List country's band/artist, album, TV show, film

USA

Artist - Frank Zappa
Album - Leftoverture
TV show - Breaking Bad
Film - Spinal Tap

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)

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

^ 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,

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)

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

^ 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?

Germany

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)

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)