Songs only a historian would love?
October 3, 2011 6:37 PM Subscribe
I really like Carloman. Are there any other bands that use the same historical gimmick?
I love the tongue-in-cheek but committed way that Carloman basically role-plays a fairly obscure but real historical figure. Are there other bands that do this? I don't mean bands that are named after a historical figure or wrote a song or two about one, but bands that consistently try to incorporate the worldview and biographical details of their chosen historical figure into their music. Any genre is fine.
An entire album written from the perspective of a real person (along the lines of David Byrne and Fatboy Slim's Here Lies Love) would also be great, but something more distant like The Knife's Darwin opera isn't really the perspective I'm looking for.
I love the tongue-in-cheek but committed way that Carloman basically role-plays a fairly obscure but real historical figure. Are there other bands that do this? I don't mean bands that are named after a historical figure or wrote a song or two about one, but bands that consistently try to incorporate the worldview and biographical details of their chosen historical figure into their music. Any genre is fine.
An entire album written from the perspective of a real person (along the lines of David Byrne and Fatboy Slim's Here Lies Love) would also be great, but something more distant like The Knife's Darwin opera isn't really the perspective I'm looking for.
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posted by Admiral Haddock at 6:46 PM on October 3, 2011