James: Television Personalities - A Picture of Dorian Gray
great and very underrated post punk album....great track from it...taken from a great novel by a wonderful human being
Frownland: The Red Krayola - Sherlock Holmes
super groovy psychedelic....very reminiscent of the more fun and relaxed early Pink Floyd tracks....already looking into their discography
djchameleon: Sufjan Stevens - A Good Man Is Hard to Find
i've tried before to get into this guy but just never could do it.....at that...i really like this song and the feelings it produces....reading a bit about the short story it's based on....intrigues me in both this album and that collection
Plankton: Michael Schenker - Captain Nemo
so this isn't really up my alley....but i did l;isten to it twice and certainly can accept the talent....but on second listen i really tried to envision Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea....and the song really works with my thoughts of that book
bob.: The Police - Tea in the Sahara
so i had to choose a song that is about The Sheltering Sky....and it came down to this one and the song Lost by Neurosis....the reason i chose this one is because it's actually a song about a story told by a prostitute to one of the protagonists in the early part of the novel....and it really encompasses just what this book is about
James: The National - City Middle
this is my favorite of this mix...just a really good song both musically and lyrically....what exactly is the Lit connection?
Plankton: Blue Öyster Cult - The Siege and Investiture of Baron von Frankenstein's Castle at Weisseria
what can be said about Blue Oyster Cult....this is epic and awesome
bob.: Current 93 - The Final Church
ok so this is absolute plagiarism....but in a cut and paste kind of way....the lyrics to this song are simply the forth chapter of the amazing surrealist novel Les Chants de Maldoror.....whats great is i've been listening to this album for damn near 20 years....but only finally got a copy and read Maldoror two or three years ago....so i started chapter four and it was reading the lyrics to this song out of order....both make sense in an odd kind way....and both in their respective order....basically tell the same thing
also if you like surrealism, dada, actionism, yippie, anything involving some form of forcing people to think differently....you should read this book
Frownland: Billy Woods - The Man Who Would Be King
lets just say two minutes into this....and i was buying this album