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

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).

Edited by Logan - April 24 2024 at 00:41

Logan wrote: ^ 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

New Cellar Darling album due this year hopefully….

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

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

presdoug wrote: richardh wrote: 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 I have met Canadian actor Currie Graham, who played in NYPD Blue; he went to the same high school as I did in Prescott, Ontario, Canada, and I also met and knew his father a little, who was a high school principal in the area.

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

^ 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.

France

Band: Gong


Edited by Gnik Nosmirc - May 06 2024 at 13:37

^You have great movie tastes.

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