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What is a story in a song that would make a good movie?
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Badger Badger
Phish - Gamehenge
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
American Pie - Don McLean
Cologne by incubus would make a pretty wild b-movie
Bob Dylan - Hurricane (which actually became a movie starring Denzel Washington in 1999).
That song is amazing!
Watsky, et al - Exquisite Corpse
For best results this should be cheesy B-movie as hell, the song really leans into it I think
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.
Love my guy George. Listening to Cardboard Castles got me through a really rough time in my life and I don't expect to ever be able to repay it. Least I can do is to spread the word.
Each verse could be a chapter in a anthology movie, written and directed by different people
That's essentially how they wrote the song, so yeah! I can see it. I'd watch this.
Yeah I know, I think they shot the music video for it in a similar way, and a movie with a bigger budget could expand on that
Mmm... Cheesey...
The Mariner's Revenge by The Decemberists
That's a good one
Tool-Lost keys/Rosetta stoned. Maybe the stoner really did see something out in the desert.
Alrighty then... picture this if you will
Dispatch - the general
Ooh that would be super interesting
Tom Petty, running down a dream.
Everything I Wanted - Billie Eilish
I feel like you could do a really dark Scrooge themed story from it.
Nice try, Hollywood
Drat! You got me!
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
Dead Flag Blues. By Godspeed You! Black Emperor.
Die Fantastischen Vier - Krieger could make an interesting piece or art piece.
It's German, here's the first lyrics translation weblink I found
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.
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
Fastball's The Way!
They're old...
Space Oddity Wellerman
- 38 years old - The Tragically Hip
- Tweeter and the Monkey Man (Travelling Wilburys original or The Headstones cover of it)
- 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."
King for a 1000 years, Helloween
- Seether - Love Her
- Slipknot - Killpop
Whiskey Lullaby maybe
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.
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