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Current revision as of 06:54, 5 February 2009

Welcome to the Thomas Pynchon Fake Book Wiki!

This wiki is a host for the project of composing and recording music for the songs in Thomas Pynchon's novel Gravity's Rainbow.

The following list contains page numbers of each song in Gravity's Rainbow. Page numbers in parentheses indicate passages that, while not technically songs, could be adapted as such. Titles or other notes are added where available.

Page(s) Title/
first line
Interested/
involved
participant(s)
Style Lyrics? Music?
8-9 "Osbie's Banana Song" Cordon et al. see text drunk marching band
11 "It's Colder Than..." Chorus vocal?
12 "The Words of P.M.S. Blackett: You Can't Run a War on Gusts of Emotion"
14-15 "The Sanjak" Cordon and Daniel
(26) "In Memory of Constant" Inscription
27 "Adieu My Dear Friends" Tune of "Star Spangled Banner"
61-62 "Got A Hardon In My Fist"
62 "Rhythm's Got Me"
66 "Down the Toilet, Lookit Me"
67 "Red Malcolm"
68 "Red River Valley" Tune of "Red River Valley"; see text
68 "One Little Hustler in San Berdoo" Tony (wants to contact Wes Shirley to sing it)
108 "Ic Heb U Liever" in Middle Dutch
129,136 "In Dulci Jublio" in Latin and German
163 "Children's Charming Antisemitic Street Refrain" in German
174-175 "Pretty Polythene Home" Becky & Patrick
(177) "Hark The Herald" Fiona and Karan
Page(s) Title/
first line
Interested/
involved
participant(s)
Style Lyrics? Music?
182-83 "The Englishman's Very Shy" Kyle and Jerry Foxtrot
191-92 "The Ballad of Tantivy Mucker Maffick" The Leaning Towers jazzy done!
195-96 "Too Soon to Know" Foxtrot
203 "The World Over There" The Leaning Towers epic
213 "Vulgar Song" Aaron and Emily
/(The Leaning Towers)
216-17 "The Penis He Thought Was His Own" Dan, Colae, Tony, Aaron, Emily Doo-wop yes yes
226-27 "Thus Pointsman"
229-30 "Pavlovia" Jasmine & the Leaning Towers Beguine
231 "Wash Me in the Water"
(237) "O, O, O" Karl Orff
244 "Mr. Debonair"
245 "Julia" Foxtrot
259 "Loonies on Leave"
Page(s) Title/
first line
Interested/
involved
participant(s)
Style Lyrics? Music?
283-84 "The Displaced" Colae, Damon, Jane, Daniel, Justin Are the Pogues a style? Yes Yes
289 "Herman the German" Lindsy, Colae, Daniel yes yes
289-90 "Love Never Goes Away" Balalaika; see text
305-07,311,334-35 "Rocket Limericks"
310 "Mittel Werk Express"
314 "World War Three" Daniel, Colae, Conrad, Shaeny and Kimary Drinking song yes
320 "Sold on Suicide" Aaron and Emily
/(The Leaning Towers)
partial yes
329-30 "She Headed for Rhode Island"
356-57 "Qumys"
357-59 "The Aqyns Song"
369 "Doper's Dream" Cordon and Jason 3/4 time and shit-kicking style
378 "Jubilee Jim" Apollo, Daniel, Colae rockin' yes written, not recorded
386-87 "Aqui Me Pongo A Cantar" en Español guitar; see text
414-15 "Victim in a Vacuum" Mike Huebner
(438) "A Little Something from Morocco" Rhumba
449-50 "Buffalo Bayou" Kyle is Kyle a style?
462-63 "Welcome Aboard"
495 "Bright Days" Foxtrot
497-98 "Sea Chanty"
522 "Daredevil Desoxyephedrine Daddy" w/ "Hoagy Carmichal piano"
532-33 "the ecstasy of torture" Kim, Damon, Daniel bossanova
534-35 "Doper's Greed" Kyle K. uke ballad
538-39 "So Contagious" Nick, Jerry hip-hop, yo!
541 "Kilkenny to Kew" Cordon
548 "Dancing in Twilight"
(553) List of Wishes spoken, multiple voices?
561-62 "LOOKIN' FAWR A NEEDLE IN A HAAAAYSTACK!"
575 "A Pig is a Jolly Companion" Tony, Dan, Colae, Emily, Aaron, Conrad, Holly renaissance fair-ish yes mostly
585 "Bright Days for the Black Market" attributed to Gerhart von Göll
593 "Mouthtripping Time"
Page(s) Title/
first line
Interested/
involved
participant(s)
Style Lyrics? Music?
619-20 "Eagle of Tooting" Bob and the Dangerous Brothers
(622) "[[]]" Rilke quote
627 "The Superhighways of July" Cordon are the Smiths a style?
635 "Puke-a-hook-a-look-i I-i-i-island"
639-40 "It's a War" Crwth; see text
648 "Byron the Bulb" The Leaning Towers Rap
657 "Paranoia" dancing song
668 "Degenerate" not really a song
671 "The Loser"
677 "Howdy Neighbor" Alex Lilting Cafe Jazz with Horns
(678) "In the Refrigerator"
685-86 "My Doper's Cadenza"
689 "At the First Moment Long Before Our Flight" Poem
(691) "A Lover Leaps in the Volcano" (haiku)
(696) "Hai wa Ri ni katazu" Kamikaze slogan
717 "Diarrhea Dee-lite" Kazoos and strings
(736) "But Sharper Than a Mother's Tears"
740 "Wartime in San Diego" Colae, Daniel, Jasmine and the Leaning Towers fey twee Guitar; see text
(746) "Weissmann's Tarot" Tarot reading
760 "Last Song" Conrad, Shaeny, Colae, Daniel travelin' song yes mostly
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