Everything I Wanted - Billie Eilish
I feel like you could do a really dark Scrooge themed story from it.
Jacob’s dream: based on a true story of two kids who went missing.
The night the lights went out in Georgia: about a guy who gets lynched.
18 and life: kid finishes school and starts doing crime
Def leopard billys got a gun
Dead Flag Blues. By Godspeed You! Black Emperor.
Watsky, et al - Exquisite Corpse
For best results this should be cheesy B-movie as hell, the song really leans into it I think
Each verse could be a chapter in a anthology movie, written and directed by different people
That’s essentially how they wrote the song, so yeah! I can see it. I’d watch this.
Yeah I know, I think they shot the music video for it in a similar way, and a movie with a bigger budget could expand on that
Mmm… Cheesey…
Dispatch - the general
Die Fantastischen Vier - Krieger could make an interesting piece or art piece.
It’s German, here’s the first lyrics translation weblink I found
Several rush songs. 2112, Hemispheres, cygnus x-1
Tool-Lost keys/Rosetta stoned. Maybe the stoner really did see something out in the desert.
I always imagine All Along the Watchtower as a 1980’s fantasy movie along the lines of Red Sonya or The Beastmaster.
The Mariner’s Revenge by The Decemberists
That’s a good one
Rhapsody, the band all of their songs progressively tell an epic story that I would love to see in movie form.
Alternatively Nightfall in Middle-Earth from Blind Guardian, love the Silmarillion would love to see a movie about it.
King for a 1000 years, Helloween
Tarkus. Giant monsters battling is always fun.
Rime of the Ancient Mariner
different genre but related is “the mariner’s revenge song”
That damned albatross!