Great headphone songs/albums

[nych 1]

I just got the Shure SE 530 and I am hearing things in songs that I have never noticed before.

What are your favorite songs and/or albums to listen to on headphones?

"All Along the Watchtower"- Hendrix (Electric Ladyland has some cool pan effects)

Dark Side of the Moon - Pink Floyd (the obvious choice)

Yoshi Battles The Pink Robots - Flaming Lips

Lateralus - Tool

"Tangled Up in Blue" - Bob Dylan (Bill Berg's snare and cymbal work is awesome)

"The Boxer"/"Kodachrome - Simon and Garfunkel/Paul Simon (listening to Simon on headphones highlights how great an arranger he is)

"Be My Baby" - Ronettes (amazing how much Phil Spector could squeeze into a song that is only 2 min 41 sec)

A Fistful of Film Music - Ennio Morricone Anthology

"Eleanor Rigby" - Beatles (love the McCartney lead vocal in the right ear and the shift to stereo at the 30 second mark)

 

[jadedscenester]

soundgarden does some cool things with the stereo mixing.

i love glitchy electronic music on headphones as well b/c it makes it easier to pick up on all the layers.

 

[UTCzech]

Albums:
Roger Waters - Amused to Death
Pink Floyd - Animals
Beach Boys - Pet Sounds (stereo version)
Steely Dan - Aja
Boston - Boston
Alan Parsons - Turn of a Friendly Card
Supertramp - Breakfast in America
Queen - Night at the Opera
Rush - Permanent Waves
Holst - The Planets
Respighi - Pines of Rome

Songs:
Beatles - Because; Happiness is a Warm Gun; Nowhere Man
Joe Walsh - The Confessor
10cc - Feel the Benefit
Carpenters - Close to You (laugh all you want, I'm a harmony freak, love the way those 4 part harmonies explode at the end...)

 

[tbone]

put on back in black and witness the unreal heaviosity of the guitar tone.

 

[hookem2003]

Zeppelin - Whole Lotta Love

 

[Not Shinola]

thread should begin and end with Sgt. Peppers

 

[Third Coast]

I really enjoy dropping some acid and listening to The Moody Blues' "In Search of the Lost Chord" and "On the Threshold of a Dream".

 

[BDog]

I use headphones more than half of the time, you miss a lot of stuff if you don't.

 

[falloutboy]

I agree with Bdog. My answer to this thread is "everything I would normally listen to"

 

[El Torito]

I'd add Rush's "2112," Alan Parson's "I, Robot," and second Pink Floyd's "Dark Side of the Moon."

 

[Texanne]

ELP, Brain Salad Surgery.

 

[mr. sunshine]

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[JikabaJikaba]

Ok Computer is layered and worth a listen.

Try to make out the voice of the android in Paranoid Android.

 

[unpaintedhuffhines]

for local stuff...

Explosions in the Sky
Octopus Project

 

[l00p]

I won't go all electronic on you so I will suggest:

Sugarcubes - Life is Good
New Order - Movement

 

[dallastx]

Lucinda Williams-"West"-You miss great production w/o phones

 

[bevo_daddy]

Sigur Rós - Ágætis byrjun

You will absolutely get lost in another world with your headphones on

 

[JikabaJikaba]

Good call, bevo daddy.

 

[guitartex]

3 that come to mind...

Hendrix - Are You Experienced and 3rd Stone From the Sun
Steve Miller - Fly Like an Eagle

 

[Horn89]

Several good Pink Floyd records. "Final Cut" is often overlooked but one of my headphone faves.

Mark Knofler's "Sailing to Philadelphia" is one of the best-engineered and best-sounding records of this decade.

"Bookends" by Simon and Garfunkel is pretty amazing.

Those are the first 3 that popped into my mind as records that come alive when they get your undivided attention.

 

[DallasCMD]

Blue Oyster Cult - "Don't Fear The Reaper"

The cowbell is even more incredible with headphones.

Thread closed.

 

[robtex55]

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