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    Posted: June 03 2014 at 18:52
Everyone knows bands or concept-albums based on Tolkien, Lovecraft, the Bible, Tibetian Book of the Dead, etc.

But what about bands or albums based on less popular  authors or obscure movies?


I'll start:


Richard Pinhas - Chronolyse (based on Dune)
Club Foot Orchestra - Nosferatu (actually a soundtrack to the original silent film)
Art Zoyd - nosferatu (not sure if it's actually having to do with the film, though!)
Slough Feg - Traveller (based on the role-playing game of the same name)
Silence! (the silence of the lambs musical)
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The Snow Goose by Camel, Inspired by a short story. I can't even recall the author of that one.

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Armando Tirelli - El Profeta
Can am des Puig - the Book of AM
The Decemberists - the Crane Wife
The Decemberists - the Tain
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Points: 5898 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 04 2014 at 03:53
Cult horror author Thomas Ligotti has written several lyrics for Current 93, right down to doing guest vocals on some of their songs, and he seems to be pretty obscure though he has gotten a boost in popularity after the writers of the TV series True Detective mentioned his work as an influence.

The Soft Machine, while being named after a William Burroughs novel, have also referred to more-influential-than-popular postmodernist author Thomas Pynchon in their work. They have a song titled something like Rachel Gets a Nose Job, which is an obvious reference to an infamous chapter in Pynchon's debut novel V.
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Those authors are hardly obscure, though. Certainly not when compared to Ligotti or Pynchon.
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Originally posted by Toaster Mantis Toaster Mantis wrote:

Those authors are hardly obscure, though. Certainly not when compared to Ligotti or Pynchon.
Well, okay, but they aren't authors of  (un)Holy Bible, Lord of the Rings or obviously used 1984 


Here's an author who is not so much popular anyway... 
















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I didn't consider the level of obscurity (or quality of the music)

Brave New World  Impressions on Reading Aldous Huxley
Museo Rosenbach - Zarathustra (loosely based on Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra)
Banco Del Mutuo Soccorso - Darwin! (equally obvious)
Andreas Ammer/F.M. Einheit Radio Inferno (Dante's Inferno)
Ulver - Themes from William Blake's The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
Bo Hansson - El-Ahrairah/Music Inspired By Watership Down
Latte e Miele - Papillon (navel by Henri Charrière)
The Doors - named after Aldous Huxley's book The Doors of Perception)

a couple og non prog-related:

Bolt Thrower Realm of Chaos + War Master (based on/named after Warhammer 40,000 board game)
Belle & Sebastian - (named after  Cécile Aubry's book Belle et Sébastien)
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I read on YouTube that Voivod's song Lost Machine was based on a book from possibly the 50s. The person that wote that didn't remember the author or book title, though.


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Points: 34050 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 04 2014 at 07:19
Moby Dick is not what i would call an obscour book nor author, one of the 10 greatest/famous books written, and has influences all over fiction

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Points: 841 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 04 2014 at 07:35
Originally posted by HolyMoly HolyMoly wrote:

The Snow Goose by Camel, Inspired by a short story. I can't even recall the author of that one.



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I just wanted to mention that ,as far as Lovecraft is concerned, no band has produced such a weird cthulu atmoshere as the obscure prog metallers Payne's Gray.(Kadath Decoded-1995).
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The band Fuchsia was named after a character in Mervyn Peake’s Gormenghast books.

Genesis’ Watcher of the Skies is inspired by a novel by Arthur C. Clarke (Childhood’s End), though the title is taken from a poem by Keats. A passage from The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot inspired The Cinema Show. Though Gabriel has hinted that The Lamb … is loosely based on John Bunyan’s The Pilgrim’s Progress, I think it has more in common with Dante’s Divina Commedia.

And Gentle Giant were, of course, big fans of Rabelais and his two gentle giants Pantagruel and Gargantua.
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Points: 23994 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 04 2014 at 08:15
The title of Pink Floyd's debut album (The Piper at the Gates of Dawn) was named after chapter 7 of Kenneth Grahame's children's novel The Wind in the Willows.

Originally posted by Aldebaran_Well Aldebaran_Well wrote:

I just wanted to mention that ,as far as Lovecraft is concerned, no band has produced such a weird cthulu atmoshere as the obscure prog metallers Payne's Gray.(Kadath Decoded-1995).

Caravan's song C'Thlu Thlu is another Lovecraft-inspred one, I believe. And so is Shub-Niggurath's Yog Sothoth.


Edited by someone_else - June 04 2014 at 09:07
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Originally posted by refugee refugee wrote:

The band Fuchsia was named after a character in Mervyn Peake’s Gormenghast books.


and so was Lady Fuschia by Strawbs
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Points: 7026 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 04 2014 at 08:35
Originally posted by kenethlevine kenethlevine wrote:

Originally posted by refugee refugee wrote:

The band Fuchsia was named after a character in Mervyn Peake’s Gormenghast books.


and so was Lady Fuschia by Strawbs


A very beautiful song. But why did they misspell her name?
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Points: 11415 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 04 2014 at 08:35
The song Knots by Gentle Giant was inspired by the late Scottish psychiatrist RD Laing (hardly an obscure figure but one that has flown below the radar in recent years)
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