Snapshots #355: A Top Twelve Songs About Poets

Above, you'll see the poet Philip Larkin, larking about with his camera.

Below, you'll find 12 songs that mention poets in the title...

12. Used to deliver the Lizard King.

Jim Morrison in a van.

Van Morrison – Rave On, John Donne

11. Part of the hospital reserved for Morrissey, Madonna and Moby.

That'll be the M Ward.

M. Ward - Blake's View

10. Humble, yet Mighty.

Modest Mouse - Bukowski

9. Ladies of the expanding bullet.

Dum Dum Girls - Rimbaud's Eyes

8. Rabbit home found ablaze, Von Trapp connected.

Rabbits live in a warren, near  ablaze Von Trapp

Warren Zevon - Lord Byron's Luggage

7. Local gathering place for people who want superior unconsciousness.

Better Oblivion Community Centre - Dylan Thomas

6. Murder on the feet.

Slaughter & The Dogs - Edgar Allan Poe

5. Old theatre meets Byrds' Mare.

Old Vic + Chestnut Mare...

Vic Chesnutt - Stevie Smith 

4. Boastful, but still a good place to buy your testament. 

Buy your wills from Wilco!

Billy Bragg & Wilco - Walt Whitman's Niece

3. What Zod said to a guy who Should Have Known Better.

"Kneel, Jim Diamond!"

Neil Diamond - Longfellow Serenade

2. There were no bees in the summer of '69.

It's not Bryan Adams, is it?

Ryan Adams - Sylvia Plath

1. ...and flights of angels sing thee to thy rest.

"Goodnight, sweet Prince..."

Prince - Ballad of Dorothy Parker

More Odes to Obscurity next Saturday...