What are the literary equivalents of various artists, albums, or songs?

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Pretty much any Jandek album = http://images.amazon.com/images/P/067973452X.01._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-dp-500-arrow,TopRight,45,-64_AA240_SH20_SCLZZZZZZZ_.gif

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0007W22IE.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg = http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0375725784.01._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-dp-500-arrow,TopRight,45,-64_AA240_SH20_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

Take it away.

― Mickey (modestmickey), Monday, 2 January 2006 02:58 (eighteen years ago) link

Er, sorry for that huge pic

― Mickey (modestmickey), Monday, 2 January 2006 02:58 (eighteen years ago) link

Wrong and Wrong.

Aphex Twin's Selected Ambient Works Volume II is the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus though.

― I Am Sexless and I Am Foul (noodle vague), Monday, 2 January 2006 03:06 (eighteen years ago) link

Metal Machine Music = Tender Buttons
Closer = Catcher in the Rye

― The Brainwasher (Twilight), Monday, 2 January 2006 03:11 (eighteen years ago) link

High Fidelity Soundtrack = High Fidelity

― Tape Store (Tape Store), Monday, 2 January 2006 03:23 (eighteen years ago) link

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00002JV45.01._SCMZZZZZZZ_.jpg = http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0811204839.01._BO2-59_AA240_SH20_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

― Wub-Fur Internet Radio (wubfur), Monday, 2 January 2006 20:39 (eighteen years ago) link

Jean Rhys, Good Morning Midnight - anything by The Sound

― flowersdie (flowersdie), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 10:14 (eighteen years ago) link

By Grand Central Station I sat Down and Wept - Viva Hate, Morrissey

― flowersdie (flowersdie), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 10:26 (eighteen years ago) link

Let's be obvious: Crash - Warm leatherette

― Jean Tully de Molinaire, Tuesday, 3 January 2006 22:46 (eighteen years ago) link

"Sonny's Blues" by James Baldwin = "Straight, No Chaser" by Monk

― silence dogood (catcher), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 00:07 (eighteen years ago) link

William Carlos Williams = Jens Lekman

― silence dogood (catcher), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 00:36 (eighteen years ago) link

Arcade Fire - Neighbourhood #1 = Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Haruki Murakami

― pinder (pinder), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 01:12 (eighteen years ago) link

Sixteen Horsepower=Cormac McCarthy, specifically Blood Meridian

― Morley Timmons (Donna Brown), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 17:50 (eighteen years ago) link

Lick My Decals Off, Baby (Captain Beefheart) = A Confederacy Of Dunces (John Kennedy Toole)

Germ Free Adolescents (X-Ray Spex) = The Edible Woman (Margaret Atwood)

― Myonga Von Bookworm (Myonga Von Bontee), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 22:40 (eighteen years ago) link

The Frogs = Naked Lunch (Burroughs) ?

― Tape Store (Tape Store), Thursday, 5 January 2006 01:48 (eighteen years ago) link

h.p. lovecraft = h.p. lovecraft

okay, not really. maybe the musical equivalent of h.p. lovecraft would be jandek? maybe if jandek were a little more surreal. maybe it is nurse with wound or something. i dunno. pick some arbitrary album that makes you feel bummed.

― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Thursday, 5 January 2006 07:04 (eighteen years ago) link

http://home.swipnet.se/~w-58871/cd/sleeves/085.jpg = http://www.satanicrituals.com/hcbooks/michelleremembers.jpg

― latebloomer: Grab my puffy nipples and make a wish. (latebloomer), Thursday, 5 January 2006 07:50 (eighteen years ago) link

http://www.ginosprio.com/_images/Mark+E+Smith_bySprio.jpg

ihttp://yalepress.yale.edu/yupbooks/images/full/0300082096.jpg

― Dr Benway (dr benway), Thursday, 5 January 2006 14:55 (eighteen years ago) link

Alright then,
= http://www.library.otago.ac.nz/exhibitions/Book_Jackets/gfx/large/14lewis.jpg

― Dr Benway (dr benway), Thursday, 5 January 2006 14:57 (eighteen years ago) link

Surely Wittgenstein requires a more heavyweight equivalent than Aphex Twin? Something serialist maybe.

― Ogmor Roundtrouser (Ogmor Roundtrouser), Thursday, 5 January 2006 15:09 (eighteen years ago) link

one year passes...

Frank Zappa = Thomas Pynchon

Zaniness and wild virtuosity rooted in a monstrous command of the instrument and medium. Respected and cited more than actually played/read, so they have that in common as well.

― hearditonthexico (rogermexico), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 04:18 (seventeen years ago) link

Arcade Fire - Neighbourhood #1 = Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Haruki Murakami
-- pinder (pinde...), January 4th, 2006.

Dammit, I was excited about reading this.

Lester's Psychotic Rxns=Raw Power obv.

― Hoosteen (Hoosteen), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 04:38 (seventeen years ago) link

Colin Wilson is in every way The Fall in writer form.

― Jawbone (Jawbone), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 05:14 (seventeen years ago) link

Harrison's All Things Must Pass = Tennyson's All Things Must Die

― Cunga (Cunga), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 05:45 (seventeen years ago) link

Arcade Fire - Neighbourhood #1 = Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Haruki Murakami

lol they fuckin wish

― ZR (teenagequiet), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 05:48 (seventeen years ago) link

I wrote a piece about how Thom Yorke's Eraser makes a great soundtrack to the Harlin Ellison PC game I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream. It isn't a piece of literature, but it's based on one...

― Mordechai Shinefield (Mordy), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 21:00 (seventeen years ago) link

Gates Of Delirium was conceived as a music version of War And Peace. I've not actually got around to the book yet, but that's what Jon Anderson claims.

― You've Got Scourage On Your Breath (Haberdager), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 21:08 (seventeen years ago) link

i saw the title of this post and thought "that's a dumb idea." then i clicked on it and realized i started it a year ago.

― critique de la vie quotidienne (modestmickey), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 21:11 (seventeen years ago) link

you're a dumb idea!

― VALLEY OF BLIZZARDZ (Mr.Que), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 21:12 (seventeen years ago) link

... was that supposed to zing?

― critique de la vie quotidienne (modestmickey), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 21:15 (seventeen years ago) link

Syd Barrett = Lewis Carroll

― David Fernig (dave f), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 02:41 (seventeen years ago) link

David Fernig = Charles Pooter

― Boom Dershowitz (noodle vague), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 02:43 (seventeen years ago) link

2112 = Ayn Rand --Duh!!

― Matt Olken (Moodles), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 05:18 (seventeen years ago) link

I wrote a piece about how Thom Yorke's Eraser makes a great soundtrack to the Harlin Ellison PC game I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream. It isn't a piece of literature, but it's based on one...

-- Mordechai Shinefield (lubbarluba...), January 9th, 2007.

Most disconcerting computer game ever in life.

― Hoosteen (Hoosteen), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 05:37 (seventeen years ago) link

Boom Dershowitz = Anne Rice

― David Fernig (dave f), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 05:46 (seventeen years ago) link

Actually, my current reading project is 19th-century poet Gerard Manley Hopkins, on whom I am writing a dissertation. His arrhythmical blasts of awed and coiled turmoil share many similarities with the music of, as I believe, Xiu Xiu. I'm no great fan of the latter group, but from what I've heard, the method of creating distorted, strangely-stressed, damaged yet tangible statements of art is consistent to both. Moreover, both have a primary subject of frustration, confession and awe to battle within their brains: for GMH it is God, his Catholic God, and for Xiu Xiu it is (homo)sexual desire. The two, one might argue, are in all seriousness closer than you might first suspect.

― You've Got Scourage On Your Breath (Haberdager), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 06:31 (seventeen years ago) link

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