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<h1>FIDELITY.III.46.: LITERARY. </h1>
<h2>I saw the new film adaptation of <i>Dune</i> a few weeks ago, and it reminded me of Grimes' first LP <i>Geidi Primes</i>, which is a Dune concept album, and actually the reason that I read the book to begin with. I just had to know more about the places and people that her songs were describing. That got me thinking about a playlist of songs based on books! A few classic novels (<i>Alice in Wonderland, 1984, The Catcher In the Rye</i>) inspired more songs than I ever knew before compiling this. There are some other more niche picks... and of course two of Led Zeppelin's <i>Lord of the Rings</i> referencing classics. Please enjoy!</h2>
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<p>1. Led Zeppelin, "Ramble On" from <i>Led Zeppelin II</i>, 1969</p>
<p>"In the darkest depths of Mordor..." </p>
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<img class="single_cover" src="./assets/playlist_46/the_lion_and.jpeg" alt="cover art of Sinead O'Connor's album The Lion and the Cobra.">
<p>2. Sinead O'Connor, "Mandinka" from <i>The Lion and the Cobra</i>, 1987</p>
<p>Inspired by the book <i>Roots</i> by Alex Haley.</p>
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<img class="single_cover" src="./assets/playlist_46/the_sensual_world.jpeg" alt="cover art of Kate Bush's album The Sensual World.">
<p>3. Kate Bush, "The Sensual World" from <i>The Sensual World</i>, 1989</p>
<p>Based on Molly Bloom's soliloquy in the final chapter of James Joyce's <i>Ulysses</i>: "yes I said yes I will Yes." </p>
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<p>4. Jefferson Airplane, "White Rabbit" from <i>Surrealistic Pillow</i>, 1967</p>
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<img class="single_cover" src="./assets/playlist_46/the_velvet_underground.jpeg" alt="cover art of The Velvet Underground's album The Velvet Underground & Nico.">
<p>5. The Velvet Underground, "Venus in Furs" from <i>The Velvet Underground & Nico</i>, 1967</p>
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<img class="single_cover" src="./assets/playlist_46/faith.jpeg" alt="cover art of The Cure's album Faith.">
<p>6. The Cure, "Charlotte Sometimes," 1981 single</p>
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<img class="single_cover" src="./assets/playlist_46/a_weekend_in.jpeg" alt="cover art of the Block Party's album A Weekend In the City.">
<p>7. Bloc Party, "Song For Clay (Disappear Here)" from <i>A Weekend In the City</i>, 2007</p>
<p>Clay is the protagonist of Bret Easton Ellis's novel <i>Less Than Zero</i>, who is characterized by his "need to see the worst" of humanity. The line "people are afraid to merge on the freeway" in the chorus is taken directly from the novel. </p>
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<img class="single_cover" src="./assets/playlist_46/chelsea_light_moving.jpeg" alt="cover art of Chelsea Light Moving' album Chelsea Light Moving.">
<p>Chelsea Light Moving, "Burroughs" from <i>Chelsea Light Moving</i>, 2013</p>
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<img class="single_cover" src="./assets/playlist_46/good_news_for.jpeg" alt="cover art of Modest Mouse' album Good News for People Who Love Bad News.">
<p>9. Modest Mouse, "Bukowski" from Good News for People Who Love Bad News, 2004</p>
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<img class="single_cover" src="./assets/playlist_46/the_libertines.jpeg" alt="cover art of The Libertines's album The Libertines.">
<p>10. The Libertines, "Narcissist" from <i>The Libertines</i>, 2004</p>
<p>"Wouldn't it be nice to be Dorian Gray / Just for a day..." They really just had such great songs and were very aware of the construct of their own mythology and the place of that mythology in a broader art-historical context. And for that I can only applaud them. </p>
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<img class="single_cover" src="./assets/playlist_46/down_in_albion.jpeg" alt="cover art of Babyshambles' album Down in Albion">
<p>11. Babyshambles, "A'Rebours" from <i>Down in Albion</i>, 2005</p>
<p>I was going to say that this song is not really about the novel <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%80_rebours">A'Rebours</a> by Joris-Karl Huysmans - often translated in English to Against Nature. (I didn't truly dislike many of the books that I was assigned to read for college classes, but this was one of them.) A'Rebours the novel is a kind of foundational <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decadent_movement">Decadent</a> text that's on the surface about one guy's very particular aesthetic obsessions but that is actually about retreating into a world of one's own creation. And the latter is what this song (and album!) is about. </p>
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<p>12. The Strokes, "Soma" from <i>Is This It</i>, 2001</p>
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<img class="single_cover" src="./assets/playlist_46/halcyon_digest.jpeg" alt="cover art of Deerhunter's album Halcyon Digest.">
<p>13. Deerhunter, "Helicopter" from <i>Halcyon Digest</i>, 2010</p>
<p>Based on one of Dennis Cooper's mega-disturbing short stories about dissolute gay youth. (Does Dennis Cooper have any other kind of short story?) This was the first song I heard by this band that I liked. Listening to the rest of the album changed my entire life. I've probably said this before but one of the interesting things about Deerhunter is that they can pretty accurately be characterized as a Southern Gothic rock band, in the lineage of R.E.M.'s Fables of the Reconstruction... A fully actualized sonic interpretation of a predominantly literary movement.</p>
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<img class="single_cover" src="./assets/playlist_46/replicas.jpeg" alt="cover art of Gary Numan & Tubeway Army's album Replicas.">
<p>14. Gary Numan & Tubeway Army, "Are Friends Electric?" from <i>Replicas</i>, 1979</p>
<p>Supposedly inspired by Philip K. Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? - the novel that Blade Runner is also based on. </p>
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<img class="single_cover" src="./assets/playlist_46/and_then_nothing.jpeg" alt="cover art of Yo La Tengo's album And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out.">
<p>15. Yo La Tengo, "The Crying of Lot G" from <i>And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out</i>, 2000</p>
<p>The sometimes-cringe-inducing, excruciatingly pure and almost childish sincerity and simplicity of Ira Kaplan's lyrics seems to me an underrated element of what has made this band so good and so respected for so long. I mean... "The way that I feel when you laugh is like laughing / The way that I feel when you cry is so bad"??????</p>
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<img class="single_cover" src="./assets/playlist_46/distortland.jpeg" alt="cover art of Dandy Warhol's album Distortland.">
<p>16. Dandy Warhols, "Catcher In the Rye" from <i>Distortland</i>, 2016</p>
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<img class="single_cover" src="./assets/playlist_46/hail_to_the.jpeg" alt="cover art of Radiohead's album Hail to the Thief">
<p>17. Radiohead, "2+2=5" from <i>Hail to the Thief</i>, 2003</p>
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<p>18. Mercury Rev, "The Dark is Rising" from <i>All is Dream</i>, 2001</p>
<p>Susan Cooper's <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dark_Is_Rising_Sequence">The Dark is Rising</a> sequence was one of my favorite young adult fantasy series when I was a kid. The innate cinematicness that characterizes many Mercury Rev songs is particularly fitting here.</p>
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<img class="single_cover" src="./assets/playlist_46/tigermilk.jpeg" alt="cover art of Belle & Sebastian's album Tigermilk.">
<p>19. Belle & Sebastian, "I Don't Love Anyone" from <i>Tigermilk</i>, 1999</p>
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<img class="single_cover" src="./assets/playlist_46/in_the_aeroplane.jpeg" alt="cover art of Neutral Milk Hotel's album In The Aeroplane Over the Sea.">
<p>20. Neutral Milk Hotel, "Holland, 1945" from <i>In The Aeroplane Over the Sea</i>, 1998</p>
<p>Most of this album was inspired by Jeff Mangum's reading The Diary of Anne Frank and becoming obsessed with Anne's story. I think this song is sort of a thesis statement about why he was so inspired by her, and overall the continued resonance of her life. "It's so sad to see the world agree that they'd rather see their faces filled with flies / Oh when I long to keep white roses in their eyes..."</p>
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<p>21. Led Zeppelin, "Misty Mountain Hop" from <i>Led Zeppelin IV</i>, 1971</p>
<p>"Why don't you take a good look at yourself and describe what you see, and BABY BABY BABY do you like it????" This is and has always been my favorite Led Zeppelin song. <a href="https://youtu.be/KwG9iRFmY1I">Here's the recording of this from that MSG concert.</a></p>
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<p>22. Sonic Youth, "The Sprawl" from <i>Daydream Nation</i>, 1988</p>
<p>The Sprawl is a mega-city stretching from Boston to Atlanta in some of William Gibson's novels. </p>
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<img class="single_cover" src="./assets/playlist_46/the_last_pale.jpeg" alt="cover art of Ben Nichols' album The Last Pale Light in the West.">
<p>23. Ben Nichols, "The Judge" from <i>The Last Pale Light in the West</i>, 2009</p>
<p>Two creepy instrumentals about my favorite novel, Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian... </p>
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<img class="single_cover" src="./assets/playlist_46/hex_or_printing.jpeg" alt="cover art of Earth's album Hex: Or Printing in the Infernal Method.">
<p>24. Earth, "The Dire and Ever Circling Wolves" from <i>Hex: Or Printing in the Infernal Method</i>, 2005</p>
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<p>25. Grimes, "Caladan" from <i>Geidi Primes</i>, 2010</p>
<p>Caladan is the homeworld of House Atreides in Dune. Grimes has said this is "the first good song I ever wrote."</p>
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<img class="single_cover" src="./assets/playlist_46/solitude_standing.jpeg" alt="cover art of Suzanne Vega's album Solitude Standing.">
<p>26. Suzanne Vega, "Calypso" from <i>Solitude Standing</i>, 1987</p>
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<img class="single_cover" src="./assets/playlist_46/is_this_desire.jpeg" alt="cover art of PJ Harvey's album Is This Desire?">
<p>27. PJ Harvey, "The River" from <i>Is This Desire?</i>, 1998</p>
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<p>28. Kate Bush, "Wuthering Heights" from <i>The Kick Inside</i>, 1978</p>
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<p>Copyright @Genevieve Oliver 2021.</p>
<p>If you liked this playlist, please check out the <a href="https://www.unionofmusicians.org/">Union of Musicians and Allied Workers</a> (UMAW) and their <a href="https://www.unionofmusicians.org/justice-at-spotify">Justice at Spotify campaign</a>. They are fighting for one cent per stream!</p>
<p>If you really liked this playlist, really hated it, want more recommendations in the line of something you heard here, want to air grievances of any kind, or just want to shoot the shit, please feel free to <a href="emailto: [email protected]">email me</a>.</p>
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