A few for starters:
Velvet Underground ("Velvet Underground", Michael Leigh, 1963)Aerosmith ("Arrowsmith", Sinclair Lewis, 1925)The Doors ("The Doors of Perception", Aldous Huxley, 1954)
― o. nate (onate), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 14:56 (sixteen years ago) link
― Dadaismus (Dada), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 15:02 (sixteen years ago) link
The Soft Machine (1961)Dead Fingers Talk (1963)Nova Express (1964)
― Dadaismus (Dada), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 15:04 (sixteen years ago) link
― o. nate (onate), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 15:05 (sixteen years ago) link
xpost DAMN YOU
― Mike W (caek), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 15:06 (sixteen years ago) link
― o. nate (onate), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 15:09 (sixteen years ago) link
― owen moorhead (i heart daniel miller), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 15:15 (sixteen years ago) link
― TRG (TRG), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 15:16 (sixteen years ago) link
(attn new bands: please peruse the Jim Thompson catalog. "Texas By The Tail", "Recoil", "Heed The Thunder" and "Nothing More Than Murder" are still untaken. Green on Red titled one of their LPs "The Killer Inside Me", but that one's up for grabs, too.)
― Eazy (Eazy), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 16:00 (sixteen years ago) link
― James, Wednesday, 15 February 2006 16:02 (sixteen years ago) link
― o. nate (onate), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 16:03 (sixteen years ago) link
― James, Wednesday, 15 February 2006 16:04 (sixteen years ago) link
― stew!, Wednesday, 15 February 2006 16:04 (sixteen years ago) link
― Dadaismus (Dada), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 16:06 (sixteen years ago) link
― Huk-L (Huk-L), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 16:10 (sixteen years ago) link
― Chairman Doinel (Charles McCain), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 16:18 (sixteen years ago) link
All taken from A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
― Ben Dot (1977), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 16:19 (sixteen years ago) link
― Dadaismus (Dada), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 16:21 (sixteen years ago) link
― Huk-L (Huk-L), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 16:24 (sixteen years ago) link
― Dadaismus (Dada), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 16:27 (sixteen years ago) link
― James Ward (jamesmichaelward), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 16:29 (sixteen years ago) link
― Jena (JenaP), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 17:06 (sixteen years ago) link
― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 17:21 (sixteen years ago) link
― Dadaismus (Dada), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 17:23 (sixteen years ago) link
― AaronK (AaronK), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 17:33 (sixteen years ago) link
― o. nate (onate), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 17:37 (sixteen years ago) link
― AaronK the bookist (AaronK), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 17:42 (sixteen years ago) link
― Terrible Cold (Terrible Cold), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 17:56 (sixteen years ago) link
― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 18:50 (sixteen years ago) link
― peter stillman (dovlandau), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 19:37 (sixteen years ago) link
― Dave will do (dave225.3), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 19:40 (sixteen years ago) link
― AaronK (AaronK), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 19:46 (sixteen years ago) link
― AaronK (AaronK), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 20:01 (sixteen years ago) link
― stu (stu), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 20:29 (sixteen years ago) link
... which in turn is a line from Milton's Samson Agonistes. Do I win a point?
― Wax Cat (Wax Cat), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 20:56 (sixteen years ago) link
― that's so taylrr (ken taylrr), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 20:59 (sixteen years ago) link
― Mark (MarkR), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 21:02 (sixteen years ago) link
― xgurggleglgllg (xgurggleglgllg), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 21:14 (sixteen years ago) link
― Matt #2 (Matt #2), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 21:43 (sixteen years ago) link
Is there a thread for characters in books? Josef K (from The Trial) obviously springs to mind.
Apparantly there's a band called Deadeye Dick after the Kurt Vonnegut book but I can't believe there isn't a band called The Sirens of Titan.
― Ned T.Rifle (nedtrifle), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 22:00 (sixteen years ago) link
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=10342074
The link seems to be broken though - on googles cached version it says they are metal/rock.
― Ned T.Rifle (nedtrifle), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 22:01 (sixteen years ago) link
I believe it came from an excerpt from a book related to Nazi death camps. I remember last year Mojo did an article on Ian Curtis and they highlighted the passage.
― Cunga (Cunga), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 22:04 (sixteen years ago) link
― Sloppy Toe, Thursday, 16 February 2006 00:35 (sixteen years ago) link
― jim wentworth (wench), Thursday, 16 February 2006 01:51 (sixteen years ago) link
― Waka Waka (Cunga), Thursday, 16 February 2006 03:28 (sixteen years ago) link
― xgurggleglgllg (xgurggleglgllg), Thursday, 16 February 2006 03:43 (sixteen years ago) link
― bobby.lasers (bobby.lasers), Thursday, 16 February 2006 03:47 (sixteen years ago) link
― Sym Sym (sym), Thursday, 16 February 2006 03:57 (sixteen years ago) link
― Sundar (sundar), Thursday, 16 February 2006 04:17 (sixteen years ago) link
― Cunga (Cunga), Thursday, 16 February 2006 04:55 (sixteen years ago) link
― Simon H. (Simon H.), Thursday, 16 February 2006 05:28 (sixteen years ago) link
― regular roundups (Dave M), Thursday, 16 February 2006 05:45 (sixteen years ago) link
― Sym Sym (sym), Thursday, 16 February 2006 06:39 (sixteen years ago) link
― GLC, Friday, 17 February 2006 05:25 (sixteen years ago) link
― Roz (Roz), Friday, 17 February 2006 07:39 (sixteen years ago) link
― Roque Strew (RoqueStrew), Friday, 17 February 2006 08:34 (sixteen years ago) link
― Mitya (mitya), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 03:15 (sixteen years ago) link
― DOESTOEVSKY, Monday, 17 April 2006 07:30 (sixteen years ago) link
I found this list trying to doublecheck some names on our "Booking Bands" page, in which we asked readers to combine band and book names (and got a few thousand entries that I'm still sorting through) We made a special category for books that bands used as a name.
http://www.coudal.com/bookingbands.php
― illnoise, Wednesday, 24 May 2006 14:26 (sixteen years ago) link
I'm almost positive that they took the name from the William Blake quote ("When the doors of perception are cleansed, man will see things as they truly are--infinite") rather than the book title--itself, too taken from the Blake quote.
Minor point, I guess.
― max (maxreax), Wednesday, 24 May 2006 14:34 (sixteen years ago) link
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_doors
Could be wrong though.
― o. nate (onate), Wednesday, 24 May 2006 14:43 (sixteen years ago) link
― nabisco (nabisco), Wednesday, 24 May 2006 15:29 (sixteen years ago) link
― nabisco (nabisco), Wednesday, 24 May 2006 15:33 (sixteen years ago) link
so, the band my chemical romance wasn't named after the chemical romance of christian rosenkreutz? that was their only redeeming quality!
― bell labs (bell_labs), Wednesday, 24 May 2006 19:47 (sixteen years ago) link
that's how i remember it too...
― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Wednesday, 24 May 2006 20:07 (sixteen years ago) link
― killy ii (baby lenin pin), Wednesday, 24 May 2006 20:21 (sixteen years ago) link
So which seems a more likely inspiration for the Doors: a mystical religious poem or a book about mescaline? Could be both, I guess.
― o. nate (onate), Wednesday, 24 May 2006 20:33 (sixteen years ago) link
The Reivers = a book by Faulkner (now that spelling I NAILED)
― hank (hank s), Wednesday, 24 May 2006 23:57 (sixteen years ago) link
― FACEBRACE (FACEBRACE), Thursday, 25 May 2006 12:06 (sixteen years ago) link
― ledge (ledge), Thursday, 25 May 2006 12:12 (sixteen years ago) link
― 35 Hertz (35 Hertz), Thursday, 25 May 2006 15:44 (sixteen years ago) link
― Heath Raymond (Heath Raymond), Thursday, 25 May 2006 15:54 (sixteen years ago) link
Reading A Severed Head; assume that belongs.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 1 June 2021 00:21 (eleven months ago) link
Speedy Ortiz is the 2nd(?) band to take its name from Love and Rockets; as a fan of the comic, I don’t love that move… but if it leads to even one new reader, then great.
― like a d4mn sociopath! (morrisp), Tuesday, 1 June 2021 00:46 (eleven months ago) link
The Triffids
― Zelda Zonk, Tuesday, 1 June 2021 01:18 (eleven months ago) link
Devil Wears Prada, and they hilariously misunderstood what the book was about
― Feta Van Cheese (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 1 June 2021 01:25 (eleven months ago) link
No thread for songs named after books (or lines in books). Came across this in A Severed Head today:
I said, “If I broke your neck now I’d probably get off with three years.” I got up and leaned against the mantelpiece looking down at her. “What have I done to deserve this?” I said.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 1 June 2021 02:27 (eleven months ago) link
Guadalcanal Diary
― henry s, Tuesday, 1 June 2021 12:06 (eleven months ago) link
The Would-Be-Goods
― Lily Dale, Thursday, 24 June 2021 05:48 (eleven months ago) link
there's a local band here named Catcher AND the Rye and I can't tell if they think they're being clever or tehy're so stupid that they think that's the title of the book
― cancel culture club (Neanderthal), Thursday, 24 June 2021 13:22 (eleven months ago) link
I think House of Love were named after the Anais Nin book 'Spy in the House of Love'
― Maresn3st, Thursday, 24 June 2021 13:54 (eleven months ago) link
was (not were)
― ten man poland chasing this means hamsik feasts (breastcrawl), Thursday, 24 June 2021 13:59 (eleven months ago) link
My Favorite Summer 1956 was named after Mickey Mantle's autobiography
― cancel culture club (Neanderthal), Thursday, 24 June 2021 14:10 (eleven months ago) link
or would be if they existed