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General Category => New Model Army => Topic started by: NickB on March 05, 2020, 04:29:39 PM
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Hi, my name’s Nick, new on here. Just wondered what literary influences have moulded various songs over the years. Anyone got any ideas?
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Hi Nick,
Good to see someone new joining.
The obvious one is the Bible (part the waters), but I also read an interview around the time of Dog and Wolf where Wuthering Heights is mentioned.
" Yes, I think that Summer Moors from this album has that, it's dedicated to Yorkshire, brass band and all. It's a personal song .... it's a ghost story in a sense. It's Emily Bronte. I'd never read Wuthering Heights as a kid, but I had to read it recently and I found it amazing, it's like watching a punk band, there's not a single sympathetic character in it, yet it's utterly compelling."
https://yorkshiretimes.co.uk/article/Between-Dog-And-Wolf-New-Model-Army-Interview-With-Justin-Sullivan
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Always loved Wuthering Heights, read it a couple of times. An excellent novel.
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The JS solo song THE ESSEX was based on the book "in the heart of the sea" which was also made into a film.Also Ocean Rising was the story of Shackleton in the South Atlantic.Both these are based on true stories as opposed to novels.
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The song 'A Far Better Thing' is in essence based on Dickens' 'A Tale of Two Cities'.
I guess other songs such as Great Expectations, 1984 and Brave New World make comparisons to the events described in the novels of the same name. I'm sure there are more.
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"They're running out of tickets for the two-minute hate..."
End of Days - From George Orwell's 1984
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Way back in the day the band in an interview extolled the virtues of a history book called World Turned Upside Down which basically chronicled the history of revolt in the UK. An interesting read which I must revisit some day.