Bidang penulisan lagu memang satu bidang yang sangat kompetetif dimana setiap penulis lagu akan bersaing sesama sendiri untuk membuktikan bahawa mereka lebih berpengetahuan dan artistik. Jadi apakah cara terbaik untuk menunjukkan kehebatan mereka? Sudah tentunya dengan menulis lagu dan lirik yang diilhamkan atau merujuk kepada buku.
Berikut adalah beberapa contoh lagu yang mempunyai kaitan dengan buku.
Artis/Lagu: David Bowie – 1984
Buku: 1984 - George Orwell
Lirik: “They’ll split your pretty cranium and fill it full of air/And tell that you’re eighty, but brother, you won’t care/Beware the savage jaw of 1984.”
Artis/Lagu: Led Zeppelin – Ramble On
Buku: Lord Of The Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien
Lirik: “'Twas in the darkest depths of Mordor/I met a girl so fair/But Gollum, and the evil one crept up/And slipped away with her.”
Artis/Lagu: The Strokes – Soma
Buku: Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
Lirik: “Soma is what they would take when/Hard times opened their eyes.”
Artis/Lagu: Gary Numan – Are Friends Electric?
Buku: Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep? - Philip K Dick
Lirik: “You know I hate to ask/But are ‘friends’ electric?/Only mine’s broke down/And now I’ve no one to love.”
Artis/Lagu: Radiohead – Dollars & Cents
Buku: No Logo - Naomi Klein
Lirik: “We are the dollars and cents/And the pounds and pence/And the mark and the yen/And yeah were gonna crack your little souls.”
Artis/Lagu: Joy Division – Atrocity Exhibition
Buku: Atrocity Exhibition - JG Ballard
Lirik: “Asylums with doors open wide/Where people had paid to see inside/For entertainment they watch his body twist/Behind his eyes he says, 'I still exist.”
Artis/Lagu: Manic Street Preachers – Motorcycle Emptiness
Buku: Rumble Fish - S.E. Hinton
Lirik: “Under neon loneliness, motorcycle emptiness”
Artis/Lagu: Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Red Right Hand
Buku: Paradise Lost (puisi) - John Milton
Lirik: “On a gathering storm comes/a tall handsome man/in a dusty black coat with a red right hand”
Artis/Lagu: The Police – Don’t Stand So Close To Me
Buku: Lolita- Vladimr Nabokov
Lirik: “Young teacher the subject of schoolgirl fantasy… This girl is half his age… He starts to shake and cough/Just like the old man in that book by Nabokov.”
Artis/Lagu: Pixies – Dead
Buku: Kitab Injil
Lirik: “You crazy Bathsheba, I wancha”
Artis/Lagu: Leonard Cohen – Hallelujah
Buku: Kitab Injil
Lirik: “I heard there was a secret chord that David played to please the Lord”
Artis/Lagu: Noah & The Whale – Jocasta
Buku: Oedipus Rex- Sophocles
Lirik: “Oh but now the love you found/Is raising you from muddy ground/And oh the death will let you down/'Cause your curse will still go on the same.”
Artis/Lagu: Rick Wakeman – Journey To The Centre Of The Earth
Buku: Journey To The Centre Of The Earth - Jules Verne
Lirik: “Five days out on an infinite sea, they prayed for calm on an ocean free/But the surface of the water ws indicating some disturbance…”
Artis/Lagu: Wild Beasts – Two Dancers
Buku: Sexus - Henry Miller
Lirik: “His hairy hands, his falling fists, his dancing cock down by his knees”
Artis/Lagu: Friendly Fires – Pala
Buku: Island - Aldous Huxley
Lirik: “In Pala, in Pala… And we couldn’t care/If we die out here, die out here.”
Artis/Lagu: Red Hot Chili Peppers – Yertle The Turtle
Buku: Yertle The Turtle - Dr. Seuss
Lirik: “I’m Yertle The Turtle/The things I now rule/I’m king of a cow/I’m king of a mule.”
Artis/Lagu: Alt-J – Breezeblocks
Buku: Where The Wild Things Are - Maurice Sendak
Lirik: “Do you know where the wild things go? They go along to take your honey, la la la”
Artis/Lagu: The Velvet Underground – Venus In Furs
Buku: Venus In Furs - Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
Lirik: “Severin, down on your bended knee/Taste the whip, in love not given lightly/Taste the whip, now plead for me.”
Artis/Lagu: Metallica – For Whom The Bell Tolls
Buku: For Whom The Bell Tolls - Ernest Hemingway
Lirik: “Men of five, still alive through the raging glow/Gone insane from this pain that they surely know.”
Artis/Lagu: Ramones – Pet Sematary
Buku: Pet Sematary - Stephen King
Lirik: “Molars and fangs, the clicking of bones/Spirits moaning among the tombstones.”
Artis/Lagu: Elton John – Rocket Man
Buku: The Rocket Man- Ray Bradbury
Lirik: “She packed my bags last night pre-flight.”
Artis/Lagu: Nirvana – Scentless Apprentice
Buku: Perfume - Patrick Suskind
Lirik: “His smell smelled like no other.”
Artis/Lagu: The Cure – Killing An Arab
Buku: The Outsider - Albert Camus
Lirik: “I’m alive/I’m dead/I’m the stranger/Killing an arab.”
Artis/Lagu: The Rolling Stones – Sympathy For The Devil
Buku: The Master And The Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov
Lirik: “I stuck around St. Petersburg, when I saw it was a time for a change.”
Artis/Lagu: Klaxons - Gravity's Rainbow
Buku: Gravity's Rainbow - Thomas Pynchon
Lirik: “Come with me, come with me/We'll travel to infinity”
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Sumber: Shortlist