Clan Of The Nick Cave Barenaked Ladies
This Coudal Partners contest on book/band mashups (via Daryl) is fun! Here are just a few of the entries that took my fancy:
- Charlie and the C&C Music Factory
- Chromeo and Juliet
- Qur’an Duran
- Courtney Love in the Time of Cholera
- Bridge over the River Jamiroquai
- The Odyssey and Cake
- Pop Will Eat Shoots And Leaves
- The Sun Also RZA (probably my favourite)
The contest’s over already, but as usual with these sort of things I couldn’t resist coming up with some of my own anyway.
Children’s books:
- The BFG-Unit
- Harriet the Spinal Tap
- The Little Bonnie Prince Billy
- The Curious Incident of the Snoop Dogg in the Three Dog Night
- Smokey Robinson Crusoe
- Alec Empire Of The Sun (okay objectively this one isn’t great but I’m sure you understand why it amuses me)
(double mashup!)
Penguin Classics:
- Of Mice Parade And Men
- East 17 Of Eden
- Northanger ABBA
- To The Lighthouse Family
- The Autumn Of the Patrick Wolf
- Mason And Dixie Chicks
- Pnine Inch Nails
- The Chemical Brothers Karamazov
- Donna Summer Quixote
- Tess of the D’urbervillage People
Others:
- The Amazing Adventures Of Kavalier And Clay Aiken
- Kafka On The Beach Boys
- We Need To Talk Talk About Kevin
- If On A Winter’s Night A Blues Traveller
- Anil’s Ghostface Killah
- New Thom Yorke Trilogy
- True History of the Kelly Gang Starr
- Last Exit To Crooklyn Dodgers
- Fear and Loathing in Las Ketchup
So awful that I just couldn’t leave them out:
- W-iliad Grant Conspiracy
- The Anticon-Tiki Expedition (yes, I know, record label)
- The Bonjovifire of the Vanities
- The Alcutchemist
Let’s hear yours!
raise high the roof beam, the carpenters(no brainer)
franny and zooet woman
the belly jar
go ask alice deejay
middlesex pistols
fights club 7(omg.. so bad!)
one more…. the lord of the offsprings
Animal Collective Farm
Err …
Brilliant!
Guns ‘n’ Roses, Germs & Steel
The Simply Red Badge of Courage
James and the Giant Moldy Peaches
The Selfish Genesis
Tipping the Velvet Underground
I Married a Communist Bloc Party
The Third Eye Blind Assassin
Oh yeah…
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Silverchair
oh i got one…
QB-40
OR
Stupid white snake
or
killing pablo honey (album)
and finally
arthur and (boy) george
Argh… you really got me obsessed…
The Hound of the Shirley Basseyvilles
The Philip Glass Menagerie
Brave New Spiceworld
Corpus Christina Aguilera
The Geri Halliwell of Loneliness
Barry White Teeth
The Things They Mariah Careyed
The Clay Aiken Marble
Asian Dub Foundation’s Edge
St Augustine’s Confessions on a Dance Floor
Madonna Bovary
The Stephanie Sun Also Rises
Slaughterhouse 5ive
Much Nelly Furtado About Nothing
The Second Sex Pistols
Now That’s What I Call Mutiny on the HMS Bounty
Alice Cooper in Wonderland
Foo Fight Club
Simply Red Sorghum
Journey to the Westlife
The Fountainhedwig and the Angry Inch
And of course, Tom Jones, Moby Dick, and the Fall of the House of Usher complete themselves.
B).