A person could walk up to me and say "I just cured cancer, now let's go relax and watch a Bergman film and maybe listen to my extensive collection of ultra-rare Trinidadian calypso 78s," and I'd still snub the fuck out of them.
ABBA, Bad Religion, Bond, Busta, CCR, The Epoxies, Flogging Molly, In Flames, Korpiklaani, MC Chris, MSI, Murder By Death, NoFx, Telegraph, Tilt, etc.
Top40 is for chumps and hookers.
Adams Family, The Aristocrats, Better Off Dead, Big Lebowski, Brick, Caligula, CSA, The Corporation, Death Race 2000, Heat, Hell House, Hudsucker Proxy, Illusionist, Leon, Life Aquatic, MirrorMask, Revolver, Scotland PA, Secretary, Thank You For Smoking, The World's Fastest Indian, Who Killed The Electric Car
Big Love, Carnivale, Daily Show, House, Lost, Mythbusters, The Sopranos, and Top Gear
Dawkins, Gaiman, Gibson, Lovecraft, McInnes, Sedaris, Stephenson, Pratchett
Banksy, Aleister Crowley, Gunther Von Hagen, Richard Kyanka, Gavin McInnes, Burt Munro, Alan Moulder, Marquis de Sade, The Stig, Torquenstein, and everyone else who has manipulated the zeitgeist.