Robert Redford RIP

 

Top Sixteen Redford:

1.  All the President's Men

2.  The Candidate

3.  All Is Lost

4.  Three Days of the Condor

5.  Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here

6.  Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

7.  Jeremiah Johnson

8.  Downhill Racer

9.  The Chase

10. The Natural

11. Brubaker

12. Barefoot in the Park

13. The Company You Keep

14. The Great Gatsby

15. The Sting

16. The Old Man and the Gun

To swipe some lines from e.e. cummings (the poet, kids, keep up...):

Brian Wilson RIP

 

There's a fair bit I don't agree with here - the simplification of the post-SMiLE years, for a start, but it's decent: https://www.theguardian.com/music/2025/jun/11/brian-wilson-hits-beach-boys-legacy

Ditto this, for the same reasons: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/11/arts/music/brian-wilson-dead.html?unlocked_article_code=1.OE8.iu7I.XqcsOhyXS0H3

Twenty-five Brian Wilson songs that aren't on Pet Sounds and are not Good Vibrations or California Girls:

1. The Warmth of the Sun

2.  I Get Around

3.  Don't Worry Baby

4.  Surf's Up

5.  Sail on Sailor

6.  Cabinessence

7.  Please Let Me Wonder

8.  Wonderful

9.  Til I Die

10. This Whole World

11. Heroes and Villains

12. Darlin'

13. Time to Get Alone

14. Fairy Tale Music

15. Winter Symphony

16. In the Back of My Mind

17. In My Room

18. She Knows Me Too Well

19. From There to Back Again

20. I'll Bet He's Nice

21. Wind Chimes

22. Let Him Run Wild

23. Surfer Girl

24. Had to Phone Ya

25. Busy Doin' Nothin'

Ten great songs from Brian's solo career:

1. Melt Away

2. Midnight's Another Day

3. Wings of a Dove

4. Rio Grande

5. Love and Mercy

6. This Song Wants To Sleep with You Tonight

7. That Lucky Old Sun/Morning Beat

8. Live Let Live/That Lucky Old Sun

9. The Like in I Love You

10. Cry