Music
In 1977, Blue Öyster Cult had a major hit, "Godzilla," from their album Spectres. The song is a tongue-in-cheek tribute.
Scottish indie group Ballboy included a song called "Godzilla vs The Island of Manhattan (With You and I Somewhere in Between)" on their 2008 album I Worked On The Ships.
On the album cover, Stomping Ground for the band Goldfinger, the members of the band are featured as human versions of Godzilla monsters, one member is even seen using Godzilla's trademark atomic breath, and Mothra is seen in the background.
The album cover for Teri Yakamoto for the band Guttermouth features a picture of Godzilla.
The French metal band Gojira acquired their name from the original Japanese name of Godzilla.
R&B recording artist Ginuwine sampled the Godzilla roar on the song "What's So Different from his 1998 sophmore album "100% Ginuwine".
Oakland, CA rapper Yukmouth titled his third album "Godzilla". The rapper also used the monsters name for an independent record label but closed it down after receiving pressure from the copyright owners of the Godzilla name in May 2007.
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Famous quotes containing the word music:
“I fear I agree with your friend in not liking all sermons. Some of them, one has to confess, are rubbish: but then I release my attention from the preacher, and go ahead in any line of thought he may have started: and his after-eloquence acts as a kind of accompaniment—like music while one is reading poetry, which often, to me, adds to the effect.”
—Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (1832–1898)
“So gladly, from the songs of modern speech
Men turn, and see the stars, and feel the free
Shrill wind beyond the close of heavy flowers,
And through the music of the languid hours,
They hear like ocean on a western beach
The surge and thunder of the Odyssey.”
—Andrew Lang (1844–1912)
“But listen, up the road, something gulps, the church spire
Opens its eight bells out, skulls’ mouths which will not tire
To tell how there is no music or movement which secures
Escape from the weekday time. Which deadens and endures.”
—Louis MacNeice (1907–1963)