guitars, keyboards, vocal chords, hammers, knives, fresh air, guinness, beautiful ladies, cricket, bikes, nails
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burning ants, white stripes, fleetwood mac, townes van zant, buggles, meatloaf, nick drake, kate bush, XTC, rolling stones sticky fingers, arcade fire, the beatles, cyndi lauper, joni mitchell, the shins, eno, beck, stevie wonder, randy newman, roxy music, bowie, neil finn, joanna newsom, talking heads, stephen fretwell, queen, john martyn, early U2, beach boys, neil young, the original war of the worlds music, bright eyes, lou and the velvets, aretha, rufus wainwright, eels, elliott smith, the kinks, the buckleys, elvis costello, bob dylan, early prince, nirvana, aimee mann, bj thomas, tom waits, eels, pretty much anything to do with bacharach and david, van the man, elo, lamb chop, johnny cash, sparklehorse, the cure, streisand, the clash, devendra banhart, peter gabriel, joe purdy, postal service, jenny lewis and every now and then a bit of bonnie tyler
stand by me, napoleon dynamite, groundhog day, good will hunting, lost in translation, sexy beast, withnail, fandango, sideways, dodgeball, blow up, garden state
jeeves and wooster , west wing, sopranos, curb your enthusiasm, wonder years, the day today, brasseye, the simpsons, edge of darkness, peep show, mork & mindy
Ian M Banks, Carter Beats The Devil, Girlfriend In A Coma, any Thomas Hardy, any Orwell, Vernon God Little, East Of Eden, Great Expectations, Atomised, Preston Falls, Anthony Bourdain, Bob Dylan Chronicles, Any rock'n'roll biography, anything by Lester Bangs and Greil Marcus, Bill Bryson, Perfume, P.G. Wodehouse (Blandings series), Rumpole Of The Bailey, The Fall And Rise Of Reginald Perrin, anything by the brilliant Blake Morrison, Dylan Thomas, Ted Hughes, Philip Larkin, I, Lucifer, Songwriters On Songwriting, Plath, The Rachael Papers, The Melancholy Death Of Oyster Boy, The Peculiar Memories Of Thomas Penman, A Million Little Pieces
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