Darth Ed
Joined: May 19, 2003 at 05:01 AM UTC
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Re: Most pretentious literary reference in a song
December 19, 2004 at 05:06 AM UTC
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Laurie Anderson in the song "Gravity's Angel" on her album
Mister Heartbreak. The song is dedicated to Thomas Pynchon and references Pynchon's seminal novel,
Gravity's Rainbow, one of the greatest English-language novels of the 20th century.
http://www.themodernword.com/pynchon/pynchon_music_anderson.html
beetsnotbeats
Joined: April 26, 2002 at 05:01 AM UTC
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Re: Most pretentious literary reference in a song
December 19, 2004 at 11:49 PM UTC
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Originally posted by Darth Ed:
Laurie Anderson in the song "Gravity's Angel" on her album Mister Heartbreak. The song is dedicated to Thomas Pynchon and references Pynchon's seminal novel, Gravity's Rainbow, one of the greatest English-language novels of the 20th century.
http://www.themodernword.com/pynchon/pynchon_music_anderson.html
Weird. I was going to mention this when I mentioned this:
Yo La Tengo's
And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out has a song called "The Crying of Lot G"; Thomas Pynchon has a book called
The Crying of Lot 49.
But Laurie Anderson's a
performance artist, man. She doesn't do, *ahem*,
songs. (Actually, she might completely disagree)