BANDAS ROCK - NOMES LITERÁRIOS

Lista de bandas cujos nomes procedem do universo literario. Pere Ubu (personajem principal de "Ubu Rey" de Alfred Jarry), Jethro Tull (escritor agrario), Burzum (significa obscuridade no idioma ficticio de Tolkien), Moby ( Moby Dick de Herman Melville, antepasado seu,Comsat Angels, uma abreviatura das comunicações por satélite, a partir de uma história por JG Ballard, Eyeless em Gaza, romance de Aldous Huxley, Pylon, após a novela de Faulkner, The Soft Boys de Burroughs - Soft Machine e The Wild Boys ), etc The Artful Dodger ( in Fagin's gang in 'Oliver Twist') Arts Bears: from a phrase in Jane Harrison, Art and Ritual, ‘art bears traces of its collective, social origin’ Boomtown Rats, possibly in Kerouac or in Woody Guthrie’s Bound For Glory, the name of Geldof’s first band. The Birthday Party (Pinter) Bronski Beat: Bronski is the hero in The Tin Drum Battered Ornaments: a phrase used by Fowler in his Dictionary of Modern English Usage. Bubble Puppy, a reference to ‘bumple-puppy’ (unskilled) in Brave New World. The Bell Jar (Sylvia Plath) Bhagavad Guitars Bitter Lemons (Durrell) The Boy Hairdressers: The Boy Hairdresser was the original title of Joe Orton’s first play, broadcast under the title of The Ruffian on the Stairs. Book of (Holy) Lies Benny Profane, a character in Thomas Pynchon’s V. Brave New World (Huxley) The Blue Nile (non fiction work by Alan Moorhead - a very common book) Comsat Angels, an abbreviation of Communications Satellite, from a story by J. G. Ballard Cape Diem, from Horace, carpe diem. The Chrysalids, title of a novel by John Wyndham Colour Me Badd, title of an unpublished poem by Sylvia Plath? A Confederacy of Dunces, novel by John Kennedy Toole Dead Fingers Talk, novel by William Burroughs Desperate Bicycles, from a passage in J. B. Priestley’s Angel Pavement (1930), ‘Turning into Angel Pavement from that crazy jumble of buses, lorries, drays, private cars, and desperate bicycles…’ The Doors, ‘If the doors of perception were cleansed,All things would appear … infinite’– Blake then a book-title by Aldous Huxley. There was also a band called Doors of Perception Durutti Column, André Bertrand, Le retour de la colonne Durutti (Strasbourg, 1966), a comic paper Dorian Gray (Oscar Wilde) Drive Like Jehu: ‘Jehu the son of Nimshi … he driveth furiously’ – 2 Kings ix, 20 Dzyan, reference to Tibetan book, possibly fictional, mentioned by Madam Blavatsky Damnation of Adam Blessing, book-title by Vin Packer (pseud. for Marijane Meaker). Adam Blessing was the name of a member of the band. Eyeless in Gaza, novel by Aldous Huxley Ejwuusl Wessahqqan: novel by Clark Ashton Smith Flock of Seagulls, after the novel by Richard Bach, Jonathan Livingstone Seagull Fra Lippo Lippi, poem-title by Robert Browning Fear and Loathing (from Hunter Thompson's Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas) Fear of Flying The Five Just Men (from Edgar Wallace's The Four Just Men) Five Lose Timmy (an Enid Blyton reference) Frumious Bandersnatch (the Bandersnatch is a fictional creature mentioned in Lewis Carroll's poems Jabberwocky and The Hunting of the Snark) Forty Nine Hudson, the name of a car in Kerouac’s On the Road Fiver, a rabbit in Watership Down The Grateful Dead, book-title by Gordon Hall Geroud (Folk-Lore Society, 1908) or a ballad found in Childs or ‘the outcome of a night of stoned lexicology,’ (in the band’s words) Guadalcanal Diary, book-title Grace Pool, character in Jane Eyre Gleaming Spires, perhaps a reworking of Matthew Arnold’s ‘Dreaming spires’ Green Carnation (worn by Oscar and also the title of a 90s book) Generation X, title of a 1960s paperback about British youth by Charles Hamblett and Jane Deverson Harpers Bizarre House of Love, from Anais Nin’s Spy in the House of Love Icicle Works, from a short-story by Frederik Pohl, ‘The Day the Icicle Works Closed’ Jethro Tull, writer on agriculture (1674–1741) Justified Ancients of Mu, a name from the Illuminatus! trilogy of Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson (1975) JPS Experience: JPS= Jean Paul Sartre JJ72, a Camus reference Kinsey report Look Back in Anger (play by John Osborne) Love and Squalor (from Salinger) Matching Mole = machine molle French for Soft Machine Ministry of Love, from 1984 Mr Curt (from Conrad's Heart of Darkness via the movie Apocalypse Now) Manhattan Transfer, title of a novel by John Dos Passos McCavity’s Cat (Eliot - 'Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats) Mugwumps, feature in The Naked Lunch Mogo’s Flute, title of a children’s book New Riders of the Purple Sage, from the Zane Grey novel, Riders of the Purple Sage Nova Express (William Burroughs) Necronomicon Oberon (a character in William Shakespeare's play, A Midsummer Night's Dream) 101ers, the torture room in 1984 (denied by the semi literate Joe Strummer) Other Voices (from a Truman Capote novel) Popol Vuh (The Sacred Book of the Ancient Quiche Maya) Pooh Sticks (from A.A. Milne) Pylon, after the Faulkner novel Question Men, perhaps out of Kafka The Quiet Room, short story by Poe Soft Machine (Burroughs again) Sad Café (from Carson Mccullers book) Steppenwolf Steely Dan Supertramp Spring in Fialta, short story by Nabokov S–Z, Barthes’s book on semiotics Sot-Weed Factor (John Barth's fat novel) Smersh (from Ian Fleming) Swan’s Way Separate Tables (a play by Rattigan) Shub-Niggorath, one of Lovecraft’s Old Ones The Soft Boys, a conflation of Burroughs’s Soft Machine and The Wild Boys The Saints, after Charteris’s detective Stryper, ‘and with his stripes we are healed’ – Isaiah, 53, 5 Sabres of Paradise, book-title by Lesley Blanche Silver Apples, a phrase from Yeats’s ‘Song of Wandering Ængus’ Samian, an American children’s book by Dr Seuss Sixpence None the Richer, phrase from C. S. Lewis’s, Mere Christianity The Teardrop Explodes, an occurrence in a Prince Namor story in the comic Daredevil, June 1971 Tears for Fears, book by Arthur Janov Thin Lizzy, from the Beano (British children's comic and annual) Thompson twins, characters in Hergé’s Tin Tin books Tolkien names such as Nazxul, Shadowfax, Cirith Ungol, Galadriel, Gandalf, Gollum, Aragorn, Burzum (Orcish for ‘darkness’), Cirith Gorgor, Fatty Lumpkin, Isengard, Lorien, Marillion, Mordor, True West, a play by Sam Shepherd Tygers of Pan Tang, phrase from a Michael Moorcock novel 23 Skidoo, the title of chapter 23 of Crowley’s Book of Lies Those Without (band with Syd Barrett), after a book-title by Françoise Sagan A Testament of Youth (novel by Vera Brittain) This Mortal Coil, Hamlet, III, 1. Tommyknockers, a Stephen King novel Tripmaster Monkey, book-title by Maxine Hong Kingston Three Fish, a poem by Rumi Thin White Rope, Burroughs’s description of the male ejaculate Uriah Heep Ubik, novel by Philip K. Dick Ungl’unl’rrlh’chchch, phrase in Lovecraft’s’ Rays in the Walls’ Veruca Salt, from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory? Whizz for Atoms, the third in the Molesworth series by Geoffrey Willans and Ronald Searle The Wasp Factory (thanks to Iain Banks) White Stains (from an obscene rare book by Crowley) Weena Morloch, from Wells’s Time Machine Wreck of the Hesperus (a doom metal band from Ireland, name from Longfellow's poem) X-Ray Spex, from an advertisement in a True Detective magazine.