I'm going to bypass all music besides rock, because it makes it simpler for me.

Dream Theater - Images and Words (1992)
Bruce Springsteen - Born to Run (1975)
The Beatles - The Beatles (1968)
The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967)
John Lennon - Plastic Ono Band (1970)
Van Morrison - Astral Weeks (1968)
Queen - A Night at the Opera (1975)
Queen - News of the World (1977)
U2 - The Joshua Tree (1987)
The Clash - London Calling (1980)
The Smiths - The Queen is Dead (1986)
Bob Dylan - Blonde on Blonde (1966)
Bob Dylan - Blood on the Tracks (1975)
The Beatles - Abbey Road (1969)
Queen - Sheer Heart Attack (1974)
Nirvana - Nevermind (1991)
The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground and Nico (1967)
At the Gates - Slaughter of the Soul (1995)
The Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers (1971)
Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin (1969)
Megadeth - Rust in Peace (1990)
Elvis Costello - This Year's Model (1978)
The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds (1966)
The Beatles - Revolver (1966)

I could easily list another 200 here, but well 25 will suffice. Now for a very half assed movie list.

Citizen Kane (1941) - Orson Welles
The Godfather 1 and 2 (1972, 1974) - Francis Ford Copolla 
All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) - Lewis Milestone
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) - Stanley Kubrick
8 1/2 (1963) - Federico Fellini
Star Wars Trilogy (1977, 1980, 1983) - George Lucas, Irvin Kershner, Richard Marquand 
Lawrence of Arabia (1962) - David Lean
Pulp Fiction (1994) - Quinten Tarantino
Apocalypse Now (1979) - Francis Ford Copolla
Singing in the Rain (1952) - Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly
Intolerance (1916) - DW Griffith
Weekend (1967) - Jean Luc Godard
Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980) - Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Ordinary People (1980) - Robert Redford
To Live (1994) - Zhang Yimou
Schindler's List (1993) - Steven Spielberg
La Dolce Vita (1960) - Federico Fellini
Annie Hall (1977) - Woody Allen
Psycho (1960) - Alfred Hitchcock
Napoleon (1927) - Abel Gance
Landscape in the Mist (1988) - Theo Angelopoulus 
The Maltese Falcon (1941) - John Huston
Mulholland Drive (2001) - David Lynch
On the Waterfront (1954) - Elia Kazan
Goodfellas (1990) - Martin Scorsese

I think that's 25, that's tough to narrow down. Hell will probably freeze over before I can list paintings.