R.E.M, Teenage Fanclub, Blondie, Wilco, The Kinks, Big Star, Neil Young, DeVotchKa, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, 70's Elton, The Ramones, Edith Frost, The Pixies, The Go-Betweens, New York Dolls, The BellRays, Nick Cave, Belle and Sebastian, My Morning Jacket, Yo La Tengo, Devastations, Martha Wainwright, Jeff Buckley, Curtis Mayfield, Billie Holiday, The Ronettes, Augie March, The Go! Team, Dusty Springfield, The Shirelles, Elliott Smith, M.I.A, Air, You Am I, Arcade Fire, Edith Piaf, Jolie Holland, The Beatles, Beck, The Jayhawks, Ron Sexsmith, Decoder Ring, Icecream Hands, The Flaming Lips, Garbage, Nick Drake, The Smiths, Morrissey, The White Stripes, Brendan Benson, Gersey, Janis Joplin, M. Ward, Doves, Sodastream, Jackson 5, Neko Case, The New Pornographers, Aretha Franklin, The Panics, Pulp, Suede, The Pipettes, Split Enz, Stevie Wonder, Shugie Otis, Joan as Police Woman, Crowded House, Andrew Bird, Neil Diamond (thanks, Mum)...
The Royal Tenenbaums, Amelie, Donnie Darko, High Society, The Triplets of Belleville, Dogfight, Cabaret, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Saturday Night Fever, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Legally Blonde, High Fidelity, Being John Malkovich, Clerks, Lost in Translation, Rushmore, Wallace and Gromit: A Grand Day Out, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, Chasing Amy, This is Spinal Tap, Pulp Fiction, Muriel's Wedding, Casablanca, Zoolander, The City of Lost Children, Ferris Bueller's Day Off and other classics from the oeuvre of John Hughes (with the exception of Home Alone), any movie with dancing/dance-offs in it, particularly if it was made in the 80s and/or starred Olivia Newton John and/or John Travolta
The Chaser's War on Everything, We Can Be Heroes, Twin Peaks, Northern Exposure, Arrested Development, I'm Alan Partridge, Phoenix Nights. And Neighbours. Still. My longest-running emotional involvement.
Franny and Zooey, Kitchen, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, New York Trilogy, The Virgin Suicides, 31 Songs, Seven Types of Ambiguity, Old School, White Teeth, The Ground Beneath Her Feet, Atonement, Cloudstreet, Beloved, The Age of Innocence, Norwegian Wood, Grand Days, High Fidelity, Girlfriend in a Coma, Morvern Callar, The Secret History