music and books?

[Michael Habiby]

I have very evocative memories from my senior year in HS reading the second
book of the Lord of the rings (out of 6 books remember) and listening to the
Year of the Cat album by Al Stewart.

I recently re acquired the Pentateuch of the Cosmogony by Dave Greenslade on
eBay and pulled out my battered copies of Zeazny's Princes in Amber series.
I remembered listening to that album(s) reading the first novel before and
successfully recreated that "atmosphere".

As for Hawkwind.. I actually put on Live Chronicle when I last restarted the
Elric Books.... Cliché but I thought I would try it.  It definitely was a
soundtrack for the first book. :)

I know this is the opposite of where you were going here Arin but I find
that Hawkwind works really well when I do my bike and rower during my
workout.  Dull I know.. but during my endorphin rush the rock really gets me
in a good rhythm and the "space" sets my mind free to float.... Ok maybe TMI
there but its late and I am tired. :-)

Mike H.

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> Subject: HW: music and books?
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>
> Hey folks,
>
> Anyone have any good paired book/album combinations?
>
> Occasionally, when I'm lucky, I discover that a given album
> makes fantastic paired listening while reading a given book
> (Tangerine Dream's Logos and Robert Holdstock's Mythago Wood,
> for instance.)
>
> Anyone out there do anythin similar to Hawkwind tunes?
> What song and/or album match up to what book for you?
>
> (for my part, I've yet to find a good book that HW will match,
> partly because many HW lyrics are highly evocative of given science
> fiction imagery in their own right, and therefore doesn't mesh well
> with other SF books.  ...but I'm looking for suggestions.)
>
> Thanks,
>
> Arin
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