Title: San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Some Flowers in Your Hair)

Album Artist: Various Artists

Original Artist: Scott McKenzie
Album: The Graduate (Music from the Broadway Comedy)
2002
This song relates to The Catcher in the Rye by the motif of leaving home
and going out into adulthood. “I have a feeling that you’re riding for some kind
of terrible, terrible fall. . . . The whole arrangement’s designed for men who, at
some time or other in their lives, were looking for something their own
environment couldn’t supply them with. . . . So they gave up looking.” Holden is
again, implying it he better than others by going outside of his own environment
to look for that "something." Also, the quote is related to the song because of his
journey outside of his own environment, I.E. leaving home like in this song.
Lyrics:
If you're going to San Francisco 
Be sure to wear some flowers in your hair 
If you're going to San Francisco 
You're gonna meet some gentle people there 

For those who come to San Francisco 

Summertime will be a love-in there 
In the streets of San Francisco 
Gentle people with flowers in their hair 

All across the nation such a strange vibration 

People in motion 
There's a whole generation with a new explanation 
People in motion, people in motion 

For those who come to San Francisco 

Be sure to wear some flowers in your hair 
If you come to San Francisco 
Summertime will be a love-in there 

If you come to San Francisco 

Summertime will be a love-in there 
Title: Welcome to the Jungle
Album Artist: Guns N' Roses
Original Artist: Guns N' Roses
Album: Appetite for Destruction
1987
Welcome to the Jungle by Guns N' Roses is from the point of view of a guy
trying to secude a women who just got into the "Jungle" of wherever he actually
is. In J. D. Salinger's novel Holden sates, " I mean most girls are so dumb and all. 
After you neck them for a while, you can really watch them losing their brains. 
You take a girl when she really gets passionate, she just hasn't any brains." This is
exemplified throughout this song, where it is actually pretty hard to make out the
lyrics unless you find them written.

Lyrics:
Welcome to the jungle
We got fun 'n' games
We got everything you want
Honey we know the names
We are the people that can find
Whatever you may need
If you got the money honey
We got your disease

In the jungle
Welcome to the jungle
Watch it bring you to your shun na,na,na,na,na,na,na,na,knees, knees
I wanna watch you Bleed

Welcome to the jungle

We take it day by day
If you want you're gonna bleed
But it's the price you pay
And you're a very sexy girl
Very hard to please
You can taste the bright lights
But you won't get there for free
In the jungle
Welcome to the jungle
Feel my, my, my, my serpentine
I,I, wanna hear you scream

Welcome to the jungle

It gets worse here everyday
Ya learn ta live like an animal
In the jungle where we play
If you got a hunger for what you see
You'll take it eventually
You can have anything you want
But you better not take it from me

In the jungle
Welcome to the jungle
Watch it bring you to your shun na,na,na,na,na,na,na,na,knees,knees
I wanna watch you plead

And when you're high you never

Ever want to come down, so down, so down, so down YEAH!!!!!

YOU KNOW WHERE YOU ARE?!?!

You're in the jungle baby!!!!
You gonna die
In the jungle
Welcome to the jungle
Watch it bring you to your shun,na,na,na,na,na,na,na,na,knees,knees
In the jungle
Welcome to the jungle
Feel my, my, my, my serpentine
Jungle,in the jungle
Welcome to the jungle
Watch it bring you to your shun,na,na,na,na,na,na,na,na,knees,knees 
Down in the jungle
Welcome to the jungle
Watch it bring you to your
It's gonna bring you down!
HUH!
Title: Jesus of Suburbia
Album Artist: Green Day
Original Artist: Green Day
Album: Bullet In a Bible (Live)
2005

Jesus of Suburbia by Green Day relates to the novel in that Holden is

becoming independent and not listening to others about how to live his life. As it
says in the novel, "He started telling us how he was never ashamed, when he was
in some kind of trouble or something, to get right down on his knees and pray to
God. He told us we should always pray to God - talk to Him and all - whenever we
were. He told us we ought to think of Jesus as our buddy and all. He said he talked
to Jesus all the time. Even when he was driving in his car. That killed me. I can just
see the big phony bastard shifting into first gear and asking Jesus to send him a
few more stiffs"(Chapter 3). This characterizes Holden as anti-religion and as an
independent individual.
Furthermore, this song also refers to having a "steady diet of Soda Pop and
Ritalin" and to "fall in love and fall in debt to alcohol and cigarettes" which is
pretty much exactly what happens to Holden in the novel. He becomes more
addicted to cigarettes and becomes drunk more than just a regular basis.

Lyrics:

I'm the son of rage and love 

The Jesus of Suburbia 
The bible of none of the above 
On a steady diet of
Soda Pop and Ritalin
No one ever died for my
Sins in hell
As far as I can tell
At least the ones that I got away with 

And there's nothing wrong with me 

This is how I'm supposed to be 
In a land of make believe 
That don't believe in me 

Get my television fix 

Sitting on my crucifix 
The living room in my private womb 
While the Moms and Brads are away 
To fall in love and fall in debt 
To alcohol and cigarettes 
And Mary Jane 
To keep me insane 
Doing someone else's cocaine

And there's nothing wrong with me 

This is how I'm supposed to be 
In a land of make believe 
That don't believe in me
Title: Dream On
Album Artist: Aerosmith
Original Artist: Aerosmith
Album: A Little South of Sanity (Live)
1998
Dream On by Aerosmith is about looking back on the past and dreaming on
about the future, and facing death for it could come very soon. This is shown in
Chapter 20 of Catcher in the Rye, " Boy, when you're dead, they really fix you up. I
hope to hell when I do die somebody has sense enough to just dump me in the
river or something. Anything except sticking me in a goddam cemetery. People
coming and putting a bunch of flowers on your stomach on Sunday, and all that
crap. Who wants flowers when you're dead? Nobody." Holden doesn't want
anything special to happen to him in death, and also has, "half my life's in book's
written pages" like the lyrics to the song.
Lyrics:
Every time I look in the mirror 
All these lines on my face getting clearer 
The past is gone 
It went by, like dusk to dawn 
Isn't that the way 
Everybody's got their dues in life to pay 

Yeah, I know nobody knows 

where it comes and where it goes 
I know it's everybody's sin 
You got to lose to know how to win 

Half my life's
in books' written pages 
Lived and learned from fools and 
from sages 
You know it's true 
All the things come back to you 

Sing with me, sing for the year 

Sing for the laughter, sing for the tear
Sing with me now, if it's just for today 
Maybe tomorrow, the good lord will take you away 

Yeah, sing with me, sing for the year 

sing for the laughter, sing for the tear 
sing with me, if it's just for today 
Maybe tomorrow, the good Lord will take you away 

Dream On Dream On Dream On 

Dream until your dream comes true
Dream On Dream On Dream On 
Dream until your dream comes through 
Dream On Dream On Dream On 
Dream On Dream On 
Dream On Dream On, AHHHHHHH
Sing with me, sing for the year
sing for the laughter, sing for the tear
sing with me now, if it's just for today 
Maybe tomorrow, the good Lord will take you away 
Sing with me, sing for the year 
sing for the laughter, sing for the tear 
Sing with me now, if it's just for today 
Maybe tomorrow, the good Lord will take you away...... 
Title: Catcher in the Rye
Album Artist: Guns N' Roses
Original Artist: Guns N' Roses
Album: Chinese Democracy
2008
Although this song is titled after the novel itself, it doesn't have exactly the
same meaning as the entire novel. The song only brings over the feeling of
Holden being prideful and thinking others are "phonies" and instead of using that
term, they state "…every time I see them makes me wish I had a gun…If I thought
I was crazy well I guess I'd have more fun…" while Holden explains "phonies" as a
word Holden uses to characterize insincere people and their language. Phonies,
like his fellow students, are more interested in playing a part or looking good than
in doing or saying anything honest. In the novel he says he hates them Mr.
Spencer used words like "grand" (Chapter 2).
Lyrics:
When all is said and done
We're not the only ones
Who look at life this way
That's what the old folks say
But every time I see them
Makes me wish I had a gun
If I thought that I was crazy
Well I guess I'd have more fun
(Guess I'd have more fun)

Oooh, the Catcher In The Rye Again

Won't let ya get away from him
(Tomorrow never comes)
It's just another day... 
Like today

You decide 
Cause I don't have to
And then they'll find
And I won't ask you
At anytime
Or long hereafter
If the cold outside's
As I'm imagining
It to be
Oh, no

Lana nana na na na
Lana nana na nana

Ooh, the Catcher In The Rye Again

Won't let ya get away from him
(Tomorrow never comes)
It's just another day... 
Like today

When all is said and done

We're not the only ones
Who look at life this way
That's what the young folks say
And if they'd ever change
As that reminds to say
But every time I see them
Makes me wish I had a gun
If I thought that I was crazy
Well I guess I'd have more fun
Cause what used to be's 
Not there for me
And ought to for someone
That belongs... 
Insane...
Like I do

Oh, no
Not at all

On an ordinary day
Not in an ordinary way
All at once the song I heard
No longer would it play 
For anybody
Or anyone
That needed comfort from somebody
Needed comfort from someone 
Who cared 
To be
Not like you
And unlike me

And then the voices went away from me

Somehow you set the wheels in motion
That haunt our memories
You were the instrument
You were the one
How a body 
Took the body
You gave that boy a gun

You took our innocence

Beyond our stares
Sometimes the only thing
We counted on
When no one else was there