Albums and songs referencing James Joyce

Therapy? - "James Joyce is fucking my sister" - from "Potato Junkie"(?)

The "Brekkek Kekkek" line is from Aristophanes' The Frogs, so may or may not be via Finnegans Wake

I think there was a C86-era indie band called Baby Tuckoo? (From Portrait of the Artist, maybe)

I guess The Dubliners don't count ;)

"One day we'll meet and end,
Some grace may, or may not be our friend"
"How do you, how do you, how do you feel?
Come on now tell me now Mark"
He crosses his legs and leans over to me
"Let some secrets out!"
"Find time, find what you need
find grace falls, on the left wing/at your heel.
The pure combination of tangent and arc
and the strength of your heart."
"Is the cure for a cold really 16 Galloises?"
He says "Yes yes yes yes yes that's the way
1000 white minis parked on the roadside
And they've all come and they're shooting machine-guns.
That's the way that we get things done quick."
"Here, why don't we move? Waste time and fear fear for our safety?"
He clutches three inches on top of his belt, says what he's earning.
"I'm wealthy I'm poor and I need nothing else."
James Joyce, (vs), The last peoples Voice
"How do you say things both radical stupid and wise.
And such good advice?"
"Is that the rapture is life!"

Thom Yorke says "I float down the Liffey" from "How to Disappear Completely" is from a dream he had, but it's very FW.

BTW: Mr Leopold Bloom ate with relish the inner organs of beasts and fowls. He liked thick giblet soup, nutty gizzards, a stuffed roast heart, liverslices fried with crustcrumbs, fried hencods' roes. Most of all he liked grilled mutton kidneys which gave to his palate a fine tang of faintly scented urine.

http://www.themodernword.com/joyce/music/chamber_music.html

http://www.themodernword.com/joyce/music/pomes_penyeach.html

-- Ferlin Husky (noodle_vagu...), April 9th, 2005.

Ferlin, check out the "Wandering Rocks" chapter of Ulysses -- Bloom (or is it Stephen?) tosses a religious flyer into the Liffey and throughout the chapter the reader sees Dublin through its point of view. Joyce actually studied flow charts to see where a floating object would be in the Liffey during the period the chapter encapsulates.

The Frogs just has "brekekekex koax", I believe. The rest of it marks it as Joyce, I'd say.

missy elliot feat lil' kim - "hit 'em wit da hee"

Yo, it kinda make me think of way back when
I was the portrait of the artist as a young man

Martyn Bates recorded two CDs of JJ's poetry set to very sparse chamber music. that's gotta challenge Erdman and Cage for their JJ devotion dollar.

I think it's a slang term for a soldier, or possibly a policeman. It's in one of Bloom's monologues, either in "Lestrygonians" or "Circe" I think.

Fire Records are putting out a James Joyce compilation album sometime soon...

We make our days as they make us
As I must, as Odysseus
Make myself my own Telemachus
"Bous Stephanos, Stephanoumenos Dedalus!"

And if it hasn't been a bust
Then "land-ho, Ulysseus!"
And all of us like Dedalus:
Dead, dead all of us.

"My Dedalus to your Bloom was such a perfect wit"

He's singing about the ghost of Delmore Schwarz, who haunts Lou's house in the song.

Of course, in the indie, thick-frame specs, English-major crowd.

I guess its just the word 'trendy' that befuddles me, PB. IMO Joyce is canonized, one of the greats, and therefore bypasses trends since he will be sought out and read by many no matter what. If hipsters start blinding themselves in one eye to earn streetcred, well...

What are people who make wanky statements like this trying to prove then?

Maybe lots of people really like Joyce.

"The great fall of the offwall entailed at such short notice the pftjschute of Finnegan, erse solid man, that the humptyhillhead of humself prumptly sends an unquiring one well to the west in quest of his tumptytumtoes: and their upturnpikepointandplace is at the knock out in the park where oranges have been laid to rust upon the green since devlinsfirst loved livvy.”- James Joyce, Finnegan's Wake

Wouldn't sound out of place on Wowee Zowee.

ha, missy's "makin all you other rappers begin again / like finnegan" just made me say WAIT WAIT WAIT out loud to no one (well, to missy)

"Rattle my bones over the stones/I'm only a beggarman, nobody owns".
This folk song or nursery rhyme appears in Ulysses, and caught the attention of this Smiths fan who read it back in the day.
I once pointed this out to Pete Shelley when I forced him into conversation at a gig. He just quoted Eliot at me and made a swift exit: "Mediocre artists borrow, great artists steal."

The Go-Betweens "Karen"
Helps me find Hemingway
Helps me find Genet
Helps me find Brecht
Helps me find Chandler
Helps me find James Joyce
She always makes the right choice

Missy line is referencing "Michael Finnegan" nursery rhyme which isn't the same song that FW gets its title from, tho i'm sure it's in the book somewehre.

got a feeling the "rattle my bones" bit in Ulysses is a memory of a nursery rhyme too so Morrissey cd be quoting the source

http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=VhwFAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA200&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false

k the internet has some uses

http://cdn2.openculture.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Joyce-and-guitar.jpg

http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_400/MI0002/399/MI0002399243.jpg

Molly Bloom's soliloquy is also the finale of Firesign Theater's "How Can You Be In Two Places At Once..."

3rd Bass - "Portrait of the Artist As A Hood"