Are there other musical versions of books? Not theatre, but albums where each song covers a part of the story, perhaps with some spoken word mixed in..
Albums based on books
Jack Morris
Samuel Ward
Poe - Haunted is based on Book of Leaves, to the best of my knowledge
Ryan Price
Klaus Schulze's "Audentity" is allegedly based on Trakl's "Sebastian im Traum"
>The piece is about the life history of Sebastian, starting on 'Cellistica' and moving through Sebastian's childhood ('Tango - Saty', 'Amourage' and 'Opheylissem') and adulthood ('Spielglocken') to the dream-summary of what he has learned ('Sebastian im Traum').
Honestly, I'd recommend just getting into opera if you want music+story. Most of them are adaptations of literary works. There are also oratorios and passions if you don't want any physical action.
Jaxson Lopez
Also Poe
Tales of Mystery and Imagination by the Alan Parsons Project
also I Robot by the same band
Anthony Lewis
2112 is based on Ayn Rand's Anthem, or at least inspired by it.
Jacob Long
Blind Guardian did stuff on LOTR and the Iliad
the Summoning makes a lot of LOTR stuff
also 1984 by David Bowie
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Isaac Sanchez
Mastodon - Leviathan is Moby Dick in album form.
Mason Gomez
It's only based loosely on moby dick
I guess you should try metal in general, literally thousands of metal albums are based on novels
Sebastian Fisher
>Alan Parsons Project
Not to mention 'Eve'
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And 'I Robot' picks up the Bible too (in addition to Asimov)
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Henry Gutierrez
WHITE
WHALE
Henry King
Land of Kush - Against The Day
Pynchon's weirdest book orchestrally rendered chapter by chapter by some French Canadians
Hudson Lopez
fuck this is good. HAvent read ATD yet though, I've had it for a while now.
Elijah Scott
No. The Call of the Wretched Sea is the true Moby Dick.
Luis Ross
There's a VALIS opera, I thought it was pretty weak but I don't know about opera
Lucas Flores
Not a direct adaption, but it uses the same concept of sheep, dog and pig.
Probbly their best album, too.
Landon Ramirez
Here´s a better pic.
Anthony Ward
Gravity's Rainbow by Pat Benetar
Scentless Apprentice by Nirvana is about Perfume.
Henry Howard
I'm about halfway through the book, and it's shaping up to be my favorite Pynchon. Really interested in the album now.
Robert Jackson
I wonder why this is the case. Why metal.
Isaac Barnes
Metal guys tend to be huge nerds. But metal albums about literary stuff tend to incorporate only the most superficial aspects. Like, listening to blind guardian is a huge waste of time
Landon Howard
Rick wakeman - journey to the centre of the earth
Rick wakeman - the myths and tales of king arthur and the knights of the round table
Jaxson Jackson
>journey to the centre of the earth
Loved this book as a kid, going to check this one out.
Elijah Reyes
1984
Chase Russell
Jaxson Garcia
I don't like metal as a general rule, but Metallica has a great song "One" based on Johnny Got His Gun (a fantastic book).
>I guess you should try metal in general, literally thousands of metal albums are based on novels
Can you name just a couple that you particularly like?
Gabriel Campbell
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Liam Wright
Joshua Long
This is a pretty kickass album and a joy to listen to btw.