o/t songs that take their titles from books

[gorky]

Dr Zhivago (Boris Pasternak) - Neon Neon
Neon Bible (John Kennedy Toole) - Arcade Fire
Absolute Beginners (Colin MacInnes) - The Jam

Does Led Zep's Moby Dick count as it is an instrumental?

The Age of Revolution by Eric Hobsbawm is also a song on The Duckworth Lewis Method; it's about cricket but I'm sure Neil Hannon has read it.

[redhouse]

Fat bottomed girls - Queen sang it - sure I've got a book with the same title somewhere

[rileyev]

Song for whoever.. The Beautiful South...

Every Lads wish list diary...

Back in the day!!!

[Zilzal]

Maxim Gorky swiped my Absolute Beginners earlier, just as I was about to post. I had the singer as David Bowie.

Still, I bear no grudges and offer instead:

"Bukowski" by Modest Mouse - The Collected Works of Charles Bukowski.


Edit. JK Toole's "A Confederacy Of Dunces" is a classic. Well done, Max.

[Zilzal]

"Venus In Furs" by the Velvet Underground. The book written by Leopold Sacher-Masoch.

"The Cruel Sea" by The Dakotas. The book written by Nicholas Montserrat.

"Under Milk Wood" by the Stan Tracy Quartet. The book written by Dylan Thomas.

[gorky]

Thanks Zilzal, I had used up my David Bowie 'Absolute Beginners' on IBS's Bowie thread, so thought I'd try a bit of variation with The Jam's effort. Must admit to not reading Neon Bible, but yes Confederacy of Dunces is brilliantly funny.

PS, if you're having Under Milk Wood, I'm having A Child's Christmas in Wales (John Cale).

[Zilzal]

"The Idiot" by Iggy Popp - Dostoevsky

"Frankenstein" by Antony and the Johnsons - Mary Shelley

[poddington]

The Most Incredible Thing (Hans Christian Andersen) - Pet Shop Boys
Nineteen Eighty-Four (George Orwell) - Spirit
The Shining (Stephen King) - Badly Drawn Boy
Utopia (Sir Thomas More) - Goldfrapp
Cool For Cats (Jessica Adams) - Squeeze

[poddington]

I stand to be corrected on this, but I believe Nikolai Gogol's book 'Dead Souls' was a song by Joy Division.

[CTMilller]

Also Sprach Zarathustra - Friedrich Nietsche - Deodato
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley - Iron Maiden
Catcher in The Rye - JD Salinger - Guns 'N' Roses
Islands In the Stream - Ernest Hemingway - Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton.