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Greatest Works of Art — All Time / All Major Genres (Incomplete / In Progress)

(Currently including Classical, Rock, Jazz, Film, Paintings, Architecture, Sculpture and Literature. There are several works still to be added … several selections that remain estimates, need revisits… see notes below…)

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: Dolmen Music - Meredith Monk (1981) [Avant Garde]
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: 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: Piano Quintet in G Minor - Dmitri Shostakovich (1940) [Classical]
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: 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: 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: 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: 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. 10 in E Minor - Dmitri Shostakovich (circa 1951) [Classical]
8.2: Symphony No. 8 - Eduard Tubin (1966) [Classical]
8.2: Requiem - Gyorgy Ligeti (1965) [Classical]
8.2: Symphony in D Minor - Cesar Franck (1888)
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: Symphony No. 5 in E Minor - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1888) [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: Repulsion - Roman Polanski (1965) [Film]
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: 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]
7.9: Concerto for Orchestra - Roberto Gerhard (1965) [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: 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: Piano Quintet No. 2 in A major - Antonin Dvorak (1887) [Classical]
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: Piano Sonata No. 8 in C Minor "Pathetique" - Ludwig van Beethoven (1798) [Classical]
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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Updated through 7/30/17 ^^^

As follows...

FAMILIAR ALBUMS/CLASSICAL WORKS - RE-RATED:
Violin Concerto in D Major - Johannes Brahms (1878) 9.0/10 to 9.1/10
Piano Sonata No. 21 in B-flat Major - Franz Schubert (1828) 8.6/10 to 9.0/10
Violin Concertos Nos. 1-4, Op. 8, "The Four Seasons" - Antonio Vivaldi (1723) 8.8/10 to 9.0/10
Piano Sonata No. 23 in F Minor "Appassionata" - Ludwig van Beethoven (1805) 8.6/10 to 8.7/10; 8.7/10 to 8.8/10
Piano Sonata No. 30 in E Major - Ludwig van Beethoven (1820) 8.4/10 to 8.8/10
Piano Sonata No. 20 in A Major - Franz Schubert (1828) 8.4/10 to 8.8/10
Piano Sonata No. 29 in B-flat Major "Hammerklavier" - Ludwig van Beethoven (1818) 8.4/10 to 8.8/10

As I am revisiting more and more Classical works, evaluating them, and re-evaluating them, it is becoming increasingly plausible that there may be 100 or more (!!!) 8.8/10+ and perhaps several more 9.3/10+ Classical works. I made an estimate such as this on listology.com some years ago, well before I began industriously revisiting and rating Classical works. But if you would've asked me again later on, say, a year ago, I probably would've called that an exaggeration. Now, as if coming full circle, I would predict that it is more likely an under-estimate than an over-estimate. Time will tell. It can take several revisits of each work to feel as though I have the rating "just right". I am also getting increasingly acclimated to feeling like I am rating Classical accurately (after prior years spent mainly focused on Rock/Jazz/Film/Paintings). The transition to listening to Classical again was not difficult at all, but confidently rating and ranking them took some getting used to.
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please tell me you'll be adding more paintings. you've got the sistine chapel right at the top of your list, and hardly anything else. i saw bosch and tubke... i guess the same argument applies to film. this is a pretty music-heavy list, and i know you're a connoisseur of film and paintings as well. i would love to see more of that reflected here. ALSO, it would be cool if there was some notation clarifying what each entry is?
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craola wrote:

please tell me you'll be adding more paintings. you've got the sistine chapel right at the top of your list, and hardly anything else. i saw bosch and tubke... i guess the same argument applies to film. this is a pretty music-heavy list, and i know you're a connoisseur of film and paintings as well. i would love to see more of that reflected here. ALSO, it would be cool if there was some notation clarifying what each entry is?

Here's my Paintings list, which lists those below 8.8/10 as well (in the Lounge forum): https://www.besteveralbums.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=15560

I wish I could find more 8.8+ paintings, but I'm not sure they exist... If you (or anyone) has any insights into the depths of those I've listed below 8.8 that may change my mind to re-rate them higher, I am all ears ... There are also hundreds listed below 7.3 that I need to revisit (many of which might be 7.3+ when I revisit them, but I highly doubt any are 8.8+)

My film list ( https://www.besteveralbums.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=15558 ) is mid being revised and should have at least a few more 8.8+ entries when I'm done with this go round. Probably the best possibilities to be upgraded that high are (all of which have been 8.8+ at one time or another) ...

The Lady from Shanghai - Orson Welles (1948)
Mr. Arkadin - Orson Welles (1955) [Comprehensive Version, 105 minutes]
North By Northwest - Alfred Hitchcock (1959)
Mirror - Andrei Tarkovsky (1974)
The Passion of Joan of Arc - Carl Theodor Dreyer (1928)
The Wild Bunch - Sam Peckinpah (1969) [Director's Cut, 145 minutes]
The Traveling Players - Theo Angelopoulos (1975)
Chinatown - Roman Polanski (1974)
Landscape in the Mist - Theo Angelopoulos (1988)
Ikiru - Akira Kurosawa (1952)
Rosemary's Baby - Roman Polanski (1968)
The Color of Paradise - Mahid Majidi (1998)
Wings of Desire - Wim Wenders (1987)
Limelight - Charlie Chaplin (1952)
The Magnificent Ambersons - Orson Welles (1942)
Greed - Erich von Stroheim (1924) [Studio Cut, 140 minutes]
Sunset Boulevard - Billy Wilder (1950)
The Seventh Seal - Ingmar Bergman (1957)
On the Waterfront - Elia Kazan (1954)
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craola wrote:

ALSO, it would be cool if there was some notation clarifying what each entry is?

Do you mean labeling them such as [Film] ... [Painting] ... [Classical] ... [Rock] ... [Jazz] ?
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AfterHours wrote:

Do you mean labeling them such as [Film] ... [Painting] ... [Classical] ... [Rock] ... [Jazz] ?

something like this, yes.
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craola wrote:

something like this, yes.

Okay, done. I may make a more "detailed" version sooner or later, such as "[Classical: Opera]", "[Rock: Electronica]" ... etc. But maybe not (genres can be so mixed, indefinite...)
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AfterHours wrote:

Okay, done. I may make a more "detailed" version sooner or later, such as "[Classical: Opera]", "[Rock: Electronica]" ... etc. But maybe not (genres can be so mixed, indefinite...)

Thanks, AH.
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