Show Notes: S03, E01 - Betty Botter's Bitter Buddies
Agony Art is back! And we start series 3 with misguided musicians, forfeited friendships and titillating tongue twisters guaranteed to tickle your tonsils.
Here's all the art we recommended.
(Art we only mentioned in passing, and never intended as a problem-solving recommendation, is in italics.)
Underlined items are this week's top picks from each of our presenters. If you're only going to try one of the pieces of art we mentioned, try these ones first.
Books
- The Lord of the Rings Trilogy - J.R.R. Tolkien
- Lord of the Flies - William Goulding
- The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkien
- Gone With the Wind - Margaret Mitchell
- The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
- A Song of Ice and Fire series - George R.R. Martin
- Sphere - Michael Crichton
- The Wondrous Tale of Alroy - Benjamin Disraeli
- The Great Old Ones: The Complete Works of H.P. Lovecraft - H.P. Lovecraft
- Atonement - Ian McEwan
Films / TV
- Narcos
- Lost
- Sphere
- Spawn
- Jurassic Park
- ER
- Twister
- Disclosure
- Spiderman: No Way Home
- Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope
- Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back
- Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi
- The Simpsons
- Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace
- Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones
- Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith
- Castaway
- Gladiator
- Black Hawk Down
- Monsters, Inc.
- Shrek
- Spirited Away
- The Bourne Identity
- Bowling for Columbine
- City of God
- Gangs of New York
- The Ring
- Spider-Man
- Finding Nemo
- Kill Bill: Vol 1
- Love, Actually
- Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
- The Matrix Reloaded
- The Matrix Revolutions
- Old Boy
- Terminator 3
- X2
- The Bourne Supremacy
- Dawn of the Dead
- Downfall
- The Incredibles
- Kill Bill: Vol 2
- Saw
- Shaun of the Dead
- Shrek 2
- Spider-Man 2
- Troy
- The Lord of the Rings Trilogy
- School of Rock
- Boyhood
- 100 Years
- Frozen
- Toy Story 2
- The World's End
- Hot Fuzz
- Frozen 2
- Atonement
Music
- White America - Eminem
- Believe - Cher
- YMCA - The Village People
- Do They Know it's Christmas? - Band Aid
- In the End - Linkin Park
- You Can't Always Get What You Want - The Rolling Stones
- You Can't Hurry Love - Phil Collins
- Their Satanic Majesties - The Rolling Stones
- Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band - The Beatles
- We Love You - The Rolling Stones
- All You Need is Love - The Beatles
- Hey Jude - The Beatles
- Rockstar - Nickleback
- Photograph - Nickleback
- Hero - Chad Kroeger & Josey Scott
- Dig a Little Deeper - Jenifer Lewis, The Pinnacle Gospel Choir
- Cotton Eye Joe - Rednex
- Love Shack - The B52's
- No Regrets - Dappy
- No Regrets - Robbie Williams
- Angels - Robbie Williams
- Millennium - Robbie Williams
- Kids - Robbie Williams & Kylie Minogue
- Some Things Never Change - Cast of Frozen 2
- All My Friends - LCD Soundsystem
- Someone Great - LCD Soundsystem
- 45:33 - LCD Soundsystem
You can find Liam's biggest recommendations in the Agony Art Spotify Playlist.
Other
Corrections
We are currently unaware of any errors made in this episode. That doesn't mean we didn't make any - just that they haven't been spotted yet.
Picture above from School of Rock © Paramount Pictures
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