My son came to me with his summer reading list for school. One of the books was The Road by Cormac McCarthy. He had to do a project on the book...one choice was a music playlist for the book. He asked for my help in choosing songs because my tastes tend to be rock/indie/alternative and that would fit better than anything else. So I began reading the book to know good songs to suggest. Within the first IDK...15-20 pages, I saw the "There was no sound but the wind.." line. Made me think of this song as a possiblity. I made a mental note. I later listened to the song specifically to listen closely to the lyrics (this was The New Moon version that I had). After reading more of the book....I knew it was TOO much of a coincidence between the song and book. Which is why I researched more about his inspiration for it. One of the other songs we settled on for his project was a cover Editors did of a Talking Heads song "Road to Nowhere"...it's accoustic and not upbeat like the original. It's more idk...somber or quiet. Makes me wonder if he was still inspired by The Road novel. I haven't seen the movie...but the book gets under your skin and never leaves you. Other songs we've included for the playlist is Muse-Apocalypse Please, The Dead Weather-Will There Be Enough Water?, The Black Keys-So He Won't Break, & Radiohead-Videotape among a few others. Now he just has to write his paper on the relevance of these songs to the book.
My son came to me with his summer reading list for school. One of the books was The Road by Cormac McCarthy. He had to do a project on the book...one choice was a music playlist for the book. He asked for my help in choosing songs because my tastes tend to be rock/indie/alternative and that would fit better than anything else. So I began reading the book to know good songs to suggest. Within the first IDK...15-20 pages, I saw the "There was no sound but the wind.." line. Made me think of this song as a possiblity. I made a mental note. I later listened to the song specifically to listen closely to the lyrics (this was The New Moon version that I had). After reading more of the book....I knew it was TOO much of a coincidence between the song and book. Which is why I researched more about his inspiration for it. One of the other songs we settled on for his project was a cover Editors did of a Talking Heads song "Road to Nowhere"...it's accoustic and not upbeat like the original. It's more idk...somber or quiet. Makes me wonder if he was still inspired by The Road novel. I haven't seen the movie...but the book gets under your skin and never leaves you. Other songs we've included for the playlist is Muse-Apocalypse Please, The Dead Weather-Will There Be Enough Water?, The Black Keys-So He Won't Break, & Radiohead-Videotape among a few others. Now he just has to write his paper on the relevance of these songs to the book.