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)

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