Hey Jude The Obscure
Oliver Twist & Shout
The Woman in White Lines (Don’t Do It)
Song/Book Mash-Ups
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Musings on the byways of popular culture
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Hey Jude The Obscure
Oliver Twist & Shout
The Woman in White Lines (Don’t Do It)
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Pinball Wizard of Oz
Holidays In The Sun Also Rises
Don’t Let Me Down and out in Paris and London
American Psychocandy
Whole Lotta Cider With Rosie
Everybody Wants To Rule The World According To Garp
The White Hotel California.
Cloud Atlas Hands
The Art Of War Pigs
Ask The Lord Of The Rings
The Fellowship of the Ring-a Ding Ding
Ghost In The Man Machine
Catch-22 A Million
Alternatively: Catch 22A? Fire!
I am curious (yellow) submarine.
Nursery Cryme And Punishment
Through The Looking Glass Houses
Heart Of Darkness On The Edge Of Town
I’ve just realised I’m thinking album/book not song/book. Sorry.
Since you’ve been Gone with the Wind
My brother Jake’s Thing
Bleak Housequake
Last Exit to Brooklyn owes the Charmer under Me
Birdsong for my Father
The Wolf Of Wall Street Shuffle
And I Know Why Your Caged Bird Can Sing
Do You Want To Know The Secret Seven?
I’m Glass Looking The Through You, Alice
Zen and the art of motorcycle emptiness maintenance
The Brothers-Gonna-Work-It-Out Karamazov
A Prayer For Owen Meany Mr Mustard
Bury My Heart of Glass At Wounded Knee
The Colour Purple Rain
The Power of Love in the Time of Cholera
Decline and Fall at your Feet
Hungry Like The Wolf of Wall St (Shuffle?)
The Hungry Heart of Darkness
The Little Prince Charming
First We Take Manhatten Transfer
Tender is the Night Falls over Kortedala
London Fields Calling
Heart of The Glass Bead Game
Das Boots Are Made For Walking
Tea is now coming out of my nostrils…
Far far away from the madding crowd.
Na na, hey, hey, kiss him Goodbye Mr. Chips
The House of the Rising Sun also Rises
This is the Sea The Sea The Sea
Sweet Child o’ Mein Kampf
Bravo for number three 😂
Thank you!
The Remains Of The Day Tripper.
Never Let Me Go Down To the Basement.
The Killing Moon Is A Balloon
The Famous Five Get Over Excited
…isn’t that just mansplaining the song title?
How about…
How to Win Friends And Influence People Who Grinned Themselves To Death
My sweet lord of the rings
The sound of silence of the lambs
Mrs Robinson Crusoe
Baby Jane Eyre
David Copperfield’s Last Summer
Architecture, Morality, Ted and Alice’s Adventure’s In Wonderland
Lady Chatterly’s Lover You Should’ve Come Over
Shoplifter’s Of The Brave New World Unite
A Licence To Kill A Mockingbird
The Boy Looked At Johnny B Goode
Wild Is The Wind In The Willows
Death In The Sunny Afternoon
Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone Free
The Lion, The Witch and The What I Like In Your Wardrobe
Stone Alone Again Naturally
A Dance to the Music of Time Flies By When You’re the Driver of a Train
The Wealth of Nations Under A Groove
Living On A Prayer For Owen Meany
You Give Love A Bad Name Of The Rose
Power to the People of the Abyss
Zombie Love in a Cold Climate
At Last Exit to Brooklyn
Comin’ Round the Mountains of Madness
Pretty Good Day of the Triffids
Stoned Soul Picnic at Hanging Rock
1984 Ever Young
Like A Rolling Stone Junction
The Lonesome Death Of A Christmas Carol
Lyrical Ballads of a Thin Man
Hurricane And Abel
You Don’t Bring Me Flowers In The Attic
Into The Valley Of The Dolls
Billion Dollar Maggot Brain
Being and Time After Time
Critique of Pure Reasons To Be Cheerful
Tractatus Theologico-Politicus Me With Your Mouth
Leviathank You For the Music
The Social Contract Naturally
If the Critique Of Pure Reasons To Be Cheerful doesn’t get the up button reinstated I don’t know what will
Have an up and a thank you very much!
My Sweet Lord Of The Flies
Bleak House Of The Rising Sun
Smiley’s People Get Ready
Don’t Bring Harry Potter & The Philosopher’s Stone Roses
John Le Carre’s Karla trilogy
The Spy Who Came In From The Cold As Ice
The Honourable Schoolboys Of Summer
Smiley’s People Up To The Bumper
Another trilogy
The Fellowship Of The Ring Ring
It Takes Two Towers
Return Of The King In A Catholic Style
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy in the House of Love
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time Is the Right Time
The Casual Pretty Vacancy
The rotters club tropicana
For whom the tubular bells toll
How a gunman says goodbye my love
Morte D’Arthur Sixpence
The Crimson Petal and the White Light/White Heat
Piazza, New York Catcher in the Rye
Master and servant and margarita time.
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman Take Polaroids
The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket Island
Vanity Fairground Attraction
The Scarlett Letter From America
Animal sex farm
Moby Dick In A Box
12 Years a Slave To The Rhythm
Heaven Knows I’m Les Miserables Now
Those last two are brilliant.
You’re too kind.
Is One Hundred Years of Solitude Standing too obscure? That Suzanne Vega album’s a bit on the tedious side, but… harsh
Farewell My Lovely Horse?
Oh god, I’ve gone too far now
The Queen’s Nose Is Dead
The Tale of Peter Rabbit Heart (Raise It Up)
Fantastic Mr Foxy Lady
The Enormous Crocodile Shoes
The Very Hungry Caterpillar Freaks, Daddy
Fungus the Bogeyman Who Sold The World
The Tiger Who Came to tea in the Sahara
Charlie and the Chocolate Shanghai Noodle Factory
The collected works of Haruki Murakami:
The Wind Up Bird Chronicleling Occupants Of Interplanetary Craft
Norwegian Woodn’t It Be Good
Hard Boiled Wonderland And The End Of The World In Your Eyes
Kafka On The Shore Shot
Sputnik Sweetheart Of Glass
Dance Dance Dance To The Music
I’d Rather Go Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
Gentlemen Prefer Blonde On Blonde.
Scarlet and Black Celebration
Dr No No No No No No No No No No No No There’s No Limit
The Shawshank Redemption Song
Regatta De Gross Pointe Blank
The Secret Life Of Lawrence Of Arabia
Seven Pillars of Wisdom In Tibet
The Ministry of Fear Of a Black Planet
…an accurate description of my bedroom in April 1990
Vertigo.
…What?
See also Psychocandy and On The Waterfront.
Dirty Sunset Blvd.
A Forest Gump
It’s A Wonderful Life In The Fast Lane.
I’ve just realised, I seem to have slipped into song/movie mashup.
Journey To The End Of The Strangers In The Night
The Quiet Young Americans
The Tin Soldier Drum
Gah! Back onto books when I was about to suggest Blame It On Citizen Kane?
Message in The Bottle Factory Outing
Window Shopping For The Blind Watchmaker
Northern Sky Lights
The Life And Opinions Of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman Takes Polaroids
We’ve had that. What is this place, a Laurence Sterne and David Sylvian fansite?
Helluva Venn diagram that
Sorry. I couldn’t be bothered scrolling through the whole thread.
Keep The Aspidistra Flyin’ High In The Friendly Sky
How To Do Nothing With Nobody Knows You (When You’re Down And Out)
Because I Come From A Crazy In Love Family: The Making Of A Psychiatrist
The Man Who Mistook His Wife For George Had a Hat
Alice’s Adventures Through The Looking Glass Onion
Hunting Tigers Out in a Passage to India
(More) books for children –
The Iron Lion Zion Man
Guess How Much I Love You Because You Look Like Jim Reeves
Welcome to the Jungle Book
Just William It Was Really Nothing
Simon Smith and the Amazing Dancing Bear Called Paddington
Blowin’ in the Wind in the Willows
Send Away The Tigers Who Came To Tea
The Secret Seven Nation Army
The Hitchhikers Guide to the Daisies of the Galaxy
Hound Dogger
Treasure Islands in the Strean
The Ballad of Danny Bailey (1909-34), The Heavyweight Champion of the Chemical World
The Swordfishtrombone and the Stone
Watership Down in the Tube Station at Midnight
Where The Wild Ones Are
More Songs About Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Girls
Hit The Northern Lights
The Cat In The Leporard-Skin Pill-Box Hat
Not the End of the World Shut Your Mouth
And the American Gods Made Love
Watchmen of Harlech
Hotel California du lac