MUSIC
My ever growing collection of bands who were influnced by the Vampire Chronicles and Anne Rice.
Lestat
Death is the mother of beauty...
What? A band called Lestat?! Believe it or not, it exists. Although the lead singer is not a blond guy with fangs, the band nevertheless named itself after the Brat Prince. Not surprisingly, their first album is titled Theatre des Vampires. They're a local goth band in Cleveland, OH.
Savage Garden
Carry on, keep romancing, carry on, carry on dancing. In the moonlight....
A group named after one of Lestat's favorite philosophies. Savage Garden's song "Carry on Dancing" is supposedly about vampires.
Concrete Blonde
They used to dance in the garden in the middle of the night. They were naked as the day they were born skin all bone-china white. O you were a vampire and I may never see the light..."
"Bloodletting or The Vampire Song" on Concrete Blonde's album Bloodletting is about Lestat, and Johnette Nepolitano, the lead singer, is an Anne Rice fan.
Sting
Oh you'll never see my shade or hear the sound of my feet while there's a moon over Bourbon Street...
At last, a Louis fan! "Moon Over Bourbon Street" is a very well known song that's dedicated to the Louis.
Nine Inch Nails
I'm drunk and right now I'm so in love with you
and I don't want to think too much about what we should or shouldn't do. Lay my hands on Heaven and the sun and the moon and the stars while the devil wants to fuck me in the back of his car...
"The Only Time" is "the Armand and Daniel song". I've heard that Trent Reznor is an Anne Rice fan, but I don't know whether the song was specifically meant for Daniel and Armand.
Stabbing Westward
You've left me with nothing left but questions...
You've left me here not knowing who I am...
Sources tell me that their song "Violent Mood Swings" is about Lestat.
Know any others that should be added to this list? Feel free to tell me.
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