Most pretentious literary reference in a song

[markie]

how about the decemberists the tain
 
 and
 
 John Vanderslice Celllar Door, which is about some poem or other. Pollard will remember, he is pretentious.

[stu47]

I know a song off of Rhett Miller's The Instigator name drops Don Dellilo, as does Gold Mine Gutted off the Bright Eyes Digital Ash CD.....cant get anymore pretentious than that

[eilo97]

Originally posted by stu47:
  I know a song off of Rhett Miller's The Instigator name drops Don Dellilo, as does Gold Mine Gutted off the Bright Eyes Digital Ash CD.....cant get anymore pretentious than that

the rhett miller dellilo reference is in "world inside the world."  great song.

[ratioci nation]

Originally posted by Deepak Chopra:
 John Vanderslice Cellar Door, which is about some poem or other. Pollard will remember, he is pretentious.

One Song, Pale Horse, features lyrics adapted from Percy Bysshe Shelley's "Mask of Anarchy".

Like, dude, you know, like, that Pink Roid album where it's all really about, like, the Wizard Of Oz, and stuff...

[Darth Ed]

Laurie Anderson in the song "Gravity's Angel" on her album Mister Heartbreak. The song is dedicated to Thomas Pynchon and references Pynchon's seminal novel, Gravity's Rainbow, one of the greatest English-language novels of the 20th century.
 
 http://www.themodernword.com/pynchon/pynchon_music_anderson.html

[Justin Tonation]

Originally posted by Darth Ed:
  Laurie Anderson in the song "Gravity's Angel" on her album Mister Heartbreak. The song is dedicated to Thomas Pynchon and references Pynchon's seminal novel, Gravity's Rainbow, one of the greatest English-language novels of the 20th century.
 
  http://www.themodernword.com/pynchon/pynchon_music_anderson.html

Weird. I was going to mention this when I mentioned this:
 
 Yo La Tengo's  And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out has a song called "The Crying of Lot G"; Thomas Pynchon has a book called  The Crying of Lot 49.
 
 But Laurie Anderson's a  performance artist, man. She doesn't do, *ahem*,  songs. (Actually, she might completely disagree)