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FIQL Pick Songs Inspired By Literature
Thousands of songs have been written which were inspired by literaure. This list only scratches the surface. See if you can guess the book that inspired the song. Follow the link to find the answers.
Read an in-depth profile of this playlist in "Art of the Radish".
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March 5, 2005
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Orestes A Perfect Circle  
Nutshell Alice In Chains  
Sirens Of Titan Al Stewart  
The Raven Alan Parsons Project  
The Stand The Alarm  
Skeleton In The Closet Anthrax    
California The Beach Boys    
The Fool On The Hill The Beatles  
Blake's Jerusalem Billy Bragg  
Black Blade Blue Oyster Cult  
Message Of Love The Pretenders  
All Along The Watchtower Bob Dylan  
Ghost Of Tom Joad Bruce Springsteen    
Let The River Run Carly Simon  
Clocks Coldplay  
Bloodletting (the Vampire Song) Concrete Blonde    
Rain King Counting Crows  
Afternoons And Coffeespoons Crash Test Dummies  
Tales of Brave Ulysses Cream  
Guinnevere Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young    
Charlotte Sometimes The Cure  
Exit Music (For A Film) Radiohead  
1984 David Bowie  
Triad Jefferson Airplane  
Romeo And Juliet Dire Straits  
The End The Doors  
Boys Of Summer Don Henley  
Frankenstein Edgar Winter    
Like A Great Gatsby Elliott Murphy    
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road Elton John  
A Drunken Man's Praise Of Sobriety Elvis Costello    
My Antonia Emmylou Harris  
Running Through The Garden Fleetwood Mac  
Knots Gentle Giant  
Basket Case Green Day  
Gordon Lightfoot Gordon Lightfoot    
November Rain Guns N' Roses  
The Trooper Iron Maiden  
The Barricades Of Heaven Jackson Browne  
Teacher Jethro Tull  
Prince Of Tides Jimmy Buffett  
Return To Pooh Corner Kenny Loggins  
The Battle Of Evermore Led Zeppelin  
For Whom The Bell Tolls Metallica  
Hey Jack Kerouac 10,000 Maniacs  
Scentless Apprentice Nirvana  
The Squirming Coil Phish  
Ghost In The Machine The Police    
Sympathy for the Devil The Rolling Stones  
Tom Sawyer Rush  

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i LOOOOOOVE this playlist. youre my hero for thinking this up.
Submitted by nicoled on Feb. 28, 2007


aww.... gutted. Wuthering Heights isn't on it. Ace list tho! I like, I like a lot.
Submitted by nugator on Apr. 11, 2007


You forgot "Wuthering Heights" by Kate Bush!!! and also "Wrapped Around Your Finger" by The Police has the line "Mephosofolis is not your name.." from Faust
Submitted by nikki74 on Mar. 6, 2008


Another Police song, "Don't Stand So Close to Me" has the following line: ...Just like the old man in That book by Nabakov referring to Lolita. Guess Sting's earlier job as an English Teacher really influenced his music!!
Submitted by voodude on Mar. 7, 2008


What a great idea for a list! As a dorky librarian, I can honestly say this is a playlist after my own heart. Good songs, too. Thanks for sharing!
Submitted by wordsforth on Mar. 7, 2008


This was nifty as I was recently given an assignment to do an intertextuality paper on literature inspiring other arts. Some these I would never have guessed.
Submitted by Beatlesfan on May. 18, 2010



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