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Post by šrincess šµuvstarr on Oct 21, 2021 16:09:05 GMT
I didn't realise how popular these scruffy men who can't (couldn't?) play instruments are. I've learned something new today. They could play their instruments. A lot faster than other people. Anyone who says Americans don't understand irony has not encountered The Ramones. I don't see how it is possible with all that hair. Even though my hair is waist length, I always keep it out of the way when I play my flute.
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Post by šrincess šµuvstarr on Oct 21, 2021 16:33:06 GMT
I didn't realise how popular these scruffy men who can't (couldn't?) play instruments are. I've learned something new today. They could play their instruments. A lot faster than other people. Anyone who says Americans don't understand irony has not encountered The Ramones. Even though I said they were scruffy, it isn't real scruffiness, they were pretend scruffy. None of them were tramps. And none of them were called Ramone! It was all made up! Apparently the Ramone name was taken from Paul McCartney, who called himself Paul Ramon in his Silver Beatles days. That was when he was really Paul McCartney, before he died in a car crash and was replaced by a look-alike. Isn't the truth amazing!
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Post by Shrink Proof on Oct 21, 2021 16:36:59 GMT
Indeed it is. Don't be fooled by the facts.
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Post by šrincess šµuvstarr on Oct 21, 2021 16:56:07 GMT
Amazingly this song by Swedish group Abba was influenced by Stephen King's The Stand. King seems popular with musicians who could play their instruments and The Ramones. The real horror with Abba is that the blonde lady went out with her stalker.
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Post by fritzmaitland on Oct 22, 2021 7:56:56 GMT
The Ramones worked with Phil Spector. Just saying.
The Scars - Horrorshow. Based on Anthony Burgess' novel A Clockwork Orange.
Lots more sci-fi from Hawkwind - they seem obsessed with Roger Zelazny viz. Lord Of Light, Jack Of Shadows and Damnation Alley.
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Post by dem bones on Oct 22, 2021 9:30:28 GMT
Lots more sci-fi from Hawkwind - they seem obsessed with Roger Zelazny viz. Lord Of Light, Jack Of Shadows and Damnation Alley. and Steppenwolf? Rikki & the Last Days of Earth gave the world Picture of Dorian Gray.
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Post by šrincess šµuvstarr on Oct 22, 2021 10:17:49 GMT
The Ramones worked with Phil Spector. Just saying. The Scars - Horrorshow. Based on Anthony Burgess' novel A Clockwork Orange. Lots more sci-fi from Hawkwind - they seem obsessed with Roger Zelazny viz. Lord Of Light, Jack Of Shadows and Damnation Alley. I'm just being silly, I'm sure the Ramones could play their instruments. The Ramones working with Phil Spector is indeed a horror link. I'd imagine Science Fiction has influenced quite a few artists. There is a concept album called The Songs of Distant Earth by Mike Oldfield, based on the novel by Arthur C. Clarke.
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Post by fritzmaitland on Oct 22, 2021 11:10:46 GMT
Lots more sci-fi from Hawkwind - they seem obsessed with Roger Zelazny viz. Lord Of Light, Jack Of Shadows and Damnation Alley. and Steppenwolf? Rikki & the Last Days of Earth gave the world Picture of Dorian Gray. Yipes. Steppenwolf. From the novel by Herman Hesse. This is awfully highbrow. You'll be mentioning Japan's Tin Drum next. And that band named themselves after the Hesse novel. Great call on Brian Pern. And Rikki & The Last Days Of Earth. I used to have that album. But frustratingly can't remember their Wilde adaptation.
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Post by fritzmaitland on Oct 22, 2021 11:17:13 GMT
I'm just being silly, I'm sure the Ramones could play their instruments. The Ramones working with Phil Spector is indeed a horror link. I'd imagine Science Fiction has influenced quite a few artists. There is a concept album called The Songs of Distant Earth by Mike Oldfield, based on the novel by Arthur C. Clarke. I know you're just messin'. The classic story from End Of The Century is Spector getting Johnny Ramone (John Cummings) to play the opening chord for Rock'N'Roll High School, then listening to the recording for 12 hours. Hmmmm. Talking of Arthur C Clarke, Pink Floyd had a song called Childhood's End which may have been influenced by Clarke's novel - the cover of Led Zeppelin's LP Houses Of The Holy certainly was.
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Post by samdawson on Oct 22, 2021 16:30:18 GMT
A few spring to mind just from what I would have been listening (or in one case being made to listen to) aged 16: White Rabbit, by Jefferson Airplane [Alice In Wonderland] ; The Battle of Evermore (with Sandy Denny at her most superb) by Led Zeppelin [Lord of the Rings]; The Piper at the Gates of Dawn [The Wind in the Willows]; Scene's from a Night's Dream by Genesis [Little Nemo syndicated comic strip]. There must be countless more. I might go and cast an eye over my record collection.
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Post by dem bones on Oct 22, 2021 18:46:51 GMT
And Rikki & The Last Days Of Earth. I used to have that album. But frustratingly can't remember their Wilde adaptation. Picture of Dorian Gray maybe not among the posh boy punk's finer moments. I still love the Bowie/ Ziggy rip-off title track. Speaking of whom, what about Diamond Dogs debt to George Orwell? See also P. Floyd's Animals. Van der Graaf have Childhood Faith in Childhood End. Can't confirm an ACC influence, but given Hammill's past fondness for SF, it's not unlikely.
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Post by jamesdoig on Oct 23, 2021 1:25:29 GMT
Midnight Rambler (well, it is a horror story), and of course Hounds of Love:
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Post by jepersonoatcake on Dec 22, 2021 19:59:29 GMT
Mid-1980s synth genius Mark Shreeve's 1985 album Legion, as well as having a concluding track titled The Stand, has the pretty unambiguous closing track to side one named for (and about) Flagg.
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Post by pbsplatter on Jan 9, 2023 15:31:05 GMT
Anthrax had two from Among the Living --the title track, which is about The Stand, and "Skeletons in the Closet," which is a retelling of Apt Pupil.
Someone else mentioned The Misfits--and while it is mainly movie-based, the title track from American Psycho predates the movie by 3 years so is certainly about the book.
The Alarm also had a song about The Stand called, well, "The Stand."
Death metal/gore band Lord Gore had two songs based on latter-day splatter classics--"Megacephallus" (based on Edward Lee's vile The Bighead) and "Chitin," which I'm pretty sure is based on JF Gonzalez's Clickers.
Of particular interest is metal band Deceased's album Supernatural Addiction, which contains a bunch of songs based on familiar horror stories:
"Dark Chilling Heartbeat" is based on "The Tell-Tale Heart"
"A Very Familiar Stranger" is based on the urban legend "The Vanishing Hitchhiker"
"Frozen Screams" is based on Robert Bloch's "Frozen Fear" (immortalized in Asylum) "The Doll with the Hideous Spirit" is based on Richard Matheson's "Prey" (immortalized in Trilogy of Terror) "The Hanging Soldier" is based on "Occurence at Owl Creek Bridge"
"Chambers of the Waiting Blind" is based on "Blind Alley" from Tales from the Crypt
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Post by Shrink Proof on Jan 9, 2023 17:09:53 GMT
Late 60s psychedelic band H P Lovecraft apparently had to get the OK from Lovecraft's estate to call themselves that. Their most well known (and by a country mile, best) song was this haunting-but-trippy little number - "The White Ship", seemingly based on, or at least influenced by, the Lovecraft tale of that name.
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