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My favourite things

This page is a list of lists of favourites. I'll work on top 10 lists.

Films | Artists | Composers | Actors | Singers/Groups | Game music | Games | Authors | Songs | TV/Film music | Musicals | Classical

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Films

  • Spirited Away
  • Grave of the Fireflies
  • Princess Mononoke
  • 2001
  • The Matrix
  • The Sixth Sense
  • The Day the Earth Stood Still
  • The Time Machine
  • The Journey to the Center of the Earth
  • Blade Runner
  • The Abyss
  • Alien
  • Shrek (1)
  • The Shawshank Redemption
  • Pulp Fiction
  • 12 Angry Men
  • Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain
  • American Beauty
  • Singing in the Rain
  • Big
  • Desperately Seeking Susan
  • Apollo 13
  • Funny Girl
  • On a clear day you can see forever
  • Meet Me in St Louis

Artists

  • Lawrence Alma-Tadema
  • Jacques-Joseph Tissot
  • Lord Frederick Leighton
  • John Waterhouse
  • Edmund Blair Leighton
  • Edward Burne Jones
  • Evelyn de Morgan
  • John Collier
  • John William Godward
  • John Christensen
  • Laurie Lipton
  • Bill Sienkiewicz
  • Masaki Shinozaki
  • Margaret Walty
  • Noli Novak
  • George Underwood
  • Sue Scullard
  • Wolfgang Hutter
  • Olga & Andrej Dugin
  • Audrey Kawasaki

Composers

  • Jerry Goldsmith
  • Bernard Herrmann
  • John Barry
  • Yann Tiersen
  • Lennie Moore
  • Michael Kamen
  • Yoko Shimomura
  • Danny Elfman
  • Carter Burwell
  • Nobuo Uematsu
  • Joe Hisaishi
  • Patrick Doyle
  • Hans Zimmer
  • Nathan McCree
  • Robert Farnon
  • Eric Coates
  • Robyn Miller
  • Michael Nyman

Actors

  • Kevin Spacey
  • Jodie Foster
  • Tim Robbins
  • Susan Sarandon
  • Cary Grant
  • Katharine Hepburn
  • Ewan McGregor
  • Haley Joel Osment
  • Patrick Stewart
  • Elizabeth Taylor
  • Harrison Ford
  • Tom Hanks


Game music

  • "A Very Small Wish" from Kingdom Hearts (Yoko Shimomura)
  • "Bustin' Up on the Beach" from Kingdom Hearts (Yoko Shimomura)
  • "Merlin's Magical House" from Kingdom Hearts (Yoko Shimomura)
  • "To Our Surprise" from Kingdom Hearts (Yoko Shimomura)
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  • "Traverse Town" from Kingdom Hearts (Yoko Shimomura)
  • "Welcome to Wonderland" from Kingdom Hearts (Yoko Shimomura)
  • "Okriana" from Outcast (Lennie Moore)
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  • "Lumina" from Outcast (Lennie Moore)
  • "Fragments of Memories" from Final Fantasy 7 (Nobuo Uematsu)
  • "Venice" (harpischord music) from Tomb Raider 2 (Nathan McCree)
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  • "Longing For Home" from Tomb Raider 1 (Nathan McCree)
  • Theme from Tomb Raider 1 (Nathan McCree)

Games

  • Final Fantasy 7, 8, 9, 10
  • Tomb Raider 1, 2, The Last Revelation, Chronicles
  • Kingdom Hearts
  • Silver
  • Outcast
  • Dark Cloud
  • Drakan
  • Populous (Amiga), The Beginning (PS)
  • AberMUD, MUD-2
  • Tetris
  • NetHack

Authors

  • Sherri Tepper
  • Philp K Dick
  • Arthur C Clarke
  • Orson Scott Card
  • Guy Gavriel Kay
  • J R Tolkien
  • John Wyndam
  • Issac Asimov
  • Henry James
  • H G Wells
  • Andrew Davies

Songs

  • "Down, Deep Below" Donna Summer
  • "Mr Blue Sky" ELO
  • "Hide in your shell" Supertramp
  • "Don't Hang Up" 10CC
  • "I'm Mandy, Fly Me" 10CC
  • "Can't Ignore the Train" 10,000 Maniacs
  • "Take on me" A-ha
  • "Temptation" Heaven 17
  • "Passenger" Iggy Pop
  • "Tainted Love" Soft Cell
  • "Never Ever" All Saints
  • "Sk8er Boi" Avril Lavigne
  • "Come Away With Me" Norah Jones
  • "Don't Know Why" Norah Jones
  • "Constant Craving" k. d. lang
  • "Express Yourself" Madonna
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  • "Suichu megane (album version)" Chappie
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  • "Feeling Oblivion" Turin Breaks
  • "The World's Spinning at 45 R.P.M." Pizzicato Five
  • "California Dreaming'" The Mammas & The Papas
  • "Dream a little dream of me" The Mammas & The Papas
  • "It's Oh So Quiet" Björk
  • "Blue Monday" New Order
  • "She Sells Sanctuary" The Cult
  • "Stop" Spice Girls
  • "The Lady is a Vamp" Spice Girls
  • "Say You'll Be There" Spice Girls
  • "2 Become 1" Spice Girls
  • "Crazy Chick" Charlotte Church
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  • "Nothing Compares 2 U" Sinéad O'Connor
  • "Echo Beach" Martha and the Muffins
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  • "Why Me" The Passions
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  • "Goodbye" Marine Girls / Tracey Thorn
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  • "Don't Come Back" Marine Girls
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  • "Blue" Black
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  • "Stephen for the Moment" Black
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  • "I'm Dreaming" The Farmers Boys
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  • "High" Lighthouse Family
  • "Plain Sailing" Tracey Thorn
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  • "Paint it Black" Modettes
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  • "Don't Rely on Me" Rhythm Methodists
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  • "Enola Gay" Orchestral Manoeveurs in the Dark
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  • "Fantastic Day" Haircut 100
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  • "Bela Lagosi's Dead" Bauhaus
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  • "New Life" Depeche Mode
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  • "Night and Day" Everything But The Girl
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  • "All's Well" Everything But The Girl
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  • "Blue Moon" Cybil Shepherd
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  • "Come Live With Me" Heaven 17
  • "Jump" Pointer Sisters
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  • "Bring it Down" The Redskins
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  • "I Should Be So Lucky" Kylie Minogue
  • "No Rest" The RedSkins
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  • "Lazy Days" Marine Girls
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  • "Let Go" Kate Bush
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  • "Army Dreamers" Kate Bush
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  • "Love Plus One" Haircut 100
  • "Ringing" The Room
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  • "Still on Fire" Aztec Camera
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  • "August Avenue" Impossible Dreamers
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  • "Happy Birthday" Altered Images
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  • "Keep on keeping on" The RedSkins
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  • "Matter of Fact" Farmers Boys
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  • "More Than a Dream" Farmers Boys
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  • "Woke Up This Morning" Farmers Boys
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  • "Asylums in Jerusalem" Scritti Politti
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  • "Boys Don't Cry" The Cure
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  • "Just One Kiss" The Cure
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  • "Size of a Cow" Wonderstuff
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  • "(We don't need that) Facist Groove Thing" Heaven 17
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  • "For You" Judie Tzuke
  • "Little Red Corvette" Prince
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  • "Walk on by" The Stranglers
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  • "Eternal Flame" Bangles
  • "Welcome to the Pleasuredome" Frankie Goes to Hollywood
  • "Let Her Go" Strawberry Switchblade
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  • "Who knows" Strawberry Switchblade
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  • "Since Yesterday" Strawberry Switchblade
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  • "What love is?" Strawberry Switchblade
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  • "Secrets" Strawberry Switchblade
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  • "Watershed" Indigo Girls
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  • "Big Man on Mulberry Street" Billy Joel
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  • "Garden of Delight" The Mission
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  • "Dead Beat Club" B52's
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  • "Dry County" B52's
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  • "Love Shack" B52's
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  • "Roam" B52's
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  • "Topaz" B52's
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  • "Top of the World" Carpenters
  • "Friends" Bette Midler
  • "The Universal" Blur
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  • "Crazy" Gnarls Barkley
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  • "Lose Yourself" Emenem
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  • "Millennium" Robbie Williams
  • "Let Me Entertain You" Robbie Williams
  • "The Music Goes 'Round and Round" Tommy Dorsey and His Clambake Seven [1936]
  • "Thou Swell" Bix Beiderbecke [1928]
  • "Goody, Goody" Benny Goodman [1935]
  • "Heartaches" Ted Weems And His Orchestra [1940]
  • "Coronation Scot" (Vivian Ellis)
  • "You've Lost That Loving Feeling" Human League
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TV / Film music

  • "Win One For the Reaper" from Lost: Original Television Soundtrack (Michael Giacchino)
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  • "Back to School" from Back to School (Danny Elfman)
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  • Main theme from The Shadow (Jerry Goldsmith)
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  • "You Only Live Twice" (John Barry)
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  • "Off to Monument" from Ace Eli and Roger of the Skies (Jerry Goldsmith)
  • "Brazil" from Brazil (Michael Kamen)
  • "First Contact" from Star Trek First Contact (Jerry Goldsmith)
  • "I Met Doris Blind" from Barton Fink (Carter Burwell)
  • Main theme from True Romance (Hans Zimmer)
  • Breakfast at Tiffany's Theme (Henry Mancini)
  • "Ilia's theme" from Star Trek The Motion Picture (Jerry Goldsmith)
  • "The Tatara Women Work Song" from Princess Mononoke (Joe Hisaishi)
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  • "Band of Brothers Requiem" (TV) from Band of Brothers (Michael Kamen)
  • "Space Station Docking" from 2001 (not used) (Alex North)
  • "Empty Store" from You've Got Mail (George Fenton)
  • End titles from The 'Burbs (Jerry Goldsmith)
  • "Building the Barn" from Witness (Maurice Jarre)
  • Main title from Out of Africa (John Barry)
  • "A quai" from Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain (Yann Tiersen)
  • "J'y suis jamais allé" from Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain (Yann Tiersen)
  • "L'autre valse d'Amélie" from Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain (Yann Tiersen)
  • Main title from Basic Instinct (Jerry Goldsmith)
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  • End credits from Gremlins (Jerry Goldsmith)
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  • "An Eye For Optical Theory" from (Michael Nyman)
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Musical / Show tunes

  • "Many a New Day" from Oklahoma
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  • "Three Little Maids from School" from Mikado (Gilbert & Sullivan)
  • "The Carousel Waltz" from Carousel (Rodgers and Hammerstein)
  • "You Say You Care" from Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
  • "Out of My Dreams" from Oklahoma (Rodgers & Hammerstein)
  • "Johnny One Note" from Babes in Arms (Rodgers & Hart)
  • "All At Once" from Babes in Arms (Rodgers & Hart)
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  • "Where or When" from Babes in Arms (Rodgers & Hart)
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  • "Moonshine Lullaby" from Annie Get Your Gun (Irving Berlin)
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  • "You Mustn't Kick It Around" from Pal Joey (Rodgers & Hart) as sung by Harold Lang
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  • "Take Him" from Pal Joey (Rodgers & Hart)
  • "Another Autumn" from Paint Your Wagon (Lerner & Loewe)
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  • "Sabbath Prayer" from Fiddler on the Roof (Jerry Bock & Sheldon Harnick)
  • "Miracle of Miracles" from Fiddler on the Roof (Jerry Bock & Sheldon Harnick)
  • "Sunrise, Sunset" from Fiddler on the Roof (Jerry Bock & Sheldon Harnick)
  • "I'd Rather Be Blue Over You" from Funny Girl (Jule Styne & Bob Merrill)
  • "Don't Rain on My Parade" from Funny Girl (Jule Styne & Bob Merrill)
  • "I Have Confidence" from The Sound of Music (Rodgers & Hammerstein)
  • "Morning Hymn" from The Sound of Music (Rodgers & Hammerstein)
  • "Something Good" from The Sound of Music (Rodgers & Hammerstein)
  • "One Hand, One Heart" from West Side Story (Leonard Bernstein)
  • "Now I'm Following You", Madonna, from Dick Tracy (Stephen Sondheim)
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  • "More", Madonna, from Dick Tracy (Stephen Sondheim)
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  • "The Trolley Song" from Meet Me in St Louis (Ralph Blane)
  • "The Boy Next Door" from Meet Me in St Louis (Ralph Blane)
  • "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" from Meet Me in St Louis (Ralph Blane)
  • "Chattanooga Choo Choo" from Sun Valley Serenade (Glenn Miller)
  • "It Happened In Sun Valley" from Sun Valley Serenade (Glenn Miller)

Classical music

  • Symphony No. 6 in F major op. 68 "Pastoral" (Beethoven)
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  • Roumanian Folk Dances, Sz. 68, BB 76: 5. Roumanian Polka (From Belenyes) (Bartok)
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  • Symphony No 5 in C minor op 67: 4. Allegro (Beethoven)
  • Clair de lune from Suite bergamasque (Debussy)
  • Romance from the Gadfly (Shostakovich)
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  • Finale, Allegro, Concerto for Trumpet and Orchestra in E-flat Major (Haydn)
  • "Danse des oiseaux" from The Snow Maiden (Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov)
  • Concerto for Violin and Orchestra (Philip Glass)
  • Melody in the wind (Nigel Kennedy)
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