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What is a story in a song that would make a good movie?
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Pinball wizard
Boy have I got news for you!
My time to shine.
Bob Dylan - Hurricane (which actually became a movie starring Denzel Washington in 1999).
That song is amazing!
American Pie - Don McLean
Rime of the Ancient Mariner
That damned albatross!
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I just don't know, man.
I think their songs would make for interesting comics, though!
Tom Petty, running down a dream.
I always imagine All Along the Watchtower as a 1980's fantasy movie along the lines of Red Sonya or The Beastmaster.
Several rush songs. 2112, Hemispheres, cygnus x-1
Nice try, Hollywood
Drat! You got me!
The Mariner's Revenge by The Decemberists
That's a good one
Alice's Restaurant Massacree
Watsky, et al - Exquisite Corpse
For best results this should be cheesy B-movie as hell, the song really leans into it I think
Each verse could be a chapter in a anthology movie, written and directed by different people
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Dude I don't think I've ever seen Watsky mentioned outside of his own comment sections. You a real one for that.
Love my guy, George.
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Dream Theater - Metropolis.
Alternatively, Metropolis pt II - Scenes from a Memory, if you find an ambitious producer.
Honestly Scenes from a Memory would make a great movie, and now I have to go listen to it again
Space Oddity Wellerman
Tool-Lost keys/Rosetta stoned. Maybe the stoner really did see something out in the desert.
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- Yours Truly, 2095 - Electric Light Orchestra
- Underneath the Radar - Underworld
- Silent Running - Mike and the Mechanics
I'd love to see a movie based on Silent Running. But I'm afraid it's shaping out to be a documentary...
(The existing movie of the same name has nothing in common with the song, but it's worth watching anyway.)
Yes, Wikipedia says:
Rutherford named the song after the film Silent Running "because I remembered that film so well, and our song had a spacey feel to it."
Tarkus. Giant monsters battling is always fun.
Rhapsody, the band all of their songs progressively tell an epic story that I would love to see in movie form.
Alternatively Nightfall in Middle-Earth from Blind Guardian, love the Silmarillion would love to see a movie about it.
Dispatch - the general
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- 38 years old - The Tragically Hip
- Tweeter and the Monkey Man (Travelling Wilburys original or The Headstones cover of it)
- Seether - Love Her
- Slipknot - Killpop
Peter Jones - Kilkelly (Ireland), it also has an interesting backstory
It's very sad, but indicative of the time.
Harry Chapin's "What Made America Famous?" got an unsuccessful musical, but never a film. In a modern update, the song's "hippies" are instead gutter punks squatting an abandoned building, and the fat plumber is the one non-MAGA in the town's volunteer fire department.
"Heart of a dancer" by the happy fits could make a fun tenacious d sort of movie
"Hell's comin' with me" by poor man's poison would be a classic revenge western
"Big town banky blaine's rockabilly barbeque" by bear ghost could be an interesting look at class war if you could pull it off
Oh and "A tale they won't believe" by captain tractor for man turning to cannibalism to survive
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Whiskey Lullaby maybe
I wouldn't mind seeing what they could do with "East River Revolution" by District 7
King for a 1000 years, Helloween
Dead Flag Blues. By Godspeed You! Black Emperor.
Jacob’s dream: based on a true story of two kids who went missing.
The night the lights went out in Georgia: about a guy who gets lynched.
18 and life: kid finishes school and starts doing crime
Def leopard billys got a gun
Everything I Wanted - Billie Eilish
I feel like you could do a really dark Scrooge themed story from it.
Cologne by incubus would make a pretty wild b-movie
Phish - Gamehenge
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