Red Mosquito

I don't think The Sprawl has anything to do with Neuromancer

Weird that you don't make any connection between the two, considering the guitar lines on the song sound a lot like an aural representation of the fictional Boston-Atlanta Metropolitan Axis (commonly referred to in Neuromancer as "The Sprawl.")

01. 2+2=5 - Radiohead (1984)
02. And I Have Come Upon This Place By Lost Ways - James Blackshaw (a James Tiptree Jr. novel)
03. Rime of the Ancient Mariner - Iron Maiden
04. No Quarter - Led Zeppelin (is it Lord of the Rings or The Hobbit?)
05. Two Germans at the Ends of the Earth - Charbel Haber (Nazi Literature in the Americas by Roberto Bolaño)
06. Take This Waltz - Leonard Cohen (based on Pequeño Vals Vienés by Federico Garcia Lorca)
07. Billy Liar - The Decemberists (Under Milk Wood by Dylan Thomas)
08. For Whom The Bell Tolls - Metallica
09. The Sprawl - Sonic Youth (loosely based on Neuromancer, a William Gibson novel)
10. Pattern Recognition - Sonic Youth (loosely based on Pattern Recognition, another William Gibson novel)

surface the north wrote:Weird that you don't make any connection between the two, considering the guitar lines on the song sound a lot like an aural representation of the fictional Boston-Atlanta Metropolitan Axis (commonly referred to in Neuromancer as "The Sprawl.")

yeah i wanted to believe for a long time they were connected, but the lyrics don't support it.

also, if this random poster on songmeanings is to be believed: "In Sonic Youth's biography, "Goodbye 20th Century", Kim says that this song is a compilation of various mumblings of hookers and junkies on Eldridge Street, which she wrote down. Although, the placement of the phrases is really thought-provoking."
Read more at http://www.songmeanings.net/songs/view/ ... 5zjuBQC.99

either way, Neuromancer is pretty fuckin good. I'm torn between going back to the Sprawl trilogy or reading something more recent from him (I read Idoru recently and really liked it)

Damnit, I had one for this album.

The Birth and Death of the Day - Explosions In The Sky (East of Eden)

Oh wait, Reid fucked up!

01. 2+2=5 - Radiohead (1984)
02. And I Have Come Upon This Place By Lost Ways - James Blackshaw (a James Tiptree Jr. novel)
03. Rime of the Ancient Mariner - Iron Maiden
04. No Quarter - Led Zeppelin (is it Lord of the Rings or The Hobbit?)
05. Two Germans at the Ends of the Earth - Charbel Haber (Nazi Literature in the Americas by Roberto Bolaño)
06. Take This Waltz - Leonard Cohen (based on Pequeño Vals Vienés by Federico Garcia Lorca)
07. Billy Liar - The Decemberists (Under Milk Wood by Dylan Thomas)
08. For Whom The Bell Tolls - Metallica
09. The Sprawl - Sonic Youth (loosely based on Neuromancer, a William Gibson novel)
10. The Birth and Death of the Day - Explosions In The Sky (East of Eden)

i'm protesting track 9.

dkfan9 wrote:

surface the north wrote:Weird that you don't make any connection between the two, considering the guitar lines on the song sound a lot like an aural representation of the fictional Boston-Atlanta Metropolitan Axis (commonly referred to in Neuromancer as "The Sprawl.")

yeah i wanted to believe for a long time they were connected, but the lyrics don't support it.

also, if this random poster on songmeanings is to be believed: "In Sonic Youth's biography, "Goodbye 20th Century", Kim says that this song is a compilation of various mumblings of hookers and junkies on Eldridge Street, which she wrote down. Although, the placement of the phrases is really thought-provoking."
Read more at http://www.songmeanings.net/songs/view/ ... 5zjuBQC.99

Oh, I don't doubt that at all. It's just that, when listening to the music that goes along with those lyrics, and taking into consideration the song's title and the band's history with sci-fi (wasn't Sister partially inspired by Philip K. Dick?), I can't help but feel like I'm walking around some gritty Sprawl street at 2:45 AM.

surface the north wrote:

dkfan9 wrote:

surface the north wrote:Weird that you don't make any connection between the two, considering the guitar lines on the song sound a lot like an aural representation of the fictional Boston-Atlanta Metropolitan Axis (commonly referred to in Neuromancer as "The Sprawl.")

yeah i wanted to believe for a long time they were connected, but the lyrics don't support it.

also, if this random poster on songmeanings is to be believed: "In Sonic Youth's biography, "Goodbye 20th Century", Kim says that this song is a compilation of various mumblings of hookers and junkies on Eldridge Street, which she wrote down. Although, the placement of the phrases is really thought-provoking."
Read more at http://www.songmeanings.net/songs/view/ ... 5zjuBQC.99

Oh, I don't doubt that at all. It's just that, when listening to the music that goes along with those lyrics, and taking into consideration the song's title and the band's history with sci-fi (wasn't Sister partially inspired by Philip K. Dick?), I can't help but feel like I'm walking around some gritty Sprawl street at 2:45 AM.

yeah, i'm with you. i really just started this controversy for an excuse to think about the book.

and now that that's wrapped up, somebody start something new.

The #1 song of the year you were born (try not to repeat same year if you see it in the least already):

1. My Sharona - The Knack (1979)

bodysnatcher wrote:The #1 song of the year you were born (try not to repeat same year if you see it in the least already):

1. My Sharona - The Knack (1979)

well I'm out of the game already

The #1 song of the year you were born (try not to repeat same year if you see it in the least already):

01. My Sharona - The Knack (1979)
02. Take Me Home, Country Roads - John Denver (1971) ....... well, it was def. in the top 10 anyways...

The #1 song of the year you were born (try not to repeat same year if you see it in the least already):

01. My Sharona - The Knack (1979)
02. Take Me Home, Country Roads - John Denver (1971) ....... well, it was def. in the top 10 anyways...
03. Killing Me Softly With His Song - Roberta Flack (1973 - most weeks at No. 1)

01. My Sharona - The Knack (1979)
02. Take Me Home, Country Roads - John Denver (1971) ....... well, it was def. in the top 10 anyways...
03. Killing Me Softly With His Song - Roberta Flack (1973 - most weeks at No. 1)
04. Even Flow - Pearl Jam (1991) .... uh.. yeah.

01. My Sharona - The Knack (1979)
02. Take Me Home, Country Roads - John Denver (1971) ....... well, it was def. in the top 10 anyways...
03. Killing Me Softly With His Song - Roberta Flack (1973 - most weeks at No. 1)
04. Even Flow - Pearl Jam (1991) .... uh.. yeah.
05. "(Just Like) Starting Over" John Lennon (1981)

I'm old.

01. My Sharona - The Knack (1979)
02. Take Me Home, Country Roads - John Denver (1971) ....... well, it was def. in the top 10 anyways...
03. Killing Me Softly With His Song - Roberta Flack (1973 - most weeks at No. 1)
04. Even Flow - Pearl Jam (1991) .... uh.. yeah.
05. "(Just Like) Starting Over" John Lennon (1981)
06. "Maniac" - Michael Sembello (1983)