Monday, October 13, 2008

List Roundup

Been putting some lists together for the filmspotting message board lately, I figure I might as well post them here too.

First, My Top 20 (Non-Classical or Jazz) Albums Of All-Time:

20. Siamese Dream - Smashing Pumpkins
19. Highway 61 Revisited - Bob Dylan
18. Nevermind - Nirvana
17. Rust Never Sleeps - Neil Young & Crazy Horse
16. Are You Experienced? - The Jimi Hendrix Expereince
15. Blood On The Tracks - Bob Dylan
14. Kid A - Radiohead
13. Daydream Nation - Sonic Youth
12. If I Should Fall From Grace With God - The Pogues
11. IV - Led Zeppelin
10. Exile On Main Street - The Rolling Stones
9. Abbey Road - The Beatles
8. Pinkerton - Weezer
7. London Calling - The Clash
6. Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain - Pavement
5. Love And Theft - Bob Dylan
4. Odelay - Beck
3. The White Album - The Beatles
2. Bringing It All Back Home - Bob Dylan
1. 69 Love Songs - The Magnetic Fields


And My Top 20 Books (Not Plays) Of All-Time:

20. The Baroque Cycle by Neal Stephenson
19. The Red & The Black by Stendhal
18. Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco
17. The Odyssey by Homer
16. The Song Of Fire & Ice by George R. R. Martin
15. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
14. The Count Of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
13. The Lord Of The Rings by J. R. R. Tolkein
12. Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency by Douglas Adams
11. The Ground Beneath Her Feet by Salmon Rushdie
10. One Hundred Years Of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Márquez
9. Crime & Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
8. War & Peace by Leo Tolstoy
7. The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy Series by Douglas Adams
6. The Master & Commander Series by Patrick O'Brien
5. The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
4. Love In The Time Of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Márquez
3. Fear & Loathing In Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson
2. Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man by James Joyce
1. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald