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Slackjaws_ate_my_brain
01-24-2008, 03:48 PM
When i was a kid, I'd spend HOURS reading comics with my tape deck playing in the background. As such, certain songs/albums remind me directly of certain books :

Metallica - Ride the Lightning : That album, whenever I hear it, reminds me of the "Death Head II" series from the early 90's, simply because I got those books and that record around the same time. Whenever I hear "Trapped Under Ice" or "Escape", I can't help but think of DH2 and Killpower, and the over-all wackiness of those books.

Metallica - Master of Puppets : That record, to me, will always remind me of the self-titled X-men series and X-force. I remember always listening to it as I picked up the new issues of both series, so, when i hear Hetfield on that record, the first images I think of is artwork from Jim lee and Rob Liefeld.

Areosmith - Greatest Hits vol 1 : This one is Spawn, hands down. I was big into this greatest hits comp durening the first run of Spawn, and it reminds me, specifically, of the first 10-12 issues of the book.

Suicidal Tendencies - Still Cyco After All These Years : This one got played a lot when I was first getting into The Maxx, so Mike Muir and crew's remake still conjures images of Maxx and Julie and a horde of Ises.

Megadeth - Countdown to Extinction : I think i got super into this record a year or so after it came out, and I know i was listening to it hardcore when "Fatal Attractions" came out, so that really stands out.

Faith No more - The Real Thing : Summer '93. I got this album the SAME day that i got Spider-man Unlimited #1, so, for me, this will always be the "Maximum Carnage" album. "Surprise! You're Dead!" might as well have been Carnage's theme song for me.

The only more recent one that comes directly to mind is Nekromantix' "Dead Girls Don't Cry" record and "The Goon". I was listening to that record when i picked up the first Goon TPB about 2 years or so ago, so those ones are connected in my mind.

What albums/songs do you associate with specific comics due to personal experience?

RickThunderclees
01-24-2008, 04:00 PM
Nice, I like this thread.

I'll do one for now...

The comic Blankets goes nicely with the album "The World is Not a Cold Dead Place" by Explosions in the Sky.

leonaozaki
01-24-2008, 04:31 PM
Everytime I listen to The Wall I can't help but think of various issues of The Amazing Spider-Man and Peter Parker, the Spectacular Spider-Man from the late 80's because that what's I read when I listened to that album almost every day after high school in 1990.

rob

ThePhenom
01-24-2008, 07:45 PM
I read Watchmen while I was listening to Radiohead I believe, so there's a bit of Karma Police, Idioteque, Exit Music and what not associations there.

Certain songs I've been listening to recently like the Editor's The Racing Rats remind me of Ultimate Fantastic Four because of the extent to which I listen to them while I read UFF.

Out of curiousity, does anyone else ever match their music to the comics there reading?

Slackjaws_ate_my_brain
01-25-2008, 07:06 AM
match music to comics? Personally I haven't, though i have a friend that does, and he told me that it "Enhances the over-all experience" or something along those lines. I could definately see where it would make sense and could be an interesting experiment.

beetheb
01-25-2008, 07:36 AM
White Zombie.

berk
01-25-2008, 01:01 PM
I associate the Moody Blues with the Englehart/Brunner Droctor Strange, not only because I used to listen to them a lot around the time I was reading it, but because the mood and atmosphere of the two are a very good match.

But I also specifically associate the Englehart/Colan Doctor Strange #13 with Robin Trower's Bridge of Sighs album, because I was really getting into it the night I bought and read that particular issue.

Of course mid/late-70s Fleetwood Mac goes with MoKF, since it's referenced in the story itself. I listened to them a lot while re-reading the entire series a few months ago.

T.Rex's Light of Love album with Englehart's Avengers, for some reason, can't recall why.

I could probably come up with a lot more if I rack my memory.

Rob Allen
01-25-2008, 02:51 PM
I remember reading Thor while listening to a Mahler symphony and thinking they went together really well.