Keeping it rock-based.
Barney Stinson, Joss Whedon, Billy Petersen, Ian McEwan
The Darkness, Kenickie, J Xaverre, Kevin Rowland, Dexys Midnight Runners, The Divine Comedy, Astrid, Idlewild, Ash, Silver Sun, The Samurai Seven, British Whale, Spinal Tap, the soundtrack to 'A Mighty Wind', Van Halen (but not Van Hagar), David Holmes, Buzzcocks, Grand Drive, Danny George Wilson, Mark Knopfler, Dire Straits, David Devant And His Spirit Wife, Carfax, Mr Solo, Arab Strap, Lucky Pierre, Malcolm Middleton, Mogwai, Explosions In The Sky, Do Make Say Think, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, A Silver Mt Zion, Sigur Ros, Tortoise, Boards Of Canada, The Chemical Brothers, Outkast, Jurassic 5, Al Green, Bill Withers, Stevie Wonder, The Faces, The Beach Boys, The Beatles, Paul McCartney & Wings, Manic Street Preachers, Mansun, Lightning Seeds, AC/DC, Journey, Aerosmith, Drive By Truckers, The Dirtbombs, Primal Scream, Jesus and Mary Chain, The Clash, Ben Folds, Aztec Camera, Roddy Frame, Cousteau, Super Furry Animals, Weezer, Fountains of Wayne.
Serenity, This Is Spinal Tap, A Mighty Wind, Best In Show, Reservoir Dogs, Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back, Clerks, Mallrats, Chasing Amy, Dogma, Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back, Jersey Girl (fuck the haters), Annie Hall, Everyone Says I Love You, Smoke, Fight Club, 28 Days Later, The Wicker Man, The Italian Job, Alfie, The Ipcress File, Get Carter, The Limey, Out Of Sight, Ocean's Eleven, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, The Sting, Shaun Of The Dead, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Grosse Point Blank, Swingers, Withnail & I, Anchorman.
CSI Crime Scene Investigation, CSI Miami, CSI New York, House, How I Met Your Mother, Bones, The Shield, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Arrested Development, Veronica Mars, Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Angel, Firefly, QI, Grand Designs, Match of the Day.
Viz's Profanisaurus Rex, David Lee Roth's autobiography 'Crazy From The Heat', and anything and everything by Ian McEwen, Douglas Coupland, Paul Auster, Stephen Fry, Bill Bryson, Colin Bateman, Frederick Forsyth and, last but by no means least, Douglas Adams. Also the CSI novelisations by Max Allan Collins and the Temperance Brennan novels by Kathy Reichs.
Justin Hawkins, Dan Hawkins, Ed Graham, Francis Poullain-Patterson and Richie Edwards