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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? |
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| 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 |
| Page(s) | Title/ first line | Interested/ involved participant(s) | Style | Lyrics? | Music? |
- Thomas Pynchon on Wikipedia
- Gravity's Rainbow on Wikipedia
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