Moorcock, including Elric and Jerry Cornelius. Moorcock, who has appeared with the band on numerous occasions, does the narration on Live Chronicles.||
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|Dust and Dreams||Camel||'|||| ||
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|Epica||Kamelot||Faust||||Epica is a concept album based on Faust, Part One. It was followed by The Black Halo, which was based on Faust, Part Two.||
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|||Virgin Steele||Oresteia||Aeschylus||Two-part concept album based loosely on the Oresteia of Aeschylus||
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|Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of The War of the Worlds||||'|||| ||
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|I Robot||||I, Robot|||| ||
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|Journey to the Centre of the Earth||||Journey to the Centre of the Earth|||| ||
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|Leviathan||Mastodon||Moby-Dick|||| ||
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|'||Mägo de Oz||Don Quixote|||| ||
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|'||Hawkwind|||||| ||
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|Moby Dick or The Whale||||Moby-Dick|||| Concept album from written from the perspective of various characters in the novel ||
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|Music Inspired by The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe|| ||'|||| ||
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|Seventh Son of a Seventh Son||Iron Maiden||Seventh Son|||| ||
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|Shakespeare's Macbeth – A Tragedy in Steel||Rebellion||Macbeth|||| ||
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|Smallcreeps's Day||||Smallcreep's Day|||| ||
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|'||Camel||The Snow Goose: A Story of Dunkirk|||| ||
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|'||||The Songs of Distant Earth|||| ||
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|Tales of Mystery and Imagination|||||||| ||
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|'||Rebellion||King Lear|||| ||
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Songs
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!Song!!Album!!Musical artist!!Literary work!!Author!!Comments!!Citations
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|"7th Step"||Songs Inspired by Literature, Chapter One||||Angela's Ashes|||| ||
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|"40"||War||U2|||| || ||
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|"1984"||Diamond Dogs||||Nineteen Eighty-Four||||One of several songs that Bowie wrote about Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four; Bowie had also hoped to produce a televised musical based on the book.||
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|"2112"||2112||Rush||Anthem||||Song shares themes with the novel, such that Neil Peart recognized Rand in the album's liner notes.||
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|"Abigail"||Creatures||Motionless in White||'|||| ||
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|"Achilles, Agony and Ecstasy in Eight Parts"||'||Manowar||'||Homer||A retelling of the fight between Hector and Achilles||
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|"Adam's Apple"||Toys in the Attic||Aerosmith|||| ||Retells the biblical story of the Fall of man through the perspective of Adam and Eve's discovery of their own sexuality.||
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|"Afternoons and Coffeespoons"||God Shuffled His Feet||Crash Test Dummies||||||Adapts elements of the T. S. Eliot poem. ||
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|"Ahab"||'||MC Lars||Moby-Dick||||Retells the story of Moby-Dick from the perspective of Captain Ahab.||
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|"Alice"||Every Trick in the Book||Ice Nine Kills||Go Ask Alice|||| ||
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|"All I Wanna Do"||Tuesday Night Music Club|||||||| ||
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|"All Is Not Well"||'||||Wicked|||| ||
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|"All Nightmare Long"||Death Magnetic||Metallica|||||| ||
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|"All Quiet On The Western Front"||Jump Up!||||All Quiet on the Western Front|||| ||
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|"Alone"||Acoustic Verses||Green Carnation||Alone|||| ||
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|"Among the Living"||Among the Living||Anthrax||'|||| ||
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|||Blessed Are the Sick||Morbid Angel||||||Based on The Call of Cthulhu, as well as the rest of the Cthulhu Mythos. An earlier version of this song, named "Azagthoth", appeared on the band's demo album, Abominations of Desolation.||
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|"And Your Little Dog Too"||'||||Wicked|||| ||
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|"Animal in Man"||Let's Get Free||dead prez||Animal Farm|||| ||
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|"Anthem"||Fly by Night||Rush||Anthem||||Loosely based on the Rand novel; The band would produce a fuller version in 2112.||
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|||Two Sides of Leonard Nimoy|||||||| ||
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|||Songs Inspired by Literature, Chapter Two||||Nothing Like It in the World||||Relates the story of "Poker" Alice Ivers||
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|||Barometer Soup||||Tourist Season||||A song about the character Skip Wiley from Hiaasen's 1986 novel.||
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|"Banana Co."|| ||Radiohead||One Hundred Years of Solitude|||| ||
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|"Las Batallas"||Café Tacuba||Café Tacuba||Las batallas en el desierto|||| ||
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|||Led Zeppelin IV||Led Zeppelin||'|||| ||
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|"Behind the Wall of Sleep"||Black Sabbath||Black Sabbath|||||| ||
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|"Bernice Bobs Her Hair"||Liberation||||Bernice Bobs Her Hair|||| ||
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|"Big Brother"||Diamond Dogs||||Nineteen Eighty-Four||||One of several songs that Bowie wrote about Orwell.||
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|"Billy Liar"||Her Majesty the Decemberists||||Billy Liar|||| ||
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|"Birthing Addicts"
|Unreleased
|Melanie Martinez
|Go Ask Alice
|Beatrice Sparks
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|"Black Blade"||Cultösaurus Erectus||Blue Öyster Cult||Elric of Melniboné|||| ||
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|"Black Corridor"||Space Ritual||Hawkwind|||||| ||
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|"Bloodbath & Beyond"||Every Trick in the Book||Ice Nine Kills||Dracula|||| ||
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|"Bob's Country"||Songs Inspired by Literature, Chapter Two||||Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight|||| ||
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|"Brave New World"||Brave New World||Iron Maiden||Brave New World|||| ||
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|||Ride the Lightning|| Metallica|||||| ||
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|"Calypso"||Solitude Standing||||'||Homer||"Written from the point of view of the sea nymph who helps Odysseus after he is shipwrecked."||
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|||Tales of Mystery and Imagination|||||||| ||
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|"Cassandra"|| ||ABBA||'||Homer|| ||
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|"Catcher in the Rye"||Distortland|||||||| ||
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|"Cent'anni di solitudine"||Terra e libertà||Modena City Ramblers||One Hundred Years of Solitude|||| ||
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|"Chapter 24"||'||Pink Floyd||I Ching|| || ||
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|"Chapter Four"||Waking the Fallen||Avenged Sevenfold|||| ||The title refers to the fourth chapter of Genesis.||
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|"Charlotte Sometimes"||Faith||||Charlotte Sometimes|||| ||
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|"Child of the Jago"||'||Kaiser Chiefs|||||| ||
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|"Children of the Damned"||'||Iron Maiden||Midwich Cuckoos||||Also based on two of the film adaptations of that book: Village of the Damned and Children of the Damned||
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|"Christabel"||No Kinda Dancer||||Christabel|||| ||
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|"Cometh Down Hessian"||Blessed Black Wings||High on Fire|||||| ||
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|"Communion of the Cursed"||Every Trick in the Book||Ice Nine Kills||'|||| ||
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|"Courage (for Hugh MacLennan)"||Fully Completely|||||||| ||
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|"Crown of Creation"||Crown of Creation||Jefferson Airplane|||||| ||
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|"Curse of Athena"||Atavism||||'||Homer||About Odysseus's return to Ithaca.||
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|"Dalai Lama"||Reise, Reise||Rammstein||Erlkönig|||| ||
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|"Damnation Alley"||Quark, Strangeness and Charm||Hawkwind||Damnation Alley|||| ||
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|"Dante's Inferno"||Burnt Offerings||Iced Earth||Inferno|||| ||
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|||Systematic Chaos||Dream Theater|||||| ||
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|||Nemesis Divina||Satyricon|||| || ||
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|"Dead"||Doolittle||Pixies|||| ||Refurbishes the biblical legend of David and Bathsheba.||
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|"Dixieland"|||| & The Del McCoury Band|||||| ||
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|"Don Quixote"||Don Quixote||||Don Quixote|||| ||
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|"Doublespeak"||Beggars||Thrice||Nineteen-Eighty-Four|||| ||
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|||Faith||||Gormenghast|||| ||
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|"Dunwich"||Witchcult Today||Electric Wizard|||||| ||
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|"Edema Ruh"||Endless Forms Most Beautiful||Nightwish|||||| ||
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|"Einstein's Brain"||Songs Inspired by Literature, Chapter One||||Driving Mr. Albert|||| ||
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|"Elvenpath"||Angels Fall First||Nightwish||'|||| ||
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|"End of the Night"||'||||Journey to the End of the Night|||| ||
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|"Envoi"||Absynthe Minded||Absynthe Minded|||||| ||
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|"Eumaeus the Swineherd"||Atavism||||'||Homer|| ||
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|"Eveline"||Why Should the Fire Die?||Nickel Creek||Eveline|||| ||
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|"Exit Music (For a Film)"||OK Computer||Radiohead||Romeo & Juliet|||| ||
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|"Fable"||Volcano||Gatsbys American Dream||Lord of the Flies|||| ||
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|"Flower of the Mountain"||Director's Cut||||Ulysses||||The 1989 Kate Bush song The Sensual World was based on the closing paragraphs of Ulysses. However, the Joyce estate was unwilling to allow direct use of Joyce's words at that time, so she altered the lyrics. By 2011, the Joyce estate was open to licensing his work to her, so she re-worked that song as Flower of the Mountain, using Molly Bloom's soliloquy from Ulysses.||
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|"For Whom the Bell Tolls"||Ride the Lightning||Metallica ||For Whom the Bell Tolls|||| ||
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|"Frankenstein"||Horror Show||Iced Earth||Frankenstein|||| ||
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|"Franz Kafka"|| ||Scäb||||||A fictional rock opera by the fictional band Scäb from the cartoon series Home Movies.||
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|"From the Underworld"||Paradise Lost|||||| ||Loosely based on the Greek legend of Orpheus and Eurydice||
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|||Days Go By||||Nineteen Eighty-Four|||| ||
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|""||'|||||||| ||
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|||Vansinnesvisor||Thyrfing|||||| ||
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|"Golden Hair"||'|||||||| ||
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|"Grandpa's Groove"
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|The Old Man and the Sea
|Ernest Hemingway
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|"Grendel"|| ||Marillion||Grendel||||A retelling of John Gardner's 1971 novel Grendel, which is a retelling of Beowulf.||
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|"Hallelujah"||Various Positions|||||| ||Based on the biblical story of David and Bathsheba. It also incorporates elements of the story of Samson and Delilah||
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|"Haunted"||Haunted||Poe||House of Leaves||||"Haunted" by Poe and the novel House of Leaves by her brother, Mark Danielewski, both draw heavily on their difficult experiences growing up with their father, Tad Danielewski.||
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|"He Can't Come Today"||'||||Waiting for Godot|||| ||
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|"Hedda Gabler"||Animal Justice||||Hedda Gabler|||| ||
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|"Hell in the Hallways"||Every Trick in the Book||Ice Nine Kills||Carrie|||| ||
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|"Hey (rise of the robots)"||Black and White||||I, Robot|||| ||
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|"Hey Ahab"||'||Elton John & Leon Russell||Moby-Dick||||Based on the character Captain Ahab.||
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|"Hey There Ophelia"||This Gigantic Robot Kills||MC Lars||Hamlet|||| ||
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|"High Rise"||PXR5||Hawkwind||High-Rise|||| ||
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|"Home at Last"||Aja||Steely Dan||'||Homer||Retells Ulysses' encounter with the Sirens.||
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|"Horrorshow"|| ||Scars|||||| ||
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|"House at Pooh Corner"||Uncle Charlie & His Dog Teddy||Nitty Gritty Dirt Band||'||||This song, written by Kenny Loggins, was later performed by Loggins and Messina on their 1971 album Sittin' In. In 1994, Loggins added additional lyrics and re-recorded it with Amy Grant as Return to Pooh Corner for his album Return to Pooh Corner.||
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|"House of Leaves"||Juturna||Circa Survive||House of Leaves|||| ||
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|"How Beautiful You Are"||Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me|||||||| ||
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|"Hug Me til You Drug Me"||Here, Here and Here||Meg & Dia||Brave New World|||| ||
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|"I Can't Let You In"||'||||Wicked|||| ||
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|"I Robot"|| ||U.K. Subs||I, Robot|||| ||
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|"In Every Dream Home a Heartache"||For Your Pleasure||Roxy Music|||||| ||
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|"In Like a Lion (Always Winter)"||Apathetic EP||Relient K||'|||| ||
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|""||'||Monks of Doom||'|||| ||
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|||Quark, Strangeness and Charm||Hawkwind||'|||| ||
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|"It Was Her House That Killed Nessarose"||'||||Wicked|||| ||
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|"Jack of Shadows"|| ||Hawkwind||Jack of Shadows|||| ||
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|"Jamaica Inn"||'||||Jamaica Inn|||| ||
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|"Jean Val Jean"|| ||Edison Glass||Les Misérables|||| ||
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|"Killing an Arab"|| ||||'|||| ||
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|"Land"||Horses||||'|||| ||
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|||Songs Inspired by Literature, Chapter One||||||Homer|| ||
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|"Lay Down"||Bursting at the Seams||Strawbs|||| || ||
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|||Songs Inspired by Literature, Chapter One|||||||| ||
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|"Let it Show"||'||||Wicked|||| ||
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|"Listen (The Silences)"||Songs Inspired by Literature, Chapter Two||||Raids on the Unspeakable|||| ||
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|"Lolita"||'||Elefant||Lolita|||| ||
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|||Somewhere in Time||Iron Maiden||'|||| ||
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|||'||Iron Maiden||'|||| ||
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|"Lord of Light"||Doremi Fasol Latido||Hawkwind||Lord of Light|||| ||
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|"Lord of the Flies"||'||Iron Maiden||Lord of the Flies|||| ||
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|"Lost Boy"|| ||||Peter Pan|||| ||
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|"Love and Death"||Dream Harder||||Love and Death|||| ||
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|"Love and Destroy"|| ||Franz Ferdinand||'|||| ||
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|"Lucy"||Liberation|||||||| ||
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|||Standing in the Light||Level 42|||||| ||
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|"Macondo"|| ||||One Hundred Years of Solitude||||Based on the fictional town Macondo, used by Marquez in One Hundred Years of Solitude and other of his works.||
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|"Martin Eden"|| ||||Martin Eden|||| ||
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|"Magnu"||Warrior on the Edge of Time||Hawkwind|||||| ||
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|"Matilda"||Harry's House||||Matilda|||| ||
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|"Me, Myself & Hyde"||Every Trick in the Book||Ice Nine Kills||'|||| ||
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|||'||Thrice|||| ||Retells the story of The Fall of Icarus||
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|"Misery Loves Company"||State of Euphoria||Anthrax||Misery|||| ||
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|"Moi... Lolita"||Gourmandises||Alizée||Lolita|||| ||
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|"Moon over Bourbon Street"||'||Sting||Interview with the Vampire||||About the character Louis de Pointe du Lac.||
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|"Mr. Raven"|| ||MC Lars|||||| ||
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|||Fireball||Deep Purple||Foundation series||||Based on the character "The Mule" from the Foundation series.||
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|"Murders in the Rue Morgue"||Killers||Iron Maiden|||||| ||
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|"My Antonia"||Red Dirt Girl|| with Dave Matthews||My Antonia||||Told from the perspective of the character Jim Burden.||
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|"Narcissist"||'||||'||||Loosely based on the character of Dorian Gray.||
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|"Narnia"||Please Don't Touch!||||'|||| ||
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|||Every Trick in the Book||Ice Nine Kills||Animal Farm|||| ||
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|||Caress of Steel||Rush|||||| ||
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|"Nescio" ||Omsk||Nits|| ' || Nescio || Song is mainly inspired by the novella's ending, when protagonist Japi jumps off the Waalbrug. In the song, however, Japi does not drown but is implied to have ended up in Italy. ||
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|"Nice, Nice, Very Nice"||Ambrosia||Ambrosia||Cat's Cradle||||Lyrics taken almost verbatim from the poem in chapter 2 (and the bridge from the one on chapter 58) ||
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|"No Love Lost"||'||Joy Division||'||Ka-tzetnik 135633|| ||
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|"November Rain"||Use Your Illusion I||Guns N' Roses||||||The video for "November Rain" is loosely based on the short story "Without You". Axl Rose wrote the introduction to James's 1995 collection The Language of Fear, which included "Without You".||
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|||'||Symphony X||'||Homer||A seven-part song based on Homer's The Odyssey||
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|"Of Unsound Mind"||Blessing in Disguise||Metal Church|||||| ||
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|"Off to the Races"||Born to Die||||Lolita|||| ||
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|"Ol' Evil Eye"||Riddle Box||Insane Clown Posse|||||| ||
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|"One"||'||Metallica||Johnny Got His Gun|||| ||
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|"Oor Hamlet"||'||||Hamlet|||| ||
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|"Orestes"||Mer de Noms||||'||Aeschylus|| ||
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|"Owen Meaney"||Let's Talk About Feelings||Lagwagon|||||| ||
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|"Ozymandias"|| |||||||| ||
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|"Pantagruel's Nativity"||Acquiring the Taste||Gentle Giant||Gargantua and Pantagruel|||| ||
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|"Patrick Bateman"|| ||Manic Street Preachers||American Psycho|||| ||
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|"Pattern Recognition"||Sonic Nurse||Sonic Youth||Pattern Recognition|||| ||
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|"Paula Ausente (Absent Paula)"||Songs Inspired by Literature, Chapter Two||||Paula|||| ||
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|"Pennsylvania" ||Songs Inspired by Literature, Chapter Two||||Songmaster|||| ||
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|"Pennywise"||Pennywise||Pennywise||It||||About the character Pennywise.||
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|||Every Trick in the Book||Ice Nine Kills|||||| ||
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|"Pet Sematary"||Brain Drain||Ramones||Pet Sematary|||| ||
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|||Iron Maiden||Iron Maiden||'|||| ||
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|||William Bloke|||||||| ||
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|||Every Trick in the Book||Ice Nine Kills||Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors|||| ||
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|"Popular"||High/Low||Nada Surf||Penny's Guide to Teen-Age Charm and Popularity|||| ||
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|"Prince Caspian"||Billy Breathes||Phish||Prince Caspian|||| ||
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|"Quelque chose de Tennessee"||Rock'n'Roll Attitude||||Cat on a Hot Tin Roof|||| ||
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|"Ramble On"||Led Zeppelin II||Led Zeppelin||'||||Mentions characters and places from Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, including "Mordor" and "Gollum".||
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|"Rebecca"||Something Real||Meg & Dia||Rebecca|||| ||
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|"ReJoyce"||After Bathing at Baxter's||Jefferson Airplane||Ulysses|||| ||
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|"Richard Cory"||Sounds of Silence|||||||| ||
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|"Rime of the Ancient Mariner"||Powerslave||Iron Maiden||'|||| ||
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|"Rivendell"||Fly by Night||Rush||'||||The song is about the fictional valley Rivendell from Tolkien's works.||
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|"Robot"|| ||Hawkwind||||||Refers to the Three Laws of Robotics.||
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|"Romeo and Juliet"||Making Movies||Dire Straits||Romeo and Juliet||||The Dire Straits songs makes use of certain aspects of Shakespeare's play, as well as elements of some of the play's stage and screen adaptations. It also purposely diverges from the play's plot and characterizations in certain respects (such as Juliet's reaction to being approached by Romeo).||
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|"Rusty James"||'||Green Day||Rumble Fish||||The song is named for the protagonist of the novel.||
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|"Sailing to Philadelphia"||Sailing to Philadelphia||||Mason & Dixon|||| ||
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|"Saint Veronika"||Billy Talent III||||Veronika Decides to Die|||| ||
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|"Samson"||Songs<br />Begin to Hope|||||| ||References the biblical story of Samson and Delilah.||
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|"Scentless Apprentice"||In Utero||Nirvana||Perfume: The Story of a Murderer|||| ||
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|""||'||||Ulysses||||The 1989 Kate Bush song The Sensual World was based on the closing paragraphs of Ulysses. However, the Joyce estate was unwilling to allow direct use of Joyce's words at that time, so she altered the lyrics. By 2011, the Joyce estate was open to licensing his work to her, so she re-worked that song as Flower of the Mountain, using Molly Bloom's soliloquy from Ulysses.||
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|"Shadows and Tall Trees"||Boy||U2||Lord of the Flies|||| ||
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|"Sigh No More"||Sigh No More||Mumford and Sons||Much Ado About Nothing|||| ||
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|"Sirens of Titan"||Modern Times|||||||| ||
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|||Among the Living||Anthrax||Apt Pupil|||| ||
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|"So Said Kay"||Coastal||||Desert of the Heart||Jane Rule||The song is based on Donna Deitch's 1985 film Desert Hearts, which is an adaptation of Rule's novel.||
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|"Soma"||Is This It||||Brave New World||||Refers to the fictional drug used in Brave New World.||
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|"Song For Clay"||'||Bloc Party||Less than Zero|||| ||
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|"Star-Crossed Enemies"||Every Trick in the Book||Ice Nine Kills||Romeo and Juliet|||| ||
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|"Steppenwolf"||Astounding Sounds, Amazing Music||Hawkwind||Steppenwolf|||| ||
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|"Still Life"||Piece of Mind||Iron Maiden|||||| ||
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|"Such a Shame"||It's My Life||Talk Talk|||||| ||
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|"Sweet Thursday"||Songs We Sing||||Sweet Thursday|||| ||
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|"Sympathy for the Devil"||Beggars Banquet||||'|||| ||
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|""||'|||||| || ||
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|"Tales of Brave Ulysses"||Disraeli Gears||Cream||'||Homer|| ||
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|"Tea in the Sahara"||Synchronicity||||'||||King Crimson also has an instrumental called "The Sheltering Sky", named for the same book.||
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|"Tell Your Story Walking"||'||||Motherless Brooklyn|||| ||
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|"Tess-Timony"||Every Trick in the Book||Ice Nine Kills||Tess of the d'Urbervilles|||| ||
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|"Thieves in the Night"||Mos Def & Talib Kweli Are Black Star||Black Star||||||Talib Kweli wrote in the album's liner notes that The Bluest Eye "...struck me as one of the truest critiques of our society, and I read that in high school when I was 15 years old. I think it is especially true in the world of hip-hop, because we get blinded by these illusions."||
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|||Master of Puppets||Metallica|||||| ||
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|"Three Sisters"||Liberation||||Three Sisters|||| ||
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|"Time to Dance"|| ||Panic! at the Disco||Invisible Monsters|||| ||
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|"To Tame a Land"||Piece of Mind||Iron Maiden||Dune|||| ||
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|"Tread Softly"||Songs Inspired by Literature, Chapter Two|||| |||| ||
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|||Piece of Mind||Iron Maiden|||||| ||
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|"Turn! Turn! Turn!"|| |||||| ||Notably covered by The Byrds; Takes its lyrics from chapter three of the Book of Ecclesiastes||
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|"T'Was Her Hunger Brought Me Down"||Songs Inspired by Literature, Chapter One||||Sister Carrie|||| ||
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|"United States of Eurasia"||'||Muse||Nineteen Eighty-Four|||| ||
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|||Album Title Goes Here||Deadmau5||'|||| ||
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|"Venus in Furs"||'||||Venus in Furs|||| ||
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|"Walking on the Chinese Wall"||Chinese Wall||||Dream of the Red Chamber||Cao Xueqin|| ||
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|"We Are the Dead"||Diamond Dogs||||Nineteen Eighty-Four||||One of several songs Bowie wrote about Nineteen Eighty-Four||
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|"When the War Came"|| ||||Hunger|||| ||
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|"White Rabbit"||Surrealistic Pillow||Jefferson Airplane||Alice in Wonderland|||| ||
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|"William, It Was Really Nothing"||Hatful of Hollow||||Billy Liar|||| ||
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|"Willie Burke Sherwood"||R.A.P. Music||Killer Mike||Lord of the Flies|||| ||
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|"Windmills"||Dulcinea||Toad the Wet Sprocket||Don Quixote|||| ||
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|"Winston Smith Takes It on the Jaw"||Oblivion||Utopia||Nineteen Eighty-Four|||| ||
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|"Wuthering Heights"||'||||Wuthering Heights|||| ||
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|"Wonderland"||1989||||Alice's Adventures in Wonderland|||| ||
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|"Xanadu"||'||Rush|||||| ||
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|"Yes!"||Naked||Amber||Ulysses||||Lyrics include part of Molly Bloom's soliloquy||
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|"Don Quixote"
|Face the Sun
|Seventeen
|Don Quixote
|Miguel de Cervantes
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See also
- List of songs based on a film
- Wizard rock