![]() ![]() Fair enough, but I was surprised to find that quite a few of the CD tracks do not appear at all in Volume 1. I've never counted, but there must be over 400 lead sheets in the Real Book Volume 1 (I use the Bb European edition), so the 60 backing tracks per book, 180 in the three Volume 1 books, can only ever be a small selection of the total content. If Lord Henry and Dorian Gray were the 1800s’ biggest narcissists, then their 2000s equivalent are most certainly Pete and Carl, who, substance abuse and aging notwithstanding, will be forever frozen in time as Biggles and Bilo.With 60 tracks to each book, this is good value, but don't expect to find all the lead sheets in Volume 1 of the 6th edition. ![]() In a battle between rock dinosaurs and orcs, who would win? FIGHT!Įnding with a song, then, but you could hardly compile a list of literature/music hybrids without a nod to Oscar Wilde’s Picture Of Dorian Grey. The last in their self-titled journey pinched from Tolkien’s Lord Of The Rings saga. This one’s based on the ancient Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice – that’s technically literary, right? Anyway, Mitchell transports the myth to post-Depression New Orleans, taking the role of Eurydice to Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon’s Orpheus, and it’s abso-flipping-lutely gorgeous.Īnother song, but as anyone who’s ever taken a French A-level can attest, The Cure’s retelling of Fronch doom-monger Albert Camus’ The Stranger (Or L’Étranger if we’re being proper about it) makes finding an angle for the usually tedious rigmarole of coursework a significantly more pleasant experience. Hands up everyone who went out and bought Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity’s Novel for £3 from HMV after Klaxons named one of the songs off their debut after it? Hands up if it’s still sat unread on your bookshelf, gathering dust? Those that have read it, how many of you actually understand it? There we go. Jonathan Franzen’s novel, the acclaimed Freedom, has two of its main characters go to a Bright Eyes concert, perhaps exactly what you’d expect of its chronically environmentally-conscious, repressed protagonist, Walter.Īnd Frankie & The Heartstrings’ single, ‘Tender’, sees Frankie Francis reading to his beloved from F Scott Fitzgerald’s Tender Is The Night, a touching move in a relationship that goes the way of Nicole and Dick Diver’s (ie, terribly) over the course of the album (which also whips its title from Knut Hamsun’s Hunger, the smartypants).ĭifficult prog about George Orwell’s thorny Animal Farm, marking his third appearance on this list… And if Chapel Club’s Lewis Bowman mentions his love of Hemingway one more time, we might be forced to set him an exam on the significance of death in For Whom The Bell Tolls.īut with a bit of grace, sometimes the marrying of literary and lyrical can lend extra significance, whichever way the borrowing goes. “You know that kid in your dorm who took a semester’s worth of intro lit and philosophy classes as a license to use the word “Kafka-esque” at every opportunity? is for that guy.”īands shoehorning in bookish references just to sound smart is pretty nauseating stuff – who really believes that the object of Johnny Borrell’s affections in ‘In The City’ had really “been reading Bukowski for days”? Any girl with a predilection for old Charlie is surely far smarter than to waste time on such a name-dropping cretin. ![]() Pitchfork deliciously pinned down the intolerable pretentiousness of bands that like to hawk laboured literary allusions at every opportunity in their review of Editors’ ‘In This Light And On This Evening’. ![]()
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