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• Blues guitarist Tommy Johnson claimed to have sold his soul to the devil in exchange for guitar mastery. Tommy Johnson’s claim precedes that of Robert Johnson’s.
• Blues guitarist Robert Johnson fancifully said to have acquired his playing skill from the devil at a deserted crossroads. Songs such as “Cross Road Blues” (1936) and “Me and the Devil Blues” (1937) allude to his pact with the devil.
• 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.
• 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.
• The Band’s “Daniel and the Sacred Harp” (from the album Stage Fright, 1970)
• Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody” (from the album A Night at the Opera, 1975)
• Frank Zappa’s “Titties & Beer” (from the album Zappa in New York, 1977)
• The Charlie Daniels Band’s “The Devil Went Down to Georgia” (from the album Million Mile Reflections, 1979)
• Blue Öyster Cult’s “Burnin’ for You” (from the album Fire of Unknown Origin, 1981)
• The Police’s “Wrapped Around Your Finger” single (from the album Synchroncity, 1983) refers to Mephistopheles by way of analogy
• Konrad Boehmer Apocalipsis cum figuris (electronic, instrumental, vocal, 1984)
• The Fall’s “Dktr Faustus” (from the album Bend Sinister, 1986)
• Sabbat’s “A Cautionary Tale” (from the album History of a Time to Come, 1988)
• Randy Newman’s Faust (1995)
• Moonspell’s “Mephisto” (from the album Irreligious, 1996)
• Akercocke’s “Marguerite & Gretchen” (from the album Rape of the Bastard Nazarene, 1999); the band’s name is taken from the talking Capuchin monkey in Robert Nye’s Faust.
• Current 93’s album Faust (2000), based on a story by Count Eric Stenbock
• The Trans-Siberian Orchestra’s Beethoven’s Last Night (2000)
• Secret Sphere’s “Dr. Faustus” (from the album A Time Never Come, 2001)
• Dimmu Borgir’s “The Maelstrom Mephisto” (from the album Puritanical Euphoric Misanthropia, 2001)
• Gorillaz’ “Faust” (from the album G-Sides, 2001)
• Septic Flesh’s “Faust” (from the album Sumerian Daemons, 2003)
• Muse’s “The Small Print” (from the album Absolution, 2003; originally titled “Action Faust”)
• Kamelot’s Epica Saga (Epica, 2003, and The Black Halo, 2005)
• Cradle of Filth’s “Absinthe with Faust” (from the album Nymphetamine, 2004)
• Immortal Technique‘s “Dance With The Devil” (from the album Revolutionary Vol. 1, 2006)
• Konrad Boehmer Doktor Fausti Höllenfahrt (orchestra, 2006)
• Tom Waits’s “Lucinda” (from the album Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards, 2006)
• Enigma “Dancing With Mephisto” (from the album A Posteriori, 2006)
• Tenacious D’s The Pick of Destiny (2006)
• Little Tragedies’ New Faust (2006)
• Switchfoot’s “Faust, Midas and Myself” (2006)
• Streetlight Manifesto’s “Down, Down, Down to Mephisto’s Cafe” (from the album Somewhere in the Between, 2007)
• Radiohead’s “Faust Arp” and “Videotape” (from the album In Rainbows, 2007)
• Ihsahn’s “Alchemist” (from the album angL, 2008) quotes two passages from Goethe’s Faust. The songs “Malediction” and “Elevator” likewise allude to Faustian themes
• Dark Moor’s “Faustus” (from the album Autumnal, 2009)
• The Human Abstract’s “Faust” (2011)
• Agalloch’s Faustian Echoes (2012)
• SicKtanicK’s “Faust” (from the album Chapter 3: Awake (The Ministry of Hate), 2012)
• Marilyn Manson’s “The Mephistopheles of Los Angeles” (from the album The Pale Emperor, 2015)
• Halsey’s “Hold Me Down” (from the album Badlands, 2016) makes a number of sexualized Faustian allusions
• Iron Mask’s “Doctor Faust” (from the album Diabolica, 2016)
• Faust is the stage name of black metal musician Bård Eithun.
• Faust, a German Krautrock band