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Broken Face
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USA
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 Posted - 11/17/2005 : 07:39:41
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Yet another reason to love the Bad Plus. This is from their blog; anyone have anything to add to the list:
61 Bands and their corresponding Authors (Invitational)
On the train ride between Cork and Dublin yesterday, we came up with a list comparing rock bands/artists to writers.
The rationale of these parings could be specific or intuitive. In musical alphabetical order it begins with linking AC/DC to Julia Childs. Rationale: they are both extremely popular, are reliable craftsmen, and exude a charismatic, “come on and get it” quality. A more typical and legible pairing is Kate Bush--James Joyce: in this case, Bush’s lyrics are in the Joyce tradition. Some other more indirect connections include Douglas Adams to Phish (their fans are similar types and both artists are whimsical) and Jimi Hendrix to Kurt Vonnegut (an adolescent’s discovery of each one has a similar thrilling quality).
These comparisons do not reflect qualitative opinions; at times a band we don’t like as much is paired with a writer we love and vice versa. No one is used twice, and some comparisons we stand behind more firmly than others. (The Notorious B.IG/Iceberg Slim riff is pretty cheap, for example.) But assuredly, they all are linked for a reason, and some of them are dead on.
***Until December 1st, send us your own pairings, comments and opinions at badplus61at yahoo dot com. We will post the best stuff.***
BAND/ARTIST--AUTHOR
AC/DC--Julia Child
Alice Cooper--Stephen King
Tori Amos--Alice Walker
Björk--Italo Calvino
Kate Bush--James Joyce
The Beatles--Roald Dahl
David Bowie--J.G Ballard
Jeff Buckley--Frank O’ Hara
Captain Beefheart--Allen Ginsburg
Johnny Cash--Carl Sandburg
Nick Cave--William Faulkner
The Clash --Hunter S. Thompson
Leonard Cohen--John Updike
Elvis Costello--William Shakespeare
Cream--Jane Auel
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young--John Steinbeck
The Cure--William Gibson
The Doors--Jack Kerouac
Bob Dylan--Ernest Hemingway
The Eagles--Tom Wolfe
Mark Eitzel--William Carlos Williams
The Flaming Lips--Shel Silverstein
Fleetwood Mac --J.K. Rowling
Peter Gabriel--Ray Bradbury
Marvin Gaye--Maya Angelou
Green Day--Dan Brown
Hall and Oates --Nick Hornby
P.J Harvey--Virginia Woolf
Jimi Hendrix--Kurt Vonnegut
Jewel--Danielle Steele
The Killers--Bret Easton Ellis
Led Zeppelin--Herman Hesse
Madonna--Anne Rice
Stephen Malkmus--Thomas Pynchon
Metallica--Clive Barker
Joni Mitchell--Margaret Atwood
Nirvana--William Burroughs
Notorious B.I.G.--Iceberg Slim
The Pixies--Paul Auster
Phish--Douglas Adams
Pink Floyd--J.D. Salinger
The Police--F. Scott Fitzgerald
Prince--Henry Miller
Public Enemy--Langston Hughes
Queen--Walt Whitman
Radiohead--Franz Kafka
Lou Reed--Truman Capote
Rolling Stones--Charles Dickens
Rush--J.R.R. Tolkien
Shudder To Think--Samuel Beckett
The Smiths--Agatha Christie
Bruce Springsteen--Norman Mailer
Steely Dan--Raymond Chandler
Sting--John Le Carre
Talking Heads--Eugene Ionesco
U2--C.S.Lewis
Van Halen--Cameron Crowe
Tom Waits--Charles Bukowski
Wilco--Mark Twain
The Who--Ian Fleming
Yes--H.P. Lovecraft
-Brian
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kathryn
~ Selkie Bride ~
Belgium
15320 Posts |
Posted - 11/17/2005 : 09:15:53
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This list offends my very soul, from the obvious Tom Waits/Bukowski pairing to the unspekably sacrilegious Joni Mitchell/Atwood suggestion. I'll be vomiting if anybody needs me.
I got some heaven in my head
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Newo
~ Abstract Brain ~
Spain
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Posted - 11/17/2005 : 13:20:27
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Reading Italo Calvino is like eating a box of dry crackers with nothing to drink. Listening to Bjork is not. I could fit Pynchon into most of those musicians.
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Newo
~ Abstract Brain ~
Spain
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Posted - 11/17/2005 : 13:22:23
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I´m curious to know why they paired Auster with Pixies, I would have said Mingus.
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floop
= Wannabe Volunteer =
Mexico
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Posted - 11/17/2005 : 13:27:02
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| listening to Wilco is like eating dry horse feces with cold decaffinated coffee. reading Mark Twain is not |
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darwin
>> Denizen of the Citizens Band <<
USA
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Posted - 11/17/2005 : 13:54:05
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Rush--J.R.R. Tolkien
True they're both not as smart as they think they are, but isn't Rush a Ayn Rand inspired group? |
Edited by - darwin on 11/17/2005 16:27:56 |
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Kirk
= Cult of Ray =
USA
633 Posts |
Posted - 11/17/2005 : 14:16:14
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| How did you find the time to read from all these authors? |
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Newo
~ Abstract Brain ~
Spain
2674 Posts |
Posted - 11/17/2005 : 18:30:40
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That´s pretty accurate about Cave and Faulkner, Cave´s novel Ass saw The Angel had that writer´s kind of feel about it.
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Buy your best friend flowers. Buy your lover a beer. Covet thy father. Covet thy neighbour's father. Honour thy lover's beer. Covet thy neighbour's father's wife's sister. Take her to bingo night. |
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IceCream
= Quote Accumulator =
USA
1850 Posts |
Posted - 11/17/2005 : 22:02:29
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I don't really see the Police/Fitzgerald comparison. Granted, I've only read Gatsby, but it seems Fitzgerald is extremely dense with coloful and vivid (yet subtle) symbols, insightful, pessimistic, and charismatic - wise and attractive. Of course, I don't know if that was Nick Carroway talking or Fitzgerald - I love the way Fitzgerald personifies Nick as such a pretentious, unknowingly self-contradicting, overblown individual, yet with good insights and morality. Nick's flawed character makes the story so incredibly believable. Gatsby is told from the view of an actual character and not a fake one.
Thinking about it, though, I suppose the Police, considering their dense cramming of pop, reggae, jazz fusion, synthesizers, new wave, punk, disorienting noises, and rock into their sound, COULD be considered colorful and vivid while being subtle. Most certainly. The Police were original enough to keep their influences from ever being obvious. "Tea In The Sahara" is a mysterious song that most certainly conveys the haze of the green light and the mysteriousness of Fitezgerald's writing (i.e. Nick, not a hero, not a villain, being the narrator is quite mysterious.) And Gatsby was a short book. So were pretty much all of the Police's songs. I don't ever recall hearing a Police song over 7 minutes. Man, all this talk makes me wanna hear the Police. "King of Pain" -------- awww yeah. |
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IceCream
= Quote Accumulator =
USA
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Posted - 11/17/2005 : 22:07:57
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| Why did I waste all my time on that post? Does anyone read my posts? |
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Erebus
* Dog in the Sand *
USA
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Posted - 11/17/2005 : 23:29:13
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Carl
- A 'Fifth' Catholic -
Ireland
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Posted - 11/18/2005 : 07:46:37
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I've never read The Great Gatsby, there is an old copy lying around the house. All I know is that Andy Kaufman was a fan.
 "Join the Honeycult!"
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Crispy Water
= Cult of Ray =
Canada
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Posted - 11/18/2005 : 15:12:40
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quote:
Originally posted by IceCream
Why did I waste all my time on that post? Does anyone read my posts?
Not a waste of time. Please don't be discouraged; your show of intelligent thought was well worth it. It's the ones like that which make all the "your mom," "lol," crap more bearable.
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HeywoodJablome
* Dog in the Sand *
USA
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Posted - 11/18/2005 : 19:25:26
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Rolling Stones and Charles Dickens?
And if they're going to go through the trouble of comparing Phish with an author the author has to first and foremost be a retard. |
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IceCream
= Quote Accumulator =
USA
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Posted - 11/18/2005 : 20:06:13
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quote:
Originally posted by Crispy Water
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Originally posted by IceCream
Why did I waste all my time on that post? Does anyone read my posts?
Not a waste of time. Please don't be discouraged; your show of intelligent thought was well worth it. It's the ones like that which make all the "your mom," "lol," crap more bearable.
Nothing is ever something.
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kathryn
~ Selkie Bride ~
Belgium
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Posted - 11/19/2005 : 11:33:58
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quote:
Originally posted by IceCream
Why did I waste all my time on that post? Does anyone read my posts?
I read your posts, IceCream. I've also read several Fitzgerald books (Tender is the Night is my favorite, even better than The Great Gatsby in my opinion...read it!) and I don't get the comparison with the Police, a band I was totally into in the early 80s.
I got some heaven in my head
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floop
= Wannabe Volunteer =
Mexico
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Posted - 11/19/2005 : 13:25:38
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Originally posted by HeywoodJablome
Rolling Stones and Charles Dickens?
And if they're going to go through the trouble of comparing Phish with an author the author has to first and foremost be a retard.
i think even mentally disabled authors would be offended by the Phish comparison |
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Newo
~ Abstract Brain ~
Spain
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Posted - 11/19/2005 : 16:38:09
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Thank heavens, I thought I was the only one to feel that way about the McGrateful Dead.
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Buy your best friend flowers. Buy your lover a beer. Covet thy father. Covet thy neighbour's father. Honour thy lover's beer. Covet thy neighbour's father's wife's sister. Take her to bingo night. |
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