Question:
What would be a good song for "THE RAVEN?
Emo Pinyato
2007-10-30 15:22:56 UTC
What song would be good for the raven by Edgar Allen Poe?
Ten answers:
cavidda
2007-10-30 15:27:24 UTC
"Riders on the Storm" by the Doors.
AJ
2007-10-30 22:38:07 UTC
Edit: I would like to thank Randall Flag above for the following idea:



That really beautiful and sad instrumental theme song from "The Crow"



Original Post:



Theme song from Alfred Hitchcock's "The Birds"



Background music from "The Fog"



"Who Can It Be Now?" Men at Work



"Somebody's Watching Me" Rockwell



"They're coming to take me away ha ha" Dr Demeto, also suitable for The Telltale Heart



Or any of the following songs listed on Wikipedia:



Jean Sibelius allegedly based an early conception of his fourth symphony on "The Raven."



The Alan Parsons Project album Tales of Mystery and Imagination includes a song based on "The Raven" and entitled the same, but with only two verses.



The black metal band Carpathian Forest used the first two verses of the poem for "The Eclipse / The Raven" on their EP Through Chasm, Caves and Titan Woods (1995).



The Canadian artist Nash the Slash included an instrumental track called "Lost Lenore" on his vinyl album The Million Year Picnic.



The gothic metal band Tristania released a track titled "My Lost Lenore" on Widow's Weeds (1998). It is clearly inspired by this poem, but does not incorporate the poem as part of the lyrics. The entire album is in fact reminiscent of The Raven.



A song based on "The Raven" appears on the Grave Digger album The Grave Digger (2003), alongside other songs based on the work of Edgar Allan Poe.



Lou Reed's 2003 album The Raven is based on Poe's work, including his own version of The Raven in a song by the same name.



Rapper MC Lars released the track "Mr. Raven" on The Laptop EP, quoting some lines directly from the poem and modifying others (e.g. "Once upon a midnight dreary, while I kicked it [sic] weak and weary").



The song Kremlin Dusk, from Japanese pop star Utada Hikaru's English-language album Exodus (2004), begins "All along, I was searching for my Lenore/In the words of Mr. Edgar Allan Poe/Now I'm sober and "Nevermore"/Will the Raven come to bother me at home."



The German black metal band Agathodaimon paraphrased a verse from "The Raven" in the song "Les Posédes" on their 1999 album Higher Art of Rebellion.



The German symphonic metal band Xandria included the quote "Thus spoke the raven, 'Nevermore'" in their song Ravenheart.



The Christian third-wave ska band Five Iron Frenzy quotes many of Poe's lines in "That's How The Story Ends", from The End Is Near, and alludes ironically to the mysterious and somber mood of "The Raven".



The song "Campanas en la Noche" ("Bells in the Night") by the Argentine rock band Los Tipitos, the tale of a man wishing for the return of his lover, is loosely based on the poem. This relationship is even more evident in the song's video, which features the bust of Pallas and the titular raven itself.



The Dutch neoceltic pagan folk band Omnia put the entire poem to music as the second track on their 2007 album Alive !.
My Name Doesn't Fit Here
2007-10-30 22:28:13 UTC
# Bach - Toccata and Fugue in d minor, BWV 565

# Grieg - In the Hall of the Mountain King

# Brahms - Piano Quintet in g minor, Op. 25

# Bartok - Music for Strings, Percussion, and Celesta (mvmt. 3, adagio)

# Mozart - Requiem "Dies Irae"

# Orff - Carmina Burana, O Fortuna

# Ives - Robert Browning Overture

# Brahms - Hungarian Dance No.



Other classical songs that are dramatic could work also.
randall flagg
2007-10-30 22:36:09 UTC
There is a song by nine inch nails, that is in the OST of "THE CROW" I think it's called "dead souls". It's a haunting song, perfect for "The Raven", the singer keeps saying " they keep calling me". Perfect.
Luke
2007-10-30 22:26:31 UTC
Hollywood Undead - Sell Your Soul



search "hollywood undead" on myspace music
2007-10-30 22:27:03 UTC
sum danny elfman song i like the theme from sleepy hollow i think that one is very good
2007-10-30 22:26:14 UTC
i dont kno i havent read it but jeeezz i am hearing that name everywhere.

in english class

on the t.v. right now

the internet

wierd
2007-10-30 22:25:39 UTC
a really emo song
2007-10-30 22:41:05 UTC
i am related to him..thats funny too because i am doing an essay on it
jeenious
2007-10-30 22:30:57 UTC
moonlight sonata beethoven


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