Also, Stinking Lizaveta (after a character from the Brothers Karamazov)

Moby - named after the book 'Moby Dick' which was written by Moby's great uncle (or so I heard)

Yes, the mentally and somewhat physically handicapped character of Lizaveta in The Brothers Karamazov is referred to as "stinking Lizaveta."

Perhaps of note to some, Dostoyevsky had previously used the character name in Crime and Punishment. Alyona Ivanovna, the old woman pawnbroker, has a mentally challenged sister named Lizaveta that also suffers mortal blows from Raskolnikov during the robbery.

Here's a new one:

Pylon, who take their name from the William Faulkner novel.

Gyrate (DB Records, 1980) .rar link removed
Chomp (DB Records, 1983) .zip link removed
(Chomp is still out-of-print, maybe I will post it later sometime)

Listen to the .mp3 of an interview of Pylon conducted by Atlas Sound (Bradford Cox) of Deerhunter:
http://www.mediafire.com/?fvbr15lpjjd
http://deerhuntertheband.blogspot.co...on-uptown.html

Read all about the fascinating history of Pylon in Vanessa's own words:
http://www.netnik.com/jollybeggars/pylon.html

Listen to the stream of a Pylon overview and interview from 2007 with bassist Michael Lachowksi and drummer Curtis Crowe:
http://www.wellroundedradio.net/epis.../12/pylon.html

1998 interview with Pylon at Perfect Sound Forever:
http://www.furious.com/perfect/pylon.html

Pylon Gyrate Plus was reissued by DAF Records in October 2007.
Read the brainwashed brain review here:
http://brainwashed.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=6532&Ite mid=64
...and the Pitchfork review here:
http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/articl...82-gyrate-plus

additional Pylon resources:
http://pylon.pyrzqxgl.com/

Pylon - Hits (1985 compilation) link removed

always was curious about pylon. our band (twelve years ago) wanted to change our name to pylon but we didnt due us realising we were not good enough to warrant a name change!

the amazing band from ireland ROLLERSKATE SKINNY took their name from a piece in catcher in the rye
She's quite skinny, like me,
but nice skinny, rollerskate skinny."
- Catcher In The Rye, JD Salinger

..... here is their bio page
... and a bit of youtubing.... speed to my side

The Soft Machine (named after the Burroughs novel of the same title.)

"Crazy" from Chomp (1983)

thin white rope - burroughs
steely dan - burroughs
soft boys - burroughs
heaven 17 - clockwork orange
art of noise - an art manifesto (I think)
the birthday party - either the pinter or from dostoevsky Crime and P
house of love - anais nin
primal scream - can't remember the writer
oh, and how about - uriah heep (!) - dickens

Young Marble Giants-some history book

Josef K

(Kafka's The Trial)

i just wrote a song called bitch-godess, i know its a well known term, but i took it from dh lawrence