PWxyz hat eine faszinierende Liste mit Songs zusammengestellt, die durch Literatur inspiriert worden sind; eine Auswahl (und hier der Rest der Liste):

“Gravity’s Rainbow” von Thomas Pynchon hat Devo zu “Whip It” inspiriert:

In case you weren’t spending your spare time searching the internet for the meaning behind the words of Devo’s most famous song, we’ll tell you: Devo member Jerry Casale wrote the lyrics to “Whip It” in one night, imitating Pynchon’s parodies in Gravity’s Rainbow. Said Casale: ”[Pynchon] had parodied limericks and poems of kind of all-American, obsessive, cult of personality ideas like Horatio Alger and ‘You’re #1, there’s nobody else like you’ kind of poems that were very funny and very clever. I thought, ‘I’d like to do one like Thomas Pynchon.’”


“Der Fremde” von Albert Camus hat The Cure zu “Killing an Arab” inspiriert:




The Cure’s first single, according to Robert Smith, “was a short poetic attempt at condensing my impression of the key moments in L’Étranger.” The lyrics, like the book, describe the shooting of an Arab on a beach. Because of the track’s controversial history, the band changed the song to “Kissing an Arab” during its 2005 revival, and even performed the song as “Killing an Ahab” in 2011, with lyrics inspired by Melville.


“Das Parfüm” von Patrick Süskind hat Nirvana zu “Scentless Apprentice” inspiriert:




Patrick Süskind’s story of a man with a superhuman sense of smell who begins murdering women to create the perfect scent had direct influence on Nivrana’s “Scentless Apprentice,” which includes lyrics like “His smell smelled like no other” and “There are countless formulas for pressing flowers.” Another link: both Süskind’s character and Nirvana’s “apprentice” have no inherent body odor. Perfume was one of Kurt Cobain’s favorite books, and he had read it multiple times by the time “Scentless Apprentice” debuted on 1993′s In Utero.

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