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A Listmania! list by Dan Bennett
 
Tender is the Night (Penguin Popular Classics)
1.  Tender is the Night (Penguin Popular Classics) by F Scott Fitzgerald
The list author says:
  "A melancholy but cutting lament for consumer America and the myths it built (and still builds) for itself."
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Eureka
2.  Eureka by Jim O'Rourke
The list author says:
  "Excellent, As good a Jim o Rourke cd as you'll find on amazon. Go to www.mego.at and buy I'm happy and I'm singing and a 1,2,3,4 which is his best work to my mind"
£11.20   Used & New from: £5.99
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NYC Ghosts and Flowers
3.  NYC Ghosts and Flowers by Sonic Youth
The list author says:
  "Swirling intertwined guitar figures envelop deconstructed pop structures creating a claustrophobic tension shattered by occasional breaks of light."
£10.62   Used & New from: £1.88
4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)

So
4.  So by So
The list author says:
  "Gorgeous organic electronica, this and Jim o Rourke's I'm Happy... are as close to developing the original spirit of electroacoustic composition as contemporary electronica gets"
£15.64   Used & New from: £4.40

Farewell to an Idea: Episodes from a History of Modernism
5.  Farewell to an Idea: Episodes from a History of Modernism by Tj Clark
The list author says:
  "Excellent reading; often too rigidly opinionated and often completely wrong, but one of the best arts writers I've come accross; the writing on Pollock and the Abstract expressionists particularly is"
£19.50   Used & New from: £14.73
5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)

Julien Donkey Boy [1999] [DVD]
6.  Julien Donkey Boy [1999] [DVD] DVD ~ Ewen Bremner
The list author says:
  "A dazzlingly innovative and emotionally charged portrait of schizophrenia painted against the banal violence of the american suburbs."
£8.27   Used & New from: £5.52
4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)

OK Computer
7.  OK Computer by Radiohead
The list author says:
  "A near perfect pop album, a summation of white commercial teen music from the 60s to present with all the childish arrogance, angst and vulgarity left in. Somewhere between cerebral+ teenybop-savant."
£4.99   Used & New from: £0.74
4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (269 customer reviews) | 3 customer discussions

Love, God, Murder
8.  Love, God, Murder by Johnny Cash
The list author says:
  "A great Johnny Cash collection expressing all that's great and/or appaling about this monolith of White American Masculinity; honesty, mysogyny, simplicity, violence and a great voice."
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Madame Bovary: A Story of Provincial Life (Penguin Popular Classics)
9.  Madame Bovary: A Story of Provincial Life (Penguin Popular Classics) by Gustave Flaubert
The list author says:
  "My favourite book. Comic, tragic and written with devastating irony"
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Austerlitz
10.  Austerlitz by W. G. Sebald
The list author says:
  "An amazing book. To my mind a one of the most important books of the last half of C20. Beautiful."
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Illuminations
11.  Illuminations by Walter Benjamin
The list author says:
  "The only philosopher whose writing I read with the pleasure of reading fiction. Profound, elegant and still amazingly relevant."
£9.09   Used & New from: £5.97
4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)

Radulescu - Piano Concerto
12.  Radulescu - Piano Concerto by Horatiu Radulescu
The list author says:
  "My favorite modern composer. Ridiculously overblown in concept and exhilarating to listen to."
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