Top 20s
Jul 23, 2024
My friend Alexis and I once wondered what our top music, movies and books are. Since creating a top 10 list is too hard, here is a top 20 instead.
The lists are not sorted in any particular order and have been randomized. Maybe I'll update them later.
Music
- Breaking the Habit, Linkin Park, Meteora, 2003
- Again, Archive, You All Look the Same to Me, 2002
- Untitled #7, Sigur Rós, ( ), 2002
- Les dingues et les paumés, Hubert-Félix Thiéfaine, Alambic / Sortie Ouest, 1985
- My Father, My King, Mogwai, My Father My King EP, 2001
- Only Shallow, My Bloody Valentine, Loveless, 1991
- Hurt, Nine Inch Nails, The Downward Spiral, 1994
- 2 minutes pour convaincre, Hugo TSR, Fenêtre sur rue, 2012
- Use This Gospel, Kanye West, Jesus Is King, 2019
- Fake Plastic Trees, Radiohead, The Bends, 1995
- Wish You Were Here, Pink Floyd, Wish You Were Here, 1975
- I Am Trying to Break Your Heart, Wilco, Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, 2002
- Citizen Erased, Muse, Origin of Symmetry, 2001
- The Air Near My Fingers, The White Stripes, Elephant, 2003
- Plateau, Nirvana, MTV Unplugged in New York, 1994
- Walk on the Wild Side, Lou Reed, Transformer, 1972
- Blue Monday, Orgy, Candyass, 1998
- Paradise Circus, Massive Attack, Heligoland, 2010
- La complainte des filles de joie, Georges Brassens, Le Pornographe, 1958
- Tout c’que j’ai, Booba, Ouest Side, 2006
Movies
- 2001: A Space Odyssey, Stanley Kubrick, 1968
- Pulp Fiction, Quentin Tarantino, 1994
- Matrix (all movies, including the 4th one), The Wachowskis (Lana and Lilly Wachowski), 1999-2021
- Lost in Translation, Sofia Coppola, 2003
- The Fifth Element (Le Cinquième Élément), Luc Besson, 1997
- The Big Lebowski, Joel and Ethan Coen, 1998
- Carol, Todd Haynes, 2015
- Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, Stanley Kubrick, 1964
- Blade Runner, Ridley Scott, 1982
- Elephant, Gus Van Sant, 2003
- La Grande Belleza, Paolo Sorrentino, 2013
- Tandem, Patrice Leconte, 1987
- In the Mood for Love, Wong Kar Wai, 2000
- Arrival, Denis Villeneuve, 2016
- 9 1/2 Weeks, Adrian Lyne, 1986
- All of Us Strangers, Andrew Haigh, 2023
- Blow-up, Michelangelo Antonioni, 1966
- Up, Pete Docter and Bob Peterson, 2009
- Fight Club, David Fincher, 1999
- Cloud Atlas, The Wachowskis (Lana and Lilly Wachowski) and Tom Tykwer, 2012
Books
- La Trahison des Clercs, Julien Benda, 1927
- Le Monde d'hier. Souvenirs d'un Européen (Die Welt von Gestern. Erinnerungen eines Europäers), Stefan Zweig, 1943
- Post Office, Charles Bukowski, 1971
- Quatrevingt-Treize, Victor Hugo, 1874
- Les Racines de Ciel, Romain Gary, 1956
- Foundation, Isaac Asimov, 1951
- La forêt sombre (黑暗森林), Liu Cixin, 2008
- Rhinocéros, Eugène Ionesco, 1959
- Les démons (Бѣсы), Fiodor Dostoïevski, 1871
- La conjuration des imbéciles (A Confederacy of Dunces), John Kennedy Toole, 1980
- No Logo, Naomi Klein, 2000
- L'étranger, Albert Camus, 1942
- Brave New World, Aldous Huxley, 1932
- L'empire du bien, Philippe Murray, 1991
- Idées noires, André Franquin, 1977
- Talleyrand, un prince immobile, Emmanuel de Waresquiel, 2003
- Les particules élémentaires, Michel Houellebecq, 1998
- The Corrections, Jonathan Franzen, 2001
- Candide, Voltaire, 1759
- Voyage au bout de la nuit, Louis-Ferdinand Céline, 1932