Songs that remind you of SK stories?

[The Nameless]

Lying eyes by the eagles reminds me of the regulators, and anytime I here calliope music of any kind I can't help but think of IT.

 

[kolemannmp]

The Court of The Crimson King always puts me on the journey to the Dark Tower....

This song has always transported me to the dark tower with a chill down my spine. Every. Single. Time...

 

[swiftdog2.0]

Revival

 

[muskrat]

Man, whenever I hear Hey Jude, I'm back in that desert with Roland, on the outskirts of Tull. As a Beatles fan I always loved the song, but ever since I read DT I don't think of JohnPaulGeorgeRingo, I think of RolandEddieSuzeJake.

Same deal with Someone Saved My Life Tonight. The oldies station I listen to at work plays that one often, and when it comes on I go NUTS--sing right along, loud and proud, thinkin of Pere Callahan and his drunken wanderings across weird America. It actually gives me goosebumps, it does. (Of course, sometimes I can't resist substituting my own lyrics, Someone Shaved my Wife tonight, heh heh).

 

[staropeace]

Anything by CCR

 

[blunthead]

Anything by CCR

 

[Manxkitti]

Every time I hear "Don't Fear the Reaper" I think of The Stand.

 

[blunthead]

Actually, I don't think there's a song that reminds me of an sK story. Hey Jude reminds me of the first Kon. I'd brought my laptop and speakers I'd bought for the event and a new CD to play for everybody for the tribute to JohnDalglish. I'd printed off the lyrics to hand out to everybody who might wish to sing along. I've always regretted having to leave early and that Hey Jude didn't get played at that Kon. Maybe the next one, eh?

 

[Senor_Biggles]

I was writing on the train on the way into work this morning, and when I started to get close to my station I powered down the laptop and popped in the earbuds for the final leg of the journey. I had my music on shuffle, and between The Butthole Surfers and Warren Zevon lay ‘Writing’ by Elton John. I must have heard this before, I’ve owned a copy of Captain Fantastic and the Brown dirt Cowboy for a long time, but it’s not my favourite album and I guess I never really listened to the words before. Anyway, it’s a rather wonderful little song about (you guessed it) writing, and it put me in a great mood and got me thinking about Stephen King. Primarily because I always think about Stephen King when I think about writing, but also because Captain Fantastic is the same album that ‘Someone saved my life tonight appears on’. I’m not the greatest fan of The Dark Tower series either, but given that the song is mentioned approximately fourteen hundred times in quick succession even I couldn’t miss the significance of that (I’m joking of course, in reality it is many, many more times than that). Okay, so I liked ‘Writing’ so much I looked up the lyrics to make sure I heard them all correctly and found that it was published by Big Pig Music, which instantly made me think of the Dixie Pig. Then I thought about the album some more and remembered that there’s also a song on it called ‘The Tower of Babel’.


Am I really,really,really,really,really late to the party? Does The Dark Tower owe a much bigger debt to ‘Captain Fantastic and the Brown dirt cowboy’ than I realised? Or am I just reading way too much into this and in desperate need of coffee?

 

[Senor_Biggles]

Oh, and Bitter Fingers as well!

 

[Nomik]

Spoiler: Renegades

Weird radio

 

[Senor_Biggles]

I thought I knew,
but now I know that rose trees never grow in New York City. (Mona Lisas and Mad Hatters - Honky Chateau)

The one man crusade to prove that Elton John wrote The Dark Tower continues.