Through the 1980s the weekly music rag New Musical Express published “portrait of the artist as a consumer”, in which a musician (“artist”?) listed his/her favourite records, books, films and so on.
This is my attempt.
ALBUMS
Achtung Baby U2
The Best of Chet Baker Sings Chet Baker
Bryter Later Nick Drake
Dream Letter Tim Buckley
Goo Sonic Youth
Harvest Neil Young
How The West Was Won Led Zeppelin
I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight Richard and Linda Thompson
Live 1966: The Royal Albert Hall Concert Bob Dylan
Music From Big Pink The Band
Pet Sounds The Beach Boys
Safe as Milk Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band
Sandinista! The Clash
Takk…Sigur Rós
This Year’s Model Elvis Costello and The Attractions
The Velvet Underground and Nico The Velvet Underground and Nico
The Who Sell Out The Who
BARS/PUBS/RESTAURANTS
The Bowler’s Bar, Lord’s Ground NW8
The Bread and Roses, Clapham Manor Street SW4
Estrela, South Lambeth Road SW8
Hot Stuff, Wilcox Road SW8
The Martinborough Hotel, Martinborough, New Zealand
Picasso, King’s Road SW3 (RIP)
The Priory Arms, Lansdowne Way SW8
The Star of Greece, Port Willunga, South Australia
FILMS
All About Eve Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Apocalypse Now Francis Coppola
Blade Runner Ridley Scott
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger
A Matter of Life and Death Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger
Once Upon a Time in America Sergio Leone
The Red Shoes Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger
Vertigo Alfred Hitchcock
Withnail and I Bruce Robinson
TV/RADIO
A Bit of a Do
Test Match Special
BOOKS/PLAYS/POEMS
The Bookseller of Kabul Åsne Seierstad
Burgundy Anthony Hanson
The Canterbury Tales Geoffrey Chaucer
Complete Poems Andrew Marvell
Complete Poems John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester
History of Western Philosophy Bertrand Russell
Lyrical Ballads Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth
Memoirs Kingsley Amis
Les Fleurs du Mal Charles Baudelaire
A Life in Movies Michael Powell
The Tempest William Shakespeare
La Terra Fortunata Fred Plotkin
Watchmen Alan Moore
Wisden Cricketers’ Almanac
Worcester Sauce 