054R By The Book, Remastered
A show from the first time we really got ourselves together, with a great playlist and some excellent dialog. 16 listeners max, but we are in the holiday season for Europe. Literary references are included as notes, and I have included some links if anyone wants to look further.
Preshow
| Title | Artists | Album | Year | Literary Reference |
| Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun | Pink Floyd | A Saucerful Of Secrets | 1968 | Tang dynastry poetry |
| Red Barchetta | Rush | Moving Pictures | 1981 | A Nice Morning Drive, Richard Foster |
| Rocket Man | Elton John | Honky Chateau | 1972 | The Rocket Man, Ray Bradbury |
| Wuthering Heights | Kate Bush | The Kick Inside | 1978 | Emily Brontë |
| Misty Mountain Hop | Led Zeppelin | IV (Zoso) | 1971 | Tolkien |
| The Council of Elrond | The Lord of the Rings | Lord of the Rings | 2001 | Tolkien |
Main Show
| Genesis I Verse 20 | Ralph McTell | You,Well-Meaning, Brought Me Here | 1971 | Genesis 1: 20 |
| Turn! Turn! Turn! | The Byrds | Turn! Turn! Turn! | 1965 | Ecclesiastes 3:1-8 |
| Benedictus | Strawbs | Grave New World | 1972 | I Ching |
| Tales Of Brave Ulysees | Cream | Disraeli Gears | 1967 | Odyssey, Homer |
| Home At Last | Steely Dan | Aja | 1977 | Odyssey, Homer |
| Xanadu | Rush | A Farewell To Kings | 1977 | Kubla Khan, Coleridge |
| Don Quixote | Gordon Lightfoot | Don Quixote | 1972 | Don Quixote, Cervantes |
| Ramble On | Led Zeppelin | II | 1969 | The Lord of the Rings, Tolkien |
| Ride A White Swan | T.Rex | single | 1970 | The Hobbit, Tolkien |
| A Trick of the Tail | Genesis | A Trick of the Tail | 1976 | The Inheritors, William Golding |
| I Am The Walrus | The Beatles | Magical Mystery Tour | 1967 | Alice Through The Looking-Glass, Lewis Carroll |
| Tomahawk Kid | The Sensational Alex Harvey Band | The Impossible Dream | 1974 | Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson |
| Im Nebel | Pur | Opus1 | 1983 | Im Nebel, Herman Hesse |
| Sheltering Sky | King Crimson | Discipline | 1974 | The Sheltering Sky, Paul Bowles |
| End Of The Night | The Doors | The Doors | 1967 | Voyage au Bout de la Nuit, Louis Ferdinand Céline |
| 1984 | David Bowie | Diamond Dogs | 1974 | 1984, George Orwell |
| Schiller | Wise Guys | Frei | 2008 | Friedrich Schiller |
| Purple Haze | Jimi Hendrix | single | 1967 | Night of Light, Philip José Farmer |
| To Tame A Land | Iron Maiden | Piece Of Mind | 1983 | Dune, Frank Herbert |
| Childhood’s End | Pink Floyd | Obscured by Clouds | 1972 | Arthur C. Clarke |
| The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress | Judy Collins | Judith | 1975 | Robert Heinlein |
| Sirens Of Titan | Al Stewart | Modern Times | 1975 | Kurt Vonnegut |
Postshow
| Don’t Stand So Close to Me | The Police | Zenyatta Mondatta | 1980 | Lolita, Nabokov |
| Tom Sawyer | Rush | Moving Pictures | 1981 | Tom Sawyer, Mark Twain |
| Jekyll And Hyde | Renaissance | Azure D’or | 1979 | Robert Louis Stephenson |
| Sympathy For The Devil | Rolling Stones | Beggar’s Banquet | 1967 | The Master and the Margarita (Mikhail Bulgakov), also Baudelaire |
| Lay Down | Strawbs | Bursting At The Seams | 1973 | Psalm 23 |
| The Ferryman | Ralph McTell | You,Well-Meaning, Brought Me Here | 1971 | Siddhartha, Herman Hesse |