Listen to the books!

10 songs with literary references matched with MyBOOKmarks

Audiobooks - really nice try to renew the format and add new angle to the perception of literature. But mostly audiobook is an option for those who are in a hurry. Or way too busy ;) In case you are as conservative as we are (in terms of bookish topic - paper books, classical reading style, bookmarking favorite pages) - you don’t mix up reading and listening. Unless it’s a real song!

Here we have 10 songs/topics that can be interesting for a bookworm according to the literary references they include. To make it easier and funnier, we picked up 10 main ones and matched with MyBOOKmarks :) 

1. Led Zeppelin’s "Ramble On" with it’s allusion to J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings + myBOOKmark Hobbit

“...in the darkest depths of Mordor, I met a girl so fair, but Gollum and the evil one crept up and slipped away with her...”

Tolkien's books are extremely popular for musical adaptations. There is a bunch of songs that retell the plot or contain strong associations. Also we found these ones:

• "Into the West" by Annie Lennox is about The Lord of the Rings

•  "Timeless Skies" by Al Stewart is about The Silmarillion

• "The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins" by Leonard Nimoy retells J. R. R. Tolkien's The Hobbit. "The Bard's Song (The Hobbit)" by Blind Guardian also retells The Hobbit

• The Battle of Evermore by Led Zeppelin took inspiration from J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings saga

• "Rivendell" by Rush is about the fictional place of the same name from The Lord of the Rings

                    
 2. Jefferson Airplane’s “White Rabbit” - inspired by Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland + myBOOKmark Alice

 

8. "Steppenwolf" by Hawkwind is based on the novel on the same name by Herman Hesse + myBOOKmark Direwolf