The Top
Orson Welles: Citizen Kane
Matt Groening & Company: Simpsons Seasons 1-8
Leonard Bernstein & Jerome Robbins: West Side Story
Louis Armstrong: Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Stephen Sondheim: Into the Woods
F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby
Spike Lee: Do the Right Thing
Willa Cather: My Antonia
John Frankenheimer: The Manchurian Candidate
John Coltrane: A Love Supreme
John Ford: The Searchers
Kara Walker: Gone
Stephen Sondheim: Assassins
Jim Henson & Company: The Muppet Show
Edward Hopper: Nighthawks
Charles Schultz: Peanuts
Howard Hawks: His Girl Friday
Duke Ellington: Reminiscing in Tempo
Scott Joplin: Rags
Sherwood Anderson: Winesburg, Ohio
WC Handy: Blues Recordings
Rudolfo Anaya: Bless Me, Ultima
Charles Ives: The Unanswered Question
Frederick Law Olmstead: Central Park
Chuck Berry: The Definitive Collection
Guilty: Thirty Years of Randy Newman
Peter Bogdanovich: The Last Picture Show
Johnny Cash: America Albums
Sufjan Stevens: Come On, Feel the Illinoise
Jim Henson & Company: Sesame Street
Bill Watterson: Calvin and Hobbes
Mark Twain: Adventures of Huck Finn
Emily Dickinson: Collected Poems
Jacob Lawrence: The Great Migration
Francis Ford Coppola & Mario Puzo: The Godfather Series
Walt Whitman: Leaves of Grass
50 Honorable Mentions:
Stephen Sondheim and Jules Stein: Gypsy
Matthew Weiner: Mad Men
George & Ira Gershwin: Porgy and Bess
Robert Hayden: Middle Passage
Sam Raimi: A Simple Plan
Will Eisner: Dropsie Avenue Trilogy
Charles Ives: Symphony no. 4
Henry Cowell: Piano Music
John Kennedy Toole: A Confederacy of Dunces
Thomas Hart Benton: America Today
Franklin Schaffner & Francis Ford Coppola: Patton
Nathaniel Hawthorne: The Scarlet Letter
Jacob Riis: How the Other Half Lives
Robert Hayden: Runagate Runagate
Henry Roth: Call It Sleep
David Fincher & Aaron Sorkin: The Social Network
Benjamin Henry Latrobe: US Capitol
De La Soul: Timeless - The Singles Collection
David Lynch: Blue Velvet
Robert Altman: Nashville
Reed & Stern, Warren & Wetmore: Grand Central Terminal
Ernie Barnes: Sugar Shack
Frank Capra: It's a Wonderful Life
Judd Apatow & Paul Feig: Freaks and Geeks
August Wilson: The Piano Lesson
Robin Williams: Live on Broadway
Brian Wilson: Pet Sounds
David Chase: The Sopranos
Louis CK: Chewed Up
David Fincher & Aaron Sorkin: The Social Network
Saul Bellow: The Adventures of Augie March
Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein: Carousel
Ralph Ellison: Invisible Man
Robert Altman: M*A*S*H
James Baldwin: Go Tell It On The Mountain
George Lucas: American Graffiti
Martin Scorsese and Paul Schrader: Taxi Driver
Leonard Bernstein & Lillian Hellman: Candide
Tennessee Williams: A Streetcar Named Desire
Aaron Copland: Appalachian Spring
Francis Ford Coppola: Apocalypse Now
Rod Serling & Company: Playhouse 90
Duke Ellington: Smithsonian Collections 1938-1942
Charles Mingus: Black Saint and Sinner Lady
Wallace Stevens: Peter Quince at the Clavier
Morton Gould: Sinfonettes
John Dos Passos: USA Trilogy
Public Enemy: Fear of a Black Planet
David Simon: The Wire
Tony Kushner: Angels in America
George Carlin: Seven Dirty Words You Can't Say on Television
Richard Pryor: Greatest Hits
Sam Raimi: A Simple Plan
Theodore Dreiser: Sister Carrie
Orson Welles: Mercury Theater Broadcasts
Placing:
Bruce Springsteen: Born to Run (album)
Woody Guthrie: Library of Congress Recordings
Philip Roth: The Human Stain
Flannery O'Connor: Collected Stories
William Faulkner: Absalom, Absalom
James Baldwin: Go Tell It On The Mountain
Hart Crane: The Bridge
David Simon: The Wire
Richard Pryor: That (Name Unprintable)'s Crazy
Red Serling & Company: The Twilight Zone
Louis Sullivan: Chicago Stock Exchange
Cormac McCarthy: The Road
Philip Roth: American Pastoral
James Burrows and Les & Glen Charles: Cheers
Larry David & Jerry Seinfeld: Seinfeld
Frank Zappa: Sheik Yerbouti
Public Enemy: It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
Gore Vidal: Burr
Daniel Burnham: Union Station
Martin Scorsese: Mean Streets
Toni Morrison: Sula
Ray Charles: A 25th Anniversary in Snow Business Salute to Ray Charles
Bill Monroe: The Blue Grass Boys
Thomas Jefferson: Monticello
John Lee Hooker: The Ultimate Collection
Public Enemy: Fear of a Black Planet
Vince Gilligan: Breaking bad
Best of Nina Simone
Bud Powell: Eight Classic Albums
Conlon Nancarrow: Player Piano Studies
Mitch Hurwitz: Arrested Development
Toni Morrison: Song of Solomon
Tennessee Williams: The Glass Menagerie
Philip Roth: Portnoy's Complaint
(For better or worse, 'disqualified' for spending too much time out of the country: Henry James, Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, Leonard Cohen, FW Murnau, Isaac Bashevis Singer, The Beatles, George Ballanchine, Stanley Kubrick, TS Eliot, Vladmir Nabokov, Billy Wilder, Ernst Lubitsch, Willem De Kooning are a smattering).
Academy of the Overrated:
Bob Dylan: Selected Songs
Herman Melville: Moby Dick
Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein: Oklahoma
Frank Lloyd Wright: Falling Water
Mark Rothko: Rothko Chapel
Miles Davis: Kind of Blue
Toni Morrison: Beloved
The Doors: The Doors
Jimi Hendrix: Are You Experienced?
Prince: The Hits - B Sides
The Velvet Underground: The Complete Matrix Tapes
Ernest Hemingway: The Sun Also Rises
Philip Johnson: Seagram Building
Thelonius Monk: The Very Best
Sylvia Plath: The Bell Jar
JD Salinger: Catcher in the Rye
Alice Walker: The Color Purple
Arthur Miller: Death of a Salesman
Cormac McCarthy: Blood Meridian
John Steinbeck: The Grapes of Wrath
David Lynch: Twin Peaks
That's enough. I could go on but...
William Joel: Scenes from an Italian Restaurant
(list in progress, but Billy stays on top...)
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