A Very Untrustworthy List Of My Ten Favourite Things

ALBUMS:
* The Cure - Seventeen Seconds
* The Modern Lovers - The Modern Lovers
* The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground & Nico
* The Waterboys - This Is The Sea
* Soft Cell - Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret
* Iggy Pop - Lust For Life /  The Idiot
* Radiohead - Hail To The Thief
* Pink Floyd - Meddle
* Nick Drake - Pink Moon
* David Bowie - Hunky Dory

SINGLE TRACKS:
* Arcade Fire - Tunnels
* Radiohead - There There
* Bauhaus  -  Hollow Hills
* Led Zeppelin - No Quarter
* The Cure  -  Boys Don’t Cry
* Marc Bolan - Ballrooms Of Mars
* Soft Cell - Say Hello, Wave Goodbye
* Killing Joke - Love Like Blood
* Nick Drake - Three Hours Till Sunset
* Tom Waits - Shore Leave

FILMS:
* Performance
* Get Carter
* A Matter Of Life And Death
* Carry On Screaming
* The Wicker Man
* The Elephant Man
* 2001: A Space Odyssey
* Trainspotting
* The Railway Children
* The 39 Steps (Hitchcock version)

MORE FILMS (hey that’s cheating!):
* Dead Of Night
* Night Of The Demon
* Withnail & I
* Le Samourai
* The Shining
* Eyes Wide Shut
* A Clockwork Orange
* Sunset Boulevard
* Barton Fink
* Don’t Look Now
* The Long Good Friday

TELEVISION SHOWS:
* Sapphire & Steel
* The Vice
* Supernatural (1970s)
* Father Ted
* The League Of Gentlemen
* UFO
* The Prisoner
* Brideshead Revisited
* A Very Peculiar Practise
* The Camomile Lawn

COMEDIANS (you may find some of these on Youtube):
* Robert Newman - Jarvis
* Rik Mayall - Kevin Turvey
* The Mighty Boosh - Mod Wolves
* Harry Enfield’s Association Football
* Chris Morris - “That” Episode
* Chris Morris - The Jam Festival
* Father Ted - The Milkfloat Scene
* Father Ted - Lingerie Department
* The League Of Gentlemen
* Ripping Yarns - Tompkinson’s Schooldays


TELEVISION PLAYS / DRAMAS
* The Insurance Man
(Alan Bennett play starring Daniel Day Lewis as Franz Kafka)
* The Yellow Wallpaper
(BBC ghost story based upon a feminist tale of post natal depression by Charlotte Perkins Gilman)
* The History Man
(1970s BBC play starring Anthony Sher as a devious polytechnic lecturer)
* Brimstone & Treacle
(Dennis Potter play starring Denholm Elliott and Michael Kitchen)
* The Signalman
(BBC ghost story based upon a Charles Dickens tale)
* The Firm
(1980s play starring Gary Oldman as a football hooligan)
* Endgame
(Samuel Beckett play starring Michael Gambon and David Thewlis - directed by Conor ‘The Weir’ McPherson)
* The Caretaker
(the famous Pinter play starring Alan Bates, Robert Shaw & Donald Pleasance)
* Lost Hearts
(disturbing ghost story adapted from a tale by M.R. James)
* Bed
(surreal play by Jim Cartwright featuring Richard E. Grant)

NOVELS:
* Bram Stoker - Dracula
* William Golding - The Spire
* J.S. Le Fanu - Uncle Silas
* Evelyn Waugh - Brideshead Revisited
* Evelyn Waugh - Decline & Fall
* Graham Greene - Brighton Rock
* Franz Kafka - The Trial
* Joseph Heller - Catch 22
* George Orwell - 1984
* Douglas Adams - The Hitckhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy

SHORT STORIES:
* J.D. Salinger - A Perfect Day For Banana Fish
* Robert Aickman - The Visiting Star
* Walter de la Mare - A Recluse
* M.P. Shiel - Viala
* Arthur Machen - The White People
* M.R. James - Casting The Runes
* J.S. Le Fanu - Mr Justice Harbottle
* Nigel Tourneur - At The Sign Of Kypris
* Vincent O’Sullivan - When I Was Dead
* Reggie Oliver - The Dreams Of Cardinal Vittorini

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