songs with literary references in them

>>73351646
>David Bowie - 1984
>Kate Bush - Sensual World
>Jefferson Airplane - White Rabbit

>>73352054
>Police - Don't Stand So Close to Me
>Velvet Underground - Venus In Furs
>The Cure - Killing An Arab

>>73351646
Why are you trying to fuck your english teacher?

>>73351646
Of Montreal - The Past Is A Grotesque Animal

Reading Nausea in a tent with a girl named Sasha and I'm bent
You should ask your nigga about his debts
Reading Nausea in a tent with a girl named Sasha and I'm bent
You should ask your nigga about his debts

wait why are you doing this OP? is your english teacher a qt?

Get ready for a metal dump man

Iron Maiden, “Rime of the Ancient Mariner”
Rime of the Ancient Mariner
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7zk4as9kzA&ab_channel=remotenightowl
It takes direct quotes from the book and summarizes it basically

Mastodon, “Blood and Thunder”
Moby Dick
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-Su1YXQYek&ab_channel=Knightmare910
Takes the point of view of Captain Ahab with lines such as "Split your lungs with blood and thunder when you see the white whale", "The fight for this fish is a fight to the death
White whale - holy grail"

Metallica (I know, but this is when they were good) "“The Thing That Should Not Be”
The Call of Cthulhu
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYJGt67Mwmo&ab_channel=MegaHermansen
"Fearless wretch
Insanity
He watches
Lurking beneath the sea
Great old one
Forbidden site
He searches
Hunter of the shadows is rising
Immortal
In madness you dwell"

Metallica, “For Whom the Bell Tolls”
For Whom the Bell Tows
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bg92QpjRcJk&ab_channel=nathanbehar101
The whole song takes on Hemingway's point of view during the Spanish Civil War

Blind Guardian, "Nightfall in Middle-earth"
Lord of the Rings, of course
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMcBOvOuhoY&ab_channel=StormRajder
The whole album is a tribute to the trilogy.

The Great Old Ones - Je ne suis pas fou (Antarctica)
Mountains of Madness
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-J_iCrjW0U&ab_channel=Rainmaker2212
In French, so may or may not be useful

Iced Earth, "Dante's Inferno"
Dante's Inferno
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-S7MF6xhb4&ab_channel=MetallicaLord14
Probably the tamest song on this list.
"Abandon all hope who enter here
Enter the gates, Charon awaits

Abandon all hope who enter here
For this is where all things are left behind
Every doubt and every cowardice must die
Souls of rage and anger whipping in despair"
Basically a retelling of the Divine Comedy

Need me to go on? I hope this helps

AND WHEN SHE DIED
I COULDN'T CRY
THE PRIDE WITHIN MY SOUUUUUUUUUL

side note, train to busan is overrated as fuck why won't people shut up about this film?

>>73352151
>>73352239
no i just like her a lot and i want to give her a gift before i graduate

>>73352269
normiezzz.......

>>73352151
To be fair, English teachers are always the hottest.

>>73351646
Iron Maiden - Rime of the Ancient Mariner

Close to the Edge might also count

>>73351646
The Ryme of the Ancient Mariner - Iron Maiden

>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_songs_that_retell_a_work_of_literature

Here's some more metal since I'm already listening to some

Sabaton's "Hail to the King"
Hamlet
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=keU6eVKM9Bg&ab_channel=ThePlender
"Hail to the king that brought peace to us all. Rise from your grave, hear our call. We'll not forget that you once saved our land. Killed by your own brothers hand."

Amon Amarth, "Amon Amarth"
Lord of the Rings
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nW6BgBYw7w0&ab_channel=Bahad%C4%B1rKaygusuz
"They stride through this darkened land
With only mount doom in their sight
The closer they get to the mountain
The clearer their eyes can see
A forest of one thousand spears awaiting
Awaiting the battle that will be"

Watain, "They Rode on..".
Blood Meridian
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HckCCGL6AUk&ab_channel=CarnageChannel
"They sat at the crossroads with high and with low,
Yet neither could alter their course.
Riches were offered unto them,
Yet indifferent and without remorse"
I disliked this album, as it was a change from their sound, but I appreciated this tribute to Cormac McCarthy's masterpiece

Iron Maiden-To Tame a Land
Dune
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q06EgcJ6FiI&ab_channel=RadioHell666
"He rules the sand worms and the Fremen
In a land amongst the stars
Of an age tomorrow"

Manowar, "Achilles, Agony And Ecstasy In Eight Parts"
The Iliad
"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEVWhYOnjCA&ab_channel=RiverStyx"
"In the hear of the battle, Hector was killed
See him Patroclus, down in the dust
Rejoice in his death my aymbol of trust
A dozen highborn youths, have been killed"

I can do this all day, hope it helps. Cheers mate

>>73352309
>>73352312

>>73352242
Bit l8 m8

Lana Del Rey - Body Electric, Lolita

Prefab Sprout - Don't Sing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IpBRMm_QAg

references The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene

also this name drops a bunch of authors
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Um-7TL-D1Qc

>>73351646
David Bowie - Girl Loves Me

>>73351646
stevie nicks - wide sargasso sea

>>73351646
The Divine Comedy - The Booklovers

Cult Boyfriend by Jeffrey Lewis name checks JG Ballard and Flannary O' Connor

>>73351646
My new album is based around Finnegans Wake in part

Lil Yachty - Peek a Boo

Starless by King Crimson is an obvious one

>>73352288
lol i would love to see the look on her face

Atrocity exhibition - joy division

>>73351646
god i love wurthering heights (the song). good shit.
>>73352239
this is fucking dope. checking out milo now.

The Rolling Stones - Sympathy For The Devil

>>73352269

I don't get it it's boring and un-inventive, it's like world war z with some other menial bullshit mixed in

I had a "friend" kept saying oh it's so good blabla people talking in school about it, it's a mediocre boring concept anyway.

Bob Dylan. Any of his songs.

My favorite would be Desolation Row

Comus - First Utterance

>>73352423
This isn't /r/ you fuck

The Normal - Warm Leatherette

Ulver made an entire album about William Blake's "The Marriage of Heaven and Hell"