On the heavier side of the musical spectrum, Mastodon’s album, Leviathan, is a full concept album based on Moby Dick. The opening track, Blood and Thunder is as Ahabian as it gets.
+1 for Cream. John Riley (trad. folk song) my favorite cover is by The Byrds. Kate Bush's homage to Molly Bloom- The Sensual World. The Cure's Robert Smith also has referenced novels in his songs- Killing an Arab, Charlotte Sometimes. We once used literature based music as a theme for one of our get-togethers.
"Tales of Brave Ulysses" by Cream.
And come to think of it, wasn't there a pop song about a Cyclops called "Dedicated To The One-Eye Love"?
On the heavier side of the musical spectrum, Mastodon’s album, Leviathan, is a full concept album based on Moby Dick. The opening track, Blood and Thunder is as Ahabian as it gets.
+1 for Cream. John Riley (trad. folk song) my favorite cover is by The Byrds. Kate Bush's homage to Molly Bloom- The Sensual World. The Cure's Robert Smith also has referenced novels in his songs- Killing an Arab, Charlotte Sometimes. We once used literature based music as a theme for one of our get-togethers.
Bright. I like bright. I love the re-imagining of art. check out my article on re-imagining Don Quixote — in my publication ADRENALINE ALLEY …
Great essay! Thank you.
What a great idea, you've outdone yourself. All this, and you're getting married too. Wonderful!
LOL so Nabokov, Rushdie (postmodernist), Clockwork Orange, etc, are writers of “Classic Literature” now?
Rush’s Tom Sawyer.