Works Based On The Faust Legend - Contemporary Music

Contemporary Music

• Faun's song König von Thule is a cover of Gretchen's song in the first part of Goethe's Faust (lines 2759-82). Goethe wrote this particular song in 1774.
• Blues guitarist Robert Johnson, fancifully said to have acquired his playing skill from the devil at a deserted crossroads
• Randy Newman's 'Faust'
• Kamelot's Epica Saga ('Epica' and 'The Black Halo')
• The Trans-Siberian Orchestra's Beethoven's Last Night
• Switchfoot's 'Faust, Midas and Myself' (2006)
• Cradle of Filth's 'Absinthe With Faust' song (from the album Nymphetamine)
• Little Tragedies' New Faust (2003).
• Akercocke (certain songs)
• Radiohead's "Faust Arp" and "Videotape" (from the album In Rainbows)
• Tenacious D's "The Pick of Destiny"
• Muse's The Small Print (from the album Absolution, originally titled "Action Faust")
• Current 93's album Faust, based on a story by Count Eric Stenbock.
• Frank Zappa's "Titties & Beer" (from the album Zappa in New York)
• Tom Waits's "Lucinda" (from the album Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards)
• The Band's "Daniel and the Sacred Harp" (from the album Stage Fright)
• Sabbat (band)'s A Cautionary Tale (from the album History of a Time to Come)
• Charlie Daniels Band's "The Devil Went Down To Georgia".
• Streetlight Manifesto's "Down, Down, Down to Mephisto's Cafe" (from the album Somewhere in the Between)
• Dark Moor's "Faustus" (from the album Autumnal)
• The Police's "Wrapped around your Finger" single (from the album Synchronicity) refers to Mephistopheles by way of analogy
• Gorillaz' "Faust" (from the album G-Sides)
• Konrad Boehmer Apocalipsis cum figuris (electronic, instrumental, vocal,1984)
• Konrad Boehmer Doktor Fausti Höllenfahrt (orchestra, 2006)
• Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody"
• Moonspell's "Mephisto" (from the album Irreligious)
• Septic Flesh's "Faust" from the album Sumerian Daemons)
• Faust A German Krautrock band
• The Fall (band)'s "Dktr Faustus" (from the album Bend Sinister)
• Poet JB Goodenough's "Children of Michael" which tells the story of a man named Michael who makes a deal with the year (the devil or fate), to have many children but the year has to "choose one for himself". The story features a chorus throughout, and was recorded by Irish folk singer Tommy Makem on his album Ancient Pulsing.
• Agalloch's "Faustian Echoes"
• The Human Abstract's "Faust" (2011)