Soul Music (novel): Difference between revisions

** Quoth the Raven, on why he wanted to come to a battlefield: "Carrion regardless"

** The Archchancellor calling music "a world of hertz".

{{quote| "[Music With Rocks in It] made you want to kick down walls and ascend the sky on steps of fire. It made you want to pull all the switches and throw all the levers and stick your fingers in the electric socket of the Universe to see what happened next. It made you want to paint your bedroom wall black and cover it with posters."}}

* [[Awesome but Impractical]]: Sort. At the rate at which the band are making him money, Cut-Me-Own-Throat Dibbler will be richer than his wildest dreams... in several billion years.

{{quote| "mumblemumbledon'tseewhymumble," mumbled the Dean}}

* [[Deus Exit Machina]]: Death. It doesn't take long for the story to resolve itself once he's done soul-searching.

* [[Dreadful Musician]]: Crash, Noddy, Jimbo and Scum and their everchanging band names.

* [[Early Bird Cameo]]: We see Ponder and Adrian working on the early prototype of what will become the [[Magical Computer]] Hex in the next book, ''[[Discworld (Literature)/Interesting Times|Interesting Times]]''. It uses a small version of the stone circle computers seen in ''[[Discworld (Literature)/The Light Fantastic|The Light Fantastic]]'' and also ants, as seen in later books ("it may work, if we can get all the bugs into it").

* [[The Grim Reaper]]: Naturally.

* [[Groupie Brigade]]: Acknowledged. Glod worries if the crowd will tear off Buddy's clothes.

* [[It Tastes Like Feet]]: Ridcully says that an electric guitar sounds ''exactly'' like a cat taking a crap with a sewn-up bum, to Ponder's much alarm.

* [[Literal Minded]]: The Archchancellor doesn't understand the phrase "to kick some righteous ass" and wonders where he can find a donkey.

** The [[Bilingual Bonus]] points out that Imp y Celyn, AKA Buddy Celyn {{spoiler|1== [[Buddy Holly (Music)|Buddy Holly]].}}

** At the very start it's mentioned that if the Gods want to destroy someone, they hand him "[[Looney Tunes|the equivalent of a stick with a fizzing fuse and]] [[Acme Products|Acme Dynamite Company]] written on the side"

** The [[The Little Shop That Wasn't There Yesterday|music shop]] owner warns Glod not to try out a flute, or they'll be "knee deep in rats". Presumably, it's the one used by (the Disc's equivalent of) [[The Pied Piper of Hamelin]].

** The Librarian is playing [[Space Invaders|Barbarian Invaders]].

* [[Unusually Uninteresting Sight]]: At one point, Dibbler is standing outside the Cavern, thinking of how to make profit out of the free concert. Up comes Susan, in full regalia, scythe and horse, and asks him how to get in. He says quickly that all the tickets are sold out. Susan, then, walks through a wall, while Dibbler calculates. It earns no more thought from him than a passing "...where's she gone, then?" And again, somebody breaks through a [[Pink Floyd|Wall]] in the service of Music....

* [[Welcome to The Big City]]: As buskers do, Imp puts a few coins in his bowl as "seed money". The next time he looks down, they've gone.

* [[Xtreme Kool Letterz]]: A troll band [[Exactly What It Says On the Tin|calls itself "Trolls"]]. Dibbler tells them to spell it with a Z.

* [[You Cannot Kill an Idea]]: At the end, after Death has smashed the guitar: