Okay, here's what vol. 1 looks like - definitely looking at making vol. 2 using more of these suggestions as soon as I get more blank CDs...
1) The Cure - Killing an Arab
2) The Decemberists - The Engine Driver
3) The Arcade Fire - Cold Wind
4) Morrissey - Billy Budd
5) The Boo Radleys - Wake Up, Boo!
6) Bright Eyes - A Perfect Sonnet
7) My Latest Novel - The Reputation of Ross Francis
8) Kate Bush - Wuthering Heights
9) Magnetic Fields - Abigail, Belle of Kilronan
10) The Mountain Goats - This Year
11) The Decemberists - July, July!
12) Belle and Sebastian - If She Wants Me
13) Of Montreal - Wraith Pinned to the Mist and Other Games
14) Pavement - Gold Soundz
15) Jens Lekman - Black Cab
16) Sunny Day Real Estate - Grendel
17) TV on the Radio - Wolf Like Me
18) Magnetic Fields - Wi' Nae Wee Bairn Ye'll Me Beget
19) British Sea Power - Please Stand Up
20) Peter Murphy - Marlene Dietrich's Favourite Poem
21) Spoon - the Underdog
Metallica - The Thing That Should Not Be (Lovecraftian)
Anthrax - Among the Living, Skeletons in the Closet, I Am The Law
Crash Test Dummies - Afternoons and Coffee Spoons (Really, the whole God Shuffled His Feet album is for English majors).
Damn you, I was going to recommend Afternoons and Coffee Spoons.
Cake maybe? I find their lyrics pretty clever.
Edit: OH! Aesop Rock is a must, especially 11:35. Those lyrics blow my mind. Anything by De La Soul is brilliant in the lyrical department too. The Roots too.
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1) The Cure - Killing an Arab
2) The Decemberists - The Engine Driver
3) The Arcade Fire - Cold Wind
4) Morrissey - Billy Budd
5) The Boo Radleys - Wake Up, Boo!
6) Bright Eyes - A Perfect Sonnet
7) My Latest Novel - The Reputation of Ross Francis
8) Kate Bush - Wuthering Heights
9) Magnetic Fields - Abigail, Belle of Kilronan
10) The Mountain Goats - This Year
11) The Decemberists - July, July!
12) Belle and Sebastian - If She Wants Me
13) Of Montreal - Wraith Pinned to the Mist and Other Games
14) Pavement - Gold Soundz
15) Jens Lekman - Black Cab
16) Sunny Day Real Estate - Grendel
17) TV on the Radio - Wolf Like Me
18) Magnetic Fields - Wi' Nae Wee Bairn Ye'll Me Beget
19) British Sea Power - Please Stand Up
20) Peter Murphy - Marlene Dietrich's Favourite Poem
21) Spoon - the Underdog
Damn you, I was going to recommend Afternoons and Coffee Spoons.
Cake maybe? I find their lyrics pretty clever.
Edit: OH! Aesop Rock is a must, especially 11:35. Those lyrics blow my mind. Anything by De La Soul is brilliant in the lyrical department too. The Roots too.