The UK REM ( not to be confused with the contemporaneous American band of the same name ) was conceived primarily as a live band and never recorded an album, although poor-quality tapes of live concerts in France survive.

In 2004 they released their sophomore, critically acclaimed album Fall Back Open, which included a duet with Michael Stipe of REM, a long-time supporter of the band.

That year, the band also embarked on a US tour as support for REM, who are also from Athens, Georgia.

" In 1990, Green released an EP called REM, this after the band R. E. M.

* Midas is referenced in the 2009 song Rabbit Heart ( Raise It Up ) by British band Florence + The Machine

Progressive metal band Threshold referenced the myth with an 11-minute epic titled " Narcissus ", the closing track on their album Hypothetical.

King referred to the band several times in various novels and stories and The Ramones referenced King on the song " It's Not My Place ( In the 9 to 5 World )", which is on 1981's Pleasant Dreams.

If one of a select band of frequently referenced stars is mentioned during these stories, they will be named humorously.

a section from Stormy Weather was referenced by British heavy metal band Iron Maiden through their song " Revelations " off of their album Piece Of Mind.

" a line that has since become famous and is referenced in a song by the Canadian punk band Belvedere.

Around the same time, the band were featured on the cover of Entertainment Weekly, and were referenced in an episode of the sitcom Roseanne as well as an episode of Absolutely Fabulous.

* Ikhnaton is referenced in the title of a section of the epic progressive rock song " Supper's Ready " by the English rock band Genesis on their album Foxtrot ( 1972 ).

* 2080 is referenced in a song with the same name by the band Yeasayer.

Death metal band Nile referenced Sekhmet in the title track of their album " Ithyphallic ", and in " The Eye Of Ra " on their album Those Whom the Gods Detest.

Death metal band Behemoth referenced Sekhmet in the song " Christgrinding Avenue " on their album The Apostasy.

It is referenced on the debut album of the folk-rock band Center Divide, Lovelock to Winnemucca ( 1998 ), a title drawn from the opening lines of the first song there, " Lovelock ".

The Scottish anarcho-punk band Oi Polloi wrote and recorded " Let the Boots Do the Talking " with a refrain that referenced the battle:

" The album's title and cover illustration referenced Aukerman's departure from the band to study biology at the University of California, San Diego.

The band is also referenced in the movie Pineapple Express when protagonist Dale Denton ( Seth Rogen ) says to his girlfriend Angie ( Amber Heard ) " You are gonna go to college next year.

* The band is referenced in Austin Powers: The Spy who Shagged Me when Austin Powers says " The 70s and the 80s?

* The band is referenced in Albuquerque, a song by " weird " Al Yankovic.

* It was referenced in the song " Dance with me " ( 2001 ) by the group 112 ( band ), only changing the word " happy " with " sexy ".

It also was referenced in the 1986 video of the British band Genesis's song Land Of Confusion.

" The holiday is referenced in the song " Lakeside Park " by Canadian rock band Rush, from their 1975 album Caress of Steel.

The band lived in a small office complex ( as referenced in the Scott Reynolds-penned song " Box "), and toured nearly nonstop.

* The name Tapio appears in Finnish metal band Nightwish's song Elvenpath, referenced as " bear-king, ruler of the forest.

Thrash metal band Metallica referenced this film in their single " All Nightmare Long " videoclip, in 2009.

Jason Voorhees has been featured in various humor magazines, referenced in feature films, parodied in television shows, and was the inspiration for a horror punk band.

The song is referenced twice within other songs by the band, including the final track on the debut album, and a later single, " Elevators ( Me & You )".

After the band gained complete creative control from their record company, they decided to expand their follow-up of the Metropolis story into a full album: Metropolis Pt.

Massachusetts-based Hardcore Punk band Defeater has released two full length albums and one EP telling the story of an alcoholic WWII veteran and the trials and tribulations of his family.

The band also maintains that the Levi's story was completely fictitious and invented by Biafra to discredit them.

Tod Browning made the once controversial Freaks ( 1932 ) for MGM, based on " Spurs ", a short story by Tod Robbins, about a band of circus freaks.

Progressive metal band Dream Theater's song " The Dark Eternal Night " is based on Lovecraft's story " Nyarlathotep ".

* Progressive rock band Ayreon's 2000 album Universal Migrator Part 1: The Dream Sequencer tells the story of the last surviving human living on a Mars colony, many years after a war wiped out all life on Earth, leaving the Mars colony berift of supplies.

A widely related story, attributed to Richard ( Prophet ) Jennings was that Davis, while in Detroit playing at the Blue Bird club as a guest soloist in Billy Mitchell's house band along with Tommy Flanagan, Elvin Jones, Betty Carter, Yusef Lateef, Barry Harris, Thad Jones, Curtis Fuller and Donald Byrd stumbled into Baker's Keyboard Lounge out of the rain, soaking wet and carrying his trumpet in a paper bag under his coat, walked to the bandstand and interrupted Max Roach and Clifford Brown in the midst of performing Sweet Georgia Brown by beginning to play My Funny Valentine, and then, after finishing the song, stumbled back into the rainy night.

In an August 2008 Observer interview, Gorillaz band members Albarn and Hewlett revealed the nature and title of the project, Journey to the West, a movie adaptation of the opera of the same name based on a 16th-century Chinese adventure story also known as Monkey.

The band wrote a McSweeney's theme song and forty-four songs for an album that was meant to be listened to with the journal, with each track corresponding to a particular story or piece of artwork.

Several stories later emerged suggesting that the band had initially been called ' English Rose ' or that the name was somehow linked to The Rolling Stones, but these were untrue, Brown explaining " No, I don't know where that English Rose story came from.

It follows the story of a fictional rock band that tries to get a recording contract.

However, Vee's story is belied by the fact that the band not only promoted hatred against gay men, but more aggressively against lesbians.

The story concerns Frederic, who, having completed his 21st year, is released from his apprenticeship to a band of tender-hearted pirates.

The story concerns a band of immortal fairies who find themselves at odds with the House of Peers.

" In 1995, an independent band from Indianapolis, Indiana, named themselves Odd Man and released a CD entitled Hypothesis in reference to the fictional hypothesis contained in the story.

Soon afterwards, NME scotched the story, also citing " sources close to the band ", and quoting Johnny Marr's manager to the effect that it was " rubbish ".

The book tells the ( fictional ) story of the rise to fame of Dan Weir (' Weird '), a bass guitar player in a rock and roll band called Frozen Gold, and of his struggles to be happy now that he is rich and famous.

* The band Hawkwind, who have had a long association with Moorcock, released an entire album about the story of Elric and Stormbringer, The Chronicle of the Black Sword.

Heavy metal band Iron Maiden wrote the song To Tame a Land based on the Dune story.

It reflects on the story, as two friends-who seem to be at the top-drift away from each other and begin to despise each other, mirroring the bandmates ' turbulent relationship and eventual splitting of the band shortly after the album's release.

Spielberg felt Drew Barrymore had the right imagination for mischievous young Gertie after she impressed him with a story that she led a punk rock band.

The story was musicalized as a folk opera, with the band performing onstage with the cast.

As the story progresses, he must deal with a band of mysterious pirates and a stereotypical French buccaneer, as well as his old archnemesis LeChuck.

* The rock band the Grateful Dead set up a publishing company called Ice Nine ( in tribute to Vonnegut's story ).

Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet is influenced by the story of Pyramus and Thisbe ( Metamorphoses Book 4 ), and, in A Midsummer Night's Dream, a band of amateur actors performs a play about Pyramus and Thisbe.