List country's band/artist, album, TV show, film
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Topic: List country's band/artist, album, TV show, film
Posted By: Logan
Subject: List country's band/artist, album, TV show, film
Date Posted: April 12 2024 at 10:06
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Do as many countries as you like and you can do other choices for the same country in other posts (need not be definitive choices). I will start with the US. The US: Band: Swans Album: Bloom by Beach House TV Show: Twin Peaks Film: Harold and Maude ------------- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXcp9fYc6K4IKuxIZkenfvukL_Y8VBqzK" rel="nofollow - Duos for fave acts |
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Posted By: Grumpyprogfan
Date Posted: April 12 2024 at 10:15
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USA Artist - Frank Zappa Album - Leftoverture TV show - Breaking Bad Film - Spinal Tap |
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: April 12 2024 at 10:43
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The good 'ole USA:- Male Solo Artist: Neil Young
Female Solo Artist: Linda Ronstadt Band: Santana Album: The Eagles Greatest Hits 1971-1975 TV Comedy: Home Improvement TV Drama: CHiPs Film Comedy: Silver Streak Film Drama: Dirty Harry |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: April 12 2024 at 10:53
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Thanks guys, I'll post a little list from the land of fjords and the blue parrots that pine for them. Norway: Artist: Terje Rypdal Album: The Brothel (2010) by Susanne Sundfør TV Show: Post Mortem: No One Dies in Skarnes (2021) Film: Den brysomme mannen (The Bothersome Man) (2006) ------------- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXcp9fYc6K4IKuxIZkenfvukL_Y8VBqzK" rel="nofollow - Duos for fave acts |
Posted By: Octopus II
Date Posted: April 12 2024 at 10:57
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UK Band: Gentle Giant Male Solo Artist: David Bowie Female Solo Artist: Kate Bush Album: Jethro Tull - Thick As A Brick TV Show: Fawlty Towers Film: Get Carter
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Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: April 12 2024 at 11:15
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UK, nice: Band: Radiohead Male Solo Artist: David Bowie Female Solo Artist: Kate Bush Album: Roseland NYC Live by Portishead TV Show: The League of Gentlemen Film: Don't Look Now ------------- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXcp9fYc6K4IKuxIZkenfvukL_Y8VBqzK" rel="nofollow - Duos for fave acts |
Posted By: Grumpyprogfan
Date Posted: April 12 2024 at 11:23
Neil is Canadian. 
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Psychedelic Paul wrote:Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: April 12 2024 at 11:27
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^ Young actually is a duel citizen now, both Canadian and American. I have Canadian, British and Australian citizenships, but it would be weird to call myself anything other than Canadian, ------------- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXcp9fYc6K4IKuxIZkenfvukL_Y8VBqzK" rel="nofollow - Duos for fave acts |
Posted By: Octopus II
Date Posted: April 12 2024 at 11:29
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USA Band: Kansas Male Solo Artist: Bob Dylan Female Solo Artist: Carly Simon Album: Leftoverture TV Show: Columbo Film: The French Connection
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Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: April 12 2024 at 12:21
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I put down Serge Gainsbourg's Histoire de Melody Nelson but then quickly changed it to Magma's debut. We can always do more for countries. France Band: Art Zoyd Album: Kobaïa by Magma (1970) Film: The City of Lost Children (1995) TV Series: The Returned (2012-13) ------------- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXcp9fYc6K4IKuxIZkenfvukL_Y8VBqzK" rel="nofollow - Duos for fave acts |
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: April 12 2024 at 14:48
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Canada Band: Guess Who Album: Decade by Neil Young Film: None TV Series: Air Crash Investigation
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Posted By: Archisorcerus
Date Posted: April 12 2024 at 15:38
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Sweden Singer: Jussi Björling Band: Falconer Album: Theli by Therion TV Show: Jordskott (2015-2017) TV Mini Series: Millennium (2010) Film: Koko-di Koko-da PC Game: Zelenhgorm |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: April 12 2024 at 16:28
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Japan Band: Geinoh Yamashirogumi Music Artist: Konomi Sasaki Album: Long Season (1996) by Fishmans Film: Black Rain (dir. Shohei Imamura) TV Series: Death Note (anime) Video game: The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess ------------- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXcp9fYc6K4IKuxIZkenfvukL_Y8VBqzK" rel="nofollow - Duos for fave acts |
Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: April 12 2024 at 17:02
| ^ I'm guessing Black Rain was the original version of the hollywood film that was made by Ridley Scott and starred Michael Douglas and Andy Garcia? |
Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: April 12 2024 at 17:12
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France Band: Lazuli Solo Artist: Jean Michel Jarre Album: Slift: Ilion TV series: Les Revenants Film: The Vanishing
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Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: April 12 2024 at 17:18
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Germany Band: Eloy Solo Artist: Edgar Froese Album: Eloy - Planets TV Series: Das Boot Film: Run Lola Run
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Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: April 12 2024 at 18:07
They both came out in 1989 and are not related. Kuroi Ame (Black Rain) is about a woman who initially survives the bomb dropped on Hiroshima.... It's done in black and white, meant to evoke film from the 40s. Not a film I feel like seeing again due to the subject matter, have watched it more than once, and it had a strong impact on me. EDIT: The word I wanted is haunting. That is so evocative of the time due to the look and music. This is the trailer and I see that the whole thing with English subtitles is available on youtube. ------------- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXcp9fYc6K4IKuxIZkenfvukL_Y8VBqzK" rel="nofollow - Duos for fave acts |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: April 12 2024 at 18:21
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Germany Band: Tangerine Dream Musical Artist: Nina Hagen Album: Impressions on Reading Aldous Huxley by Brave New World Film: The Tin Drum (German/international co-production) Show: Dark (Richard's Das Boot and Run Lola Run are also faves) ------------- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXcp9fYc6K4IKuxIZkenfvukL_Y8VBqzK" rel="nofollow - Duos for fave acts |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: April 12 2024 at 19:02
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Sweden Band: Gösta Berlings Saga Artist: Anna von Hausswolff Album: Dead Magic by Anna von Hausswolff Film: Let the Right One In TV Series: Real Humans Furniture Store: Ikea for the pickled herring ------------- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXcp9fYc6K4IKuxIZkenfvukL_Y8VBqzK" rel="nofollow - Duos for fave acts |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: April 13 2024 at 09:37
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I've long been interested in the confluences of arts, and people's appreciation across media and countries. I have gravitated towards subtitled films since I saw Das Boot in the cinema as a kid, and I have long loved to watch subtitled TV shows. My wife is East Asian and she loved films and shows from around the world (now mostly Korean) and we shared a love of so-called art house cinema. And I am interested in seeing things from around the world, but for non-English productions, I have watched many more Chinese, Japanese (especially as I worked in Japan), Korean, French, Scandinavian, Spanish, German, Polish and Italian films and shows (well for TV shows, not so many from Italy) than most other places. And watched a fair amount of Turkish TV (love the language). Again, these are not definitive lists and is more of an indication of tastes across various media for me (but of course I only choose that which impacted me). Italy Favourite Musical Artist: Ennio Morricone Favourite Band: Area Favourite Album: Picchio dal Pozzo's self-titled Favourite Film: Life Is Beautiful Favourite TV show: Curon (Italian/German co-production) ------------- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXcp9fYc6K4IKuxIZkenfvukL_Y8VBqzK" rel="nofollow - Duos for fave acts |
Posted By: presdoug
Date Posted: April 13 2024 at 10:41
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Germany Favourite band: Triumvirat Favourite solo artist: Helmut Koellen (RIP) Favourite female singer: Elke Schlimbach Favourite album: Illusions On A Double Dimple by Triumvirat Favourite film: Downfall Favourite musical conductor: Wilhelm Furtwangler |
Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: April 13 2024 at 10:44
That's a great movie, a bit disturbing (the Goebbels family subplot), I recently rewatched it, just as good as ever.
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Posted By: progaardvark
Date Posted: April 13 2024 at 10:59
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Sweden Band: Anekdoten Musical Artist: Rikard Sjöblom Album: A Drop of Light, by All Traps on Earth Film: Aniara Sculptor: Johan Paalzow ------------- ---------- i'm shopping for a new oil-cured sinus bag that's a happy bag of lettuce this car smells like cartilage nothing beats a good video about fractions |
Posted By: presdoug
Date Posted: April 13 2024 at 11:02
Thanks; for sure it is a great film, but disturbing (my sister could not get through it due to the Goebbels family section) The whole Nazi machine was our worst fears realised, but I figure it has to be remembered to be learned from.....
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Posted By: Archisorcerus
Date Posted: April 13 2024 at 11:05
Aniara would be my pick too. Yet, as far as I recall, it is a Sweden/Denmark movie. |
Posted By: Archisorcerus
Date Posted: April 13 2024 at 11:10
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^ Oh, wow. So is Koko-di Koko-da, which was my pick. I thought it was pure Swedish. 
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Posted By: progaardvark
Date Posted: April 13 2024 at 11:11
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Austria Band: Anthropods Album: Himmelfahrt by Blank Manuskript Artist: Erwin Wurm Film: The Wall (Die Wand) ------------- ---------- i'm shopping for a new oil-cured sinus bag that's a happy bag of lettuce this car smells like cartilage nothing beats a good video about fractions |
Posted By: progaardvark
Date Posted: April 13 2024 at 11:14
Yes, I was aware it was from both countries, but leaned toward Sweden since I believe the characters spoke in Swedish. ------------- ---------- i'm shopping for a new oil-cured sinus bag that's a happy bag of lettuce this car smells like cartilage nothing beats a good video about fractions |
Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: April 13 2024 at 11:17
Another great German movie about WW2 is Stalingrad (1993). https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108211/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_8_nm_0_q_Stalingrad" rel="nofollow - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108211/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_8_nm_0_q_Stalingrad Also a difficult watch in places...
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Posted By: Archisorcerus
Date Posted: April 13 2024 at 11:32
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Germany Singer: Andy Kuntz (of Vanden Plas) Band: Kraftwerk Album: The Art of Navigating by the Stars (Sieges Even) TV Show: Der Greif (2023-) Film: Die Tür (Too tempted to pick Necronos, but it is too "evil", lol.) PC Game: Drakensang |
Posted By: Mirakaze
Date Posted: April 13 2024 at 12:32
I watch it again ever so often and keep being surprised at how well it holds up. Portraying Hitler in an earthly manner as sickly, pathetic, recognizably human instead of the abstract figure that he is in most people's minds, while still emphasizing the irredeemable evil of his personality and his actions, was a really tall order but the filmmakers and actor Bruno Ganz pulled it off masterfully. It's interesting from that light how Goebbels and his wife are portrayed in a way that actually does make them seem alien and non-human, not just because of their mere actions in said disturbing scene but their whole demeanour while doing it: the lack of expression on their faces, their robotic movement, the lack of any reaction to the death and destruction surrounding them. An extremely powerful and unapologetically realistic look into history's most horrible and twisted minds. um, anyway, this is a great thread that I'll try to keep coming back to! For now I'll start with the USA: * Best artist: Frank Zappa * Best album: The Mothers Of Invention - Uncle Meat * Best TV show: Star Trek - Deep Space 9 (talk about the opposite of mankind's nadir as portrayed in Downfall: a sublime celebration of all the values that fascism opposes, starring the deepest and most relatable cast out of any Star Trek series; it's just unbelievable to me how good this show is) * Best film: Jacob's Ladder ------------- https://mirasnelder.wordpress.com/" rel="nofollow - Freelance composer, accepting commissions | https://mirasnelder.bandcamp.com/album/altered-acuity" rel="nofollow - Bandcamp page |
Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: April 13 2024 at 13:22
What the Goebbels did in the bunker is the result of total fanaticism. Especially Magda Goebbels. Also why wouldn't a 2004 movie hold up? That just makes me feel old. But then again i like old movies. Another great war movie is the first adaptation of E. M. Remarque All Quiet on the Western Front, from 1930. The nazi parity made a huge effort to sabotage the movie release in Germany. It got all violent in the end. And they were not yet in power. They were calling Remarque a defeatist and a traitor. The writer fled Germany. He escaped, but the nazis killed Remarque's sister, executed her.
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Posted By: Mirakaze
Date Posted: April 14 2024 at 03:40
In other news, the UK! Best artist: Genesis Best album: National Health - National Health Best TV show: Blackadder Best film: Children Of Men ------------- https://mirasnelder.wordpress.com/" rel="nofollow - Freelance composer, accepting commissions | https://mirasnelder.bandcamp.com/album/altered-acuity" rel="nofollow - Bandcamp page |
Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: April 14 2024 at 03:48
Thanks for explaining.  I think I've seen the movie three, maybe four times.
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Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: April 14 2024 at 03:50
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Germany Band: Tangerine Dream Album: Shibuya Nights by Agitation Free Solo Artist: Manuel Goettsching TV Show: 'Allo 'Allo Film: Das Boot Stalingrad
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Posted By: Archisorcerus
Date Posted: April 14 2024 at 05:35
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UK Singer: Bruce Dickinson Band: Gryphon Album: Misplaced Childhood (Marillion) Actor: Anthony Hopkins Actress: Tilda Swinton Author: Arthur Machen Poet: Percy Bysshe Shelley Book: The Damnation Game (by Clive Barker) Play: The Tempest (William Shakespeare) - Also loved its filmed Shakespeare's Globe production/performance in 2013 (Released in 2014) TV Show: Taskmaster TV Miniseries: Oliver Twist (1985) Animated Movie: The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship Live Action Movie: Monty Python's The Meaning of Life PC Game: Batman: Arkham Asylum
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Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: April 14 2024 at 12:26
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Thanks for all the responses; glad to see people coming up with more categories. Denmark Favourite Band: Secret Oyster Favourite Album: Szabodelico by Causa Sui (2020) Favourite Director: Lars von Trier Favourite Film: Europa (1991) (international co-production including Denmark) Favourite Series: Riget (The Kingdom) (1994) Favourite Blue Cheese: Danish Blue (not to be confused with Norwegian blue parrots) Anna von Hausswolff now resides in Denmark, but I treat her as Swedish. When it comes to Demark for me for the arts, von Trier is "the man". ------------- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXcp9fYc6K4IKuxIZkenfvukL_Y8VBqzK" rel="nofollow - Duos for fave acts |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: April 14 2024 at 14:16
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South Korea Music Artist: Mid-Air Thief (aka Gongjoong Doduk, aka...) Album: a.k.a YAYA by YAYA Kim (2022) Director: Bong Joon Ho Film: Oldboy (2003) (director Park Chan-wook) TV Show: Kingdom (2019, 2020) ------------- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXcp9fYc6K4IKuxIZkenfvukL_Y8VBqzK" rel="nofollow - Duos for fave acts |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: April 14 2024 at 20:19
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China Album: "Míng Míng" by otay:onii (2021) Director: Zhang Yimou Film: Raise the Red Lantern (1991) Leading Lady: Gong Li TV Series: Three-Body (2023) (still not nearly finished, but based on The Three-Body Problem novels like the 2024 Netflix series). China has been one of my favourite nations for film, and especially Zhang Yimou had a huge impact on me in my 20s. Seeing his Red Sorghum and Chen Kaige's Farewell Mi Concubine set off a long -running passion. I really like that Ming Ming album and has been one of my favourite of this decade along with the Chinese born Pan Daijing's Tissue (2022). I have seen complaint that we do not seem to care much about the arts from a wide enough international perspective, but my experience is that considerable numbers of people here have appreciated music, films, TV and authors from around the world. And it's not all/just about the "hits" (although I generally prefer a hit to a miss). ------------- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXcp9fYc6K4IKuxIZkenfvukL_Y8VBqzK" rel="nofollow - Duos for fave acts |
Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: April 14 2024 at 23:27
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Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: April 15 2024 at 02:04
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^ Good Moaning  Band: Earth & Fire Album: Tax Free Solo Artist: Jan Akkerman Symphonic Metal: Within Temptation Singer: Sharon den Adel Actor: Rutger Hauer Film: Amsterdamned TV Show: Van der Valk Comedy: Dutch Cops on the Fast Show Cheese: Edam
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Posted By: Grumpyprogfan
Date Posted: April 15 2024 at 08:24
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USA - Greg approved USA citizens Guitar - Pat Metheny and Allan Holdsworth Keyboards - Chick Corea Drums - Marco Minnemann and Chad Wackerman Bass - Bryan Beller Trumpet - Lee Morgan Saxaphone - John Coltrane Violin - Robby Steinhardt Trombone - Bill Watrous Novelist - Edgar Allan Poe Filmmaker - Woody Allen Inventors - Thomas Edison Theoretical Psysicist - Albert Einstein COVID 19 Vaccine - Katalin Kariko and Drew Weissman |
Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: April 15 2024 at 18:10
Van Der Valk isn't technically a Dutch TV show it just happens to be shot in Amsterdam. There was a Dutch crime drama that was on Netflix that I liked but I can't remember the name. If I remember it I will do a Netherlands list.
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Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: April 15 2024 at 18:25
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Scotland Band: Big Country Album: Act One by Beggars Opera Solo Artist: Al Stewart TV Show: Taggart Film: Shallow Grave Sporting Legend: Graham Souness (football)
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Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: April 16 2024 at 09:26
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Thanks. Scotland is a nice one. I wish the UK term was not so ubiquitous when looking up location; wish seeing England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland was more common. It often feels like there is this kind of homogenisation of the world and at other times identity and differences seem more pronounced than ever. If I do Wales, I will try to resist mentioning Free Willy. Scotland Band: Cocteau Twins Album: Music Has the Right to Children by Boards of Canada Male Singer: Donovan Female Singer: Elizabeth Fraser Favourite album for when I'm feeling sinister: Belle and Sebastian's If You're Feeling Sinister Favourite faux Scottish James Bond film: Dressed to Kilt Favourite big international co-production with a setting in Scotland: Breaking the Waves Favourite film set in Scotland: The Wicker Man TV show set in Scotland: One of Us ------------- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXcp9fYc6K4IKuxIZkenfvukL_Y8VBqzK" rel="nofollow - Duos for fave acts |
Posted By: Octopus II
Date Posted: April 16 2024 at 10:02
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Wales Band: Man Album: Budgie - Never Turn Your Back On A Friend Male Singer: James Dean Bradfield (Manic Street Preachers) Female Singer: Mary Hopkin TV Show: How Green Was My Valley Film: Tiger Bay
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Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: April 16 2024 at 17:40
| ^ I was thinking Tiger Bay for Wales. Hard to think of many other films from Wales. For TV show there were 2 famous shows that were shot in Barry Island (not actually an island but it used to be famous for having a funfair with a big dipper, the Welsh version of Blackpool perhaps). One is Gavin and Stacey but someone else can have that as I have something much better! |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: April 16 2024 at 19:23
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Spain Album: Unidad de desplazamiento by Los Planetas Classical guitarist: Joaquín Rodrigo Director: Pedro Almodóvar Film: Jamón Jamón (director Bigas Luna) (1992) Novel: The Club Dumas by Arturo Pérez-Reverte Gutiérrez (1993) Favourite film that takes place in Spain: Pan's Labyrinth (2006) TV series: Money Heist (2017) ------------- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXcp9fYc6K4IKuxIZkenfvukL_Y8VBqzK" rel="nofollow - Duos for fave acts |
Posted By: essexboyinwales
Date Posted: April 17 2024 at 14:55
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Wales! Singer: Katherine Jenkins Band: there aren’t actually any I’m really into TBH Album: ? Film: Very Annie Mary Actor: Sir Anthony Hopkins TV series (drama): Hinterland TV series (comedy): Gavin And Stacey ------------- Heaven is waiting but waiting is Hell |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: April 17 2024 at 14:59
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^ I can't think of a more riveting actor than Anthony Hopkins. ------------- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXcp9fYc6K4IKuxIZkenfvukL_Y8VBqzK" rel="nofollow - Duos for fave acts |
Posted By: Grumpyprogfan
Date Posted: April 17 2024 at 15:02
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Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: April 17 2024 at 15:47
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^ Not even Anthony from The Wiggles, who I have seen live. I guess Sam Neill would the next to come to mind perhaps Speaking of The Wiggles, I shall do Australia (hoping for another trip there next year). Band: Dead Can Dance Album: Spleen and Ideal by Dead Can Dance Film: Bliss (1985) TV Series: Glitch Place to watch concerts: Kuranda amphitheatre (near Cairns) Actor: Geoffrey Rush Actress: Kate Blanchett Reef: The Great Barrier Reef Big red rock in desert: Big Red Rock (in Desert) ------------- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXcp9fYc6K4IKuxIZkenfvukL_Y8VBqzK" rel="nofollow - Duos for fave acts |
Posted By: presdoug
Date Posted: April 17 2024 at 16:10
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Posted By: presdoug
Date Posted: April 17 2024 at 16:11
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Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: April 17 2024 at 16:57
One of the greats for sure. Wales actually has a proud history of great actors. Some of the more well known ones below, think this is what is called 'punching above your weight' (btw I would have liked to include some females but Catherine Zeta Jones is all I could come up with and I wouldn't put her in this company) Richard Burton Iwan Rheon (Game Of Thrones) Rhys Ifans Ioan Gruffud Michael Sheen Luke Evans Christian Bale (born in Wales to English parents) Jonathan Pryce Gareth Thomas (Blake's Seven!) Taron Egerton Ray Milland (that one was a surprise when I googled it!) |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: April 17 2024 at 17:32
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^ Yes, great names. Jonathan Pryce actually was the first name to come to mind after seeing Will's "Maybe Anthony Perkins?" post. A Hopkins association there due The Two Popes especially. The New Zelander Sam was an Australian association for me. Brazil, with Pryce, is an all-time favourite movie for me. As for Gareth Thomas, how good he was as Blake. I'm a huge fan of Blake's Seven. And I was so very sad when I heard he died. It's a show I can return to at any episode again and again. Well the ending I still find devastating. I also liked Children of the Stones an awful lot (with Gareth Thomas). And Michael Sheen, love him in Good Omens as the angel Aziraphale. ------------- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXcp9fYc6K4IKuxIZkenfvukL_Y8VBqzK" rel="nofollow - Duos for fave acts |
Posted By: presdoug
Date Posted: April 20 2024 at 09:49
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Italy Favourite artist: Le Orme Favourite album: Dedalus-Dedalus Favourite musical conductor: Arturo Toscanini Favourite film: Armacord Favourite composer: Verdi |
Posted By: presdoug
Date Posted: April 20 2024 at 09:51
Also a show I can return to again and again.
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Posted By: presdoug
Date Posted: April 20 2024 at 09:55
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Canada Favourite artist: Rush Favourite album: Rush-Fly By Night Favourite film: Goin' Down The Road Favourite musical conductor: Sir Ernest MacMillan Favourite composer: Healey Willan
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Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: April 20 2024 at 10:41
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Greece Band: Forbidden Myth Album: Rapsodies by Vangelis & Irene Papas Singer (Male): Georgios Michaelopolopolous - formerly of Whamos Ridgeleyakos Kakos Singer (Female): Irene Papas Musician: Vangelis Film: Zorba the Greek Actor: Anthony Quinn Hero: Odysseus Dragon: Theo Pamphletis (or something like that) Conqueror: Alexander the Great Doctor: Hippocrates Mathematician: Archimedes Painter: El Greco Philosopher: Aristotle Shipping Tycoon: Aristotle Onassis
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Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: April 20 2024 at 10:59
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Thanks Doug and Paul. And doug, Blake's Seven is awesome. Here's Canada from this Canucklehead. Band: Godspeed You! Black Emperor Album: Godspeed You Black Emperor!'s Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven (1997) male musical artist: Leonard Cohen Female Music Artist: Joni Mitchell Song: Leonard Cohen's "Avalanche" (1971) Film: Jesus of Montreal (dir. Denys Arcand) (1989) Film director: David Cronenberg TV Show: The Newsroom (1996) TV show sketch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ChvxsVgT8c" rel="nofollow - "Sausages" (1994) from Kids in the Hall Novel: Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake (2003) Best electronic Scottish musical duo whose group is named after Canada: Boards of Canada ------------- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXcp9fYc6K4IKuxIZkenfvukL_Y8VBqzK" rel="nofollow - Duos for fave acts |
Posted By: essexboyinwales
Date Posted: April 20 2024 at 11:20
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Heading back to Canada in September with my much much better half - fly drive through the Rockies and Vancouver Island/Vancouver, so Canada: All round rock God: Devin Townsend Gravelly-voiced “90s film theme” king: Bryan Adams Metal band: Unleash The Archers Female metal vocalist: Britney Slayes (UTA) Slightly kooky 90s deep-voiced folk-rock band: Crash Test Dummies Album: Empath (Devin T)/Into The Fire (Bryan A) Gig: Bryan Adams/Steve Miller Band/Extreme/Sass Jordan/Moxy Fruvous; Molson Park, Barrie, Ontario; August 22nd 1992 Decentish prog band: Rush🤓 Actor: Michael J. Fox PS couldn’t think of any decent tv series from Canada, but for anyone who remembers law drama Street Legal, I spent a few months working on the show’s set in 1992 as a weekend nighttime security guard!!!😃 ------------- Heaven is waiting but waiting is Hell |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: April 20 2024 at 12:16
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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. ------------------------- 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 ------------- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXcp9fYc6K4IKuxIZkenfvukL_Y8VBqzK" rel="nofollow - Duos for fave acts |
Posted By: Archisorcerus
Date Posted: April 20 2024 at 12:32
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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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Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: April 20 2024 at 12:46
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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. ------------- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXcp9fYc6K4IKuxIZkenfvukL_Y8VBqzK" rel="nofollow - Duos for fave acts |
Posted By: Archisorcerus
Date Posted: April 20 2024 at 12:57
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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. |
Posted By: Hrychu
Date Posted: April 20 2024 at 14:01
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Estonia band: Keeris album: In Spe - s/t (1983) TV show: Naabriplika (2013-2018) Film: November [Rehepapp] (2017) ------------- “On the day of my creation, I fell in love with education. And overcoming all frustration, a teacher I became.” — Ernest Vong |
Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: April 20 2024 at 22:25
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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 |
Posted By: Archisorcerus
Date Posted: April 21 2024 at 03:46
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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 |
Posted By: Archisorcerus
Date Posted: April 21 2024 at 04:35
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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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Posted By: Archisorcerus
Date Posted: April 21 2024 at 05:24
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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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Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: April 21 2024 at 05:27
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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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Posted By: Archisorcerus
Date Posted: April 21 2024 at 06:01
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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.
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Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: April 21 2024 at 17:11
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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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Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: April 21 2024 at 18:31
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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. ------------- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXcp9fYc6K4IKuxIZkenfvukL_Y8VBqzK" rel="nofollow - Duos for fave acts |
Posted By: Archisorcerus
Date Posted: April 23 2024 at 06:08
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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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Posted By: presdoug
Date Posted: April 23 2024 at 07:41
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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 |
Posted By: essexboyinwales
Date Posted: April 23 2024 at 10:51
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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 That’s it. I quite like Cellar Darling🤓 ------------- Heaven is waiting but waiting is Hell |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: April 23 2024 at 17:41
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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...) ------------------------------------------- Now the might land of the Maori 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 ------------- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXcp9fYc6K4IKuxIZkenfvukL_Y8VBqzK" rel="nofollow - Duos for fave acts |
Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: April 23 2024 at 23:41
| ^ 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. |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: April 24 2024 at 00:36
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). ------------- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXcp9fYc6K4IKuxIZkenfvukL_Y8VBqzK" rel="nofollow - Duos for fave acts |
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: April 24 2024 at 00:49
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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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Posted By: essexboyinwales
Date Posted: April 24 2024 at 02:45
New Cellar Darling album due this year hopefully…. ------------- Heaven is waiting but waiting is Hell |
Posted By: essexboyinwales
Date Posted: April 24 2024 at 02:49
I was in the same school (junior and senior) as Stephen Moyer (year below) and we were quite good friends in our early teens - he used to come round and play snooker on my 5 foot by 2 and a half foot table. He was always the lead in the school play/musical so it was no surprise that he went into acting - he’s done ok! I still haven’t watched True Blood - DVDs are sitting in the cupboard🙄 ------------- Heaven is waiting but waiting is Hell |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: April 24 2024 at 13:22
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I really love playing and watching snooker. Finland Band: Pekka Pohjola Album: Haikara - Haikara Composer: Jean Sibelius Director/Screenwriter: Aki Kaurismäki Film: Frozen Land Series: Raid ------------- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXcp9fYc6K4IKuxIZkenfvukL_Y8VBqzK" rel="nofollow - Duos for fave acts |
Posted By: presdoug
Date Posted: April 24 2024 at 13:36
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Posted By: Hrychu
Date Posted: April 24 2024 at 13:39
Deutschland! band (West Germany): Boney M band (DDR): Stern Combo Meissen band (post-Berlin wall): early Rammstein album (West Germany): Anyone's Daughter - Adonis album (DDR): Uve Shikora's Gewitter - s/t album (post-Berlin wall): Argos - The Other Life TV show (West Germany): N/A TV show (DDR): N/A TV show (post-Berlin wall): Tabaluga film (West Germany): Aguirre film (DDR): N/A film (post-Berlin wall): Manitu's Shoe ------------- “On the day of my creation, I fell in love with education. And overcoming all frustration, a teacher I became.” — Ernest Vong |
Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: April 24 2024 at 17:29
Wow that's amazing! Moyer recently acted in and directed some episodes of the Paramount TV series Sexy Beast. Like his work on that a lot.
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Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: April 24 2024 at 17:34
That's cool Doug, loved Currie Graham in NYPD Blue. Unfortunately I've never met any actors of any note. If I had the choice to meet any actor it would probably be Julie Waters. She comes across as fun but also has some excellent acting credits including an Oscar for Educating Rita.
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Posted By: essexboyinwales
Date Posted: April 25 2024 at 05:05
He was Stephen Emery before he changed his name. A cheeky chappy, and a big hit with the ladies (including one teacher, allegedly….)🤓 ------------- Heaven is waiting but waiting is Hell |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: April 25 2024 at 05:15
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Some of my favourite shows are set in Iceland, and loved the film Lamb, and I am fascinated by the island, its people, and the arts that come from there. I would love to travel there before long. Maybe I'll even try the fermented rotten shark. Iceland Music Artist: Björk Björk Album: Homogenic Björk Song: "Isobel" (from Post) Band: Sigur Rós Sigur Rós Album: ( ) Sigur Rós Song: "Untitled #8 (Popplagið)" off ( ) TV Show: Katla Film: Lamb ------------- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXcp9fYc6K4IKuxIZkenfvukL_Y8VBqzK" rel="nofollow - Duos for fave acts |
Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: April 25 2024 at 23:07
| ^ I watched Katla, enjoyable TV show. |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: April 26 2024 at 11:49
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^ I loved Katla -- it resonated strongly with me. It reminded me somewhat of one of my very favourite shows, Les Revenants (aka The Returned). Another show I liked from Iceland is Trapped (and I watched Entrapped) -- like Katla, I saw those on Netflx. ------------- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXcp9fYc6K4IKuxIZkenfvukL_Y8VBqzK" rel="nofollow - Duos for fave acts |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: May 06 2024 at 10:11
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I wanted to do a slightly longer version of my US list where I tried to keep it super simple. United States Band: Swans Artist: Weyes Blood (or Lingua Ignota) Album: Bloom by Beach House TV Show: Twin Peaks TV show not Twin Peaks: Fargo Film: Harold and Maude Novel: The Road by Cormac McCarthy And a new country for me to do: Portugal Music Artist: Bruno Pernadas Album: Those Who Throw Objects at the Crocodiles Will Be Asked to Retrieve Them by Pernadas Pernadas Song: Hard to choose between "Spaceway 70" off Crocodiles, "Step Out of the Light" off Private Reasons" and "Pink Ponies Don't Fly on Jupiter" off his debut. Author: Jose Saramago Novel: Blindness by Saramago ------------- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXcp9fYc6K4IKuxIZkenfvukL_Y8VBqzK" rel="nofollow - Duos for fave acts |
Posted By: Gnik Nosmirc
Date Posted: May 06 2024 at 13:37
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France Band: Gong Artist: Pierre Moerlen Album: Camembert Electrique Film: Pierrot Le Fou Novel: In Search of Lost Time, Marcel Proust
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Posted By: moshkito
Date Posted: May 07 2024 at 15:42
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Hi, I wish I could do Germany ... for all the knowledge of "krautrock", the one thing I have nothing on and never seen is German Television and (in general) more about artists and painters. Band: AD2/Can/Popol Vuh/Guru Guru Artists and Writers: Wim Wenders, Peter Handke (though he is originally Austrian) Film: Aguirre by Herzog/Fassbinder for sure/Schlondorff Artist: Falk Ulrich Rogner who played keyboards and did a lot of the early cover for AD2 There were a lot of special open performances in theater, kinda like the American version of "The Living Theater" (Julian Beck and Judith Malina) ... and you can see Klaus Kinski doing it in a Herzog film about his friend. ------------- Music is not just for listening ... it is for LIVING ... you got to feel it to know what's it about! Not being told! www.pedrosena.com |
Posted By: Gnik Nosmirc
Date Posted: May 08 2024 at 03:56
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^You have great movie tastes. |
Posted By: Fercandio46
Date Posted: May 09 2024 at 20:59
Hello, Fassbinder's Berlin Alexanderplatz was made for television so technically it would fall into that category...13 chapters and an epilogue!
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Posted By: essexboyinwales
Date Posted: May 10 2024 at 13:39
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England This is hard, so much good stuff!😅 Song: Comfortably Numb Prog Band: IQ Prog Album: Road Of Bones Metal Band: Iron Maiden Metal Album: Live After Death Modern musical legend: Mike Oldfield Pop Band: Keane Pop Album: Hope And Fears Author: Sebastian Faulks Book: Birdsong Film: Brassed Off Actor: Daniel Day-Lewis Actress: Emma Thompson TV series (drama): Line Of Duty TV series (comedy): Only Fools And Horses ------------- Heaven is waiting but waiting is Hell |
Posted By: essexboyinwales
Date Posted: May 18 2024 at 10:02
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USA: Prog band: Dream Theater Prog album: Images & Words Live band: King’s X Solo artist: Billy Joel Song: Scenes From An Italian Restaurant Film: Groundhog Day Film trilogy: Back To The Future Actor: Tom Hanks Actress: Meryl Streep Author: Stephen King Book: 11/22/63 TV Series (drama): The X-files TV Series (comedy): Friends ------------- Heaven is waiting but waiting is Hell |