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26 February 2006

Okay -- don't take time to think, just respond -- what is your favorite album of all time? Your favorite film?

post by: ericb at: 23:33 | 46 comments

Tales from Topographic Oceans - Yes.

Ordinary People.

posted by ericb 26 February | 23:34

Either London Calling, or Blood on the Tracks. Can't decide..Film? Erm...The Godfather is about as good as it gets. Maybe High Fidelity?

It's tough to pick only one!

posted by richat 26 February | 23:35

Crystal Method - Vegas
Conan the Barbarian

posted by porpoise 26 February | 23:37

Styx Crystal Ball and It's a Wonderful Life...

No, wait!

AAAAAAAaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhh!

posted by Doohickie 26 February | 23:37

Double Nickels On The Dime -- Minutemen

The African Queen

posted by BitterOldPunk 26 February | 23:41

I tried not thinking, and my mind just went blank. Anyway, I think Maxinquaye wins the album question by a slim margin. Favourite film would be the Fifth Element.

This is a cruel, cruel question and I wish you hadn't asked it.

posted by nomis 26 February | 23:41

Today, I will say XTC's Skylarking and All About Eve. Tomorrow might be the Clash's London Calling and Goodfellas or Tom Waits Heart of Saturday Night and Harold and Maude. All depends on my mood.

But it will never be Ordinary People, ericb. That movie destroyed me so thoroughly I can never watch it again.

posted by jrossi4r 26 February | 23:46

Dang.... I should have taken time to respond.

posted by Doohickie 26 February | 23:51

Funeral.

Heavenly Creatures.

posted by stilicho 26 February | 23:51

Ice cream sundaes.

Film At Eleven.

See, if I had taken time to think my responses might have been a real album and a real film. :(

posted by agropyron 26 February | 23:57

Bags' Groove and Ghost Dog.

posted by box 27 February | 00:08

The Wall and I don't have one.

posted by WolfDaddy 27 February | 00:14

Wilco - Being There

Rushmore

posted by kyleg 27 February | 00:20

The Final Cut and I have no idea.

posted by dg 27 February | 00:26

Police Zenyatta Mondatta (1980)
The Great Gatsby (1974)
or
Clash Give 'Em Enough Rope (1978)
Rude Boy (1980)
or
Springsteen Born in the U.S.A. (1984)
Cool Hand Luke (1967)
or
Kiri Te Kanawa Sole e Amore: Puccini Arias (1997)
A Clockwork Orange (1971)
I suck at picking favs.

posted by arse_hat 27 February | 00:29

Dune, Autechre's Incunabula.

I agree, this is a cruel question!

posted by halonine 27 February | 00:50

Andrew Bird, Weather Systems
Stripes

posted by me3dia 27 February | 00:51

Talking Heads - Remain in Light

Planet of the Apes

tommorow might be a different album but Planet will always be my fav.

posted by miles 27 February | 00:53

born to run. it's not because it's my favorite; it's because it's the best album.

+

raiders of the lost ark. i think i saw that first when i was about eight. can you imagine how good that was?

posted by sam 27 February | 01:35

Album: Banco de Gaia - Igizeh
Movie: I plead the fifth.

posted by mosch 27 February | 01:36

(pleading the fifth because the movie that popped into my head did not get there through cinematic merit. It got there because of an association with the lovely mrs.mosch)

posted by mosch 27 February | 01:40

october project - october project

The Empire Strikes Back

posted by weretable and the undead chairs 27 February | 01:42

In the Aeroplane Over the Sea

The Big Lebowski

posted by drpynchon 27 February | 02:20

And as I head off to bed I am listening to and watching

Rough Trade Live (1976)
The Princess Bride (1987)

Hello.
My name is Inigo Montoya.
You killed my father: prepare to die.

posted by arse_hat 27 February | 02:25

Astral Weeks!

The Beast with Five Fingers!

posted by misteraitch 27 February | 03:05

Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation and City of Lost Children.

posted by Jimbob 27 February | 04:38

Nevermind and A Clockwork Orange

posted by kmellis 27 February | 06:57

Nick Drake - Pink Moon
Wings of Desire (dir. Wim Wenders)

posted by moonbird 27 February | 08:16

Album: Fine Art of Surfacing by the Boomtown Rats (although Surfer Rosa by the Pixies and XTC's English Settlement are always nudging at that number one spot)

Movie: Hard Day's Night (this one is harder than albums for me, becasue on another day Great Escape, Raising Arizona, or Goodfellas could be in that spot)

posted by Slack-a-gogo 27 February | 08:56

Greetings From Asbury Park, NJ

Raiders of the Lost Ark

posted by Hugh Janus 27 February | 09:20

Hounds of Love

Go

posted by rainbaby 27 February | 09:43

Exile in Guyville - Liz Phair

The Blues Brothers, probably.

This was hard!

posted by sisterhavana 27 February | 09:45

Blood on the Tracks, probably, although that one is hard.
Scotland, PA.

posted by mygothlaundry 27 February | 10:51

I love Scotland PA!

posted by rainbaby 27 February | 10:55

Graceland (today)
Lawrence of Arabia (usually)

posted by small_ruminant 27 February | 11:32

Public Enemy - It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back (or is it Psychocandy by Jesus/Mary Chain, or Loveless by My Bloody Valentine, or Tim by The Replacements, or Autoditacker by Mouse on Mars? This one's near impossible.)

Wings of Desire (or is it Mystery Train, or Beyond the Valley of the Dolls?)

posted by Hellbient 27 February | 11:37

A Love Supreme and Check Your Head

Real Genius

posted by Triode 27 February | 13:20

The The's "Mind Bomb".

Akira Kurosawa's "Dreams". Maybe Manchevski's "Before the Rain".

posted by eamondaly 27 February | 13:43

s/Check Your Head/24 Hour Revenge Therapy/g

posted by Triode 27 February | 14:09

The Twelve Dreams of Dr. Sardonicus by Spirit

and

Casablanca

Today, anyway.

posted by bmarkey 27 February | 14:24

Keynsham by The Bonzo Dog Band and The Third Man.

posted by PinkStainlessTail 27 February | 15:07

Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation and City of Lost Children.

Jimbob, are you, as your name might imply, male? And if so, might you be heterosexual? Because I am now in crush with you. Just FYI.

posted by jokeefe 27 February | 15:20

- Surfacing by Sarah McLachlan
- Star Wars

posted by deborah 27 February | 15:37

Yes, and yes, jokeefe. Alas, I'm married.

posted by Jimbob 27 February | 20:57

I have to pick one album? *deer in headlights face*

Um, okay: Sound Affects by the Jam. (And now immediately I feel guilty for letting down London Calling, Rain Dogs, Revolver, Low, and The Stone Roses. I'm sorry, children! I love you all, really I do!)

Favorite movie? *starts to sweat*
Uhhhhh. The Third Man? (Winces, can't even bear to think of the other movies I've neglected.)

posted by scody 27 February | 21:41

oh, Sound Affects is a great album.

posted by Hellbient 27 February | 22:06

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