Heavy Metal Paraphrases

[FalseTodd]

FalseTodd: I love 80s metal bands and their habit of directly paraphrasing famous works of literature.
FalseTodd: Iron Maiden and Anthrax are both masters.
ozmagreed: rime!
FalseTodd: Dune.
FalseTodd: The Stand (Anthrax)
ozmagreed: the stand?
ozmagreed: i didnt know that
FalseTodd: Yeah the song is called "Among the Living"
FalseTodd: They also did "Apt Pupil" as the song "Skeletons in the Closet"
FalseTodd: The life of Jim Belushi as "Efilnikcufecin"
ozmagreed: hah
ozmagreed: neat
FalseTodd: Hm....there are more...
FalseTodd: Not thinking of them right now.
FalseTodd: Oh, Judge Dread in "I am the Law"
FalseTodd: Iron Maiden did "The Prisoner"
FalseTodd: Can't think of any others off the top of my head.


Can y'all think of any?

 

[xfer]

well, metallica's "call of ktulu"!

 

[lizard]

Maiden - Murders in the Rue Morgue

 

[avi]

there's a whole website dedicated to this somewhere, but I'll be damned if I can remember the URL

 

[FalseTodd]

Oh, I'd love to see it. Find it dude.

 

[lizard]

yeah that would be cool.

by the way does anyone remember the url for Melissa Marchant and her 100$ cds

 

[FrostGiant]

http://marissamarchant.com/music.html

 

[Baliset]

Iron Maiden-Out of the Silent Planet(book of same name)

 

[FalseTodd]

Stranger in a Strange Land as well

"For Whom the Bell Tolls" (metallica)

 

[FalseTodd]

And, of course Brave New World (although I'm not positive that the lyrical content actually draws from the book)

 

[FrostGiant]

"Lonliness of the Long Distance Runner"

 

[FrostGiant]

Blind Guardian-Nightfall in Middle Earth

 

[ChromeLife]

Battlelore-... everything they have written..haha

 

[lizard]

thx Frostgiant...

 

[chupe666]

also Rime of the Ancient Mariner, right?

 

[xfer]

notice the brilliant genius Ozmagreed mentioned Rime!

 

[FalseTodd]

Yeah the entirety of BloodHag's output is about SF authors, but I'm talking about total paraphrases here...Rime is a good example, as is Nightfall...

 

[LuminousAether]

Tiamat - Love is as Good as Soma is about Brave New World

 

[chupe666]

notice the brilliant genius Ozmagreed mentioned Rime!

that's what i get for not paying attention in class. i skimmed right over that.

 

[Demonspell]

there's a whole website dedicated to this somewhere, but I'll be damned if I can remember the URL

Either the Maiden FAQ, which you could probably find through a search engine, or www.truemetal.org/ironmaiden if that site is still around. I'm seeing Maiden tonight...woohoo!