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EmperorNortonII: Mythic References: Music - Jun 18th 2006, 3:43AM Link | Report
How many songs do you know that refer to Greco-Roman mythology? I'll list some to start off...

"Athena" by the Who
"Cupid" by Sam Cooke
"Desolation Row" by Bob Dylan ("Praise be to Nero's Neptune")
"I'd Like That" by XTC ("I'll be your Hector if you'd be Helen of Troy/Oh boy")
"She's So High" by Tal Bachman ("Like Cleopatra, Joan of Arc or Aphrodite")
"Stupid Cupid" by Patsy Cline
"Tales of Brave Ulysses" by Cream
"Venus" by Frankie Avalon
"Venus" by Shocking Blue
"Venus and Mars/Rock Show" by Wings
"Wrapped Around Your Finger" by Sting ("You consider me the young apprentice/caught between the Scylla and Charybdis")
Sister Prince - Jun 22nd 2006, 10:45PM Link | Report
Oh wow, I don't think I could come up with a list half that long.

Once I found this song by some pseudo-Satanic metal band called "Rape of Persephone," but there are probably a lot of pseudo-Satanic metal bands that have a song about her or Hades >_>...

I also know this nifty band called Hekate, but that's not a song title :/
EmperorNortonII - Jun 23rd 2006, 7:46PM Link | Report
I just remembered another song, "Birdhouse In Your Soul" by They Might Be Giants. It has the lyric, "After killing Jason off and several screaming Argonauts."
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