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Top 10+ Music, Movies, and Visual Art of the Week(s): 8-17-26 - 8-23-26
Nostalghia - Andrei Tarkovsky (1983) …upgraded 8.8+
Piano Sonata No. 32 in C Minor (1822) …probably a slight downgrade to 8.8 (not totally decided, not updated on all lists yet)
Symphony No. 9 in E Minor "From the New World" - Antonin Dvorak (1893) …probably a slight downgrade to 8.8 (not totally decided, not updated on all lists yet)
Symphony No. 3 in E-flat Major "Eroica" - Ludwig van Beethoven (1804) …probably a slight downgrade to 8.8 (not totally decided, not updated on all lists yet)
Elektra - Richard Strauss (1909) …probably a slight downgrade to 8.8 (not totally decided, not updated on all lists yet)
Piano Sonata No. 23 in F Minor "Appassionata" (1805) …probably a slight downgrade to 8.6 (not totally decided, not updated on all lists yet)
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TOP 50 WORKS OF ART OF THE YEAR (2026)
A Love Supreme - John Coltrane (1964)
The Last Supper - Leonardo da Vinci (circa 1495 - 1498) / Santa Maria delle Grazie, Milan, Italy [Painting]
Sistine Chapel Ceiling and The Last Judgment - Michelangelo Buonarroti (1508 - 1512; 1535 - 1541) / Sistine Chapel, Vatican City, Rome, Italy [Painting]
Notre-Dame de Paris - Main construction principally directed under Bishop Maurice de Sully (1163 - 1260, main construction; various additions, updates, restorations thereafter; reconstruction of fleche and roof from fire damages: 2019 - 2024) / Parvis Notre-Dame – Place Jean-Paul-II, Paris, France [Architecture, including Stained Glass and Structural Sculpture]
Through Silver in Blood - Neurosis (1996)[
Rock Bottom - Robert Wyatt (1974)
Have One On Me - Joanna Newsom (2010)
Spirit of Eden - Talk Talk (1988)
Spiderland - Slint (1991)
Suicide - Suicide (1977)
Geek the Girl - Lisa Germano (1994)
Down Colorful Hill - Red House Painters (1992)
Yerself is Steam - Mercury Rev (1991)
St. Peter's Basilica - Principal Architects: Donato Bramante (Original design and began construction of central Greek Cross plan: 1503 - 1514); Michelangelo Buonarroti (Revised plan and construction with updated Greek Cross design heavily informing the final result less the later addition of Maderno's Nave and Facade; revision and main design of the central Dome: 1546 - 1564); Carlo Maderno (Revised to Latin Cross plan with addition of central Nave; addition of Facade: 1603 - 1629); Gian Lorenzo Bernini (Revision of St. Peter's Square, addition of Colonnade: 1656 - 1667) (Building completed and opened by 1626; various revisions and additions thereafter) / Vatican City, Rome, Italy [Architecture, including Structural Sculpture]
The Survivors Suite - Keith Jarrett (1976)
Temple Of The Morning Star - Today is the Day (1997)
Blue - Joni Mitchell (1971)
Remnants of a Deeper Purity - Black Tape for a Blue Girl (1996)
Improvisie - Paul Bley (1971)
The Doors - The Doors (1966)
The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady - Charles Mingus (1963)
Piano Sonata No. 32 in C Minor - Ludwig van Beethoven (1822)
Highway 61 Revisited - Bob Dylan (1965)
The Jazz Composer's Orchestra - Michael Mantler (1968) [aka, "The Jazz Composer’s Orchestra - The Jazz Composer's Orchestra (1968)"]
Y - Pop Group (1979)
Guernica - Pablo Picasso (1937) / Museo Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain [Painting]
Piano Sonata No. 30 in E Major - Ludwig van Beethoven (1820)
Volunteers - Jefferson Airplane (1969)
Hejira - Joni Mitchell (1976)
A Genuine Tong Funeral - Carla Bley and Gary Burton (1967)
Millions Now Living Will Never Die - Tortoise (1995)
Out to Lunch - Eric Dolphy (1964)
Bad Moon Rising - Sonic Youth (1985)
Fire of Love - Gun Club (1981)
Master Of Puppets - Metallica (1986)
Exile On Main Street - The Rolling Stones (1972)
Sahara – McCoy Tyner (1972)
Good - Morphine (1992)
Fun House - The Stooges (1970)
Lady of the Mirrors - Anthony Davis (1980)
Chartres Cathedral - Master of Chartres (Anonymous French Architect) (early phase of construction from 1120s - circa 1165, with only the crypt, towers and West Facade surviving a fire of 1194; thereafter the main Gothic structure as currently seen was largely established structurally from 1194 - 1221; further completion and details from circa 1221 - circa 1250 with consecration in 1260; various modifications and additions thereafter) / Chartres, France [Architecture, including Stained Glass and Structural Sculpture]
The Velvet Underground and Nico - The Velvet Underground (1966)
Bullet in the Head - John Woo (1990)
Faust - Faust (1971)
Salisbury Cathedral _________________ Best Classical Best Films Best Paintings
A couple of observations about Freewheelin’. First, how does Girl from the North Country - a relatively trivial love song more or less plagiarized from an English folk ballad - warrant the same score as the savage and poetic Masters of War and Blowin in the Wind?
Second, it’s interesting to note that it doesn’t feel like Scaruffi’s take on this album is too different from other critics, despite the wildly different ratings. Other critics give it 5 stars, seeing it as a great and revolutionary album. Scaruffi rates it 5/10, seeing it as an album with three great and revolutionary songs surrounded by junk. Two different ways of looking at the same thing.
This does not apply for Revolver, A Rush of Blood to the Head, or probably any other album Scaruffi rates 5/10 that is lauded by critics: a critic who loves A Rush of Blood to the Head has a serious disagreement with Scaruffi. Yet somehow it doesn’t feel like a critic giving Freewheelin 5 stars contradicts Scaruffi very much
I’ll get back to you soon RK, I should be active again here very shortly, just got back from spending time away with close friends, gf, etc, without internet/social media. I find it therapeutic from time to time _________________ Best Classical Best Films Best Paintings
A couple of observations about Freewheelin’. First, how does Girl from the North Country - a relatively trivial love song more or less plagiarized from an English folk ballad - warrant the same score as the savage and poetic Masters of War and Blowin in the Wind?
Second, it’s interesting to note that it doesn’t feel like Scaruffi’s take on this album is too different from other critics, despite the wildly different ratings. Other critics give it 5 stars, seeing it as a great and revolutionary album. Scaruffi rates it 5/10, seeing it as an album with three great and revolutionary songs surrounded by junk. Two different ways of looking at the same thing.
This does not apply for Revolver, A Rush of Blood to the Head, or probably any other album Scaruffi rates 5/10 that is lauded by critics: a critic who loves A Rush of Blood to the Head has a serious disagreement with Scaruffi. Yet somehow it doesn’t feel like a critic giving Freewheelin 5 stars contradicts Scaruffi very much
It’s very possible I’ve slightly overrated GFNC and/or underrated MofW. Its main quality is Dylan’s extraordinary sincerity/emotional honesty of his idiosyncratic voice that is so totally “him” and especially humane here, though does not necessarily have additional depth/insight perhaps, such as the duality of characterization of Blowin (struck between “youth” and “elderly”, trading vantage points, concerned at the future yet fluctuated by reminiscing about days long gone (his voice trades “characterizations”), which could be expressively likened to a subtly microcosmic “sum” of the early to mid 60s / Vietnam era (between upcoming youth getting abandoned by the establishment, Kennedy on the verge of getting assassinated, and confronting the stages towards Vietnam war, while also the elderly that went through WW2 seeing the same things from a now more regretful POV, reminiscing, pained, nostalgic)
Re different 5s
I think Scaruffi just respects Dylan more and doesn’t feel the need to point out flawed works as much. I also have a hunch he respects his sincerity and effort even in failure, where he employs almost nothing but his voice, harmonica and light guitar and gets good mileage out of it, perhaps more than an effort like Revolver which employs much more, gets lauded to high heaven, and doesn’t get as much mileage out of it all as it should _________________ Best Classical Best Films Best Paintings
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Top 10+ Music, Movies, and Visual Art of the Week(s): 10-5-26 - 10-12-26
Trust - Low (2002)
The Velvet Underground and Nico - The Velvet Underground (1966)
Amassed - Spring Heel Jack (2002)
Chartres Cathedral - Master of Chartres (Anonymous French Architect) (early phase of construction from 1120s - circa 1165, with only the crypt, towers and West Facade surviving a fire of 1194; thereafter the main Gothic structure as currently seen was largely established structurally from 1194 - 1221; further completion and details from circa 1221 - circa 1250 with consecration in 1260; various modifications and additions thereafter) / Chartres, France [Architecture, including Stained Glass and Structural Sculpture]
Top 10+ SONGS/TRACKS for the Week(s)
FAMILIAR ROCK/JAZZ ALBUMS - RE-RATED: Trust - Low (2002)8.0/10 to 8.4/10 Amassed - Spring Heel Jack (2002)8.0/10 to 8.2/10
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TOP 50 WORKS OF ART OF THE YEAR (2026)
A Love Supreme - John Coltrane (1964)
The Last Supper - Leonardo da Vinci (circa 1495 - 1498) / Santa Maria delle Grazie, Milan, Italy [Painting]
Sistine Chapel Ceiling and The Last Judgment - Michelangelo Buonarroti (1508 - 1512; 1535 - 1541) / Sistine Chapel, Vatican City, Rome, Italy [Painting]
Notre-Dame de Paris - Main construction principally directed under Bishop Maurice de Sully (1163 - 1260, main construction; various additions, updates, restorations thereafter; reconstruction of fleche and roof from fire damages: 2019 - 2024) / Parvis Notre-Dame – Place Jean-Paul-II, Paris, France [Architecture, including Stained Glass and Structural Sculpture]
Through Silver in Blood - Neurosis (1996)[
Rock Bottom - Robert Wyatt (1974)
Have One On Me - Joanna Newsom (2010)
Spirit of Eden - Talk Talk (1988)
Spiderland - Slint (1991)
Suicide - Suicide (1977)
Nostalghia - Andrei Tarkovsky (1983)
Geek the Girl - Lisa Germano (1994)
Down Colorful Hill - Red House Painters (1992)
Yerself is Steam - Mercury Rev (1991)
St. Peter's Basilica - Principal Architects: Donato Bramante (Original design and began construction of central Greek Cross plan: 1503 - 1514); Michelangelo Buonarroti (Revised plan and construction with updated Greek Cross design heavily informing the final result less the later addition of Maderno's Nave and Facade; revision and main design of the central Dome: 1546 - 1564); Carlo Maderno (Revised to Latin Cross plan with addition of central Nave; addition of Facade: 1603 - 1629); Gian Lorenzo Bernini (Revision of St. Peter's Square, addition of Colonnade: 1656 - 1667) (Building completed and opened by 1626; various revisions and additions thereafter) / Vatican City, Rome, Italy [Architecture, including Structural Sculpture]
The Survivors Suite - Keith Jarrett (1976)
Temple Of The Morning Star - Today is the Day (1997)
Blue - Joni Mitchell (1971)
Remnants of a Deeper Purity - Black Tape for a Blue Girl (1996)
Improvisie - Paul Bley (1971)
The Doors - The Doors (1966)
The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady - Charles Mingus (1963)
Piano Sonata No. 32 in C Minor - Ludwig van Beethoven (1822)
Highway 61 Revisited - Bob Dylan (1965)
The Jazz Composer's Orchestra - Michael Mantler (1968) [aka, "The Jazz Composer’s Orchestra - The Jazz Composer's Orchestra (1968)"]
Y - Pop Group (1979)
Guernica - Pablo Picasso (1937) / Museo Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain [Painting]
Piano Sonata No. 30 in E Major - Ludwig van Beethoven (1820)
Volunteers - Jefferson Airplane (1969)
Hejira - Joni Mitchell (1976)
A Genuine Tong Funeral - Carla Bley and Gary Burton (1967)
Millions Now Living Will Never Die - Tortoise (1995)
Out to Lunch - Eric Dolphy (1964)
Bad Moon Rising - Sonic Youth (1985)
Fire of Love - Gun Club (1981)
Master Of Puppets - Metallica (1986)
Exile On Main Street - The Rolling Stones (1972)
Sahara – McCoy Tyner (1972)
Good - Morphine (1992)
Fun House - The Stooges (1970)
Lady of the Mirrors - Anthony Davis (1980)
Chartres Cathedral - Master of Chartres (Anonymous French Architect) (early phase of construction from 1120s - circa 1165, with only the crypt, towers and West Facade surviving a fire of 1194; thereafter the main Gothic structure as currently seen was largely established structurally from 1194 - 1221; further completion and details from circa 1221 - circa 1250 with consecration in 1260; various modifications and additions thereafter) / Chartres, France [Architecture, including Stained Glass and Structural Sculpture]
The Velvet Underground and Nico - The Velvet Underground (1966)
Bullet in the Head - John Woo (1990)
Salisbury Cathedral _________________ Best Classical Best Films Best Paintings
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Just an intro, not a “thorough analysis”, mostly bullet points with some valuable insights … thought it might be of interest… _________________ Best Classical Best Films Best Paintings
Just a curiosity … decided to put this together for no other reason than that… not sure how dedicatedly I’ll work on it into the future beyond just as something that was on my mind for the last day or two and thought it might be interesting …
Best of Rock… Jazz… Classical… Film… Paintings… Architecture… Sculpture… Literature…!!! Combined List
Note: several selections, especially certain genres, are shakier in their ratings/rankings than others. In general by category, the order of accuracy are as (roughly) follows, most accurate first: (1) Rock; (2) Film; (3); Jazz; (4) Painting; (5) Classical; (6) Achitecture; (7) Sculpture; (8) Literature
Rock: always revisiting, making updates, never feel it is completely accurate, though it is probably the most reliable overall
Film: largely reliable, very similar as the above for Rock, the point of differential between their reliability being that it is just not as feasible to revisit and double check cinema as frequently as Rock (or most other music). The point in its favor however, is that visual observation tends to be less “abstract” and therefore tends to be quicker to grasp. However, it also can combine ALL genres plus its own visual filmic language, so can ALSO be just as “complex” if not more in some cases, than the others (less the more complex strata of Classical)
Jazz: similar to Rock, but has been revisited far less over the last decade or so. I need to go through most of the essential works again before this can be considered as accurate as Rock overall
Classical: ratings/rankings are very hit and miss as regards my confidence and what can be considered reliable. Symphonies are perhaps the most reliable on average. Of any Classical artist, Beethoven’s ratings are probably the closest to being the most completely reliable across his works (of those that Ive listed), though there are still some on there I am less sure of. Opera and Modern works, above all, and Vocal works (especially large scale) need multiple more revisits than Ive given them up to this point and should be taken with several grains of salt. Plus, my list is still missing hundreds of selections, many of them from several years back, that Ive just never gotten around to rating and ranking.
Paintings/Architecture/Sculpture: lots of recent revisits which helps, but nevertheless Ive only seen a portion of these in person, which makes ratings more of an estimate than other Arts even if Ive done as much as I can to get as close and as accurately observant to them all as feasible … plus, requires a lot of study, more so (in general) the farther the work is removed from the present, and there is still a ton left to learn to get these all as accurate as possible
Literature: way, way, way behind … should be taken with a grain of salt. These are the loosest estimates of all, with several I haven’t read in 20+ years. Most of the 8.8s and above are probably in relatively close proximity to their ratings, as well as some below, with The Divine Comedy receiving the most extensive recent revisit, but besides probably that, almost any of the others can’t be relied upon too strictly … even in those I haven’t read in forever (long before these ratings), Ive done my best to estimate their current rating “by memory” … There is also just a LOT of great works I have yet to read at all, which hinders the accuracy of the ratings in itself (limited history and experience in this Art to make proper comparisons and qualitative context with, relative to the others)
Greatest Works of Art of All Time
Color Key Black = Literature Indigo = Painting/Architecture/Sculpture Orange = Classical Blue = Rock (including all subgenres, and “Avant Garde” in a more specialized sense where it is not especially “Classical”) Red = Jazz Green = Film
10/10 10: The Divine Comedy - Dante Alighieri (circa 1321) [Literature: Poetry] 9.9: Sistine Chapel Ceiling and The Last Judgment - Michelangelo Buonarroti (1508 - 1512; 1535 - 1541) / Sistine Chapel, Vatican City, Rome, Italy [Painting]
9.5/10 9.7: Symphony No. 9 in D Minor "Choral" - Ludwig van Beethoven (1824) [Classical] 9.5: Rock Bottom - Robert Wyatt (1974) [Rock] 9.4: Symphony No. 9 in D Major - Gustav Mahler (1910) [Classical] 9.4: Trout Mask Replica - Captain Beefheart (1969) [Rock] 9.3: Hamlet - William Shakespeare (circa 1600) [Literature: Theater] 9.3: Tristan und Isolde - Richard Wagner (1859) [Classical] 9.3: A Love Supreme - John Coltrane (1964) [Jazz]
9/10 9.2: The Velvet Underground & Nico - The Velvet Underground (1966) [Rock] 9.2: The Doors - The Doors (1966) [Rock] 9.2: Faust - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1832) [Literature: Poetry/Theater] 9.1: The Garden of Earthly Delights - Hieronymus Bosch (probably circa 1503-1505) / Museo del Prado, Madrid, Spain [Painting] 9.1: The Black Saint & The Sinner Lady - Charles Mingus (1963) [Jazz] 9.1: The Odyssey - Homer (circa 700s) [Literature: Poetry] 9.1: Lorca - Tim Buckley (1969) [Rock] 9.1: Mass in B Minor - Johann Sebastian Bach (1749) [Classical] 9.1: Der Ring des Nibelungen - Richard Wagner (1874) [Classical] 9.1: The Trial - Franz Kafka (1925) [Literature: Novel] 9.0: Astral Weeks - Van Morrison (1968) [Rock] 9.0: Symphony No. 9 in C Major "The Great" - Franz Schubert (1826) [Classical] 9.0: Symphonie Fantastique - Hector Berlioz (1830) [Classical] 9.0: Blonde On Blonde - Bob Dylan (1966) [Rock] 9.0: Symphony No. 15 in A Major - Dmitri Shostakovich (1971) [Classical] 9.0: Ulysses - James Joyce (1922) [Literature: Novel] 9.0: Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes (1615) [Literature: Novel] 9.0: Citizen Kane - Orson Welles (1941) [Film] 9.0: Brazil - Terry Gilliam (1985) [The Final Cut, 142 minutes] [Film] 9.0: Faust - Faust (1971) [Rock] 9.0: The Last Supper - Leonardo da Vinci (circa 1495 - 1498) / Santa Maria delle Grazie, Milan, Italy [Painting] 9.0: Symphony No. 5 in C Minor - Ludwig van Beethoven (1808) [Classical] 9.0: Parable of Arable Land - Red Crayola (1967) [Rock] 9.0: Symphony No. 4 in E Minor - Johannes Brahms (1885) [Classical] 9.0: Angkor Wat - Started by Suryavarman II; Completed by Jayavarman VII (circa 1122 - 1150; Note: there are various anomalies that may suggest an earlier date of construction -- perhaps even much earlier) / Siem Reap, Cambodia [Architecture, including Structural Sculpture] 9.0: Lulu - Alban Berg (1935) [Classical] 8.9: In the Aeroplane Over the Sea - Neutral Milk Hotel (1997) [Rock] 8.9: Don Giovanni - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1787) [Classical] 8.9: Escalator Over The Hill - Carla Bley (1971) [Jazz] 8.9: Twin Infinitives - Royal Trux (1990) [Rock] 8.9: Alhambra - Muhammad I Ibn al-Ahmar; later additions overseen by Yusuf I and Muhammad V (initial structure: 1250; several alterations thereafter through the 1600s) / Granada, Spain [Architecture, including Mosaics, Stained Glass, Structural Sculpture and Landscape Architecture] 8.9: The Jazz Composer's Orchestra - Michael Mantler (1968) [aka, "The Jazz Composer’s Orchestra - The Jazz Composer's Orchestra (1968)"] [Jazz] 8.9: Irrlicht - Klaus Schulze (1972) [Rock] 8.9: Desertshore - Nico (1970) [Rock] 8.9: Early Bourgeois Revolution in Germany - Werner Tubke (1976 - 1987) [aka, "Peasants' War Panorama"] / Panorama Museum, Bad Frankenhausen, Thuringia, Germany [Painting] 8.9: Paradise Lost - John Milton (1667) [Literature: Poetry] 8.9: Y - The Pop Group (1979) [Rock] 8.9: Suicide - Suicide (1977) [Rock] 8.9: Symphony No. 3 in F Major - Johannes Brahms (1883) [Classical] 8.9: Requiem - Guisseppe Verdi (1874) [Classical] 8.8: Neu! - Neu! (1971) [Rock] 8.8: Four Quartets - T.S. Eliot (1943) [Literature: Poetry] 8.8: Macbeth - William Shakespeare (1606) [Literature: Theater] 8.8: Spiderland - Slint (1991) [Rock] 8.8: Touch of Evil - Orson Welles (1958) [1998 Restored "Welles' Memo" Cut, 111 minutes] [Film] 8.8: Piano Sonata No. 32 in C Minor - Ludwig van Beethoven (1822) [Classical] 8.8: Symphony No. 9 in E Minor "From the New World" - Antonin Dvorak (1893) [Classical] 8.8: Symphony No. 3 in E-flat Major "Eroica" - Ludwig van Beethoven (1804) [Classical] 8.8: Nostalghia - Andrei Tarkovsky (1983) [Film] 8.8: Pelléas et Mélisande - Claude Debussy (1898) [Classical] 8.8: Glagolitic Mass - Leos Janacek (1926) [Classical] 8.8: St. Peter's Basilica - Principal Architects: Donato Bramante (Original design and began construction of central Greek Cross plan: 1503 - 1514); Michelangelo Buonarroti (Revised plan and construction with updated Greek Cross design heavily informing the final result less the later addition of Maderno's Nave and Facade; revision and main design of the central Dome: 1546 - 1564); Carlo Maderno (Revised to Latin Cross plan with addition of central Nave; addition of Facade: 1603 - 1629); Gian Lorenzo Bernini (Revision of St. Peter's Square, addition of Colonnade: 1656 - 1667) (Building completed and opened by 1626; various revisions and additions thereafter) / Vatican City, Rome, Italy [Architecture, including Structural Sculpture] 8.8: Messiah - George Frideric Handel (1741) [Classical] 8.8: St. Matthew Passion - Johann Sebastian Bach (1727) [Classical] 8.8: Missa Solemnis – Ludwig van Beethoven (1823) [Classical] 8.8: Zen Arcade - Husker Du (1984) [Rock] 8.8: Elektra - Richard Strauss (1909) [Classical] 8.8: Piano Sonata No. 23 in F Minor "Appassionata" - Ludwig van Beethoven (1805) [Classical] 8.8: Third - Soft Machine (1970) [Rock] 8.8: Yerself Is Steam - Mercury Rev (1991) [Rock] 8.8: Aida - Guisseppe Verdi (1871) [Classical] 8.8: The Marriage of Figaro - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1786) [Classical] 8.8: Saint Luke Passion - Krysztof Penderecki (1966) [Classical] 8.8: La Transfiguration de Notre Seigneur Jesus-Christ - Olivier Messiaen (1969) [Classical] 8.8: Symphony No. 6 in B Minor "Pathetique" - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1893) [Classical] 8.8: Down Colorful Hill - Red House Painters (1992) [Rock] 8.8: Dolmen Music - Meredith Monk (1981) [Avant Garde] 8.8: Diamanda Galas - Diamanda Galas (1984) [Avant Garde / Rock] 8.8: Notre-Dame de Paris - Main construction principally directed under Bishop Maurice de Sully (1163 - 1260, main construction; various additions, updates, restorations thereafter; reconstruction of fleche and roof from fire damages: 2019 - 2024) / Parvis Notre-Dame – Place Jean-Paul-II, Paris, France [Architecture, including Stained Glass and Structural Sculpture]
8.5/10 8.7: Through Silver in Blood - Neurosis (1996) [Rock] 8.7: Persona - Ingmar Bergman (1966) [Film] 8.7: White Light/White Heat - The Velvet Underground (1967) [Rock] 8.7: Have One On Me - Joanna Newsom (2010) [Rock] 8.7: The Downward Spiral - Nine Inch Nails (1994) [Rock] 8.7: Symphony No. 41 in C Major - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1788) [Classical] 8.7: Symphony No. 6 in A minor "Tragic" - Gustav Mahler (1904; 1906) [Classical] 8.7: Taj Mahal - Ustad Ahmad Lahauri (1631 - 1653) / Agra, Uttar Pradesh, India [Architecture, including Landscape Architecture] 8.7: Loveless - My Bloody Valentine (1991) [Rock] 8.7: The Rite of Spring - Igor Stravinsky (1913) [Classical] 8.7: Violin Concerto in D Major - Johannes Brahms (1878) [Classical] 8.7: Unit Structures - Cecil Taylor (1966) [Jazz] 8.7: Bitches Brew - Miles Davis (1969) [Jazz] 8.7: Symphony No. 8 in C Minor - Anton Bruckner (1892) 8.7: The Wasteland - T.S. Eliot (1922) [Literature: Poetry] 8.6: Daydream Nation - Sonic Youth (1988) [Rock] 8.6: Remnants of a Deeper Purity - Black Tape for a Blue Girl (1996) [Rock] 8.6: Saxophone Improvisations, Series F - Anthony Braxton (1972) [Jazz] 8.6: King Lear - William Shakespeare (1605) [Literature: Theater] 8.6: Dreamtime Return - Steve Roach (1988) [CD Release] [Rock] 8.6: Geek the Girl - Lisa Germano (1994) [Rock] 8.6: Violin Concertos Nos. 1-4, Op. 8, "The Four Seasons" - Antonio Vivaldi (1723) [Classical] 8.6: Symphony No. 8 in B Minor "Unfinished" - Franz Schubert (1822) 8.6: Symphony No. 5 - Gustav Mahler (1902) [Classical] 8.6: Piano Sonata No. 21 in B-flat Major - Franz Schubert (1828) [Classical] 8.6: Symphony No. 2 in D Major - Johannes Brahms (1877) [Classical] 8.6: Symphony No. 4 in F Minor - Peter Ilyitch Tchaikovsky (1878) [Classical] 8.6: Symphony No. 1 in C Minor - Johannes Brahms (1876) [Classical] 8.6: Starsailor - Tim Buckley (1970) [Rock] 8.6: Winterreise - Franz Schubert (1827) [Classical] 8.6: Improvisie - Paul Bley (1971) [Jazz] 8.6: Spirit of Eden - Talk Talk (1988) [Rock] 8.6: Registan Square - Ulugh Beg (1417 - 1420); Yalangtoʻsh Bahodir (1619 - 1636; 1646 - 1660) / Samarkand, Uzbekistan [Architecture] 8.6: North By Northwest - Alfred Hitchcock (1959) [Film] 8.5: Temple Of The Morning Star - Today is the Day (1997) [Rock] 8.5: The Modern Dance - Pere Ubu (1977) [Rock] 8.5: Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky (1866) [Literature: Novel] 8.5: Einstein on the Beach - Philip Glass (1975) [Classical] 8.5: Otello - Giuseppe Verdi (1887) [Classical] 8.5: Le Grand Macabre - Gyorgy Ligeti (1977) [Classical] 8.5: Saint-Francois d'Assise - Olivier Messiaen (1983) [Classical] 8.5: Werckmeister Harmonies - Bela Tarr (2000) [Film] 8.5: Ys - Joanna Newsom (2006) [Rock] 8.5: Highway 61 Revisited - Bob Dylan (1965) [Rock] 8.5: Guernica - Pablo Picasso (1937) / Museo Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain [Painting] 8.5: Well-Oiled - Hash Jar Tempo (1997) [Rock] 8.5: Symphony No. 5 in B-flat - Sergei Prokofiev (1944) [Classical] 8.5: Symphony No. 8 in C minor "Stalingrad" - Dmitri Shostakovich (1943) [Classical] 8.5: St. John Passion - Johann Sebastian Bach (1724; revised 1725, 1732 & 1749) [Classical] 8.5: String Quintet in C Major - Franz Schubert (1828) [Classical] 8.5: Piano Quintet in G Minor - Dmitri Shostakovich (1940) [Classical] 8.5: Ascension - John Coltrane (1965) [First Recording, aka "Edition II"] [Jazz] 8.5: The Survivor’s Suite – Keith Jarrett (1976) [Jazz] 8.5: Nashville - Robert Altman (1975) [Film] 8.5: Ein Deutsches Requiem - Johannes Brahms (1868) [Classical] 8.5: Grande Messe des morts - Hector Berlioz (1837) [Classical] 8.5: Passion: Music For The Last Temptation of Christ - Peter Gabriel (1989) [Rock] 8.5: The Three-Penny Opera - Kurt Weill (1928) 8.5: Symphony No. 7 in E major "Lyric" - Anton Bruckner (1883; revised 1885) 8.4: Chinatown - Roman Polanski (1974) [Film] 8.4: Vertigo - Alfred Hitchcock (1958) [Film] 8.4: War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy (1869) [Literature: Novel] 8.4: Metropolis - Fritz Lang (1927) ["The Complete Metropolis", 147 minutes] [Film] 8.4: From The House of The Dead - Leos Janacek (1928) [Classical] 8.4: Not Available - Residents (1974) [Rock] 8.4: The Ascension - Glenn Branca (1981) [Avant Garde / Rock] 8.4: Piano Trio No. 2 in E minor - Dmitri Shostakovich (1944) [Classical] 8.4: Blue - Joni Mitchell (1971) [Rock] 8.4: The Piper at the Gates of Dawn - Pink Floyd (1967) [Rock] 8.4: For Alto - Anthony Braxton (1968) [Jazz] 8.4: Potala Palace - Lozano Gyatso, 5th Dalai Llama (1645 - 1694; some additions thereafter) / Lhasa, Tibet Autonomous Region, China [Architecture] 8.4: Hagia Sophia - Directed by Byzantine Emperor Justinian I; Designed by Isidore of Miletus and Anthemius of Tralles (Current Main Structure: 532 - 537; various changes, additions thereafter) [Architecture, including Mosaics and Stained Glass] 8.4: Piano Sonata No. 30 in E Major - Ludwig van Beethoven (1820) [Classical] 8.4: Piano Sonata No. 20 in A Major - Franz Schubert (1828) [Classical] 8.4: Das Lied von der Erde - Gustav Mahler (1909) [Classical] 8.4: Spiritual Unity - Albert Ayler (1964) [Jazz] 8.4: Peter Grimes - Benjamin Britten (1945) [Classical] 8.4: The Magic Flute - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1791) [Classical] 8.4: Original Sin - Pandora's Box (1989) [Rock] 8.4: The River - Bruce Springsteen (1980) [Rock] 8.4: Volunteers - Jefferson Airplane (1969) [Rock] 8.4: Requiem - Gyorgy Ligeti (1965) 8.4: The Magic City - Sun Ra (1965) [Jazz] 8.4: In the Court of the Crimson King - King Crimson (1969) [Rock] 8.4: Sagrada Família - Antoni Gaudí (Gaudi: 1883 - 1926, unfinished; Still under construction) / Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain [Architecture, including Stained Glass and Structural Sculpture] 8.4: Polish Requiem - Krzysztof Penderecki (1983-2005) [Classical] 8.4: From Her To Eternity - Nick Cave (1984) [Rock] 8.4: Perfect From Now On - Built To Spill (1997) [Rock] 8.4: Trust - Low (2002) [Rock] 8.4: War Requiem - Benjamin Britten (1962) [Classical] 8.4: La Dolce Vita - Federico Fellini (1960) [Film] 8.4: Piano Sonata in B Minor - Franz Liszt (1853) [Classical] 8.4: Sinfonia da Requiem - Benjamin Britten (1940) [Classical] 8.4: Symphony No. 1 - Alfred Schnittke (1974) [Classical] 8.4: Symphony No. 7 in D minor - Antonin Dvorak (1885) [Classical] 8.4: Symphony No. 8 in G major - Antonin Dvorak (1889) [Classical] 8.4: Symphony No. 5 in E Minor - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1888) [Classical] 8.4: Piano Sonata No. 29 in B-flat Major "Hammerklavier" - Ludwig van Beethoven (1818) [Classical] 8.4: Kailasa Temple - King Krishna I (circa 773) / Ellora Caves (Cave 16), Aurangabad district, Maharashtra, India [Architecture and Sculpture] 8.4: Goldberg Variations - Johann Sebastian Bach (1741) [Classical] 8.4: The Art of Fugue - Johann Sebastian Bach (1750) [Classical]
Symphony in D Minor - Cesar Franck (1888)
Symphony No. 7 "Seven Gates of Jerusalem" - Krzysztof Penderecki (1996)
Fidelio - Ludwig van Beethoven (1805; revised 1806-1814)
Twelve Concerti Grossi, Op. 6 - Arcangelo Corelli (1714)
Symphony No. 40 in G minor - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1788)
Symphony No. 38 in D major - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1786)
Violin Concerto "To the Memory of an Angel" - Alban Berg (1935)
Tablet/Songs from the Hill - Meredith Monk (1979)
***Symphony No. 4 in E flat major "Romantic" - Anton Bruckner (1874; multiple revisions until 1888)***
Violin Concerto No. 2 in C-sharp Minor - Dmitri Shostakovich (1967)
The Well-Tempered Clavier (Books I & II) - Johann Sebastian Bach (1722; 1742)
Symphony No. 4 - Charles Ives (1924)
Symphony No. 2 in D Major - Jean Sibelius (1902)
8.3: Meet the Residents - Residents (1974) [Original "Unedited/Mono" Version] [Rock] 8.3: Stalker - Andrei Tarkovsky (1979) [Film] 8.3: Sonata in G minor for Piano and Cello, Op. 19 - Sergei Rachmaninoff (1901) [Classical] 8.3: Moby Dick - Herman Melville (1851) [Literature: Novel] 8.3: Cosi` Fan Tutte - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1790) 8.3: The Creation - Joseph Haydn (1798) 8.3: Salome - Richard Strauss (1905) [Classical] 8.3: Lohengrin - Richard Wagner (1850) [Classical] 8.3: La Traviata - Giuseppe Verdi (1853) [Classical] 8.3: Fare Forward Voyagers - John Fahey (1973) [Rock] 8.3: Dream Theory in Malaya - Jon Hassell (1981) [Avant Garde / Rock] 8.3: Hosianna Mantra - Popol Vuh (1973) [Rock]
8.3: Symphony No. 6 in F Major "Pastoral" - Ludwig van Beethoven (1808) [Classical]
8.3: Symphony No. 1 in F minor - Dmitri Shostakovich (1925) [Classical]
8.3: Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta - Bela Bartok (1936) [Classical]
8.3: Parsifal - Richard Wagner (1882)
8.3: Cello Concerto No. 2 - Dmitri Shostakovich (1966)
8.3: Symphony No. 8 - Alfred Schnittke (1994)
8.3: Symphony No. 8 in E flat major "Symphony Of A Thousand" - Gustav Mahler (1906)
8.3: Symphony No. 2 in C minor "Resurrection" - Gustav Mahler (1894)
8.3: Mu - Don Cherry (1969) [Parts 1 & 2] [Jazz] 8.3: The Traveling Players - Theo Angelopoulos (1975) [Film] 8.3: Millions Now Living Will Never Die - Tortoise (1995) [Rock] 8.3: Blow-Up - Michelangelo Antonioni (1966) [Film] 8.3: Landscape in the Mist - Theo Angelopoulos (1988) [Film] 8.3: A Genuine Tong Funeral - Carla Bley and Gary Burton (1967) [Jazz] 8.3: Taxi Driver - Martin Scorsese (1976) [Film] 8.3: Borobudur - Gunadharma (circa 842?) / Magelang Regency, Central Java, Indonesia [Architecture, including Sculpture] 8.3: Hejira - Joni Mitchell (1976) [Rock]
8.3: Requiem Mass in D minor - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1791) [Classical]
8.3: Mont-Saint-Michel Abbey - William of Volpiano (1060; Romanesque Church of the Abbey, Transept); Abbot of Torigni (1100s; structural reinforcement, main facade of Church); various modifications, reinforcements, thereafter (especially 1215 - 1228; various additions through 1390s) / Manche, Normandy, France [Architecture, including Stained Glass and Structural Sculpture] 8.3: Sainte-Chapelle - Jean de Chelles or Thomas de Cormont (1242 - 1248) / Paris, France [Architecture, including Stained Glass and Structural Sculpture] 8.3: Master Of Puppets - Metallica (1986) [Rock] 8.3: Out to Lunch - Eric Dolphy (1964) [Jazz] 8.3: The Days of Wine & Roses - Dream Syndicate (1982) [Rock] 8.3: Variations in Dream-time - Anthony Davis (1982) [Jazz] 8.3: Afternoon of a Georgia Faun - Marion Brown (1970) [Jazz] 8.3: Satantango - Bela Tarr (1994) [Film] 8.3: Cyborg - Klaus Schulze (1973) [Rock] 8.3: Lalibela Rock-Hewn Churches Complex - Gebre Meskel Lalibela (Architects unknown, construction was under the rule of Gebre Meskel Lalibela, circa 1181 - 1221; probably modified at various stages thereafter) / Ethiopian Highlands near Lalibela, Ethiopia [Architecture/Sculpture] 8.3: Faust Cantata - Alfred Schnittke (1983) [Classical] 8.3: Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables - Dead Kennedy's (1980) [Rock]
8.2: Porgy And Bess - George Gershwin (1935)
8.2: Falstaff - Giuseppe Verdi (1893) [Classical]
8/10 8.2: Lady of the Mirrors - Anthony Davis (1980) [Jazz] 8.2: Happy Sad - Tim Buckley (1968) [Rock] 8.2: Ecology of Souls - Kenneth Newby (1993) [Rock] 8.2: Slow, Deep & Hard - Type O Negative (1991) [Rock] 8.2: Kick Out the Jams - MC5 (1969) [Rock] 8.2: Seeds, Visions & Counterpoint - Ivo Perelman (1996) [Jazz] 8.2: Even the Sounds Shine - Myra Melford (1994) [Jazz] 8.2: Exile On Main Street - The Rolling Stones (1972) [Rock] 8.2: Art & Aviation - Jane Ira Bloom (1992) [Jazz] 8.2: Lullaby Land - Vampire Rodents (1993) [Rock] 8.2: Transient Random-Noise Bursts with Announcements - Stereolab (1993) [Rock] 8.2: Amassed - Spring Heel Jack (2002) [Jazz / Rock] 8.2: The Litanies of Satan - Diamanda Galas (1982) [Avant Garde / Rock] 8.2: Crystals - Sam Rivers (1974) [Jazz] 8.2: Are You Experienced? - Jimi Hendrix (1967) [Original 11-track North American Edition] [Rock] 8.2: Marquee Moon - Television (1977) [Rock] 8.2: Possession - Andrzej Zulawski (1981) [Original Cut, 123 minutes] [Film] 8.2: Let the Evil of His Own Lips Cover Him - Lingua Ignota (2017) [Rock] 8.2: The Beethoven Frieze - Gustav Klimt (1902) / Secession Building, Vienna, Austria [Painting] 8.2: Metamorphose de Narcisse - Salvador Dali (1937) / Tate Modern, London, England [Painting] 8.2: Sound - Roscoe Mitchell (1966) [Jazz] 8.2: Bad Moon Rising - Sonic Youth (1985) [Rock] 8.2: Uncanny Valley - Stabscotch (2017) [Rock] 8.2: Children of God - Swans (1987) [Rock] 8.2: Tragedy - Julia Holter (2011) [Rock] 8.2: Fontanelle - Babes In Toyland (1992) [Rock] 8.2: 8 ½ - Federico Fellini (1963) [Film] 8.2: Underground - Emir Kusturica (1995) [Film] 8.2: Metal Box - Public Image, Ltd (1979) [Rock] 8.2: Love Exposure - Sion Sono (2008) [Film] 8.2: Tago Mago - Can (1971) [Rock] 8.2: The Wild Bunch - Sam Peckinpah (1969) [Director's Cut, 145 minutes] 8.2: Electric Ladyland - Jimi Hendrix (1968) [Rock] 8.2: America - John Fahey (1971) [1998 Double Album Reissue] [Rock] 8.2: Double Nickels on the Dime - Minutemen (1984) [Rock] 8.2: Dimensions & Extensions - Sam Rivers (1967) [Jazz] 8.2: Belle de Jour - Luis Bunuel (1967) [Film] 8.2: Cantos I-IV - Franz Koglmann (1992) [Jazz] 8.2: Cobra - John Zorn (1986) [Jazz] 8.1: Ptah, the El Daoud - Alice Coltrane (1970) [Jazz] 8.1: Pulp Fiction - Quentin Tarantino (1994) [Film] 8.1: 6 - Supersilent (2003) [Rock] 8.1: It Takes A Nation of Millions To Hold Us Back - Public Enemy (1988) [Rock] 8.1: Jagged Little Pill - Alanis Morissette (1995) [Rock] 8.1: The Good Son - Nick Cave (1990) [Rock] 8.1: When I Was A Boy - Jane Siberry (1993) [Rock] 8.1: Red House Painters (Rollercoaster) - Red House Painters (1993) [Rock] 8.1: Saucerful of Secrets - Pink Floyd (1968) [Rock] 8.1: The Lady from Shanghai - Orson Welles (1948) [Film] 8.1: 2001: A Space Odyssey - Stanley Kubrick (1968) [Film] 8.1: Apocalypse Now - Francis Ford Coppola (1979) [Original Theatrical Release, 153 minutes] [Film] 8.1: Destroy Me Lover - Pain Teens (1993) [Rock] 8.1: Roxy Music - Roxy Music (1972) [Rock] 8.1: Post to Wire - Heather Duby (1999) [Rock] 8.1: Nail - Foetus (1985) [Rock] 8.1: Mundus Subterraneous - Lightwave (1995) [Rock] 8.1: New Maps of Hell - Paul Schutze (1992) [Rock] 8.1: Vernal Equinox - Jon Hassell (1977) [Rock] 8.1: Mother of Virtues - Pyrrhon (2013) [Rock] 8.1: Ikiru - Akira Kurosawa (1952) [Film] 8.1: This Is Not A Dream - Dadamah (1992) [CD Edition] [Rock] 8.1: Mother of all Saints - Thinking Fellers Union (1992) [Rock] 8.1: Rusty - Rodan (1994) [Rock] 8.1: Hex - Bark Psychosis (1994) [Rock] 8.1: Mirror Man - Captain Beefheart (1967) [Rock] 8.1: Fire of Love - Gun Club (1981) [Rock] 8.1: Bullet in the Head - John Woo (1990) [Film] 8.1: We Insist! Freedom Now Suite - Max Roach (1960) [Jazz] 8.1: Good - Morphine (1992) [Rock] 8.1: Laughing Stock - Talk Talk (1991) [Rock] 8.1: Florence Cathedral - Arnolfo di Cambio (1294 - 1302); Giotto (Bell Tower: 1334 - 1337); Filippo Brunelleschi (Dome: 1420 - 1436) (Completed 1436; Emilio De Fabris, Marble Facade: 1887) / Florence, Italy [Architecture, including Mosaics, Stained Glass and Structural Sculpture] 8.1: Let My Children Hear Music - Charles Mingus (1972) [Jazz] 8.1: The Conversion of Saul and The Crucifixion of St. Peter - Michelangelo Buonarroti (circa 1542 - 1545; circa 1546 - 1550) / Pauline Chapel, Vatican City, Rome, Italy [Painting] 8.1: Europe After The Rain II - Max Ernst (1940 - 1942) / Wadsworth Athenaeum, Hartford, Connecticut, USA [Painting] 8.1: The Last Judgment - Hieronymus Bosch (after 1482; probably circa 1500 - 1503) / Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, Austria [Painting] 8.1: Sahara – McCoy Tyner (1972) [Jazz] 8.1: Ode - London Jazz Composer’s Orchestra (1972) [Jazz] 8.1: Barbed Wire Maggots - Borbetomagus (1983) [Jazz] 8.1: Third Ear Band - Third Ear Band (1970) [Rock] 8.1: Disappeared - Spring Heel Jack (2000) [Rock / Jazz] 8.1: Uncle Meat - Frank Zappa (1968) [Rock] 8.1: The Brother's Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoevsky (1880) [Literature: Novel] 8.1: Radio Ethiopia - Patti Smith (1976) [Rock] 8.1: Atlantis - Sun Ra (1969) [Jazz] 8.1: Vision Creation Newsun - Boredoms (1999) [Rock] 8.1: Epitaph - Charles Mingus (1962) [Composed in 1962; Recorded and performed in full in 1989 by Gunther Schuller and Mingus Big Band] [Jazz] 8.1: Telepathic Surgery - The Flaming Lips (1989) [CD Issue] [Rock] 8.1: Yeti - Amon Duul II (1970) [Rock] 8.1: Dimension Gate - Aurora Sutra (1994) [Original Double Album Version] [Rock] 8.1: Radio Gnome Invisible Part 1: Flying Teapot - Gong (1973) [Rock] 8.1: Holy Mountain - Alejandro Jodorowsky (1973) [Film] 8.1: Conference of the Birds - Dave Holland (1972) [Jazz] 8.1: The Marble Index - Nico (1968) [Rock] 8.0: The Passion of Joan of Arc - Carl Theodor Dreyer (1928) [Film] 8.0: The Conversation - Francis Ford Coppola (1974) [Film] 8.0: Psycho - Alfred Hitchcock (1960) [Film] 8.0: Operator Dead... Post Abandoned - Burning Star Core (2007) [Rock] 8.0: The Long View - Marty Ehrlich (2002) [Jazz] 8.0: This Heat - This Heat (1979) [Rock] 8.0: Thirteen Masks - Jarboe (1991) [Rock] 8.0: Rosemary's Baby - Roman Polanski (1968) [Film] 8.0: Lost Highway - David Lynch (1997) [Film] 8.0: Hemispheres - Anthony Davis (1983) [Jazz] 8.0: Fractured Fairy Tales - Tim Berne (1989) [Jazz] 8.0: Zeichnungen des Patienten O.T. - Einstürzende Neubauten (1983) [Rock] 8.0: Novus Magnificat - Constance Demby (1986) [Avant Garde / Rock] 8.0: Freak Out! - Frank Zappa (1966) [Rock] 8.0: Through Time and Mystery -- Ending - Peter Frohmader (1988) [Rock] 8.0: Cyclops Nuclear Submarine Captain - Dogbowl (1991) [Rock] 8.0: Absolutely Free - Frank Zappa (1967) [Rock] 8.0: May I Sing With Me - Yo La Tengo (1992) [Rock] 8.0: The Art of Walking - Pere Ubu (1980) [Rock] 8.0: God - Rip, Rig & Panic (1981) [Rock] 8.0: Episteme - Anthony Davis (1981) [Jazz] 8.0: Appetite For Destruction - Guns N' Roses (1988) [Rock] 8.0: The Epic - Kamasi Washington (2015) [Jazz] 8.0: Tonight's the Night - Neil Young (1975) [Rock] 8.0: End of Silence - Henry Rollins (1992) [Rock] 8.0: The Emotional Plague - Supreme Dicks (1996) [Rock] 8.0: Just For A Day - Slowdive (1991) [Rock] 8.0: Sticky Fingers - Rolling Stones (1971) [Rock] 8.0: Four Great Points - June of 44 (1998) [Rock] 8.0: Safe as Milk - Captain Beefheart (1967) [Rock] 8.0: Bricolage - Amon Tobin (1997) [Rock] 8.0: Aviary - Julia Holter (2018) [Rock] 8.0: A Rainbow in Curved Air - Terry Riley (1968) [Avant Garde] 8.0: In Den Ghaerten Pharoahs - Popol Vuh (1972) [Rock] 8.0: Piazza dei Miracoli: Pisa Cathedral - Buscheto (Architect, 1064 - 1092) and Rainaldo (Facade, circa 1100); Pisa Baptistery of St. John - Diotisalvi (1152 - 1353, Pulpit: Nicolas Pisano, 1255 - 1260); Campinile (aka, "Leaning Tower of Pisa", 1173 - 1372) - Diotisalvi, then Benenato (1233 - 1259), Guido Speziale (1260 - 1272), Giovanni di Simone (1272 - 1284), Tommaso di Andrea Pisano (Bell Chamber, 1372); Camposanto Monumentale di Pisa - Giovanni di Simone (1278 - 1284, completed posthumously, 1464) / Pisa, Tuscany, Italy [Architecture, including Stained Glass, Mosaics and Structural Sculpture] 8.0: Chartres Cathedral - Master of Chartres (Anonymous French Architect) (early phase of construction from 1120s - circa 1165, with only the crypt, towers and West Facade surviving a fire of 1194; thereafter the main Gothic structure as currently seen was largely established structurally from 1194 - 1221; further completion and details from circa 1221 - circa 1250 with consecration in 1260; various modifications and additions thereafter) / Chartres, France [Architecture, including Stained Glass and Structural Sculpture] 8.0: Repeater - Fugazi (1990) [Rock] 8.0: Silent Tongues - Cecil Taylor (1974) [Jazz] 8.0: Consumer Revolt - Cop Shoot Cop (1990) [Rock] 8.0: 2 - Black Heart Procession (1999) [Rock] 8.0: Milan Cathedral - Begun by Simone da Orsenigo; Several architects thereafter (Begun 1386; several stages of development through 1965) / Milan, Italy [Architecture and Sculpture] 8.0: Exploded Drawing - Polvo (1996) [Rock] 8.0: Acupuncture - Doldrums (1996) [Rock] 8.0: The Sacrifice - Andrei Tarkovsky (1986) [Film] 8.0: Memento - Christopher Nolan (2000) [Film] 8.0: David - Michelangelo Buonarroti (1501 - 1504) / Galleria dell’Accademia di Firenze, Florence, Italy [Sculpture] 8.0: Pieta - Michelangelo Buonarroti (1498 - 1499) / St. Peter's Basilica, Vatican City, Rome, Italy [Sculpture] 8.0: Psicostasia - Dino Valls (2005) [Painting] 8.0: On the Way Down From Moon Palace - Lisa Germano (1991) [Rock] 8.0: China Gate - Cul de Sac (1996) [Rock] 8.0: Steve Lacy - Saxophone Special (1974) [Jazz] 8.0: Harsh 70's Reality - Dead C (1991) [Rock] 8.0: Boces - Mercury Rev (1993) [Rock] 8.0: Transcontinental Conspiracy - Vas Deferens Organization and Brad Laner (1996) [Rock] 8.0: Once Upon a Time in the West - Sergio Leone (1968) [Film] 7.9: Cologne Cathedral - Master Gerhard of Ryle (1248 - 1560, construction led by various architects after 1271; construction halted in 1560; resumed and completed 1842 - 1880) / Cologne, Germany [Architecture, including Stained Glass and Structural Sculpture] 7.9: Tanz Der Lemmimge - Amon Duul II (1971) [Rock] 7.9: Willpower - Today is the Day (1994) [Rock] 7.9: Through the Mirror - Endon (2017) [Rock] 7.9: Pavilion of Dreams - Harold Budd (1978) [Rock] 7.9: Music for Airports - Brian Eno (1978) [Rock] 7.9: Cache - Michael Haneke (2005) [Film] 7.9: Da Capo - Love (1966) [Rock] 7.9: Strange Days - The Doors (1967) [Rock] 7.9: 2 - Don Caballero (1995) [Rock] 7.9: Song of the Stallion - Robbie Basho (1970) [Rock] 7.9: Implosions - Stephan Micus (1977) [Rock] 7.9: Fun House - The Stooges (1970) [Rock] 7.9: Karma - Pharoah Sanders (1969) [Jazz] 7.9: Frizzle Fry - Primus (1990) [Rock] 7.9: Songs of Leonard Cohen - Leonard Cohen (1967) [Rock] 7.9: Slaughterhouse-Five - Kurt Vonnegut (1969) [Literature: Novel] 7.9: Liberation Music Orchestra - Charlie Haden (1969) [Also composed by Carla Bley] [Jazz] 7.9: Blow Out - Brian De Palma (1981) [Film] 7.9: Limelight - Charlie Chaplin (1952) [Film] 7.9: Repulsion - Roman Polanski (1965) [Film] 7.9: Roots - Sepultura (1995) [Rock] 7.9: San Sheng Shi - Li Jianhong (2008) [Rock] 7.9: Sydney Opera House - Jørn Utzon (1959 - 1973) / Bennelong Point, Sydney, Australia [Architecture] 7.9: Ghetto Beats on the Surface of the Sun - Tarentel (2006) [Rock] 7.9: 15 July 1972 - Taj Mahal Travellers (1972) [Rock] 7.9: New York Dolls - New York Dolls (1973) [Rock] 7.9: Legend of Ai Glatson - Leroy Jenkins (1978) [Jazz] 7.9: United States of America - United States of America (1968) [Rock] 7.9: Flowers of Romance - Public Image Ltd (1980) [Rock] 7.9: Umber - Bitch Magnet (1989) [Rock] 7.9: Love Poke Here - Ed Hall (1990) [Rock] 7.9: The Increased Difficulty of Concentration - Air Liquide (1994) [Rock] 7.9: We're Only in it For the Money - Frank Zappa (1967) [Rock] 7.9: Electronic Sonata For Souls Loved By Nature - George Russell (1969) [Jazz] 7.9: Magician Among the Spirits - The Church (1996) [Rock] 7.9: Ghosts - Techno Animal (1990) [Rock] 7.9: World Without Rules - Paul Haslinger (1996) [Rock] 7.9: The Dance of Reality - Alejandro Jodorowsky (2013) [Film] 7.9: A-Z - Colin Newman (1980) [Rock] 7.9: In the L..L..Library Loft - Toby Driver (2005) [Rock] 7.9: Intents and Purposes - Bill Dixon (1967) [Jazz] 7.9: Monreale Cathedral - Begun by William II of Sicily in 1174; various modifications thereafter (1267) / Monreale, Sicily, Italy [Architecture, including Mosaics and Structural Sculpture] 7.9: Music From The Penguin Cafè - Penguin Cafè Orchestra (1976) [Rock] 7.9: Frances the Mute - The Mars Volta (2005) [Rock] 7.9: Ocean Songs - Dirty Three (1997) [Rock] 7.9: Makanik Destruktiw Kommandoh - Magma (1973) [Rock] 7.9: Heliocentric Worlds, Vol. 2 - Sun Ra (1965) [Jazz] 7.9: Tubular Bells - Mike Oldfield (1973) [Rock] 7.9: Faust IV - Faust (1973) [Rock] 7.9: I Could Live in Hope - Low (1994) [Rock] 7.9: Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy) - Brian Eno (1974) [Rock] 7.9: Rear Window - Alfred Hitchcock (1954) [Film] 7.9: Cries and Whispers - Ingmar Bergman (1973) [Film] 7.9: Dual Unity - Paul Bley (1971) [Jazz] 7.9: After Bathing at Baxters - Jefferson Airplane (1967) [Rock] 7.9: Machine Gun - Peter Brotzmann (1968) [Jazz] 7.9: Marketa Lazarova - Frantisek Vlacil (1967) [Film] 7.9: The Seven Samurai - Akira Kurosawa (1954) [Film] 7.9: Shooting at the Moon - Kevin Ayers (1970) [Rock] 7.9: Isn't Anything - My Bloody Valentine (1988) [Rock] 7.9: Nights of Cabiria - Federico Fellini (1957) [Film] 7.9: The Color of Paradise - Mahid Majidi (1998) [Film] 7.9: Free Jazz - Ornette Coleman (1960) [Jazz] 7.9: Symphony For Improvisers - Don Cherry (1966) [Jazz] 7.9: Valentine Suite - Colosseum (1969) [Rock] 7.9: 1969 Velvet Underground Live With Lou Reed - The Velvet Underground (1969) [Rock] 7.9: Presents Charles Mingus - Charles Mingus (1960) [Jazz] 7.9: Nefertiti, the Beautiful One - Cecil Taylor (1962) [Jazz] 7.9: Pawn Hearts - Van Der Graaf Generator (1971) [Rock] 7.9: Les Stances a Sophie – Art Ensemble of Chicago (1970) [Jazz] 7.9: For How Much Longer Do We Tolerate Mass Murder? - The Pop Group (1980) [2016 reissue that replaces track #3 with "We Are All Prostitutes"] [Rock] 7.8: The Cook, The Thief, His Wife & Her Lover - Peter Greenaway (1989) [Film] 7.8: The Godfather, Part 2 - Francis Ford Coppola (1974) [Film] 7.8: People in Sorrow - Art Ensemble of Chicago (1969) [Jazz] 7.8: Quartet - Marion Brown (1966) [Jazz] 7.8: The End of an Ear - Robert Wyatt (1970) [Rock] 7.8: Reese And The Smooth Ones - Art Ensemble Of Chicago (1969) [Jazz] 7.8: Trance Mission - Trance Mission (1993) [Rock] 7.8: Mama Too Tight - Archie Shepp (1966) [Jazz] 7.8: Complete Communion - Don Cherry (1965) [Jazz] 7.8: Ocean - Stephen Micus (1986) [Rock] 7.8: Myths Of The Near Future Part One - Mo Boma (1994) [Rock] 7.8: King of the Jews - Oxbow (1991) [Rock] 7.8: Snailbait - Azalia Snail (1990) [Rock] 7.8: Drum - Hugo Largo (1988) [EP] [Rock] 7.8: Silence is the Answer - Georg Deuter (1981) [Rock] 7.8: Gateway to the Mysteries - Eden (1991) [Rock] 7.8: New Day Rising - Husker Du (1985) [Rock] 7.8: I Sing the Body Electric - Weather Report (1972) [Jazz] 7.8: Canaxis 5 - Technical Space Composer's Crew (aka Canaxis 5) (1969) [Rock] 7.8: White Noise - Cop Shoot Cop (1991) [Rock] 7.8: Preacher’s Daughter - Ethel Cain (2022) [Rock] 7.8: Marjory Razorblade - Kevin Coyne (1973) [Rock] 7.8: Dummy - Portishead (1994) [11-track US Release] [Rock] 7.8: Greed - Erich von Stroheim (1924) [Studio Cut, 140 minutes] (NOTE: It's been years since I've been able to see this in HQ, so rating may no longer be accurate) [Film] 7.8: The Blue Angel - Josef von Sternberg (1930) [Film] 7.8: Frigid Stars - Codeine (1990) [10-Track Release] [Rock] 7.8: Drawing of Sound - Windy & Carl (1996) [Rock] 7.8: Whatever You Love You Are - Dirty Three (2000) [Rock] 7.8: Ordet - Carl Theodor Dreyer (1955) [Film] 7.8: 21 Grams - Alejandro Gonzales Inarritu (2003) [Film] 7.8: Holy Motors - Leos Carax (2012) [Film] 7.8: Movement - Joe Harriott (1963) [Jazz] 7.8: Half Machine Lip Moves - Chrome (1979) [Rock] 7.8: Extensions - McCoy Tyner (1970) [Jazz] 7.8: Miss America - Mary Margaret O'Hara (1984) [released 1988] [Rock] 7.8: Rickie Lee Jones - Rickie Lee Jones (1979) [Rock] 7.8: The Shape of Jazz to Come - Ornette Coleman (1959) [Jazz] 7.8: Brilliant Corners - Thelonious Monk (1956) [Jazz] 7.8: Kind of Blue - Miles Davis (1959) [Jazz] 7.8: To Rend Each Other Like Wild Beasts, Till Earth Shall Reek With Midnight Massacre - Gnaw Their Tongues (2009) [Rock] 7.8: Symbiosis - Demdike Stare (2009) [Rock] 7.8: The Stooges - The Stooges (1969) [Rock] 7.8: Approximately - Guillermo Gregorio (1996) [Jazz] 7.8: Music in a Doll's House - Family (1969) [Rock] 7.8: Spleen & Ideal - Dead Can Dance (1985) [Rock] 7.8: This Timeless Turning - Sky Cries Mary (1994) [Rock] 7.8: Pure Electric Honey - Ant-Bee (1990) [Rock] 7.8: Charm of the Highway Strip - Magnetic Fields (1998) [Rock] 7.8: Venus in Cancer - Robbie Basho (1969) [Rock] 7.8: La Novia - Acid Mothers Temple (2000) [Original 1-track release] [Rock] 7.8: Before We Were Born - Bill Frisell (1988) [Jazz] 7.8: 154 - Wire (1979) [Rock] 7.8: There's a Star Above the Manger Tonight - Red Red Meat (1997) [Rock] 7.8: The Big Heat - Stan Ridgway (1986) [Rock] 7.8: Images and Words - Dream Theater (1992) [Rock] 7.8: Gods Of Chaos - The Flying Luttenbachers (1997) [Rock] 7.8: You're Living All Over Me - Dinosaur Jr (1987) [Rock] 7.8: The Agony is the Ecstacy - Lydia Lunch (1981) [EP; One 17-min track, first released on a split-LP in 1982 with The Birthday Party's "Drunk on the Pope's Blood" EP] [Rock] 7.8: Close to the Edge - Yes (1972) [Rock] 7.8: Half Mute - Tuxedomoon (1979) [Rock] 7.8: Europa - Lars Von Trier (1991) [Film] 7.8: Being John Malkovich - Spike Jonze (1999) [Film] 7.8: Transition - Peter Michael Hamel (1983) [Rock] 7.8: Demanufacture - Fear Factory (1994) [Rock] 7.8: Mirror - Andrei Tarkovsky (1975) [Film] 7.8: Three Colors: Red - Krzysztof Kieslowski (1994) [Film] 7.8: Point Blank - John Boorman (1967) [Film] 7.8: Reservoir Dogs - Quentin Tarantino (1992) [Film] 7.8: Kill 'Em All - Metallica (1983) [Rock] 7.8: Old Boy - Chan-wook Park (2003) [Film] 7.8: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind - Michel Gondry (2004) [Film] 7.8: La Haine - Mathieu Kassovitz (1996) [Film] 7.8: Peppermint Candy - Lee Chang-dong (1999) [Film] 7.8: The Pantheon - Apollodorus of Damascus (circa 113 - 125) / Rome, Italy [Architecture] 7.8: The Sagrestia Nuova - Michelangelo Buonarroti (1520 - 1533; final composition completed later: 1559) / Medici Chapel, Basilica of San Lorenzo, Florence, Italy [Sculpture and Architecture] 7.8: Blues For The Red Sun - Kyuss (1992) [Rock] 7.8: Grand Illusion - Jean Renoir (1937) [Film] 7.8: The Kiss - Gustav Klimt (1907 - 1908) / Österreichische Galerie Belvedere, Vienna, Austria [Painting] 7.8: Crucifixion (Corpus Hypercubus) - Salvador Dali (1954) / Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA [Painting] 7.8: Sackcloth 'n' Ashes - 16 Horsepower (1996) [Rock] 7.8: The Band - The Band (1969) [Rock] 7.8: Everybody Knows This is Nowhere - Neil Young (1969) [Rock] 7.8: The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald (1925) [Literature: Novel] 7.8: Shoot Out the Lights - Richard and Linda Thompson (1981) [Rock] 7.8: Late For the Sky - Jackson Browne (1974) [Rock] 7.8: The Willow Tree - Mahid Majidi (2005) [Film] 7.8: Dressed to Kill - Brian De Palma (1980) [Film] 7.8: Colours of Time - Peter Michael Hamel (1980) [Rock] 7.8: Sunset Boulevard - Billy Wilder (1950) [Film] 7.8: M - Fritz Lang (1931) [Film] 7.8: Last Year at Marienbad - Alain Resnais (1961) [Film] 7.8: Natural Born Killers - Oliver Stone (1994) [Director's Cut, 123 minutes] [Film] 7.8: Watersports - Mi Ami (2009) [Rock] 7.8: World Shut Your Mouth - Julian Cope (1984) [Rock] 7.8: Inside Out - John Martyn (1973) [Rock] 7.8: Eye of the Hunter - Brendan Perry (1999) [Rock] 7.8: Impressions - John Coltrane (1961) [Jazz] 7.8: I - Meshuggah (2004) [EP; Original 1-track release] [Rock]
To help emphasize my recent re-upgrade of Tarkovksy’s Nostalghia (1983) to 8.8+, I am posting this excellent analysis, which so happens to back up my own (from the early 2010s) in numerous ways not to mention some additional points, so therefore and naturally I very much endorse it.
I sincerely doubt its author is or was ever familiar with my Nostalghia analysis (unless maybe he was a listology.com user, which is the only place it ever got even somewhat more than minimal attention), so I do feel he likely drew many of his conclusions himself from his own well earned understanding of Tarkovsky’s art and Tarkovsky’s own comments and writings about such.
Plus, instead of just a written analysis, this 4 part video series offers superb visual examples from the film itself as well as many other sources. Highly recommended and very well put together by its author “Plan-Sequence”.
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