Bands named after books

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Suprised that no one has mentioned the Comsat Angels, named after a J. G. Ballard short story. Another was used for Joy Division's song "The Atrocity Exhibition". Indeed, JGB's bibliography is rife with good potential band/song names:

35 Hertz (35 Hertz), Thursday, 25 May 2006 15:44 (seventeen years ago) link

Catch 22. Shitty band, great book. Heller.

Heath Raymond (Heath Raymond), Thursday, 25 May 2006 15:54 (seventeen years ago) link

fifteen years pass...

Reading A Severed Head; assume that belongs.

clemenza, Tuesday, 1 June 2021 00:21 (two years 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 (two years ago) link

The Triffids

Zelda Zonk, Tuesday, 1 June 2021 01:18 (two years ago) link

Devil Wears Prada, and they hilariously misunderstood what the book was about

Feta Van Cheese (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 1 June 2021 01:25 (two years 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 (two years ago) link

Guadalcanal Diary

henry s, Tuesday, 1 June 2021 12:06 (two years ago) link

three weeks pass...

The Would-Be-Goods

Lily Dale, Thursday, 24 June 2021 05:48 (two years 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 (two years 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 (two years ago) link

was (not were)

ten man poland chasing this means hamsik feasts (breastcrawl), Thursday, 24 June 2021 13:59 (two years ago) link

My Favorite Summer 1956 was named after Mickey Mantle's autobiography

cancel culture club (Neanderthal), Thursday, 24 June 2021 14:10 (two years ago) link

or would be if they existed

cancel culture club (Neanderthal), Thursday, 24 June 2021 14:10 (two years ago) link


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