Song (or book, movie, etc) that gave the artist a pass for life

[Bossy Monkey]

My example would be Mr. Dylan. I'm sure most people would nominate "Like A Rolling Stone" or "Tangled Up In Blue"; I go with "Hurricane." What say you?

[tXr]

1. To Kill a Mockingbird

[Richardo]

2. Joseph Heller - Catch-22. Orson Wells - Citizen Kane. Harper Lee - To Kill a Mockingbird

Lifetime passes for those three for sure.

[RagAss]

14. I liked Heller's "Something Happened" too.

[HopeHoops]

3. American Pie

[Bossy Monkey]

4. Or "Vincent" for that matter. n/t

[Jade Fox]

22. Vincent is wonderful. nt

[HughBeaumont]

5. Michael Oldfield - "Tubular Bells"

He followed it up with other things (most notably Ommadawn), but . . . I mean, COME on, did he really need to?

[NightWatcher]

6. Kerouac's Desolation Angels. (book) Radiohead's Just ( music)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIFLtNYI3Ls

[LisaM]

7. Rod Stewart "You Wear it Well" and "Gasoline Alley"

makes up for "Tonight's the Night".

Oh, and Uma Thurman in "Henry and June" made up for the Kill Bill movies.

[PassingFair]

8. "A Clockwork Orange", for Burgess AND Kubrick....

and "Don't Dream It's Over" by Crowded House.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y49G_rbvzP8

[progressoid]

21. I read that Burgess hated Clockwork Orange, The book that is.

Well, not hated, but was unhappy that this would be the book he's best known for.

And then there's the thing with the two different endings.

[DevonRex]

9. "I Want to Take You Higher" by Sly and the Family Stone. nt

[Richardo]

19. FTW

Although I'd say 'Thank you Falletinme Be Mice Elf'

[taterguy]

10. Tommy Womack's Going Nowhere

Honorable mention goes to his book The Cheese Chronicles, the best book you've never read about a band you've never heard of.

[SoxFan]

11. Sinead O'Connor's "The Lion and the Cobra"

One of the best albums of the 1980s. It puts her personal high strangeness in perspective.

[Ikonoklast]

12. Leonard Cohen, "Hallelujah". And no man can argue with that.

Johnny Cash, "Folsom Prison Blues".

I still miss The Man In Black.

[nolabear]

16. Hallelujah and Amen.

I'm one of those strange people who collects versions of "Hallelujah." I'm a total piker with only about 20 or so. There are people who have many, many recordings. And I have to say, Jeff Buckley still makes me weep.

And Johnny Cash has so many I can't say any one would do the trick.

[ornotna]

20. Do you have this version?

By Geri X

http://music.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=music.artistalbums&artistid=1143980&albumid=11617780

[RagAss]

13. Cimino....Deer Hunter

[Mr. Ected]

15. Catcher in the Rye comes to mind

Springsteen's Born To Run.

[soleft]

17. GIA

Been cutting Angelina Jolie slack for years on that one.

[Doc_Technical]

18. Flock of Seagulls- "I Ran"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJ7NVjZ-Eyg

[donheld]

23. Harry Potter

[murielm99]

24. Lord of the Flies.

A Separate Peace.

[travelingtypist]

25. My Sharona by The Knack

Catcher in the Rye occurred to me as well. Maybe Joyce Maynard's 9-month affair with Salinger when she was a waif of a teenager and he was already an old guy, but that would be disgusting.

[PassingFair]

26. Fieger did last week you know...

53

RIP

[gmoney]

27. 57

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doug_Fieger

[mitchum]

28. Celine gets a pass for Journey to the End of the Night

He may have been an antisemitic dirtbag, but still...

[bamacrat]

29. Kurt Cobain (Nirvana) - Smells Like Teen Spirit...

Not a long life but..

Elvis - All Shook Up

[DevonRex]

30. Excellent addition.

I loved that band.