re: music
Your first six, and the last two, also make my "best" list (and boy, is it ever easy to tell how old we are!)
So, let me add another baker's dozen:
Rubber Soul (The Beatles)
His Satanic Majesty's Request (Rolling Stones)
Highway 61 Revisited (Bob Dylan)
Music from Big Pink (The Band)
Live at Leeds (The Who)
The Notorious Byrd Brothers (The Byrds)
Deja Vu (Crosby, Stillls, Nash and Young)
Thick as a Brick (Jethro Tull)
The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars (David Bowie)
Another Green World (Brian Eno)
The Royal Scam (Steely Dan)
Remain in Light (Talking Heads)
Graceland (Paul Simon)
