Bands that drop Bukowski's name or reference his work...

sage francis mentions bukowski in his new song.. 'got up this morning' w/ jolie holland. buy the album.

Razorlight - "In the City" on Up All Night

Wayne Kramer (he of MC5) on his 1995 solo LP "The Hard Stuff" has a track called "So Long Hank".

Starts off:

"It's March 10th 1994 and Charles Bukowski has died. Heartbreak. I'll miss that man of poems, short stories....etc" and continues in a spoken word style with some sharp guitar shapes thrown in.

Really heartfelt tribute. Not listed on the album sleeve though.

The Cherubs have a song called 'Greatest Secret' from the album 'This Noise is So Space Man', which is based on the poem The Secret.

The German Trash Metal Band "Tankard" dedicated a song called "Barfly"to
Bukowski.

http://stlyrics.com/songs/t/tankard23463/barfly750677.html

I've got to hear this................

Tom Russell
I believe that the title of the cd is Hotwalker. It is a made up story about little Jack Horton a carnival character talking about how Bukowski and himself had travelled on a runaway train. It is worth owning.

my ears are bleeding after hearing this stuff !

Have fun or ear plugs:

BASTARD SONS OF BUKOWSKI

NOFX rule....

First and foremost, it's called THRASH METAL, not TRASH METAL

And the band only sing about partying and getting drunk...

Back to the subject:

"It's Not How Far you Fall, It's The Way You Land" by Soulsavers. There's a quote from "Factotum" somewhere in the booklet...

I saw some band has a CD entitled Bone Palace Ballet out soon. I don't recall the artist, but they sounded whiney on the commercial.

it's funny that people who don't even really read much, let alone poetry, will have read bukowski and been influenced by him.

There's a metal band in L.A. named Black Sparrow Press.

Not Quite Bernadette band?

I was just Googling to see if an illustrated edition of "Not Quite Bernadette" existed, since I seem to remember there was such an edition, and I found the edition as well as a band which goes by the name "Not Quite Bernadette" and which appears to use the logo of Hot Water Music. Has anyone heard of them, or perhpas this was the subject of an earlier thread?

Here's one site's list of Sir Charles referenced in songs.

For the entire site, go to New World Encyclopedia(TM): http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Charles_Bukowski

(They have an interesting slogan: "Organizing knowledge for happiness, prosperity, and world peace."

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Directly lifted from the site:

In popular culture

Several bands have made reference to Bukowski in their songs. The list includes:

311
Anthrax
The Ataris
Black Flag
Buck 66
Jon Bon Jovi
Chiodos
The Fall
Hot Water Music
Jawbreaker
Jehst
Modest Mouse
Propagandhi
A Radio With Guts
Razorlight
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Sage Francis
Senses Fail
Thursday
Tom Waits
U2

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Please note at the site, there are no links to these bands, or the songs, etc.

Pax

http://www.myspace.com/bukowski666

I had put that link in another thread but this one is more appropriate. It is a french unknown band I discovered one day I was looking for websites about Hank on google.

(Moreover, I just remember that the young couple in Alexandre Aja’s Hills have eyes is named Bukowski, whereas in Wes Craven’s film, they are named Doug and Lynne Wood.)

thursday may have released an album called "War All The Time"( I don't know the band or the album), but Oakland's legendary hardcore punks Poison Idea were the first to do so. They released the lp "War All The Time" at the end of the eighties on Alchemy Records. Killer lp!

But they're from Portland, sorry about my Alzheimer.

Here’s another unknown frenchie :
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewProfile&friendID=446831208

Did anyone mention this old Boo Radleys version (I seem to remember it being written by someone else...a solo guy from Austin)
Whammo? perhaps

This is an excerpt from the 311 song Salsa... compare it to Bukowski's style and, in particular, his poem The Race:

Another tale of ordinary madness
[...]

[Nah, no thanks. Post it on the 311 forum. - ed.]

Thanks for the censorship, dick.

I would agree with harsh bordering on purist/ignorant. Sorry that 311 isn't Bach or Beethoven or another long dead Bukowski preference but the post fit the thread. Let the people read. Or not read.

I always appreciate a man who tries to find the rich in richard. Especially the one who ultimately goes down that path to find: DICK.

A good, hard word: see erection.

A political word: see Nixon.

And finally, a limp word: see your post.

(Since you are four posts into this world, you may want to surf a bit, as the waves are pretty cool.)

You are talking about Ed Norton. Aren't you?