Classic works of fiction in music...

not_the_dj

Journey to the center of the earth - Rick Wakeman

AlexC

Up The Junction - Squeeze

Grumpyrocker

To Tame a Land - Iron Maiden (it's about Dune)

You could do the whole thread with Iron Maiden really. This is very much their thing. 

matdotcodot

Nirvana - Scentless Apprentice (The Novel 'Perfume' by Patrick Süskind)

Philtre

The Snow Goose, Camel.

EricTheWeary

Keiko said:

Tom Sawyer - Rush

Moby Dick - Led Zeppelin

Ulysses - Franz Ferdinand

Frankenstein - Edward Winter Group

I misread the title which is why I posted an edited post earlier.
Anyway, they played Frankenstein on  Steve Wright in the afternoon the other day. It was quite an odd experience. 

Whilst I'm here does Bible Black by Heaven and Hell count? 

Grumpyrocker

EricTheWeary said:

Whilst I'm here does Bible Black by Heaven and Hell count? 

No, it's not about the Bible, but some other (presumably satanic) book.

EricTheWeary

Grumpyrocker said:

EricTheWeary said:

Whilst I'm here does Bible Black by Heaven and Hell count? 

No, it's not about the Bible, but some other (presumably satanic) book.

It just had the word Bible in the title. I haven't really put the effort in here...

Grangousier

Death Cab for Cutie by the Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band. 

Reverend

Sabbat - Dreamweaver. Based on The Way Of The Wyrd

Reverend

Electric Wizard - I, Barbarian (Conan)

blobb

The Chronicle of the Black Sword - Hawkwind

MagicPigDetective

Mastodon's Leviathan LP is based on Moby Dick, eg I am Ahab.

jdgm

Grumpyrocker said:

EricTheWeary said:

Whilst I'm here does Bible Black by Heaven and Hell count? 

No, it's not about the Bible, but some other (presumably satanic) book.

"Starless And Bible Black" is a quote from Dylan Thomas's "Under Milk Wood" and is a King Crimson LP.

jdgm

"Let It Come Down" by Mose Allison.

Title of a 1952 novel by Paul Bowles (who also wrote "The Sheltering Sky") and the original source is Macbeth, Act 3 Scene 3:

• Banquo -  It will be rain to-night.

• First Murderer -  Let it come down.

[They set upon BANQUO]

jdgm

Litterick said:

Killing an Arab – The Cure.

This song was inspired by the novel "L’Étranger" (The Outsider) by Albert Camus.

jdgm

"Great Expectations" - Miles Davis

pmbomb

Romeo & Juliet Dire Straits.

pmbomb

AlexC said:

Up The Junction - Squeeze

great song which book?

pmbomb

Sabbath's Iron Man - Ted Hughes.