I neke poznate pjesme još poznatijih glazbenih sastava inspirirane su klasicima svjetske književnosti. Koja
je glazba nastala čitanjem primjerice Williama Shakespearea, Georgea Orwella ili Aldousa Huxleya otkrila
nam je knjižničarka Lucija Hodžajev.

Pink Floyd: Sorrow / John Steinbeck: Plodovi gnjeva 
Jefferson Airplane: Crown Of Creation / John Wyndham: Krisalidi 
HIM: Join Me In Death / William Shakespeare: Romeo i Julija 
Deep Purple: The Mule / Isaac Asimov: Fondacija i Carstvo
Fleetwood Mac: Hypnotized / Carlos Castaneda: Učenje Don Juana
Buzzcocks: Everybody's Happy Nowadays / Aldous Huxley: Vrli novi svijet
Rush: Tom Sawyer / Mark Twain: Pustolovine Toma Sawyera
Sinead O'Connor: Mandinka / Alex Haley: Korijeni
Pet Shop Boys: Love is a Bourgeois Construct / David Lodge: Krasan posao 
Belle & Sebastian: I Fought In a War / Jerome David Salinger: Za Esmé - s ljubavlju i mučninom
Lenny Kravitz: Frankenstein / Mary Shelley: Frankenstein ili Moderni Prometej
ABBA: Eagle / Richard Bach: Galeb Jonathan Livingston 
R.E.M.: Disturbance at the Heron House / George Orwell: Životinjska farma
Pixies: Dead / priča o Davidu i Bat-Šebi
Suzanne Vega: Calypso / Homer: Odiseja
Iron Maiden: To Tame a Land / Frank Herbert: Dina
Leonard Cohen: Take this Waltz / Federico García Lorca: Pequeño vals vienés
The Police: Don't Stand So Close To Me / Vladimir Nabokov: Lolita
Lana Del Rey: Young and Beautiful / Francis Scott Fitzgerald: Veliki Gatsby
Joy Division: No Love lost / Ka-tzetnik 135633: Kuća lutaka
Rage Against the Machine: Testify / George Orwell: 1984.
Garbage: Cherry Lips (Go Baby Go!) / JT LeRoy: Sarah
Franz Ferdinand: Love and Destroy / Mihail Bulgakov: Majstor i Margarita
Annie Lennox: Love Song for a Vampire / Bram Stoker: Drakula
The Police: Tea in the Sahara / Paul Bowles: Zaklon od neba
The Cure: How Beautiful You Are / Charles Baudelaire: Oči siromaha
UK Subs: I Robot / Isaac Asimov: Ja, robot
Iron Maiden: The Lord of the Flies / William Golding: Gospodar muha
Elton John: Billy Bones and the White Bird / Robert Louis Stevenson: Otok s blagom
Black Sabbath: Behind The Wall Of Sleep / H. P. Lovecraft: Iza zidova sna
The Velvet Underground: Venus in Furs / Leopold von Sacher-Masoch: Venera u krznu
Bruce Springsteen: The Ghost of Tom Joad / John Steinbeck: Plodovi gnjeva
Green Day: Who Wrote Holden Caulfield? / Jerome David Salinger: Lovac u žitu 
The Bangles: Bell Jar / Sylvia Plath: Stakleno zvono
The Cure: Killing an Arab / Albert Camus: Stranac
Pixies: Gouge Away / priča o Samsonu i Dalili
Queen: The Invisible Man / H. G. Wells: Nevidljivi čovjek
Cream: Tales of Brave Ulysses / Homer: Odiseja
Jefferson Airplane: White Rabbit / Lewis Carroll: Alisa u zemlji čudesa
Led Zeppelin: Ramble on / J. R. R. Tolkien: Gospodar prstenova
Alizée: Moi... Lolita / Vladimir Nabokov: Lolita
Ramones: Pet Sematary / Stephen King: Groblje kućbih ljubimaca
Undercode: Alone / Edgar Allan Poe: Alone
PJ Harvey: The River / Flannery O'Connor: The River
Iron Maiden: Brave New World / Aldous Huxley: Vrli novi svijet
TBF: Moj um pali / Tin Ujević: Notturno
Nirvana: Scentless Apprentice / Patrick Süskind: Parfem
The Rolling Stones: Sympathy for the Devil / Mihail Bulgakov: Majstor i Margarita
David Bowie: 1984 / George Orwell: 1984.
Metallica: For Whom the Bell Tolls / Ernest Hemingway: Kome zvono zvoni
Pink Floyd: Pigs (Three Different Ones) / George Orwell: Životinjska farma