10 Movies & Albums To Know You By

[Initech]

This has been going around social media so I figured trying it here. Here is my list.

Albums:

1. Rage Against The Machine - Evil Empire
2. Beck - Odelay
3. Queens Of The Stone Age - Songs For The Deaf
4. Funkadelic - Maggot Brain
5. 311 - Transistor
6. Porcupine Tree - In Absentia
7. Nine Inch Nails - The Fragile
8. Iron Maiden - Piece Of Mind
9. System Of A Down - Mezmerize
10. Dream Theater - Scenes From A Memory

Movies:

1. The Big Lebowski
2. Hot Fuzz
3. Back To The Future
4. Clerks
5. Marvel's The Avengers
6. The Dark Knight
7. This Is Spinal Tap
8. The Blues Brothers
9. National Lampoon's Animal House
10. Spaceballs

[nocoincidences]

1. age 40, and maybe under.

Not my generation.

[hangaleft]

2. If these are personal Top 10s, here's my knee-jerk list off the top of my head

Movies:

1. The Apartment
2. Casablanca
3. Shawshank Redemption
4. The Big Lebowski
5. Fargo
6. The Breakfast Club
7. The Sure Thing
8. Do the Right Thing
9. Body Heat
10. Double Indemnity

Music (albums):

1. Led Zeppelin (s/t debut album)
2. The Doors (ditto)
3. Creedence Clearwater Revival (ditto)
4. Rubber Soul
5. The Clash (s/t debut album)
6. Never Mind the Bollocks...
7. Revolver
8. Aftermath
9. Sweetheart of the Rodeo
10. Disraeli Gears

Singles weren’t mentioned. I’m not gonna give a Top 10, just a Top 1:

(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction

[walkingman]

3. Gonna have to put some thought into this - but amazed that you put

Funkadelic - Maggot Brain - one of the best....

Mother Earth is pregnant for the third time
For y'all have knocked her up
I have tasted the maggots in the mind of the universe
I was not offended
For I knew I had to rise above it all
Or drown in my own shit

Great lead guitar solo by Eddie Hazel

Peace

[Initech]

5. I've seen George Clinton live well over a dozen times.

He always brings it. I saw him play for like 5 hours straight one time. It's a shame he's retired but I hope that P-Funk lives on!

[msongs]

4. used ta have maggot brain, never saw any movies excpt chunks of spaceballs and blues bros

on vid or internet

[cos dem]

6. Oh, let's see...

Movies:

1. Airplane
2. Monty Python and the Holy Grail
3. This Is Spinal Tap
4. Big Lebowski
5. Full Metal Jacket
6. South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut
7. 2001 A Space Odyssey
8. A Clockwork Orange
9. Monty Python Meaning of Life
10. Office Space

Albums:

1. Genesis Live
2. Pink Floyd Animals
3. King Crimson: In the Court of the Crimson King
4. Rolling Stones: Beggars Banquet
5. Beethoven's 9th Symphony (any recording, but the Ormandy/Mormon Tabernacle Choir recording has a long, special history with me).
6. Porcupine Tree: Stupid Dream
7. Bach Toccatas and Fugues for Organ
8. Beatles Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band
9. Lucinda Williams: Ghosts of Highway 20
10. Bob Dylan: Blood On The Tracks

I'll note how curious it is that most movie lists (so far) seem to be dominated by comedies. May have something to say about the staying power of a true quality comedy.

[Initech]

7. Ooh, King Crimson. Awesome.

[FiveGoodMen]

8. Great lists!

[hangaleft]

9. Two thumbs up

To:

Airplane!
Office Space

[Coventina]

10. My list!

Movies:

1. Lord of the Rings (i'm considering it one very long movie)
2. Sleeping Beauty (the Disney animated version)
3. Bridge on the River Kwai
4. Mary Poppins
5. North by Northwest
6. Some Like It Hot
7. The Princess Bride
8. It's A Wonderful Life
9. Raiders of the Lost Ark
10. UHF

Albums:

1. Madonna: Ray of Light
2. New Order: Substance
3. The Smiths: The Smiths
4. Echo & the Bunnymen: Ocean Rain
5. REM: Life's Rich Pageant
6. The Cure: Staring at the Sea
7. Depeche Mode: Music for the Masses
8. U2: The Unforgettable Fire
9. Go-Go's: Beauty and the Beat
10. The Smiths: Louder than Bombs.

[Initech]

13. UHF! Nice!

I would definitely put Weird Al in my top 20, he's still awesome.

[First Speaker]

11. Here's my list:

Movies:

1. Duck Soup
2. Citizen Kane
3. Arsenic and Old Lace
4. Out of the Past
5. Kiss Me Deadly
6. 2001
7. Chinatown
8. Pulp Fiction
9. The Usual Suspects
10. Kill Bill, I and II

Albums:

1. Brahms Fourth Symphony--don't remember the orchestra or conductor
2. Vaughan Williams Sixth Symphony, Andre Previn conducting
3. Rhapsody in Blue, Ormandy/Oscar levant
4. Louis Armstrong, the original Hot Five and Hot Seven recordings
5. Charlie Parker/Dizzy Gillespie, Massey Hall Concert
6. Duke Ellington at Newport, 1956
7. Miles Davis, Kind of Blue
8. Bill Evans, Conversations With Myself
9. Miles Davis, Filles de Kilimanjaro
10. John Williams, soundtrack to Jane Eyre

[DFW]

12. I have a hard time keeping either category to ten

Albums:
Younger Than Yesterday--The Byrds
My Feet Are Smiling--Leo Kottke
Scenes From The Southside--Bruce Hornsby
The Twelve Dreams of Dr. Sardonicus--Spirit
Earth Music--The Youngbloods
Revolver--The Beatles
Are You Experienced--The Jimi Hendrix Experience
Strange Days--The Doors
Luck of the Draw--Bonnie Raitt
Katy Lied--Steely Dan

Honorable mention goes to "Sing Along With The Democrats" by The Freedom Toast, which I am still proud of

Movies:
Ådalen '31
Die Blechtrommel
Les 400 Coups
The Witness
The Verdict
The Shawshank Redemption
If
The Illusionist
Inside Man
Young Frankenstein

[Initech]

15. I had the same thing.

I could easily expand my list of albums to 100+ and my list of movies to 50+.

[Trailrider1951]

14. OK, I'll play

Music:
1 Fragile yes
2 Close to the Edge yes
3 Works Vol 1 and 2 ELP
4 Anything by Pink Floyd
5 Sam Cooke: The Man and his Music
6 Year of the Cat Al Stewart
7 Anything by Aretha Franklin
8 A Night at the Opera Queen
9 Songs from the Wood Jethro Tull
10 Leftoverture Kansas



Movies:
1 2001: A Space Odessy
2 Cloud Atlas
3 Casablanca
4 Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
5 The Color Purple
6 The Right Stuff
7 The Shining
8 Schindler's List
9 Raiders of the Lost Ark
10 Life is Beautiful

[3catwoman3]

17. The Voyage Home is my favorite...

...Trek movie. So many subtle little Brian’s moments - Spock cussing/ Spock neck-pinching the obnoxious guy on the bus/ “Captain - there be whales!”


I’m out of DU hearts - please accept this one ❤️ for our shared good taste in Trek films.

[Trailrider1951]

21. Well, thank you so much for the gesture

From one Trekkie to another

I tend to ignore Valentine's Day based on my experience in the romance department

[Aristus]

16. Mine:

Albums:

1. Bloodletting by Concrete Blonde
2. Rubber Soul by The Beatles.
3. Brothers In Arms by Dire Straits.
4. The Getaway by Chris De Burgh
5. Fizzy, Fuzzy, Big And Buzzy, by Roger Clyne and the Peacemakers.
6. The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders Of Mars by David Bowie.
7. Local Hero (Soundtrack) by Mark Knopfler.
8. All The Pain Money Can Buy by Fastball.
9. Around The World In A Day by Prince
10. Fallen by Evanescence.

Movies:

1. The Princess Bride.
2. Rollerball.
3. Downfall.
4. Das Boot.
5. Saving Private Ryan.
6. Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence.
7. Blade Runner.
8. The Empire Strikes Back.
9. Fantastic Planet.
10. The American President.

[maxrandb]

20. Hard, but I could live on a deserted island with these

Albums

1. Quadrophenia - The Who
2. Physical Graffiti - Led Zeppelin
3. You're Never Alone with a Schizophrenic - Ian Hunter
4. Overnight Sensation - Frank Zappa
5. Who's Next - The Who
6. Green River - CCR
7. Rock and Roll Animal - Lou Reed Live
8. Tails From the Topographic Ocean - Yes
9. Blond on Blond - Bob Dylan
10. Village Green Preservation Society - The Kinks

Movies

1. The Caine Mutiny
2. The Godfather
3. The Big Lebowski
4. Sounder
5. Casablanca
6. Brian's Song
7. A Few Good Men
8. Scent of a Woman
9. And Justice for All
10. Planes, Trains and Automobiles