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Perfect Combination (Book - Music)

PapPap Aspra Spitia, Greece Posts: 28,263
edited June 2013 in All Encompassing Trip
I always try to find the perfect soundtrack for a book. I mean, an album which - according to my musical tastes and the theme of the book - fits perfectly to listen to while reading it. Especially, when the book has already been cinematized, I prefer finding some other music than the original motion picture soundtrack (e.g. Into The Wild by Jon Krakauer - Into The Wild by Eddie Vedder).

One of my recent discoveries: The Green Mile by Stephen King - American IV: The Man Comes Around by Johnny Cash.


Does anyone else share the same interest with me and if so what are your discoveries?
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    Pap wrote:
    I always try to find the perfect soundtrack for a book. I mean, an album which - accordingly to my musical tastes - fits perfectly to listen to while I read a book. Especially, when the book has already been cinematized, I prefer finding some other music than the original motion picture soundtrack (e.g. Into The Wild by Jon Krakauer - Into The Wild by Eddie Vedder).

    One of my recently discoveries: The Green Mile by Stephen King - American IV: The Man Comes Around by Johnny Cash.


    Does anyone else share the same interest with me and if so what are your discoveries?

    I can't listen to music while reading, unless it is some sort of ethereal, ambient, or soundscape type of background music. I find it distracting if there are lyrics in English.
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    PapPap Aspra Spitia, Greece Posts: 28,263
    I know what you're talking about. I have already gotten used to it. But yeah, instrumental music can create a very nice and relaxing atmosphere while reading. I recently listened to a band called Explosions In The Sky. They primarily play post-rock instrumental music, but I believe their sound is a little bit too heavy for a background music. Of course, there are always good old classic instrumental jazz songs that are less distracting.
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    JzPJzP Posts: 931
    Check out Steve Earle's "I'll never get out of this world alive" The album and book are under the same name. A little dark but they work beautifully together.
    ~JzP
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    PapPap Aspra Spitia, Greece Posts: 28,263
    Thank you JzP. I just read the description of the book: Doc Ebersole lives with the ghost of Hank Williams - not just in the figurative sense, not just because Doc was one of the last people to see him alive, and not just because Doc is rumoured to have given Hank the final morphine dose that killed him. In 1963, ten years after Hank's death, Doc is himself wracked by addiction. Having lost his licence to practise medicine, his morphine habit isn't as easy to support as it used to be. So he lives in a rented room in the red-light district on the south side of San Antonio, performing abortions and patching up the odd knife or gunshot wound. But when Graciela, a young Mexican immigrant, appears in the neighbourhood in search of Doc's services, miraculous things begin to happen. Graciela sustains a wound on her wrist that never heals, yet she heals others with the touch of her hand. Everyone she meets is transformed for the better, except, maybe, for Hank's angry ghost - who isn't at all pleased to see Doc doing well.A brilliant excavation of an obscure piece of music history and a marvellous novel in its own right, Steve Earle's "I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive" is a ballad of regret and redemption, and of the ways in which we remake ourselves and our world through the smallest of miracles.
    I like its theme. :thumbup:
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    stargirl69stargirl69 Posts: 6,387
    Pap wrote:
    I always try to find the perfect soundtrack for a book. I mean, an album which - accordingly to my musical tastes - fits perfectly to listen to while I read a book. Especially, when the book has already been cinematized, I prefer finding some other music than the original motion picture soundtrack (e.g. Into The Wild by Jon Krakauer - Into The Wild by Eddie Vedder).

    One of my recently discoveries: The Green Mile by Stephen King - American IV: The Man Comes Around by Johnny Cash.


    Does anyone else share the same interest with me and if so what are your discoveries?

    I can't listen to music while reading, unless it is some sort of ethereal, ambient, or soundscape type of background music. I find it distracting if there are lyrics in English.

    I'm the same,while reading is the only time music becomes background for me,so I choose,instrumental, meditation,soundscape,lots of ambience
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    thefixer9thefixer9 Posts: 9,376
    I like reading and listening to music at the same time, but I never thought of finding a common theme between them. Guess I'll have to try! :)
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    PapPap Aspra Spitia, Greece Posts: 28,263
    thefixer9 wrote:
    I like reading and listening to music at the same time, but I never thought of finding a common theme between them. Guess I'll have to try! :)
    You're going to love it.
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    PapPap Aspra Spitia, Greece Posts: 28,263
    JzP wrote:
    Check out Steve Earle's "I'll never get out of this world alive" The album and book are under the same name. A little dark but they work beautifully together.


    Oh!... Did I mention that I bought that book last year and I liked it?... Easy reading. There were some points that kept me interested but nonetheless I can't say that it is something new theme-wise. I didn't purchase the homonymous album though, so I can't see the big picture. :)
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    BinauralJamBinauralJam Posts: 14,158
    Master and Commander soundtrack with all 20 books the movie's based on.
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    Leezestarr313Leezestarr313 Temple of the cat Posts: 14,346
    I once read a book by Laura Esquivel, The Law of Love, which actually came with a CD. At some points in the book, it said "now play song xx", and the music was to accompany the following chapter. I thought that was quite a unique idea. If I remember right, it fit.

    Usually, I'm with the poster who said that listening to music while reading is too distracting, especially if someone is singing. Sometimes I thought it was nice to spin some piano stuff when reading, but that almost goes along with everything...

    When I read Love is a Mixtape, I stopped reading every now and then to listen to some of the music that the book was talking about. That was awesome, but in general, I do not really care if there is music or not when I'm reading. I am just too much into the book to pay attention to anything else.
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    LongueuilLongueuil Posts: 2,224
    Book : The Road by Cormac McCarthy
    Music : Lhasa de Sela - The Living Road particularly Anywhere on this Road
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    Leezestarr313Leezestarr313 Temple of the cat Posts: 14,346
    Longueuil wrote:
    Book : The Road by Cormac McCarthy
    Music : Lhasa de Sela - The Living Road particularly Anywhere on this Road

    Lhasa de Sela is almost good with anything :thumbup: She died much much much too young. I would have loved to see her live one day. May she rest in peace.
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    LongueuilLongueuil Posts: 2,224
    Longueuil wrote:
    Book : The Road by Cormac McCarthy
    Music : Lhasa de Sela - The Living Road particularly Anywhere on this Road

    Lhasa de Sela is almost good with anything :thumbup: She died much much much too young. I would have loved to see her live one day. May she rest in peace.

    That's is so true. She was unique and died too soon.
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    PJSirenPJSiren Salem, OR Posts: 5,863



    Pap wrote:

    I always try to find the perfect soundtrack for a book. I mean, an album which - accordingly to my musical tastes - fits perfectly to listen to while I read a book. Especially, when the book has already been cinematized, I prefer finding some other music than the original motion picture soundtrack (e.g. Into The Wild by Jon Krakauer - Into The Wild by Eddie Vedder).



    One of my recently discoveries: The Green Mile by Stephen King - American IV: The Man Comes Around by Johnny Cash.





    Does anyone else share the same interest with me and if so what are your discoveries?


    I can't listen to music while reading, unless it is some sort of ethereal, ambient, or soundscape type of background music. I find it distracting if there are lyrics in English.

    I'm kinda the same way...if music I like is playing while I'm reading I'm more apt to listen to the music and want to jam along and sing than pay attention to what I'm reading and then I'll end up reading the same page 10 times...
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    PapPap Aspra Spitia, Greece Posts: 28,263
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    PapPap Aspra Spitia, Greece Posts: 28,263
    Pap said:
    JzP wrote:
    Check out Steve Earle's "I'll never get out of this world alive" The album and book are under the same name. A little dark but they work beautifully together.


    Oh!... Did I mention that I bought that book last year and I liked it?... Easy reading. There were some points that kept me interested but nonetheless I can't say that it is something new theme-wise. I didn't purchase the homonymous album though, so I can't see the big picture. :)
    Finally bought the CD! :smile:  Glad I did so!
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    Book: 33 1/3 by Clint Brownlee
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