10 FAVORITE SONGS:
I Heard It Through The Grapevine... Marvin Gaye
Eight Miles High... The Byrds
It's All Too Much... The Beatles
I Built The World... The Farmer's Boys
God Only Knows... The Beach Boys
This Will Be Our Year... The Zombies
Dark Horse... George Harrison
Greatness & Perfection... Julian Cope
Ghosts...The Jam
Time Will Show The Wiser... Emitt Rhodes / The Merry Go Round

10 FAVORITE ALBUMS:
Quadrophenia...The Who
Odessey & Oracle... The Zombies
Cool Blue Halo... Richard Barone
Del Amitri... Del Amitri
World Shut Your Mouth... Julian Cope
Forever Changes... Love
One Year... Colin Blunstone
Younger Than Yesterday... The Byrds
Love Story... Lloyd Cole
Free For All... Michael Penn

10 RECENT ALBUMS YOU SHOULD HEAR:
The Man With No Shadow... John Wesley Harding
Lost in Space... Aimee Mann
Sirena... Cousteau
Beeline... Peter Case
Last Man on Earth... Loudon Wainwright III
Lilac Time 6... The Lilac Time
One Nil (aka One All)... Neil Finn
Under Cold Blue Stars... Josh Rouse
Yankee Hotel Foxtrot... Wilco
The Naked Dutch Painter... Stew

10 FAVORITE SONGWRITERS:
Graham Parker
P.F. Sloan
Emitt Rhodes
Richard Barone
Howard DeVoto
John Hiatt
Loudon Wainwright III
Jill Sobule
John Wesley Harding
Lloyd Cole

10 FAVORITE BANDS/PERFORMERS:
Graham Parker
The Zombies / Colin Blunstone solo
Richard Barone solo and with The Bongos
Emitt Rhodes solo and as The Merry Go Round
The Farmer's Boys
Everly Brothers
The Byrds / Roger McGuinn solo
Morrissey solo / The Smiths
Lindsey Buckingham
XTC

10 ARTISTS/GROUPS I LOVE THAT NOT ENOUGH PEOPLE KNOW ABOUT:
Peter Astor solo and with The Weather Prophets & The Wisdom Of Harry
Richard Barone solo and with The Bongos
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band
John Wesley Harding
The Farmer's Boys / The Great Outdoors (same basic line-up)
Gruppo Sportivo
Jill Sobule
Stephen Duffy solo and with The Lilac Time & Duffy
Bill Pritchard
The Sneetches

10 FAVORITE MALE VOCALISTS:
Colin Blunstone
Marvin Gaye
The Everly Brothers
John Lennon
Dennis Edwards / Eddie Kendricks (The Temptations)
Bob Dylan (especially as he's gotten older)
Lloyd Cole
Lindsey Buckingham
Peter Gabriel
Richard Barone

10 FAVORITE FEMALE VOCALISTS:
Aretha Franklin
Dusty Springfield
Dinah Washington
Rickie Lee Jones
Maria McKee
Jill Sobule
Sandie Shaw
The Shangri-La's (collectively)
Petula Clark
Joni Mitchell

10 SONGS BY OTHER PEOPLE THAT I HAVE COVERED LIVE
Soldiers of Christ... Jill Sobule
Free To Be... Bruce Cockburn
If You Gotta Go, Go Now (or Else You Got to Stay All Night)... Bob Dylan
Smiling Faces Sometimes...The Undisputed Truth
Seperate Ways... Journey
Model Worker... Magazine
Save It For Later... The (English) Beat
Love Is A Battlefield... Pat Benetar
Can't Explain... Love
No Easy Way Down... Dusty Springfield (actually written by Goffin/King but Dusty's is the version I know best).

10 FAVORITE MOVIES:
My Life As A Dog
A Thousand Clowns
Head
On The Waterfront
Bedazzled (the orginal version, not the remake)
The 5,000 Fingers Of Dr. T
The Magic Christian
The Love God?
The Day The Earth Stood Still
Diner

10 FAVORITE MUSIC RELATED MOVIES:
Head
HELP!
Don't Look Back
Paris Blues
True Stories
John Lennon: Imagine
Tom Waits: Big Time
Quadrophenia
Magical Mystery Tour
Wild Guitar

10 FAVORITE MOVIE DIRECTORS:
Pedro Almodovar
Woody Allen
Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger
Luis Bunuel
Jan Svankmajer
William Castle
Zhang Yimou
John Waters
Jim Jarmusch
Ray Dennis Steckler

10 FAVORITE BOOKS:
The Essays Of E.B. White
Crackpot: The Obsessions Of John Waters
Sex & Death Until The Age 14... Spalding Grey
A Short History Of A Small Place... T.R. Pearson
The Beatles Recording Sessions... Mark Lewisohn
Slouching Towards Bethlehem... Joan Didion
The Wisdom Of Insecurity... Alan Watts
Fahrenheit 451... Ray Bradbury
The Complete Robert Frost
Harold And The Purple Crayon... Crockett Johnson

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