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Post by brianf on Nov 20, 2018 21:00:41 GMT -5
I will never not love Marc Bolan of T Rex with a Man-Wolf comic  And hey I made a playlist of around 50 super hero songs on youtube |
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Post by badwolf on Nov 20, 2018 21:16:54 GMT -5
More techno than pop I guess but The Orbital have covered the Doctor Who theme. Here's a nifty live version with special guest Matt Smith:
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Post by Prince Hal on Nov 20, 2018 22:00:36 GMT -5
'nuff said, the only band I've seen over 30 times live, and yeah, this photo was taken before I was born so they're practically the soundtrack of my life.
    In the 80s, maybe, but leave us not forget the one who started all of this costumed superhero rock star thing in 1972 by becoming Ziggy Stardust...    |
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Post by Farrar on Nov 20, 2018 23:50:14 GMT -5
...In particular, there were quite a few references to Doctor Strange within the Hippie counterculture and its music...the cover of Pink Floyd's 1968 album A Saucerful of Secrets is based on Steve Ditko's Doctor Strange artwork and even features an image of the good Doctor...Right, it's from from the Dr. Strange story in 1967's Strange Tales #158, and penciled by Marie Severin. |
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Post by beccabear67 on Nov 21, 2018 0:06:08 GMT -5
I will never not love Marc Bolan of T Rex with a Man-Wolf comic Great photo! Great Man Wolf cover too. He has Canadian dollar bills in his hand, I wonder where that was taken? |
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Post by Farrar on Nov 21, 2018 0:07:46 GMT -5
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Post by beccabear67 on Nov 21, 2018 1:19:21 GMT -5
Ooh, I used to have that Superman Became The Flash Action... just think, a Beatle might've read it too! |
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Post by EdoBosnar on Nov 21, 2018 3:44:52 GMT -5
Man, that picture of Bolan holding an issue of Creatures on the Loose is epic. Never saw that before, thanks for posting it.
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Post by berkley on Nov 21, 2018 4:16:42 GMT -5
I will never not love Marc Bolan of T Rex with a Man-Wolf comic And hey I made a playlist of around 50 super hero songs on youtube This might have been mentioned already but speaking of Bolan and TRex, Doctor Strange is referenced in Mambo Sun and the Silver Surfer gets a mention in the less known but still great Whatever Happened to the Teenage Dream. |
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Post by berkley on Nov 21, 2018 4:25:06 GMT -5
Did we check Black Sabbath off the list with Iron Man or Crash Test Dummies for Superman Song? Also Blondie (sort of named for a comic strip though they say something about construction workers hollering at Debbie) they mention Brenda Starr in Rip Her To Shreds... comic artist Mike Grell worked on Brenda Starr early on. Does Black Sabbath's Iron Man really count, do you think? From the lyrics - and I'd have to say, even the music - I never felt any connection between the song and the Marvel character.
Of course, Marvel or its parent company decades later had enough money to buy the right to use the song in one of their Iron Man movies but that's beside the point, I'd say.
Mind you, I was wondering myself here not too long ago why they hadn't used Alice Cooper's Black Widow (from Welcome to My Nightmare) in a similar way for that character.
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Post by Cheswick on Nov 21, 2018 5:32:19 GMT -5
I will never not love Marc Bolan of T Rex with a Man-Wolf comic And hey I made a playlist of around 50 super hero songs on youtube This might have been mentioned already but speaking of Bolan and TRex, Doctor Strange is referenced in Mambo Sun and the Silver Surfer gets a mention in the less known but still great Whatever Happened to the Teenage Dream. T-Rex also has a song called "The Avengers" but, beyond the title, there's nothing lyrically to indicate that it was inspired by the TV show or the comic. |
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Post by MDG on Nov 21, 2018 9:03:15 GMT -5
Obviously at the height of Batmania:
And this (very listenable) oddity by Sun Ra:
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Post by Deleted on Nov 21, 2018 12:56:29 GMT -5
Did we check Black Sabbath off the list with Iron Man or Crash Test Dummies for Superman Song? Also Blondie (sort of named for a comic strip though they say something about construction workers hollering at Debbie) they mention Brenda Starr in Rip Her To Shreds... comic artist Mike Grell worked on Brenda Starr early on. Does Black Sabbath's Iron Man really count, do you think? From the lyrics - and I'd have to say, even the music - I never felt any connection between the song and the Marvel character.
Of course, Marvel or its parent company decades later had enough money to buy the right to use the song in one of their Iron Man movies but that's beside the point, I'd say.
Mind you, I was wondering myself here not too long ago why they hadn't used Alice Cooper's Black Widow (from Welcome to My Nightmare) in a similar way for that character.
I wouldn't count it as a Marvel reference, but it is a genre inspired song, as the basic premise of the Iron Man in the song is science fiction. -M |
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Post by wildfire2099 on Nov 29, 2018 0:40:29 GMT -5
the same is true of some of Rush's stuff, especially from the earlier albums, stuff like Cygnus X-1 and 2112 come to mind quickly There's actually a music video that is the 2112/Overture whatever you want to call it illustrated as a comic.. with connecting text and everything, it's really cool (I wish they'd do something like this for Clockwork Angels... it'd work alot better than the medicore novel I just finished). |
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Post by Mister Spaceman on Feb 11, 2019 7:23:35 GMT -5
As an avowed vinyl junkie (6,000 LPs and counting) and Silver Age comics fan, I'm gonna have to roll up my sleeves for this thread. Where to start? Well, as a huge fan of the Adam West Batman tv show (heck, I even wrote a book about it), I've collected a few dozen songs that came out during the Batmania of 1966-68 (though mostly 1966). This one is my favorite: |
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