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[–] [email protected] 1 points 44 minutes ago

Cologne by incubus would make a pretty wild b-movie

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 hours ago

Filthy children!

Learn your history!!

https://youtu.be/JN_xXTI5Txo

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 hours ago

Everything I Wanted - Billie Eilish

I feel like you could do a really dark Scrooge themed story from it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

Watsky, et al - Exquisite Corpse

For best results this should be cheesy B-movie as hell, the song really leans into it I think

[–] [email protected] 2 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Each verse could be a chapter in a anthology movie, written and directed by different people

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

That's essentially how they wrote the song, so yeah! I can see it. I'd watch this.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 14 hours ago

Mmm... Cheesey...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 13 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 47 minutes ago

Ooh that would be super interesting

[–] [email protected] 2 points 12 hours ago

Dead Flag Blues. By Godspeed You! Black Emperor.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 13 hours ago

Die Fantastischen Vier - Krieger could make an interesting piece or art piece.

It's German, here's the first lyrics translation weblink I found

[–] [email protected] 4 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Tool-Lost keys/Rosetta stoned. Maybe the stoner really did see something out in the desert.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 47 minutes ago

Alrighty then... picture this if you will

[–] [email protected] 7 points 19 hours ago

Several rush songs. 2112, Hemispheres, cygnus x-1

[–] [email protected] 6 points 20 hours ago

I always imagine All Along the Watchtower as a 1980's fantasy movie along the lines of Red Sonya or The Beastmaster.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

The Mariner's Revenge by The Decemberists

[–] [email protected] 2 points 20 hours ago

That's a good one

[–] [email protected] 3 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 21 hours ago

King for a 1000 years, Helloween

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Rime of the Ancient Mariner

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

That damned albatross!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

different genre but related is "the mariner's revenge song"

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 day ago

Boy have I got news for you!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

American Pie - Don McLean

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

Tarkus. Giant monsters battling is always fun.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Coheed and Cambria has entered the chat

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

I just don't know, man.

I think their songs would make for interesting comics, though!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Bob Dylan - Hurricane (which actually became a movie starring Denzel Washington in 1999).

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

That song is amazing!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Drat! You got me!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

Tom Petty, running down a dream.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

I wouldn't mind seeing what they could do with "East River Revolution" by District 7

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

They're old...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago
  • 38 years old - The Tragically Hip
  • Tweeter and the Monkey Man (Travelling Wilburys original or The Headstones cover of it)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Dream Theater - Metropolis.
Alternatively, Metropolis pt II - Scenes from a Memory, if you find an ambitious producer.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 22 hours ago

Honestly Scenes from a Memory would make a great movie, and now I have to go listen to it again

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Alice's Restaurant Massacree

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

Space Oddity Wellerman

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)
  • Yours Truly, 2095 - Electric Light Orchestra
  • Underneath the Radar - Underworld
  • Silent Running - Mike and the Mechanics
[–] [email protected] 2 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

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.)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 17 hours ago

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."

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago
  • Seether - Love Her
  • Slipknot - Killpop
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