Top 10+ Music, Movies, and Visual Art of the Week (2020 - 2026) - Music Diaries

AfterHours · 2020-01-03T12:42:55-05:00

WHAT IS THIS LOG??? This is a log where, over the course of a given week or set of weeks, I consistently track about 90% (or even as much as 100%, but not always) of the Rock, Jazz and Classical music I am listening to, and/or the Films, Paintings/Visual Art I am viewing. Sometimes I track all of it but when I am extra busy this is almost never the case. For the given week(s) I also rank all the selections. The rankings on this log only reflect how much I favored them during the given period of time, not "overall" or "all-time". Therefore, while higher rated works will more frequently out-perform works rated lower than them, this will not always be the case -- they will not always reflect the same rankings on my "Greatest" lists. Just because a work is rated above another does not mean I enjoy it more 100% of the time (just most of the time; closer to 100% the wider the ratings differential). Many factors can make me temporarily favor a lesser rated work over a higher rated one, including but not limited to: -Very often, a new work to me will rank higher than it usually might, even above others with higher ratings, due to being temporarily enhanced by the excitement of discovery. There can be a similar "excitement of discovery" when I've made a new realization about a familiar work, and especially if I've just upgraded it to a higher rating, or am considering doing so. -My mood or perhaps even something in my personal life during the given week(s) may cause me to temporarily favor a particular genre or expressive type. -I may be particularly focused on a genre or artist or type of art (etc) so my interest is more heightened towards those over others during the given week(s). -One of the factors taken into account for the rankings here is how much time I spent on a work and/or how much I listened to, viewed or evaluated the work during the given week(s). Ex: If I listened to Highway 61 Revisited 10 times but Velvet Underground and Nico only 1 time, there is a very good chance I was much more consumed by Highway 61 Revisited during that time frame, and it will likely out-rank it here, even if otherwise I usually would favor, rate and rank Velvet Underground and Nico above it. These kinds of factors are temporary and are ultimately not given permanent consideration in my overall ratings and rankings as they usually only apply for a matter of days or a week or two, so would tend to represent a minority of my experiences with a work. My overall ratings reflect the ranking and rating that work most consistently sustains over the course of time, not fleetingly. On this log, a higher ranking than expected for a lower rated work can be a legitimate reflection that I am strongly considering upgrading it. Similarly, a lower ranking than expected for a higher rated work can be a legitimate reflection that I am considering downgrading it. But neither of these are always the case -- just an indication that it might be. Sometimes, more revisits may be needed to make a final determination, especially if with a work that has been stably rated and ranked for a considerable period of time before that. To qualify for inclusion here, the work has to rate 6.8 or above -- or at least did so at some point during the given week(s). If I include an additional "Top 10+" for lower rated works (such as 4.8/10-6.7/10) then of course those can be included as indicated. Below the "Top 10+" list(s), you will find where I log any ratings changes to the music, films or paintings/visual art for the given week(s). This has usually been reserved for ratings changes to works rated 6.8/10+ (or upgraded to this), unless otherwise indicated. Ratings updates initially colored in BLUE are those I've revisited within the given week(s) or, if not, very recently before that (close enough). Ratings updates initially colored in RED are not based on a revisit of the work DURING the listed week(s) or very recently, but usually a result of ratings tweaks being made in comparison to others or it may be part of a "domino effect" of changes that can follow from a change in my ratings scale or a general reconsideration of an artist, type of work, genre, etc. Below that you will find where I track my "Top 50 Works of Art of the Year". These are what I favored the most over that year, whether the work is new or old to me. The higher the ranking, the more I favored that work and the more it dominated my interests over the course of that year. Again, this will not always reflect the same rankings as one will find on my overall "Greatest" lists, as it is for that year only, but will certainly tend to favor the higher rated works. Very rarely does anything below 8.8/10 end up winning for the year, and if it did, it was probably considered 8.8/10 or above at that time even if not any more. This log started back around 2008-2009 on a site called listology (that crashed later) and began as just a really good way to track what I was listening to or viewing and also became a good foundation from which to build my lists from as they were rapidly growing at that time (especially as these had expanded between rock, jazz, classical, cinema, and later, paintings). Updates could be difficult to keep up with as my lists expanded and this log became a good source to see them all in one spot so one didn't have to keep checking each individual list out to see if anything had changed. This log also soon became a good source from which a lot of interesting discussion would take place, and this remains my favorite reason for keeping it running. It is also just sort of a personal "game" (so to speak) with myself, to keep my interest and discipline peeked along the way, to help keep my mind "sharp" in thinking with and determining ratings/rankings along the way and across a huge scale of qualitative increments. Outside of that, the "Top 10+" rankings for each week or set of weeks, the "Top 50 of the year" rankings, and so on, are rather meaningless in the scheme of things, in that they're ultimately not too essential for the main lists that I work on but rather "notes" or a reflection of my thinking along the way. It's all terribly nerdy, of course, but it works for me, and over the years some users across listology and BEA seem to have found it of some interest too, and that community and discussion has been helpful for me in fine tuning my lists, my views, criteria, analyses, etc (and hopefully, helpful both ways, too). Ultimately, my favorite result is if the log leads to interesting discussion about the works themselves, about ratings/rankings, about discoveries in art, and the like. So if you feel inclined to share your thoughts or have a question, or have a recommendation, you are more than welcome to do so. I try to take up all discussion and answer all questions. Generally speaking, all are welcome (particularly those that are genuine, not trolling). Naturally, those questions best aligned to which works/genre(s) I'm most currently featuring on this log (which also displays my immediate, active interests), are (usually) those that get the better and quicker responses. If I am very focused on a particular art or genre, I am not usually all that good at discussing much about another, as I am best with those I am actively invested in, being inspired by and actively thinking about. While there are certain common denominators that make all art comparable, each art tends to require its own way of thinking and evaluating it in its own contexts, and I tend to get fairly immersed in this alone when I am seriously invested in a particular genre or type of work, therefore I find it difficult to shake that mindset and discuss other works as freely and with as much interest. That said, if you have something to say or ask about any of the various arts I pursue, whether I am actively logging it or not, just go for it. It can never hurt and I'm not here to stop or inhibit you from saying what you want when you want to say it. Even if I don't give a good answer right then and there, it's harmless to get it out there and we can always come back to it when it's more aligned to my active interests (and you can always remind me later too). One last note: I lead a fairly busy life and when I am replying or posting on BEA, it is usually in between things plus often from my phone (not the best for typing). So although I usually keep a BEA tab open throughout the day for quick access, I am not (usually) ACTIVELY on the site for more than short spurts of time here and there and am often hurried when I reply or say something. So forgive me if those replies can be haphazard (poorly written, punctuated, descriptively rushed, etc). They are usually a bit sloppy with me banking on the hope that I still got the gist of my main idea(s) across. You are always welcome to follow up if you want clarification or don't know what the hell I meant! I can usually explain something better if I return to it with a little more time or by the second or third crack at it (we hope), but I usually don't try and further clarify any of these unless someone continues the discussion or asks me to. My more official reviews/analyses for a given work (though infrequent) tend to be better, more well thought out, better detailed and specified, examples of what I actually think about said work(s) than my often haphazard replies or the notes in this log, which are usually more the "gist" or "general idea" or an "abbreviated version" of my thoughts. So take my more haphazard replies/notes with that in mind, and feel free to ask further if I haven't explained myself well enough. I do hope to add more official reviews/analyses in the future. _________________________________ Top 10+ Music, Movies, and Visual Art of the Week (2020) NOTE: This is a log of my favorite works of music, cinema and/or visual art for the given week(s). The rankings here will not necessarily parallel my overall rankings, as these are only what I favored for the given week(s). To qualify for inclusion, the work must be rated 6.8/10 or better (or at least was at some point during the week). This log will also include updated ratings for my various lists (below the "Top 10+" section) Below that, there will be a running listing of my "Top 50 Works of Art of the Year". This is simply a log of my favorite art over the course of this whole year, whether old or new to me. This list is cumulative, week-to-week, until its final standings at the end of the year. Recommendations and suggestions welcome. For my criteria, go here: http://www.besteveralbums.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=15503 Bold = Newly added Bold + Italics = Was already listed but recently upgraded/downgraded Top 10+ Music, Movies, and Visual Art of the Week(s): 1-1-2020 - 1-12-2020 The Doors - The Doors (1966) Blonde On Blonde - Bob Dylan (1966) Highway 61 Revisited - Bob Dylan (1965) The Third Man - Carol Reed (1949) A Genuine Tong Funeral - Carla Bley/Gary Burton (1967) Volunteers - Jefferson Airplane (1969) We Insist! Freedom Now Suite - Max Roach (1960) All Bitches Die - Lingua Ignota (2017) Let the Evil of His Own Lips Cover Him - Lingua Ignota (2017) ...NOT RATED YET ... but probably at least 7.5+ & excellent chance at 7.8+ with further listens Sunset Boulevard - Billy Wilder (1950) Millions Now Living Will Never Die - Tortoise (1996) History of Heat - Sadaf (2019) ...NOT RATED YET ... but probably at least 7.3+ & solid chance at 7.8+ with further listens Everybody Knows This is Nowhere - Neil Young (1969) Suspicion - Alfred Hitchcock (1941) Once Upon A Time In Hollywood - Quentin Tarantino (2019) ...Echoes Tarantino's influences throughout, such as Sergio Leone, Welles (Touch of Evil), Scorsese, old B movies (etc). The whole film plays with the idea of a "western within a western", and its nostalgic recreation of late 60s Hollywood makes several references to the present while also being the past. The ending in which Tarantino subverts history, replaces it with his own ultra violent resolution, thus giving the middle finger to his critics that have denounced him for this very thing, can be viewed from several angles. Here he seems to be using it to alter the course of history, as a force of "good", to rearrange the trajectory of the very period and sort of filmmaking that shaped his own, but this is also left very ambigious, open ended and allusory for the viewer to recreate how events may have transpired in this new "course of history", and thus rendering the whole period lovingly immortal instead of its actual horrific end. Here he seems to transform the "end of the 60s" (which Tate's murder symbolized) into an immortalization of it, lending extra creedence to the nostalgia trip we've partaken in with him in all the previous scenes (which seemed shaky in their necessity, or were they?). Is Tarantino also alluding to not just a salvaging of a bygone hollywood era but perhaps Polanski too thus rewriting the trajectory of his life and potentially altering a key historical precedent to the recent Hollywood climate to which Tarantino himself has been lambasted for ("#Metoo" etc)? Im not sure but the film begs many such possible questions/ambiguities and interpretations in its apparent motivations and in its many quotations (of Leone, Welles, through the revisionist characters and events, etc) and the many possible allusions stemming from this. This may all hold the potential for one of the better films of the decade, potentially very intriguing in the context of a swansong and the conflation of period, Hollywood, Tarantino's influences, personality and juxtaposition with the time-line and inspiration of his life and career. Quite an interesting work and extraordinary in ways, but overall I am somewhat torn on just how great it is. But as noted, there seems potential left for much more interpretation and significance depending on just how profoundly Tarantino has conflated these elements and influences with his own art and how well this holds up through multiple views (does it hold up AS cinema, IN the filmic language itself or is too much of this only relevant if you know the history, backstories etc?). At times Tarantino's integration seems significant while during stretches I wasn't sure, or perhaps missed the correlation... Well worth another viewing or more, with potential for upgrade. Are You Experienced? - Jimi Hendrix (1967) Miracle in Milan - Vittorio de Sica (1951) Pavilion of Dreams - Harold Budd (1978) Let My Children Hear Music - Charles Mingus (1972) Late For the Sky - Jackson Browne (1974) Laura - Otto Preminger (1944) Odd Man Out - Carol Reed (1947) A Better Tomorrow - John Woo (1986) This Year's Model - Elvis Costello (1978) Blood On The Tracks - Bob Dylan (1975) FAMILIAR ROCK/JAZZ ALBUMS - RE-RATED: Highway 61 Revisited - Bob Dylan (1965) 8.2/10 to 8.3/10 Let My Children Hear Music - Charles Mingus (1972) 8.3/10 to 8.2/10 Pavilion of Dreams - Harold Budd (1978) 8.3/10 to 7.9/10 NEWLY ASSIMILATED ROCK/JAZZ ALBUMS - RATED: All Bitches Die - Lingua Ignota (2017) 7.6/10 FAMILIAR FILMS - RE-RATED: The Third Man - Carol Reed (1949) 7.3/10 to 7.6/10 Miracle in Milan - Vittorio de Sica (1951) 8.1/10 to 7.6/10 Suspicion - Alfred Hitchcock (1941) Not Rated to 7.3/10 Laura - Otto Preminger (1944) 7.3/10 to 7.0/10 A Better Tomorrow - John Woo (1986) Not Rated to 7.0/10 NEWLY ASSIMILATED FILMS - RATED: Once Upon A Time In Hollywood - Quentin Tarantino (2019) 7.1/10 Odd Man Out - Carol Reed (1947) 7.0/10 TOP 50 WORKS OF ART OF THE YEAR (2019) PAST WINNERS: 1995 - 2018 (NOTE: My series of "Top 10 of the Week" lists only actually goes back to 2008. Prior to that are simply my noted favorite works of each given year without any attempt to keep further record) 2018: Symphony No. 9 in D Minor "Choral" - Ludwig van Beethoven (1824) 2017: Sistine Chapel (Ceiling & The Last Judgement) - Michelangelo Buonarroti (1512; 1541) 2016: Sistine Chapel (Ceiling & The Last Judgement) - Michelangelo Buonarroti (1512; 1541) 2015: Astral Weeks - Van Morrison (1968) 2014: Sistine Chapel (Ceiling & The Last Judgement) - Michelangelo Buonarroti (1512; 1541) 2013: Requiem - Giuseppe Verdi (1874) 2012: Citizen Kane - Orson Welles (1941) 2011: Citizen Kane - Orson Welles (1941) 2010: Symphony No. 9 in D Major - Gustav Mahler (1910) 2009: Nostalghia - Andrei Tarkovsky (1983) 2008: The Black Saint & The Sinner Lady - Charles Mingus (1963) 2007: Trout Mask Replica - Captain Beefheart (1968) 2006: Rock Bottom - Robert Wyatt (1974) 2005: A Love Supreme - John Coltrane (1964) 2004: Kid A - Radiohead (2000) 2003: Yankee Hotel Foxtrot - Wilco (2002) 2002: In the Aeroplane Over the Sea - Neutral Milk Hotel (1998) 2001: Astral Weeks - Van Morrison (1968) 2000: Symphony No. 9 in D Minor - Ludwig van Beethoven (1824) 1999: Violin Partita No. 2 in D Minor - J.S. Bach (1723) 1998: OK Computer - Radiohead (1997) 1997: The Bends - Radiohead (1995) 1996: 2001: A Space Odyssey - Stanley Kubrick (1968) 1995: Throwing Copper - Live (1995) TOP 50 WORKS OF ART OF THE YEAR (2019) 1. Rock Bottom - Robert Wyatt (1974) 2. The Doors - The Doors (1966) 3. Sistine Chapel (Ceiling & The Last Judgement) - Michelangelo Buonarroti (1512; 1541) 4. Ys - Joanna Newsom (2006) 5. Piano Sonata No. 32 in C Minor - Ludwig van Beethoven (1822) 6. Symphony No. 9 in D Major - Gustav Mahler (1910) 7. Blonde On Blonde - Bob Dylan (1966) 8. The Velvet Underground & Nico - The Velvet Underground (1966) 9. Das Lied von der Erde - Gustav Mahler (1909) 10. String Quintet in C Major - Franz Schubert (1828) 11. Mass in B Minor - Johann Sebastian Bach (1749) 12. Symphony No. 9 in C Major "The Great" - Franz Schubert (1826) 13. Symphony No. 5 - Gustav Mahler (1902) 14. Requiem - Guisseppe Verdi (1874) 15. Symphony No. 9 in D Minor "Choral" - Ludwig van Beethoven (1824) 16. Down Colorful Hill - Red House Painters (1992) 17. Symphony No. 5 in C Minor - Ludwig van Beethoven (1808) 18. Elektra - Richard Strauss (1909) 19. Don Giovanni - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1787) 20. Symphony No. 41 in C Major - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1788) 21. Dreamtime Return - Steve Roach (1988) 22. Electric Ladyland - Jimi Hendrix (1968) 23. Pulp Fiction - Quentin Tarantino (1994) 24. Piano Sonata No. 29 in B-flat Major "Hammerklavier" - Ludwig van Beethoven (1818) 25. Symphony No. 3 in E-flat Major "Eroica" - Ludwig van Beethoven (1804) 26. Winterreise - Franz Schubert (1828) 27. Trout Mask Replica - Captain Beefheart (1969) 28. The Blue Angel - Josef Von Sternberg (1930) 29. M - Fritz Lang (1931) 30. Jagged Little Pill - Alanis Morissette (1995) 31. Desertshore - Nico (1970) 32. Pelléas et Mélisande - Claude Debussy (1898) 33. Peter Grimes - Benjamin Britten (1945) 34. Variations in Dream-time - Anthony Davis (1982) 35. Symphony No. 5 in E Minor - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1888) 36. The Days of Wine & Roses - Dream Syndicate (1982) 37. Sonata in G minor for Piano and Cello, Op. 19 - Sergei Rachmaninoff (1901) 38. Exile On Main Street - The Rolling Stones (1972) 39. Loveless - My Bloody Valentine (1991) 40. Glagolitic Mass - Leos Janacek (1926) 41. Symphony No. 8 in G major - Antonin Dvorak (1889) 42. Quartet for the End of Time - Olivier Messiaen (1941) 43. Fidelio - Ludwig van Beethoven (1805; revised 1806-1814) 44. Dimension Gate - Aurora (1994) 45. Master Of Puppets - Metallica (1986) 46. Post to Wire - Heather Duby (1999) 47. Frigid Stars - Codeine (1990) 48. Hejira - Joni Mitchell (1976) 49. Astral Weeks - Van Morrison (1968) 50. Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta - Bela Bartok (1936) TOP 50 WORKS OF ART OF THE DECADE (2010-2019) 1. Sistine Chapel (Ceiling & The Last Judgement) - Michelangelo Buonarroti (1512; 1541) 2. Symphony No. 9 in D Major - Gustav Mahler (1910) 3. Symphony No. 9 in D Minor "Choral" - Ludwig van Beethoven (1824) 4. Rock Bottom - Robert Wyatt (1974) 5. The Velvet Underground & Nico - The Velvet Underground (1967) 6. Citizen Kane - Orson Welles (1941) 7. The Doors - The Doors (1967) 8. Brazil - Terry Gilliam (1985) 9. Peasants' War Panorama - Werner Tubke (1987) 10. The Garden of Earthly Delights - Hieronymus Bosch (circa 1500) 11. In the Aeroplane Over the Sea - Neutral Milk Hotel (1998) 12. Ys - Joanna Newsom (2006) 13. Symphony No. 9 in C Major "The Great" - Franz Schubert (1826) 14. Requiem - Guisseppe Verdi (1874) 15. Down Colorful Hill - Red House Painters (1992) 16. Blonde On Blonde - Bob Dylan (1966) 17. Piano Sonata No. 32 in C Minor - Ludwig van Beethoven (1822) 18. Trout Mask Replica - Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band (1969) 19. Symphony No. 15 in A Major - Dmitri Shostakovich (1971) 20. Symphony No. 4 in E Minor - Johannes Brahms (1884) 21. Mass in B Minor - Johann Sebastian Bach (1749) 22. Touch of Evil - Orson Welles (1958) 23. Nostalghia - Andrei Tarkovsky (1983) 24. Faust - Faust (1971) 25. Symphony No. 5 in C Minor - Ludwig van Beethoven (1808) 26. Glagolitic Mass - Leos Janacek (1926) 27. The Black Saint & The Sinner Lady - Charles Mingus (1963) 28. A Love Supreme - John Coltrane (1964) 29. Metropolis - Fritz Lang (1927) 30. Symphony No. 9 in E Minor "From the New World" - Antonin Dvorak (1893) 31. Symphony No. 41 in C Major - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1788) 32. Symphony No. 3 in F Major - Johannes Brahms (1883) 33. Symphony No. 3 in E-flat Major "Eroica" - Ludwig van Beethoven (1804) 34. Have One On Me - Joanna Newsom (2010) 35. The River - Bruce Springsteen (1980) 36. Even the Sounds Shine - Myra Melford (1994) 37. Variations in Dream-time - Anthony Davis (1982) 38. Lady of the Mirrors - Anthony Davis (1980) 39. Improvisie - Paul Bley (1971) 40. Philosophy, Medicine & Jurisprudence - Gustav Klimt (1907) 41. The Reminiscences of Judge Schulze (Parts II, III, & VII) - Werner Tubke (1967) 42. The Beethoven Frieze - Gustav Klimt (1902) 43. Vertigo - Alfred Hitchcock (1958) 44. Astral Weeks - Van Morrison (1968) 45. Werckmeister Harmonies - Bela Tarr (2000) 46. Afternoon of a Georgia Faun - Marion Brown (1970) 47. Ptah, the El Daoud - Alice Coltrane (1970) 48. Pulp Fiction - Quentin Tarantino (1994) 49. Taxi Driver - Martin Scorsese (1976) 50. Hex - Bark Psychosis (1994)

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Righ t on cue, Scaruffi rating literature… Dostoyevsky

https://www.scaruffi.com/writers/dostoevs.html

Not sure how long it would take for Scaruffi to add more ratings, but this is a good opportunity for you to begin updating your own and see how Scaruffi's ratings eventually compare.

I don’t have any more to update than are already featured on the Literature link provided (each regular Top 10+ list post).

So far I’m 2 for 2 I guess on Dostoyevsky (C and P, Bro K) — 3 for 3 if we count my brief 8.9 rating of The Idiot (didn’t keep it there though) — but even if these closely match Scaruffi they are still very loose on my end as they are from 20-some odd years ago and remain rough estimates regardless in my own mind

There will surely be ones I get “wrong” as he continues to update (and getting them all the same is not a goal anyway… comparisons are a curiosity and can surely get me to revisit or rethink a work but aren’t the “end in itself”) … If for anything that my Lit ratings are largely based on memory from years back in almost every case — not recent enough for more confidence — and even if they were there is not all that realistic way for me to match his because his familiarity with Lit just vastly vastly outweighs my own

I think the ones that are closer to filling out the bio page will perhaps be sooner than others, like Kafka, maybe Joyce … would love to see Shakespeare, Dante, Eliot, Goethe…

Part of what I meant by updating the ratings was revisiting the works themselves, and reading more to add new ratings. The idea of predicting/guessing Scaruffi's ratings was tongue-in-cheek anyway, as a potential incentive to begin building your Literature list 😜

In any case I highly doubt he'll finally bring out a 10/10 rating even if it's for the Commedia. I do wonder if there exists any artwork he has considered rating a full 10.

I’m tracking… never say never… might at least inspire to, first off, include some I was more hesitant with (like the aforementioned The Idiot and possibly some others…)

And yes, there is a chance Scaruffi’s updates and synopses could appeal to me enough to finally get me rolling on Lit a bit more for newer entries as well

It wouldn’t completely shock me if there are just “no 10s” but I think Dante has probably the most realistic, logical shot of the few works I can think of that might have any shot at all. Beethoven 9th could be the other but it probably falls just outside of that range. I would say Michelangelo Sistine but he doesn’t appear to hold it or him in as high regard as I do, at least per the old lists and very limited and inconclusive evidence at hand at this time. I might say Angkor Wat based on monument/architecture rankings and what he says about it, but I don’t personally see how that could be above Dante’s or Beethoven 9th despite how incredible it is and even if he might place it above Michelangelo. If Bosch’s Garden is truly above all of Michelangelo’s Sistine (for him) than I suppose that’s not totally implausible, but 9.3+ seems more realistic for that one. Wouldn’t totally shock me if one of Wagners or Bachs epochal achievements suddenly became “the” Classical choice above Beethoven 9th (probably not though). Maybe Hamlet or Goethe Faust or Homer?

Again, if anything can do it, I think Dante’s DC fits the criteria probably better than any other while also achieving a seemingly impossible apex and efficiency of perfection.
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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: Hamlet - William Shakespeare (circa 1600) [Literature: Theater]
9.4: Trout Mask Replica - Captain Beefheart (1969) [Rock]
9.3: Faust - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1832) [Literature: Poetry/Theater]
9.3: Tristan und Isolde - Richard Wagner (1859) [Classical]
9.3: The Garden of Earthly Delights - Hieronymus Bosch (probably circa 1503-1505) / Museo del Prado, Madrid, Spain [Painting]
9.3: A Love Supreme - John Coltrane (1964) [Jazz]

9/10
9.2: The Velvet Underground & Nico - The Velvet Underground (1966) [Rock]
9.2: Symphony No. 15 in A Major - Dmitri Shostakovich (1971) [Classical]
9.2: The Doors - The Doors (1966) [Rock]
9.2: The Black Saint & The Sinner Lady - Charles Mingus (1963) [Jazz]
9.2: The Odyssey - Homer (circa 700s BC) [Literature: Poetry]
9.1: King Lear - William Shakespeare (1605) [Literature: Theater]
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: Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes (1615) [Literature: Novel]
9.0: Symphonie Fantastique - Hector Berlioz (1830) [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: Blonde On Blonde - Bob Dylan (1966) [Rock]
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: Parable of Arable Land - Red Crayola (1967) [Rock]
8.9: In the Aeroplane Over the Sea - Neutral Milk Hotel (1997) [Rock]
8.9: Symphony No. 5 in C Minor - Ludwig van Beethoven (1808) [Classical]
8.9: Symphony No. 4 in E Minor - Johannes Brahms (1885) [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: The Idiot - Fyodor Dostoevsky (1869) [Literature: Novel]
8.9: Y - The Pop Group (1979) [Rock]
8.9: Suicide - Suicide (1977) [Rock]
8.9: Requiem - Guisseppe Verdi (1874) [Classical]
8.9: Ulysses - James Joyce (1922) [Literature: Novel]
8.9: Paradise Lost - John Milton (1667) [Literature: Poetry]
8.9: Lulu - Alban Berg (1935) [Classical]
8.8: Neu! - Neu! (1971) [Rock]
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: Nostalghia - Andrei Tarkovsky (1983) [Film]
8.8: Pelléas et Mélisande - Claude Debussy (1898) [Classical]
8.8: Yerself Is Steam - Mercury Rev (1991) [Rock]
8.8: Down Colorful Hill - Red House Painters (1992) [Rock]
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: The Master and Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov (1940) [Literature: Novel]
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: Zen Arcade - Husker Du (1984) [Rock]
8.8: Don Giovanni - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1787) [Classical]
8.8: Elektra - Richard Strauss (1909) [Classical]
8.8: Third - Soft Machine (1970) [Rock]
8.8: Dolmen Music - Meredith Monk (1981) [Avant Garde]
8.8: Four Quartets - T.S. Eliot (1943) [Literature: Poetry]
8.8: Diamanda Galas - Diamanda Galas (1984) [Avant Garde / Rock]

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: Aida - Guisseppe Verdi (1871) [Classical]
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: Unit Structures - Cecil Taylor (1966) [Jazz]
8.7: Bitches Brew - Miles Davis (1969) [Jazz]
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: 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]
8.6: Geek the Girl - Lisa Germano (1994) [Rock]
8.6: Ada - Vladimir Nabokov (1968) [Literature: Novel]
8.6: Symphony No. 8 in B Minor "Unfinished" - Franz Schubert (1822) [Classical]
8.6: Symphony No. 3 in F Major - Johannes Brahms (1883) [Classical]
8.6: Piano Sonata No. 21 in B-flat Major - Franz Schubert (1828) [Classical]
8.6: Piano Sonata No. 23 in F Minor "Appassionata" - Ludwig van Beethoven (1805) [Classical]
8.6: Violin Concerto in D Major - Johannes Brahms (1878) [Classical]
8.6: Violin Concertos Nos. 1-4, Op. 8, "The Four Seasons" - Antonio Vivaldi (1723) [Classical]
8.6: Symphony No. 6 in B Minor "Pathetique" - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1893) [Classical]
8.6: Starsailor - Tim Buckley (1970) [Rock]
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: Symphony No. 8 in C Minor - Anton Bruckner (1892) [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: Symphony No. 5 in B-flat - Sergei Prokofiev (1944) [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: Guernica - Pablo Picasso (1937) / Museo Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain [Painting]
8.5: Symphony No. 7 "Seven Gates of Jerusalem" - Krzysztof Penderecki (1996)
8.5: Symphony No. 2 in D Major - Johannes Brahms (1877) [Classical]
8.5: Well-Oiled - Hash Jar Tempo (1997) [Rock]
8.5: Symphony No. 4 in F Minor - Peter Ilyitch Tchaikovsky (1878) [Classical]
8.5: Symphony No. 1 in C Minor - Johannes Brahms (1876) [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: The Wasteland - T.S. Eliot (1922) [Literature: Poetry]
8.5: Glagolitic Mass - Leos Janacek (1926) [Classical]
8.5: Symphony No. 5 - Gustav Mahler (1902) [Classical]
8.5: Messiah - George Frideric Handel (1741) [Classical]
8.5: St. Matthew Passion - Johann Sebastian Bach (1727) [Classical]
8.5: Missa Solemnis – Ludwig van Beethoven (1823) [Classical]
8.5: Dreamtime Return - Steve Roach (1988) [CD Release] [Rock]
8.5: Passion: Music For The Last Temptation of Christ - Peter Gabriel (1989) [Rock]
8.5: Symphony No. 7 in E major "Lyric" - Anton Bruckner (1883; revised 1885) [Classical]
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: Einstein on the Beach - Philip Glass (1975) [Classical]
8.4: Otello - Giuseppe Verdi (1887) [Classical]
8.4: The Marriage of Figaro - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1786) [Classical]
8.4: Le Grand Macabre - Gyorgy Ligeti (1977) [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: Othello - William Shakespeare (circa 1603) [Literature: Theater]
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: Original Sin - Pandora's Box (1989) [Rock]
8.4: The River - Bruce Springsteen (1980) [Rock]
8.4: Volunteers - Jefferson Airplane (1969) [Rock]
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: 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: Saint Luke Passion - Krysztof Penderecki (1966) [Classical]
8.4: La Transfiguration de Notre Seigneur Jesus-Christ - Olivier Messiaen (1969) [Classical]
8.4: Winterreise - Franz Schubert (1827) [Classical]
8.4: La Dolce Vita - Federico Fellini (1960) [Film]
8.4: Saint-Francois d'Assise - Olivier Messiaen (1983) [Classical]
8.4: Kailasa Temple - King Krishna I (circa 773) / Ellora Caves (Cave 16), Aurangabad district, Maharashtra, India [Architecture and Sculpture]
8.3: Symphony in D Minor - Cesar Franck (1888)
8.3: Sinfonia da Requiem - Benjamin Britten (1940) [Classical]
8.3: Meet the Residents - Residents (1974) [Original "Unedited/Mono" Version] [Rock]
8.3: Tablet/Songs from the Hill - Meredith Monk (1979) [Avant Garde]
8.3: The Magic City - Sun Ra (1965) [Jazz]
8.3: Piano Sonata in B Minor - Franz Liszt (1853) [Classical]
8.3: Piano Sonata No. 29 in B-flat Major "Hammerklavier" - Ludwig van Beethoven (1818) [Classical]
8.3: Symphony No. 8 - Alfred Schnittke (1994) [Classical]
8.3: Symphony No. 2 in C minor "Resurrection" - Gustav Mahler (1894)
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: 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: Ein Deutsches Requiem - Johannes Brahms (1868) [Classical]
8.3: Grande Messe des morts - Hector Berlioz (1837) [Classical]
8.3: Symphony No. 8 in C minor "Stalingrad" - Dmitri Shostakovich (1943) [Classical]
8.3: Symphony No. 1 - Alfred Schnittke (1974) [Classical]
8.3: Symphony No. 7 in D minor - Antonin Dvorak (1885) [Classical]
8.3: Symphony No. 8 in G major - Antonin Dvorak (1889) [Classical]
8.3: Symphony No. 5 in E Minor - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1888) [Classical]
8.3: Goldberg Variations - Johann Sebastian Bach (1741) [Classical]
8.3: The Art of Fugue - Johann Sebastian Bach (1750) [Classical]
8.3: Mu - Don Cherry (1969) [Parts 1 & 2] [Jazz]
8.3: The Traveling Players - Theo Angelopoulos (1975) [Film]
8.3: The Iliad - Homer (circa 700s BC) [Literature: Poetry]
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: Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta - Bela Bartok (1936) [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: St. John Passion - Johann Sebastian Bach (1724; revised 1725, 1732 & 1749) [Classical]
8.3: The Three-Penny Opera - Kurt Weill (1928)
8.3: From The House of The Dead - Leos Janacek (1928) [Classical]
8.3: Master Of Puppets - Metallica (1986) [Rock]
8.3: Peter Grimes - Benjamin Britten (1945) [Classical]
8.3: The Magic Flute - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1791) [Classical]
8.3: Symphony No. 4 - Charles Ives (1924) [Classical]
8.3: Symphony No. 2 in D Major - Jean Sibelius (1902) [Classical]
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: 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]
8.3: Faust Cantata - Alfred Schnittke (1983) [Classical]
8.3: Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables - Dead Kennedy's (1980) [Rock]

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: Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction - Wallace Stevens (1942) [Literature: Poetry]
8.2: The Tower - William Butler Yeats (1928) [Literature: Poetry]
8.2: The Litanies of Satan - Diamanda Galas (1982) [Avant Garde / Rock]
8.2: String Quartet No. 15 in A Minor - Ludwig van Beethoven (1825) [Classical]
8.2: Violin Partita No. 2 in D Minor - Johann Sebastian Bach (1720) [Classical]
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: Concerto for Orchestra - Roberto Gerhard (1965) [Classical]
8.2: War Requiem - Benjamin Britten (1962) [Classical]
8.2: Metal Box - Public Image, Ltd (1979) [Rock]
8.2: Love Exposure - Sion Sono (2008) [Film]
8.2: Symphony No. 8 - Eduard Tubin (1966) [Classical]
8.2: Requiem - Gyorgy Ligeti (1965) [Classical]
8.2: Tago Mago - Can (1971) [Rock]
8.2: The Wild Bunch - Sam Peckinpah (1969) [Director's Cut, 145 minutes]
8.2: Polish Requiem - Krzysztof Penderecki (1983-2005) [Classical]
8.2: Concerto for Orchestra - Bela Bartok (1943) [Classical]
8.2: La Traviata - Giuseppe Verdi (1853) [Classical]
8.2: Parsifal - Richard Wagner (1882) [Classical]
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: Symphony No. 4 in E flat major "Romantic" - Anton Bruckner (1874; multiple revisions until 1888) [Classical]
8.2: The Well-Tempered Clavier (Books I & II) - Johann Sebastian Bach (1722; 1742) [Classical]
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: 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: Symphony of Three Orchestras - Elliot Carter (1976) [Classical]
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: Self Portrait in a Convex Mirror - John Ashbery (1975) [Literature: Poetry]
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: Fratres (for Violin and Piano) - Arvo Part (1977) [Classical]
8.1: Piano Trio No. 7 in B-flat Major "Archduke" - Ludwig van Beethoven (1811) [Classical]
8.1: Symphony No. 7 in A Major - Ludwig van Beethoven (1812) [Classical]
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: Symphony No. 2 "The Age of Anxiety" - Leonard Bernstein (1949) [Classical]
8.1: Fidelio - Ludwig van Beethoven (1805; revised 1806-1814) [Classical]
8.1: Atlantis - Sun Ra (1969) [Jazz]
8.1: Vision Creation Newsun - Boredoms (1999) [Rock]
8.1: Symphony No. 4 "The Poem of Ecstasy" - Alexander Scriabin (1908) [Classical]
8.1: Requiem Mass in D minor - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1791) [Classical]
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: Symphony No. 6 in F Major "Pastoral" - Ludwig van Beethoven (1808) [Classical]
8.1: Violin Concerto "To the Memory of an Angel" - Alban Berg (1935) [Classical]
8.1: Violin Concerto No. 2 in C-sharp Minor - Dmitri Shostakovich (1967) [Classical]
8.1: Symphony No. 40 in G minor - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1788) [Classical]
8.1: Conference of the Birds - Dave Holland (1972) [Jazz]
8.1: The Marble Index - Nico (1968) [Rock]
8.1: Cosi` Fan Tutte - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1790)
8.1: Salome - Richard Strauss (1905) [Classical]
8.1: Symphony No. 7 - Roger Sessions (1967) [Classical]
8.1: Sinfonia - Luciano Berio (1969) [Classical]
8.0: The Passion of Joan of Arc - Carl Theodor Dreyer (1928) [Film]
8.0: Lohengrin - Richard Wagner (1850) [Classical]
8.0: The Conversation - Francis Ford Coppola (1974) [Film]
8.0: Psycho - Alfred Hitchcock (1960) [Film]
8.0: Violin Sonata No. 9 in A Major "Kreutzer" - Ludwig van Beethoven (1803) [Classical]
8.0: Symphony No. 8 in E flat major "Symphony Of A Thousand" - Gustav Mahler (1906) [Classical]
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: Tabula Rasa - Arvo Part (1977) [Classical]
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: Symphony No. 1 in F minor - Dmitri Shostakovich (1925) [Classical]
8.0: Symphony: Mathis der Maler - Paul Hindemith (1934) [Classical]
8.0: Symphony No. 3 in C Minor "Organ" - Camille Saint-Saens (1886) [Classical]
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: Toccata and Fugue in D Minor, BWV 565 - Johann Sebastian Bach (circa 1704) [Classical]
8.0: Symphony No. 39 in E-flat Major - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1788) [Classical]
8.0: Symphony No. 38 in D major - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1786) [Classical]
8.0: Symphony No. 3 "Liturgique" - Arthur Honegger (1946) [Classical]
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]
8.0: Symphony No. 11 in G minor "The Year 1905" - Dmitri Shostakovich (1957) [Classical]
8.0: Violin Concerto No. 2 - Bela Bartok (1938) [Classical]
8.0: Piano Sonata No. 31 in A-flat Major - Ludwig van Beethoven (1821) [Classical]
8.0: Symphony No. 5 - Carl Neilsen (1922) [Classical]
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: Falstaff - Giuseppe Verdi (1893) [Classical]
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: The Creation - Joseph Haydn (1798) [Classical]
7.9: Symphony No. 8 - Vagn Holmboe (1952) [Classical]
7.9: Symphony No. 5 in E flat major - Jean Sibelius (1919) [Classical]
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: Piano Concerto No. 21 in C Major - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1785) [Classical]
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: Piano Concerto No. 2 in B-flat Major - Johannes Brahms (1881) [Classical]
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: Piano Concerto No. 5 in E-flat Major "Emperor" - Ludwig van Beethoven (1811) [Classical]
7.9: Piano Concerto No. 20 in D Minor - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1785) [Classical]
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: Piano Concerto No. 1 in B-flat Minor - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1875) [Classical]
7.9: Piano Concerto No. 2 in C Minor - Sergei Rachmaninoff (1901) [Classical]
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: Diabelli Variations - Ludwig van Beethoven (1823) [Classical]
7.9: Carmina Burana - Carl Orff (1936) [Classical]
7.9: The Nose - Dmitri Shostakovich (1930) [Classical]
7.9: Symphony No. 35 in D major "Haffner" - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1788) [Classical]
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: Symphony No. 7 in E minor "Song of the Night" - Gustav Mahler (1905) [Classical]
7.9: Cello Concerto No. 2 - Dmitri Shostakovich (1966) [Classical]
7.9: Cantata Profana - Bela Bartok (1930) [Classical]
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]
7.9: Petrouchka - Igor Stravinsky (1911) [Classical]
7.9: Piano Sonata No. 17 in D Minor "The Tempest" - Ludwig van Beethoven (1801 - 1802) [Classical]
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: Porgy And Bess - George Gershwin (1935) [Classical]
7.8: Piano Sonata No. 8 in C Minor "Pathetique" - Ludwig van Beethoven (1798) [Classical]
7.8: Violin Concerto in D Major - Ludwig van Beethoven (1806) [Classical]
7.8: Piano Quintet in A Major "Trout" - Franz Schubert (1819) [Classical]
7.8: Piano Quintet in F minor - Johannes Brahms (1864) [Classical]
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: Symphony No. 3 "Collages" - Roberto Gerhard (1960) [Classical]
7.8: Symphony No. 4 - Michael Tippett (1977) [Classical]
7.8: Symphony No. 6 "Fantaisies Symphoniques" - Bohuslav Martinu (1953) [Classical]
7.8: Symphony No. 36 in C major "Linzer" - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1783) [Classical]
7.8: Symphony No. 3 - Witold Lutoslawski (1983) [Classical]
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: Violin Sonata No. 2 in A Major - Johannes Brahms (1886) [Classical]
7.8: Cello Concerto in B minor - Antonin Dvorak (1895) [Classical]
7.8: Also Sprach Zarathustra - Richard Strauss (1896) [Classical]
7.8: The Planets - Gustav Holst (1916) [Classical]
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: Octet for Strings in E-flat major - Felix Mendelssohn (1825) [Classical]
7.8: Symphony No. 1 "Titan" in D major - Gustav Mahler (1888) [Classical]
7.8: Symphony No. 102 in B flat major - Franz Joseph Haydn (1794) [Classical]
7.8: Impressions - John Coltrane (1961) [Jazz]
7.8: I - Meshuggah (2004) [EP; Original 1-track release] [Rock]
7.8: Double Concerto for Harpsichord and Piano with Two Chamber Orchestras - Elliott Carter (1961) [Classical]
7.8: Fantasy in C Major, Op. 17 - Robert Schumann (1839) [Classical]
7.8: Piano Sonata No. 14 in C-sharp Minor "Quasi una fantasia" (aka, "Moonlight") - Ludwig van Beethoven (1801) [Classical]

IN PROGRESS…

Maybe… estimated … potentially 7.8+ … most need revisits

Also, undecided if I will include 7.3-7.7 for this list

7.7: Carmen - Georges Bizet (1875) [Classical]
7.7: Symphony No. 101 in D major "The Clock" - Joseph Haydn (1793-1794) [Classical]
7.7: Symphony No. 4 in D minor - Robert Schumann (1841; 1851) [Classical]
7.6: Violin Sonata No. 3 in D Minor - Johannes Brahms (1888) [Classical]
7.6: Violin Sonata No. 3 in C major - Johann Sebastian Bach (1720) [Classical]
7.6: L’Orfeo - Claudio Monteverdi (1607) [Classical]
7.6: Cello Symphony - Benjamin Britten (1963) [Classical]
7.6: Symphony in C - Igor Stravinsky (1940) [Classical]
7.6: Symphony No. 2 in E minor – Sergei Rachmaninoff (1907) [Classical]
7.6: Symphony No. 94 in G major "Surprise" - Joseph Haydn (1791) [Classical]
7.6: Symphony No. 104 in D major "London" - Joseph Haydn (1795) [Classical]
7.6: Violin Sonata No. 1 in G Major - Johannes Brahms (1879) [Classical]
7.5: Trio for Violin, Horn and Piano - Gyorgy Ligeti (1982) [Classical]
7.5: String Trio - Alfred Schnittke (1985) [Classical]
7.5: Twelve Concerti Grossi, Op. 6 - Arcangelo Corelli (1714) [Classical]
7.5: Swan Lake - Pyotr Tchaikovsky (1876) [Classical]
7.5: String Quartet No. 4 - Bela Bartok (1928) [Classical]
7.5: Symphony No. 103 in E flat major "Drum Roll" - Joseph Haydn (1794-1795) [Classical]
7.5: Symphony No. 100 in G major "Military" - Joseph Haydn (1793-1794) [Classical]
7.5: Via Crucis - Franz Liszt (1879) [Classical]
7.5: String Quartet No. 11 in F minor - Dmitri Shostakovich (1866) [Classical]
7.4: Symphony in Three Movements - Igor Stravinsky (1945) [Classical]
7.4: Symphony No. 3 "The Camp Meeting" - Charles Ives (1910) [Classical]
7.4: Symphony No. 5 in B-flat major - Franz Schubert (1816) [Classical]
7.4: The Nutcracker - Pyotr Tchaikovsky (1892) [Classical]
7.4: A Midsummer Nights Dream - Felix Mendelssohn (1842) [Classical]
7.4: Quintet for Clarinet and Strings in B minor - Johannes Brahms (1891) [Classical]
7.4: Pictures at an Exhibition - Modest Mussorgsky (1874) [Classical]
7.4: Symphony of Psalms - Igor Stravinsky (1930) [Classical]
7.4: Symphony No. 2 "Mysterious Mountain" - Alan Hovhaness (1955) [Classical]
7.4: Symphony No. 4 in G major - Gustav Mahler (1900) [Classical]
7.4: Symphony No. 3 "A Pastoral Symphony" - Ralph Vaughan Williams (1922) [Classical]
7.4: La Damnation de Faust - Hector Berlioz (1845) [Classical]
7.4: The Seasons - Joseph Haydn (1801) [Classical]
7.3: Piano Trio No. 2 in C Major, Op. 87 - Johannes Brahms (1882) [Classical]
7.3: Piano Trio No. 3 in C minor, Op. 101 - Johannes Brahms (1883) [Classical]
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UPDATES… THOSE IN BOLD BLACK WERE REVISITED THIS WEEK OR VERY RECENTLY; THE REST ARE VERY MUCH ESTIMATES AS NOTED

Hamlet - William Shakespeare (circa 1600) [Literature: Theater] 9.3/10 to 9.4/10 …estimate partially from memory relative to other masterpieces that have more recently been revisited … still needs its own revisit, open to change, not “final”

Faust - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1832) [Literature: Poetry/Theater] 9.2/10 to 9.4/10 …estimate partially from memory relative to other masterpieces that have more recently been revisited … still needs its own revisit, open to change, not “final”

The Garden of Earthly Delights - Hieronymus Bosch (probably circa 1503-1505) / Museo del Prado, Madrid, Spain [Painting] 9.1/10 to 9.3/10

The Odyssey - Homer (circa 700s) [Literature: Poetry] 9.1/10 to 9.3/10 …estimate partially from memory relative to other masterpieces that have more recently been revisited … still needs its own revisit, open to change, not “final”

The Black Saint & The Sinner Lady - Charles Mingus (1963) [Jazz] 9.1/10 to 9.2/10, potentially 9.3+

Symphony No. 15 in A Major - Dmitri Shostakovich (1971) [Classical] 9.0/10 to 9.2/10, potentially 9.3+

King Lear - William Shakespeare (1605) [Literature: Theater] 8.6/10 to 9.1/10 …estimate partially from memory relative to other masterpieces that have more recently been revisited … still needs its own revisit, open to change, not “final”

The Idiot - Fyodor Dostoevsky (1869) [Literature: Novel] Not Rated/previously 8.9/10 to 8.9/10 …estimate partially from memory relative to other masterpieces that have more recently been revisited … still needs its own revisit, open to change, not “final”

Lulu - Alban Berg (1935) [Classical] 9.0/10 to 8.9/10 …estimate partially from memory relative to other masterpieces that have more recently been revisited … still needs its own revisit, open to change, not “final”

Messiah - George Frideric Handel (1741) [Classical] 8.8/10 to 8.7/10 …estimate partially from memory relative to other masterpieces that have more recently been revisited … still needs its own revisit, open to change, not “final”

St. Matthew Passion - Johann Sebastian Bach (1727) [Classical] 8.8/10 to 8.7/10 …estimate partially from memory relative to other masterpieces that have more recently been revisited … still needs its own revisit, open to change, not “final”

Missa Solemnis – Ludwig van Beethoven (1823) [Classical] 8.8/10 to 8.7/10 …estimate partially from memory relative to other masterpieces that have more recently been revisited … still needs its own revisit, open to change, not “final”

Aida - Guisseppe Verdi (1871) [Classical] 8.8/10 to 8.7/10 …estimate partially from memory relative to other masterpieces that have more recently been revisited … still needs its own revisit, open to change, not “final”

The Marriage of Figaro - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1786) [Classical] 8.8/10 to 8.7/10 …estimate partially from memory relative to other masterpieces that have more recently been revisited … still needs its own revisit, open to change, not “final”

Saint Luke Passion - Krysztof Penderecki (1966) [Classical] 8.8/10 to 8.7/10 …estimate partially from memory relative to other masterpieces that have more recently been revisited … still needs its own revisit, open to change, not “final”

La Transfiguration de Notre Seigneur Jesus-Christ - Olivier Messiaen (1969) [Classical] 8.8/10 to 8.7/10 …estimate partially from memory relative to other masterpieces that have more recently been revisited … still needs its own revisit, open to change, not “final”

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] 8.8/10 to 8.6/10

Piano Sonata No. 23 in F Minor "Appassionata" - Ludwig van Beethoven (1805) [Classical] 8.8/10 to 8.6/10

The Wasteland - T.S. Eliot (1922) [Literature: Poetry] 8.7/10 to 8.5/10 …estimate partially from memory relative to other masterpieces that have more recently been revisited … still needs its own revisit, open to change, not “final”

Othello - William Shakespeare (circa 1603) [Literature: Theater] Not Rated to 8.4/10 …estimate partially from memory relative to other masterpieces that have more recently been revisited … still needs its own revisit, open to change, not “final”

Iliad - Homer (circa 700s) [Literature: Poetry] Not Rated to 8.3/10 …estimate partially from memory relative to other masterpieces that have more recently been revisited … still needs its own revisit, open to change, not “final”

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] 8.1/10 to 8.3/10

Great Expectations - Charles Dickens (1861) [Literature: Novel] Not Rated to 7.4/10 …estimate partially from memory relative to other masterpieces that have more recently been revisited … still needs its own revisit, open to change, not “final”

Montage of a Dream Deferred - Langston Hughes (1951) [Literature: Poetry] Not Rated to 7.3/10 …estimate partially from memory relative to other masterpieces that have more recently been revisited … still needs its own revisit, open to change, not “final”
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New ratings for Ada and The Master & Margarita?

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Facetious wrote:

New ratings for Ada and The Master & Margarita?

Very old (15+ years). Like The Idiot and King Lear I finally decided to add them even though they are even less certain estimates than the others and it goes against my longtime MO (and is a bit hypocritical to my own criteria page…) of asserting ratings/rankings before I am more ready to. I used to try to never do that, any art form … but in recent years I got a bit looser on this rule I guess…

But… as the kids say these days and in the ever present and monolithic, lingual spirit of Shakespeare:

Whatevs, ye old mutha fuckas
To beeyotch or not to beeyotch is the guest of thy mind
Guessed at the request of ye questions, leavith thy impressions as to them are my own
To be done with or disown, in thy mouth they do foam-meant to no one but the imagination to roam-mance into stone
So then take this all down to the wicked dryest tail-end bone
except to accept that mistakes may be made for the stakes are not owned
The but of this joke is the head that under stands alone

New 9/10 just dropped…

AfterHours straddles the border between hip hop and Shakespeare, yet in a Dantesque journey through lingual-pun-ishment Inferno … one is left to wonder if this was the hell we were in for had we ever encountered his lost Hip Hop masterpiece — legend has it titled “Gangsta Bitch Casserole”
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Greatest Literature

Very Incomplete/Very much a work in progress

NOTE: ALL ratings/rankings are estimates, and certainly not final. While there is a decent chance most of them are not far off of what they should be, I am a ways from being able to rate/rank them in the proper context of many other greats/masterpieces of Literature like with rating/ranking, say, Rock or Film (with their respective histories and genres). My estimated ratings for these are (so far) much more based on a combination of my familiarity with them plus the qualitative context of my other ratings/rankings across other arts (but again, not nearly so much for Literature as the closer and more accurate point of comparison)

10/10
The Divine Comedy - Dante Alighieri (circa 1321) [Poetry]

9.4/10
Hamlet - William Shakespeare (circa 1600) [Theater]

9.3/10
Faust - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1832) [Poetry/Theater]

9.2/10
The Odyssey - Homer (circa 700s BC) [Poetry]

9.1/10
King Lear - William Shakespeare (1605) [Theater]
The Trial - Franz Kafka (1925) [Novel]

9.0/10
Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes (1615) [Novel]

8.9/10
The Idiot - Fyodor Dostoevsky (1869) [Novel]
Ulysses - James Joyce (1922) [Novel]
Paradise Lost - John Milton (1667) [Poetry]

8.8/10
Macbeth - William Shakespeare (1606) [Theater]
The Master and Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov (1940) [Novel]
Four Quartets - T.S. Eliot (1943) [Poetry]

8.7/10

8.6/10
Ada - Vladimir Nabokov (1968) [Novel]

8.5/10
Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky (1866) [Novel]
The Wasteland - T.S. Eliot (1922) [Poetry]

8.4/10
War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy (1869) [Novel]
Othello - William Shakespeare (circa 1603) [Theater]

8.3/10
Moby Dick - Herman Melville (1851) [Novel]
The Iliad - Homer (circa 700s BC) [Poetry]

8.2/10
Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction - Wallace Stevens (1942) [Poetry]
The Tower - William Butler Yeats (1928) [Poetry]

8.1/10
Self Portrait in a Convex Mirror - John Ashbery (1975) [Poetry]
The Brother's Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoevsky (1880) [Novel]

8.0/10

7.9/10
Slaughterhouse-Five - Kurt Vonnegut (1969) [Novel]

7.8/10
The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald (1925) [Novel]

7.7/10
A Brave New World - Aldous Huxley (1931) [Novel]
Cat's Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut (1963) [Novel]
Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov (1955) [Novel]

7.6/10
1984 - George Orwell (1949) [Novel]
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain (1884) [Novel]

7.5/10
Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll (1865) [Novel]
The Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger (1951) [Novel]
The Tempest - William Shakespeare (1611) [Theater]
Catch-22 - Joseph Heller (1961) [Novel]

7.4/10
Romeo and Juliet - William Shakespeare (1595) [Theater]
The Stand - Stephen King (1978) [Novel]
Lord of the Rings - J.R.R Tolkien (1955) [Novel / The Fellowship of the Ring; The Two Towers; The Return of the King]
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee (1960) [Novel]
Great Expectations - Charles Dickens (1861) [Novel]

7.3/10
Montage of a Dream Deferred - Langston Hughes (1951) [Poetry]
Lord of the Flies - William Golding (1954) [Novel]
2001: A Space Odyssey - Arthur C. Clarke (1968) [Novel]

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7.2/10
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl (1964) [Novel]
The Witches - Roald Dahl (1983) [Novel]
Black Beauty - Anna Sewell (1877) [Novel]
Watership Down - Richard Adams (1972) [Novel]

7.1/10
Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand (1957) [Novel]
The Call of the Wild - Jack London (1903) [Novel]

7.0/10
James and the Giant Peach - Roald Dahl (1961) [Novel]
Charlotte's Web - E.B. White (1952) [Novel]
Jurassic Park - Michael Crichton (1990) [Novel]
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - Mark Twain (1876) [Novel]
Ender’s Game - Orson Scott-Card (1985) [Novel]

6.9/10
The Lion The Witch and the Wardrobe - C.S. Lewis (1950) [Novel]
The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien (1937) [Novel]
Rendezvous with Rama - Arthur C. Clarke (1973) [Novel]

6.8/10

MAYBE...
Matilda - Roald Dahl (1988)
The BFG - Roald Dahl (1982)
The Twits - Roald Dahl (1980)
Danny the Champion of the World - Roald Dahl (1975)
The Lorax - Dr Seuss (1971)
Where the Wild Things Are - Maurice Sendak (1963)
A Wrinkle in Time - Madeleine L'Engle (1962)
The Phantom Tollbooth - Norton Juster and Jules Feiffer (1961)
The Cat in the Hat - Dr Seuss (1957)
The Little Prince - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1943)
The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien (1937)
Winnie-the-Pooh - AA Milne and EH Shepard (1926)
The Velveteen Rabbit - Margery Williams (1921)
Daddy-Long-Legs - Jean Webster (1912)
The Tale of Peter Rabbit - Beatrix Potter (1902)
Black Beauty - Anna Sewell (1877)

Probably Below 6.8/10

Brian Jacques "Redwall" books:
Redwall (1986)
Mossflower (1988)
Mattimeo (1989)
Mariel of Redwall (1991)
Salamandastron (1992)
Martin the Warrior (1993)
The Bellmaker (1994)

Various Beverly Cleary books

Hardy Boys mysteries

(And no ... Although I've never read them, I'm confident that the Twilight series, the Harry Potter series, and even the Fifty Shades of Grey books (gasp! masterpiece!) are not quite the greatest series of books ever written 🤣 )
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Which works are you likely to revisit/read first when you get around to making the Literature ratings more accurate (as opposed to estimating from memory)?

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Facetious wrote:

Which works are you likely to revisit/read first when you get around to making the Literature ratings more accurate (as opposed to estimating from memory)?

I am thinking maybe The Trial (maybe higher rating?) …and because my (far) better half gets the nod even above Scaruffi (sometimes…) 😜 … she is nudging me towards Master and the Margarita (one I’m itching to check out again anyway)

Besides that, potentially various Poetry such as Yeats’ The Tower and Eliot and others

I did “partially” revisit (skim, hone in on excerpts, reviewed claims/analysis about it) the Langston Hughes I added a after not having read it in about 25 years — to get an expedited sense and estimate of its rating (but not final of course)

How about you?
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EXPLANATION: WHAT IS THIS LOG??? Go here: https://www.besteveralbums.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=571094#571094

For my criteria page, go here: http://www.besteveralbums.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=15503

To visit my Main lists, go here:
Greatest Classical Music Works: https://www.besteveralbums.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=15098
Greatest Albums (Rock & Jazz): https://www.besteveralbums.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=15276
Greatest Songs/Tracks/Movements: https://www.besteveralbums.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=15246
Greatest Films: https://www.besteveralbums.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=15558
Greatest Paintings, Sculpture and Architecture: https://www.besteveralbums.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=15560
Greatest Works of Art: https://www.besteveralbums.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=16117

Various (in progress) genre lists, listed in order of how recently I've worked on them:
Greatest Literature: https://www.besteveralbums.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=764946#764946
Best Action/Adventure Films: https://www.besteveralbums.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=749761#749761
Best Comedy Films: https://www.besteveralbums.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=748991#748991
Best Teen and/or Coming of Age Films: https://www.besteveralbums.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=683219#683219
Best Gangster and/or Hood Films: https://www.besteveralbums.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=682513#682513
Best Editing/Structure in Film History: https://www.besteveralbums.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=667443#667443
Best Visuals (Color) / Best Visuals (Black and White): https://www.besteveralbums.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=666231#666231
Best Horror Films: https://www.besteveralbums.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=656102#656102
Best Hip Hop/R & B/Soul/Funk Albums: https://www.besteveralbums.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=650323#650323
Best Animated Films: https://www.besteveralbums.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=647884#647884
Best Comic Book/Superhero Films: https://www.besteveralbums.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=646189#646189

Bold = Newly added
Bold + Italics = Was already listed but recently upgraded/downgraded

Top 10+ Music, Movies, and Visual Art of the Week(s): 10-5-26 - 10-25-26
Symphony No. 15 in A Major - Dmitri Shostakovich (1971)
Down Colorful Hill - Red House Painters (1992)
Trust - Low (2002)
Piano Sonata No. 32 in C Minor - Ludwig van Beethoven (1822)
The Garden of Earthly Delights - Hieronymus Bosch (probably circa 1503-1505) / Museo del Prado, Madrid, Spain [Painting]
The Velvet Underground and Nico - The Velvet Underground (1966)
Symphony No. 9 in C Major "The Great" - Franz Schubert (1826)
Amassed - Spring Heel Jack (2002)
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]
The Black Saint & The Sinner Lady - Charles Mingus (1963)
Symphony No. 3 in E-flat Major "Eroica" - Ludwig van Beethoven (1804)
Piano Sonata No. 30 in E Major - Ludwig van Beethoven (1820)
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]
Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction - Wallace Stevens (1942) [Literature: Poetry]
Self Portrait in a Convex Mirror - John Ashbery (1975) [Literature: Poetry]
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]
Piano Sonata No. 23 in F Minor "Appassionata" - Ludwig van Beethoven (1805)
The Last Judgment - Hieronymus Bosch (after 1482; probably circa 1500 - 1503) / Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, Austria [Painting]
Winterreise - Franz Schubert (1827)
Symphony No. 7 in D minor - Antonin Dvorak (1885)

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

SEE HERE FOR RECENT UPDATES: https://www.besteveralbums.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=758644#758644

NEWLY LISTENED - ROCK/JAZZ ALBUMS - RATED:

NEWLY LISTENED - CLASSICAL WORKS - RATED:

FAMILIAR CLASSICAL WORKS - RE-RATED:
Winterreise - Franz Schubert (1827) 8.6/10 to 8.4/10

FAMILIAR SONGS/TRACKS/MOVEMENTS - RE-RATED:

NEWLY LISTENED - SONGS/TRACKS/MOVEMENTS - RATED:

FAMILIAR FILMS - RE-RATED:
SEE HERE FOR RECENT “ACTION/ADVENTURE” UPDATES: https://www.besteveralbums.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=752087#752087

NEWLY WATCHED FILMS - RATED:

FAMILIAR PAINTINGS/VISUAL ART - RE-RATED:
SEE HERE FOR RECENT “PAINTINGS/VISUAL ART” UPDATES:
https://www.besteveralbums.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=753512#753512

NEWLY VIEWED PAINTINGS/VISUAL ART - RATED:

FAMILIAR LITERATURE - RE-RATED:

NEWLY READ LITERATURE - RATED:
Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction - Wallace Stevens (1942) [Literature: Poetry] 8.2/10
Self Portrait in a Convex Mirror - John Ashbery (1975) [Literature: Poetry] 8.1/10

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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
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AfterHours wrote:

I am thinking maybe The Trial (maybe higher rating?) …and because my (far) better half gets the nod even above Scaruffi (sometimes…) 😜 … she is nudging me towards Master and the Margarita (one I’m itching to check out again anyway)

Besides that, potentially various Poetry such as Yeats’ The Tower and Eliot and others

I did “partially” revisit (skim, hone in on excerpts, reviewed claims/analysis about it) the Langston Hughes I added a after not having read it in about 25 years — to get an expedited sense and estimate of its rating (but not final of course)

How about you?

One potential obstacle in evaluating The Trial might be that there's no definitive text since Kafka didn't indicate the sequence for most of the chapters. Would love to know your thoughts on the "Critical Edition" vs Max Brod's original edited text.