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[–] Dicska@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

Badger Badger

[–] QuarterSwede@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

Phish - Gamehenge

[–] 0ops@lemm.ee 2 points 6 days ago

Cologne by incubus would make a pretty wild b-movie

[–] Dagwood222@lemm.ee 2 points 6 days ago

Filthy children!

Learn your history!!

https://youtu.be/JN_xXTI5Txo

[–] Toes@ani.social 2 points 6 days ago

Everything I Wanted - Billie Eilish

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

[–] ThatGuy46475@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days 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

[–] valen@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 26 points 1 week ago

Boy have I got news for you!

[–] klemptor@startrek.website 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

[–] AstralPath@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 week ago

That song is amazing!

[–] GuyFawkes@midwest.social 11 points 1 week ago

American Pie - Don McLean

[–] Widdershins@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Rime of the Ancient Mariner

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[–] Crankenstein@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Coheed and Cambria has entered the chat

[–] underline960@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago

I just don't know, man.

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

[–] Jerb322@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

Tom Petty, running down a dream.

[–] Jack_Burton@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[–] Kowowow@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago

Sometimes I don't think about nothing but the monkey man

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[–] Bruncvik@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

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

[–] the_crotch@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 week ago

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

[–] Stillwater@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 4 points 1 week ago

Drat! You got me!

[–] TheDoozer@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The Mariner's Revenge by The Decemberists

[–] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 2 points 1 week ago

That's a good one

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Alice's Restaurant Massacree

[–] neidu3@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

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

[–] Nibodhika@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

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

[–] skulblaka@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 week ago (5 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

[–] justsquigglez@leminal.space 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] skulblaka@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 days ago

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.

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[–] kelpie_returns@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 2 points 1 week ago

They're old...

[–] scytale@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 week ago

Tarkus. Giant monsters battling is always fun.

[–] 667@lemmy.radio 4 points 1 week ago

Space Oddity Wellerman

[–] DirigibleProtein@aussie.zone 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)
  • Yours Truly, 2095 - Electric Light Orchestra
  • Underneath the Radar - Underworld
  • Silent Running - Mike and the Mechanics
[–] Bruncvik@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week 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.)

[–] DirigibleProtein@aussie.zone 2 points 1 week 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."

[–] Inucune@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

[–] 0ops@lemm.ee 1 points 6 days ago

Alrighty then... picture this if you will

[–] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 week ago
  • 38 years old - The Tragically Hip
  • Tweeter and the Monkey Man (Travelling Wilburys original or The Headstones cover of it)
[–] Nibodhika@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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.

[–] Appleseuss@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] 0ops@lemm.ee 1 points 6 days ago

Ooh that would be super interesting

[–] rikudou@lemmings.world 3 points 1 week ago
  • Seether - Love Her
  • Slipknot - Killpop
[–] spizzat2@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 week ago

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

[–] fubo@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

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.

[–] Kowowow@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

"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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[–] Lasherz12@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Peter Jones - Kilkelly (Ireland), it also has an interesting backstory

It's very sad, but indicative of the time.

[–] Tau@lemy.lol 2 points 1 week ago

King for a 1000 years, Helloween

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