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Australia

Band: Unitopia
Album: Anastasis by Dead Can Dance 
Solo Artist (Male): Sebastian Hardie
Solo Artist (Female): Olivia Newton John
Film: Dead Calm
TV Show: Prisoner Cell Block H
Actor: Mel Gibson
Actress: Nicole Kidman


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Originally posted by richardh richardh wrote:

^ Top Of The Lake is brilliant and also starred the great Scottish actor Peter Mullan ( I forgot to pick an actor for my Scottish selection but he would be it). I didn't realise Split Enz were on PA until a filtered a best album list by country. The top album is Mental Notes from 1975 and that's also a surprise as I had them down as one of those many post punk new wave bands that sprung ip in the 80's. My favourite song from NZ is undoubtedly Weather With You. That and McCartney's Listen To What The Man Says are my favourite songs to hear in a beer garden on warm sunny day with a cold beer in hand. For actor maybe Anna Paquin although she was born in Canada but raised in Wellington. True Blood was superb. Always good to discover a fun fact or two and when I googled her I found that she is married to the very talented actor/director Stephen Moyer and also born on the same day as Elizabeth Moss (wow must have been some strange voodoo sh*t going on that day!). Agree a little bit on Peter Jackson's early shlock horror films being perhaps is most fun stuff (Braindead especially) although are you including the films The Frighteners (Michael J Fox) and Heavenly Creatures as well? Of his later films They Shall Not Grow Old is an essential educational film about WW1 (the so called Great War). Technical masterpiece.


Top of the Lake is great.

Split Enz True Colours was the first tape I heard on a Sony Walkman when I was, I think, 10. I like the 70s albums, which I heard much later. Doesn't seem to get as much notice (at least that I have seen as the debut, let alone Colours) but I like the second album, Second Thoughts very much. At times the music can sound quite like Bowie meets Cardiacs (that Zolo circus sound meets that Art Pop-Rock Bowie sound).

My favourite Peter Jackson directed film is Heavenly Creatures, which is the first film of his I saw (watched it first with my then girlfriend now wife when working in Japan in the 90s). I do like Braindead a lot and found Bad Taste fun. I should watch The Frighteners again (didn't give it a proper watch before).

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^ Top Of The Lake is brilliant and also starred the great Scottish actor Peter Mullan ( I forgot to pick an actor for my Scottish selection but he would be it). I didn't realise Split Enz were on PA until a filtered a best album list by country. The top album is Mental Notes from 1975 and that's also a surprise as I had them down as one of those many post punk new wave bands that sprung ip in the 80's. My favourite song from NZ is undoubtedly Weather With You. That and McCartney's Listen To What The Man Says are my favourite songs to hear in a beer garden on warm sunny day with a cold beer in hand. For actor maybe Anna Paquin although she was born in Canada but raised in Wellington. True Blood was superb. Always good to discover a fun fact or two and when I googled her I found that she is married to the very talented actor/director Stephen Moyer and also born on the same day as Elizabeth Moss (wow must have been some strange voodoo sh*t going on that day!). Agree a little bit on Peter Jackson's early shlock horror films being perhaps is most fun stuff (Braindead especially) although are you including the films The Frighteners (Michael J Fox) and Heavenly Creatures as well? Of his later films They Shall Not Grow Old is an essential educational film about WW1 (the so called Great War). Technical masterpiece.
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^ I regret not adding songs to my lists (something I commonly like to focus on). I jut listened to the Spell, good stuff. I actually had checked out this band before because I enjoy metal with folk, doom, and goth qualities (as well as post-metal, stoner, sludge...)

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New Zealand

Band: Split Enz
Album: Connan Mockasin - Please Turn Me Into the Snat (2010)
Song: "Please Turn Me Into the Snat"
Director: Peter Jackson (for his pre-Lord of the Rings work)
Film: Hunt for the Wilderpeople (2016)
Actor: Sam Neill
TV Show: Top of the Lake (2013-2017)
Fat Flightless Parrot: Kakapo
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Switzerland:

Band: Cellar Darling
Album: The Spell (Cellar Darling)
Song: Six Days (Cellar Darling)
Singer: Anna Murphy (Cellar Darling, ex Eluveitie)
Hurry-Gurdy player: Anna Murphy
Flautist: Anna Murphy

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England

Favourite artist: Quatermass
Favourite album: Quatermass-Quatermass
Favourite TV show: Blake's Seven
Favourite film: Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Favourite composer: Sir Edward Elgar
Favourite musical conductor: Sir Thomas Beecham
Favourite author: George Orwell
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Australia

Singer: David Le'aupepe
Band: Voyager
Album: A Tower of Silence (by Anubis)
Song: Who Can It Be Now (by Men At Work)
Director: James Wan
Actor: Guy Pearce
Actress: Cate Blanchett
Author: John Flanagan
TV Show: Spellbinder (1995-1997)
Movie: The Navigator: A Medieval Odyssey (Or The Interview, which is pure Australian.)
PC Game: Grimoire: Heralds of the Winged Exemplar
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^ Canadian like me think of Neil Young as Canadian, but he did become a US citizen a few years ago and is mostly residing in the US now.

I went Swiss for this, but came up quite short (thus some lame humour as filler). Krokodil is another band I like from there.

Switzerland

Band: Brainticket
Album: Pictures by Island
Swiss band I want to check out more: The Young Gods
Swiss films: Had to look up. It lists The Three Colour Trilogy as partially Swiss, but I have only ever thought of that production, which has long been a favourite of mine, as being French/Polish.
Swiss Theme for TV: The Austrian Family Robinson, oh wait, I was thinking of Bangladesh.
Swiss pocket utility knife: Is that even a thing?
Swiss Army: Is that a thing, and if it was, would they carry spoons and forks?
Swiss Cheese: the Swiss aree not known for making cheese.
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The United States Of America

Band - Kansas
Solo Artist - Neil Young
Album - The Tubes by The Tubes
TV Show - NYPD Blue
Film - The French Connection
Director - Francis Ford Coppola
Actor - Al Pacino
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Denmark

Singer: Torben Askholm
Band: Beyond Twilight
Album: Ripples in Time (by Chrome Shift)
Song: Love in Siberia (by Laban)
Author: Hans Christian Andersen (Would be Ludvig Holberg, yet he is Dano-Norwegian.)
Movie: Valhalla (1986)
TV Show: Equinox (2020)
Video Game: Hugo (Well, sort of from childhood. LOL)
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Switzerland

Band: Clepsydra
Album: Dragonfly
Solo Artist: Patrick Moraz
Film: Swiss Family Robinson
Comedy: Swiss Tony from The Fast Show - "Playing the guitar is like making love to a beautiful woman, with sensual curves in all the right places and with a neck you hold and a body you hug against yourself. You can touch your fingers up and down the strings, but you have to know what you're doing."
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Finland

Singer: Tarja Turunen
Band: Tenhi
Album: Tuonela (by Amorphis)
Song: Sleeping Sun (by Nightwish)
Movie: Pahanhautoja (Hatching)
PC Game: Crimsonland
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The USA

Singer: John M. West
Band: Symphony X
Album: Ixnay on the Hombre (by The Offspring)
Track: Summer Song (by Joe Satriani)
Song: Sacred Treasure (by Thought Chamber)
Director: John Carpenter
Actor: Samuel L. Jackson
Actress: Kathy Bates
Poet: Robert Frost
Author: John Steinbeck
TV Show: 12 Monkeys (2015-2018)
TV Miniseries: The Lost Room
Movie: The Lost Boys
PC Game: Planescape Torment
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Russia

Singer: Vitas
Band: Arida Vortex
Album: 2nd Hands (by The Gourishankar)
Song: Hymn to Human Being (Finale) (by Eduard Artemyev)
Actor: Sergey Dreyden
Author: Leo Tolstoy
TV Show: To the Lake (2019-2022)
Movie: Russian Ark
PC Game: Battle Mages: Sign of Darkness
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Canada
Band - Rush (or Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band if you are a Ray Donovan fan!)
Artist - Alanis Morissette
Album - Jagged Little Pill
Director - Denis Villeneuve
Film - Scanners
TV Show - Travelers (Worst Netflix decision of all time to cancel this although there have been a few!)
Actor - Christopher Plummer
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Estonia

band: Keeris
album: In Spe - s/t (1983)
TV show: Naabriplika (2013-2018)
Film: November [Rehepapp] (2017)
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^ Cool, Greg!

BTW, the John Tyndall I put on my list is a man born in 1951. Read a couple of his poems and really liked them. When I GoogleSearch, the Irish prominent figure with the same name but from an earlier century appears. 

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^ I watched eXistenZ again very recently after not seeing it since it came to video (ah, to be in my 20s again). Donald Sutherland would be my choice of actor too, and I like Voivod a lot.

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Canada

Singer: Joe Varga
Band: Voivod
Album: Exordium (by Hemlock)
Song: On My Own (by Between 11)
Director: David Cronenberg
Actor: Donald Sutherland
Actress: Carrie-Anne Moss
Poet: John Tyndall
Author: Ed Greenwood
TV Show: The Collector (2004-2006)
Movie: eXistenZ
PC Game: Neverwinter Nights
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^ Sweet, I live in Vancouver, BC (or suburb near it now), but have only visited The Rockies once (drove from Calgary to Banff when out there on a work trip). I love Vancouver Island and would like to move there.

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Ireland:

Band/Artist/Project: Nurse With Wound
Music artist not born in Ireland but living there now: Roy Harper
Album: Swaddling Songs by Mellow Candle
Film: The Butcher Boy (1997)
TV: Father Ted
Stone I have kissed that left a bad aftertaste (no Mick Jagger here): the Blarney Stone
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