Cause and Effect presents:
Cause + Effect: Musical Fiction – Literature in Song
One Hit Wanda explores music (and bands!) inspired by great literature.
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Mike Oldfield, “In the Beginning”
from The Songs of Distant Earth
WM UK - 1994
The Songs of Distant Earth - Arthur C. Clarke Today's bed music for the talky times. This is a concept album.
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Blind Guardian, “Into the Storm”
from Nightfall in Middle Earth
Virgin - 2007
The Silmarillion - JRR Tolkien - is a book consisting of a collection of myths and stories in varying styles by the English writer J. R. R. Tolkien. It was edited, partly written, and published posthumously by his son Christopher Tolkien in 1977, assisted by Guy Gavriel Kay. The album, Nightfall in Middle Earth, is a concept album.
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Kate Bush, “Wuthering Heights”
from The Kick Inside
Fish People - 1978
Wuthering Heights - the only novel by Emily Brontë
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Black Star, “Thieves in the Night”
from Mos Def & Talib Kweli Are Black Star
Rawkus Entertainment - 2002
The Bluest Eye - Toni Morrison. Black Star - The duo is composed of rappers Yasiin Bey (more commonly known by his former stage name Mos Def) and Talib Kweli. The duo is named after The Black Star Line, a shipping company founded by Marcus Garvey, a Jamaican political activist and prominent Black nationalist.
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Óscar Chávez, “Macondo”
from 15 Éxitos
IM Music Group - 1997
One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel García Márquez 1967 novel by Colombian author Gabriel García Márquez that tells the multi-generational story of the Buendía family, whose patriarch, José Arcadio Buendía, founded the fictitious town of Macondo. The novel is often cited as one of the supreme achievements in world literature.
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Camel, “Hopeless Anger”
from Dust and Dreams
Camel Productions UK Ltd - 1991
The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck The album, Dust and Dreams, is a concept album based on this novel.
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Mike Oldfield, “Supernova”
from The Songs of Distant Earth
WM UK - 1994
The Songs of Distant Earth - Arthur C. Clarke
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MC Lars, “Hey There Ophelia (feat. Gabe Saporta & Brett Anderson)”
from This Gigantic Robot Kills
Horris Records - 2009
Hamlet - William Shakespeare
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High On Fire, “Cometh Down Hessian”
from Blessed Black Wings
Relapse Records - 2005
The Hound - HP Lovecraft
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deadmau5 ft. Chris James, “The Veldt (radio edit)”
EMI - 2012
The Veldt - Ray Bradbury
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Robert Earl Keen, “Christabel”
from No Kinda Dancer
KOCH RECORDS - 2004
Christabel - Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Anny Celsi, “'Twas Her Hunger Brought Me Down”
from Little Black Dress & Other Stories
Ragazza Music - 2003
Sister Carrie - Theodore Dreiser
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Mägo de Oz, “El Pacto”
Locomotive Records - 1997
Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes It was originally published in two parts, in 1605 and 1615. Considered a founding work of Western literature, it is often labelled as the first modern novel.
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Mike Oldfield, “Lament for Atlantis”
from The Songs of Distant Earth
WM UK - 1994
The Songs of Distant Earth - Arthur C. Clarke
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Nada Surf, “Popular”
from High / Low
Elektra Records - 1996
Penny's Guide to Teen-Age Charm and Popularity - Gloria Winters
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ICE NINE KILLS, “Alice”
Fearless Records - 2015
Go Ask Alice - Beatrice Sparks Go Ask Alice is a 1971 book about a teenage girl who develops a drug addiction at age 15 and runs away from home on a journey of self-destructive escapism. How many of us read this in high school? *raises hand*
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Bloc Party, “Song for Clay (Disappear Here)”
Vice Records/Atlantic - 2007
Less Than Zero - Bret Easton Ellis A 1985 novel, turned into a 1987 movie of the same name starring Andrew McCarthy as Clay, Jamie Gertz, Robert Downey, Jr. and James Spader. The book and film explore the culture of wealthy, decadent youth in Los Angeles. The film received mixed reviews among critics. Ellis hated it initially, but his view of it later softened. He insists that the film bears no resemblance to his novel and feels that it was miscast apart from Downey and Spader.
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Nirvana, “Scentless Apprentice”
from In Utero
Geffen - 1993
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer - Patrick Süskind
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Mike Oldfield, “The Sunken Forest”
from The Songs of Distant Earth
WM UK - 1994
The Songs of Distant Earth - Arthur C. Clarke
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Dee Adam, “Pennsylvania”
from Songs Inspired By Literature: Chapter Two
Mentl Music - 2003
Songmaster - Orson Scott Card
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The Alarm, “The Stand”
from The Alarm - EP
Twenty First Century Recording Company - 1983
The Stand - Stephen King
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Kamelot, “March of Mephisto”
Knife Fight Media / KMG - 2006
Based on Faust, a tragic play in two parts by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Mike Oldfield, “A New Beginning”
from The Songs of Distant Earth
WM UK - 1994
The Songs of Distant Earth - Arthur C. Clarke
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Guns N' Roses, “November Rain”
from Use Your Illusion I
Guns N Roses P&D - 1991
Without You - Del James
One Hit Wanda Cause and Effect September 7th, 2024
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