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
  • (double mashup!)

  • 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)

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!

7 Comments

  1. 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!)

  2. 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

  3. oh i got one…
    QB-40
    OR
    Stupid white snake
    or
    killing pablo honey (album)
    and finally

    arthur and (boy) george

  4. 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).

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