Re: Re: introductions
Brendan McKennedy (the.tourist@mailexcite.com)
Tue, 06 Jan 1998 20:57:14 -0700
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as for other Cure songs based on
>literary works i know there are at least a few more but the only other one
>i can recall offhand is Charlotte Sometimes based on the childrens book of
>the same name by Penelope Farmer.
In the liner notes of the new Singles collection,
"Galore", Robert Smith writes the name "Elise"
(in the song "A Letter to Elise")was taken from
the character "Lise" in Les Enfants
Terrible by Jean Cocteau, which he had just
finished reading.
Also, the song "Open" on the "Wish" album contains
the line, "The way the rain comes down hard is
the way I feel inside,"--which was part of a letter
that Sylvia Plath wrote to her mother. I recently
stumbled upon it in the book "Letters Home" by
Sylvia Plath.
More Camus:
In the Cure song "M", on the album "Seventeen
Seconds," the first line is "Hello image," which
is a line that is repeatedly used in Camus'
book "A Happy Death", which was the sort of
early draft of "The Stranger", and (am I starting
to scare you?) one of Robert Smith's favorite
books.
If I come up with any more, I'll get back to you.
Brendan
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if you want the lyrics to bananafishbones by The Cure go to my website (a
little shameless self-promotion here heehee....)
http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Gallery/2803 or for you lazy ones e-mail me
and i'll hook you up with the URL for the page with the words on
it......anyway, i don't recall which album it is on.....i think it was a
b-side (i'll have to ask my obsessed cure fan girlfriend about it). You
are correct about killing an arab (one of the cure's earlier songs) being
based on The Stranger by Camus........as for other Cure songs based on
literary works i know there are at least a few more but the only other one
i can recall offhand is Charlotte Sometimes based on the childrens book of
the same name by Penelope Farmer. If you want the lyrics to any of the
songs just e-mail me and i will gladly send them off to you. (i am
currently working on getting all the lyrics to my fav cure songs on my page
so i'll have to check if they are on there right now) Enough about the
cure for now, lets get back to Salinger.......
-Scott
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> << a perfect day for bananafish (which her favourite band
> The Cure wrote a song about >>
> this is interesting, do you know which album this is from or any of the
words?
> the cure [whom i love as a band] also wrote a song about camus' 'the
stranger'
> called 'killing an arab'. do they have any other songs based in
literature?
> just curious...
> bethany
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