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What is the musical equivlent to James Joyces uleysses
( i know it is spelt wrong but i cannot spell it ... ) or Finnigan Wake

anthony, Saturday, 16 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I don't think there's one for either, just like I don't think there's one for Gravity's Rainbow.

Josh, Saturday, 16 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

go here for some possible answers to that question:

http://www.themodernword.com/joyce/music.html

Todd Burns, Sunday, 17 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Wow--that is one lovely link.

Josh--you haven't heard Laurie Anderson's "Gravity's Rainbow"?

"Slang Teacher" by Wide Boy Awake has been described as "not quite Joycean--but it's close." (I'd say it was not quite Haysi Fantayzee.)

The second time I read "Lolita," it was to Nelson Riddle's film soundtrack. (There was even an accompanying 45 single, "Lolita Yeah Yeah," by Iowa native Sue Lyon, star of the film.)

Maybe this thread should lead to a wider one: Soundtracks For Books You Have Known And Loved.

X. Y. Zedd, Sunday, 17 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

there already was that thread, it was called ... forgot but something like what you just said

maryann, Monday, 18 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

No, X, I have not. Buy I bet I still wouldn't think it was a musical equivalent to GR. I'm picky.

Josh, Monday, 18 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I believe Pitchfork's ridiculous review of Kid A ("like having a stillborn baby while simultaneously watching her play in the afterlife on IMAX" or some such trash) tried very hard to establish a Joyce connection. Or was that Brent DiCrescenzo's companion essay?

Whatever it was, I hope Pitchfork is still embarrassed.

Nitsuh, Monday, 18 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

It was Brent Sirota's piece that made the connections to Joyce.

Josh, Monday, 18 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Said it before

69 LOVE SONGS

so I'll say it again.

the pinefox, Tuesday, 19 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link


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