{"id":26588,"date":"2026-06-19T22:32:18","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T02:32:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=26588"},"modified":"2026-06-19T22:32:18","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T02:32:18","slug":"eclectic-music-lists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/eclectic-music-lists\/","title":{"rendered":"Eclectic music lists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DigitalDreamDoor is the place I go when I want to fill in some gaps in my musical knowledge. It has a lot of lists like songs by year, by genre, and even 100 songs by artist for a few big names (and also books and movies). Here are a few I found interesting.<\/p>\n<p>Bach&#8217;s &#8220;Mass in B Minor&#8221; is at the top of this list:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/digitaldreamdoor.com\/pages\/best-classic-wks.html\">200 Greatest Classical Music Works<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Many of the greatest classical works are symphonies, and Beethoven&#8217;s &#8220;Symphony No. 9&#8221; is at the top:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/digitaldreamdoor.com\/pages\/best-classic-symp.html\">100 Greatest Classical Music Symphonies<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This has the big names from Bach to Mahler:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/digitaldreamdoor.com\/pages\/best-classic-top10.html\">Top 10 Works by Classical Music Composers<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This one might take a while to look through &#8212; Aretha Franklin&#8217;s &#8220;Respect&#8221; is at the top:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/digitaldreamdoor.com\/pages\/best_songs_1000_popular_1-500.html\">1000 Greatest Popular Songs Of All Time<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is my favourite decade of pop music:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/digitaldreamdoor.com\/pages\/best_songs80-89.html\">Top Ten Songs Of Each Year 1980-1989<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Hey Jude&#8221; is at the top of this list:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/digitaldreamdoor.com\/pages\/best_songs-top-100-beatles.html\">100 Greatest Beatles Songs<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DigitalDreamDoor is the place I go when I want to fill in some gaps in my musical knowledge. It has a lot of lists like songs by year, by genre, and even 100 songs by artist for a few big names (and also books and movies). Here are a few I found interesting. Bach&#8217;s &#8220;Mass [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[42,13],"class_list":["post-26588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-from-the-web","tag-lists","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26588"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26594,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26588\/revisions\/26594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}