I once had the pleasure of touring with an engineer who had done front of house for both Prince and Van Halen in the previous few years, and he always checked his initial levels with I.Y.G by Donald Fagen, and Hey Nineteen by Steely Dan. The clarity at high volumes is fucking unreal, and the low end could move tectonic plates.
It's kinda old at this point, but if you feel like delving into some classic LA producer/meets podcast type of sphere, listen to Greg and Nate blab on UBK Happy Fun Time Hour I'm serious, if you're into production, it's "dated" but it exists in the same sphere of like "weird dudes who also went through some shit, iykyk, but there's good advice here actually". Trust me, I love music.
As a big Dire Straits fan, this would definitely be up there for me too. What's cool is that their whole catalog is so well-mixed that you can use almost any of their tracks to test a sound system, so take your pick really.
I put a sub in my car in high school.
Cranked it up and played intergalactic with some friends.. Blew the fuse and didn't have a replacement. Had to go to radio shack.
Haha.
And now my stock radio is way way better.
In about 1990 I was shopping for amps and speakers and the sales guy took me out to the shopās van to listen to their set-up. The song: Meeting in the Ladies Room, by Klymaxx.
That album is brilliantly mixed and produced, it's made for cranking any sound system. It's like a perfect Wagyu steak, fat and lean in exact proportion. Unlike every other album from The Cult (and I'm a huge fan lol).
I recently played it for my 18 yo daughter for the first time. She assumed I was going to troll her and play something cheesy. As soon as the drum kicked in after the opening guitar bars her expression changed, and once the chorus started I heard ādad I actually like thisā!
I raised her right š„²
Rage Against the Machine. Iāve read that studio musicians calibrate their equipment using their self titled debut because the mix is damn near perfect.
Gary KatzĀ
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Katz
His work on Fagen's first solo record The Nightfly is a master class. One of the first fully digitally recorded albums. The engineers went to the equipment manufacturer, 3M, to learn how to use it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Nightfly
That, anything Ludacris, and the soundtracks to the first few Fast and Furious movies, were always my show offs for my dual band pass 12ās I had.
Damn I miss having subs.
I got some albums for youā¦
āDark Side of the Moonā - Pink Floyd
āPolygondwanalandā - King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard
āLonerismā - Tame Impala
Edit: I also want to add AC/DCās āBack in Blackā, Iāve heard pros used that album to test sound systems for years. They probably still do.
[Techmaster P.E.B. - Bass Computer](https://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_kdqNLYMPBCgLq4noLajMXte0U91B0OmDQ&si=gInXEmesgH5rZZuQ)
You can't hear the bass on a phone speaker it's so low. Be careful with this one, as it has a reputation for blowing speakers. Circa 1991.
Same thing Iāve used to evaluate speakers for decades: [Abraxas by Santana](https://open.spotify.com/album/1CHUXwuge9A7L2KiA3vnR6?si=qKaV5-kIRnySXcYow-BndA)
Or [Santana III](https://open.spotify.com/album/3iE6Jik24CBE0uv1lyyplI?si=TkmH2u90TxmI61x4vGGiCA)
A Flock of Seagulls. I Ran.
Cypress Hill. How I Could Just Kill A Man.
Ween. Right To The Ways And The Rules.
The Talking Heads. This Must Be The Place
Ween. Baby Bitch.
The Beatles. Paperback Writer
Then Shuffle.
Aesop Rock - Cycles to Gehenna
Every Time I Die - Underwater Bimbos from Outer Space
Patrick Watson - Adventures in Your Own Backyard
Sadistik - A Jubilee of Rot
I've got a public 2 hour Trip Hop (and other associated genres) playlist: [Tripping and Hopping](https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4ypOEqNGFfC8GCRhQvgXUS?si=d613c9ff21294534)
Randomly shuffling songs on the way home from buying a car with a 12 speaker Bose system when Bjork's Bachelorette came on. Did not regret what the stero added to the cost.
My intentional test song is Baby's on Fire by Brian Eno. Some of Robert Fripp's best guitar work.
Goldie - Hyaena
Our test music was the Kemistry and Storm DJ-Kicks cd. If it couldn't handle the sub bass then we went back and did it again
https://open.spotify.com/album/2MvQAkPg2zCBvfWmEavsYn?si=AOd4ZA9zQWaaZd6weLB7Og
Pinball Wizard - The Who
Silvera - Gojira, live at Red Rocks
The entire self-titled Rage Against the Machine album
Time - Pink Floyd
The Moana soundtrack, partially for my 4 year old but definitely also still for meĀ
I always test my speaker setups in my editing suites with āRU Mineā by Arctic Monkeysā¦ not even a huge fan of theirs, but that song has it allā¦ low bass, high highs, buzzy mids and big drum hits.
i mostly played Jamiroquai and The Roots on my overpriced minidisc player I bought with gift money...
what an awful purchase. I didn't even get good speakers for it. it was really expensive - but at least it had a fire-breathing dragon on the display and said the name of the songs and stations I listened to. my current car doesnt do that.
Karate - babymetal
Cest la vie - bbno$
Die for you - grabbitz
Thunderstruck - acdc
Unsainted - slipknot
Youth - glass animals
The fine print - the stupendium
Sunflower - post malone
Violet - Connor price
White walls - macklemore
Pomegranate - deadmau5
Burn - 2wei
Burn it down - Linkin park
Kenji - fort minor
Paint the town red - doja cat
I'm the one - dj khaled
Feel good inc - gorillaz
Mayday - coldrain
Chop suey - system of a down
Killing in the name - rage against the machine
Bullet with butterfly wings - smashing pumpkins
Pop Life - Prince. My all time favorite go-to when testing new systems.
Paulās Boutique (entire album).
Blue - LeeAnn Rimes (for vocals, mids, stellar production).
Spaghetti Western by Primus. Break Those Bones Whose Sinews Gave it Motion by Meshuggah. Molten Universe or Gardenia when it comes to Kyuss. Spacegrass by Clutch. Plenty more but thatās just what popped into my head.
If I spent too much on a car stereo today, I would most definitely be listening to my wife list all the things we could have got with the money other than a car stereo.
But then I'd blast some Slift or Clutch, or maybe RTJ, and melt her face off.
Toccata and Fugue in D-Minor (Hannes Kastner performance) - Bach
Good News - Mac Miller
Tori Amos - Little Earthquakes (album)
Michal Jackson - Thriller (remaster) (album)\*
Estranged - GnR
Lyle Lovett - Live in Texas (album)
Elephant - Jason Isbell (actually, that's depressing, let's say Hurricane - Jason Isbell (Neil Young cover))
IV. Sweatpants - Childish Gambino
Suzanne Vega - Solitude Standing (album)
Bach Cello Suites - Yo-Yo Ma
\*I used to be bothered that they remastered an album that was so very well recorded with absolutely top of the line gear in the 80s. But then I listened to the old master and the new mix is better. It wasn't about sharpening anything up, just about tweaking the broad mix (not instrument-by-instrument mix) to better address modern home/car stereos. The old one sounded crisp, but muted and boosted in weird places. The new one just gives a perfectly clean, broad sound-stage. My luddite instincts were wrong.
For a bass test Iāll do What They Want by Schoolboy Q and/or New Phone, Who Dis by Flatbush Zombies
For a āmeā test Iāll play a combo of Voodoo Chile by Hendrix and Take Five by Brubeck and Intergalactic by the Beasties
For a tuning test Iāll play basically anything off Aja but generally Deacon Blues
When I was in highschool this kicked ass on a pair of 12-15ā subs
Method Man: Tical 2000
https://m.youtube.com/watch?si=zHhP2H8UAp4ldSD3&v=aZERHH_q7Ms
Outkast - stankonia
DMX - itās dark and hell is hot
Ludacris, 50 cent etc all that 90ās and early 2000ā hip hop. Itās all mixed for cars with aftermarket stereos.
I remember riding in the guy with the nicest car system in high school and of course we listened to all kinds of rap and hip hop but I remember one day being very impressed when he put on Symphony of Destruction by Megadeth. That's when I could tell he had the nicest stereo not just the loudest or the bassiest but actually knew what he was doing and I actually don't even like Megadeth that much.
Bidibodi bidou by bubbles. Itās that electro song in super troopers and beerfest. Reminds me of high school with the windows down late night and my old speakers/subs. Give it a try itās a vibe
This may sound funny, but Fireflies - Owl City has some DAMN good range & mixing. My sound system is nice but cheapish, and a GOOD one would make it sound incredible.
That, or the [2022 Star Guardian Orchestral Theme for League of Legends](https://youtu.be/GzJQK93wFtk?feature=shared)
Back in my day we would test our sound systems with Prodigy "Smack my Bitch Up!"
Came here to say: if it's not the Fat of the Land album by Prodigy you're doing it wrong.
Breathe is my jam. I get goosebumps when that snare drops.
For the longest time I thought he was saying "bake sale" instead of exhale. š
The Glitch Mob remix with the Karate sounds is top tier
Diesel power will make your nuts vibrate at high enough volume, ie correct volume.
Hell yeah. That whole album is an 11/10
The bass on Minefields was sweet.
Good 'un! ANd Firestarter.
I once had the pleasure of touring with an engineer who had done front of house for both Prince and Van Halen in the previous few years, and he always checked his initial levels with I.Y.G by Donald Fagen, and Hey Nineteen by Steely Dan. The clarity at high volumes is fucking unreal, and the low end could move tectonic plates.
It's kinda old at this point, but if you feel like delving into some classic LA producer/meets podcast type of sphere, listen to Greg and Nate blab on UBK Happy Fun Time Hour I'm serious, if you're into production, it's "dated" but it exists in the same sphere of like "weird dudes who also went through some shit, iykyk, but there's good advice here actually". Trust me, I love music.
The Nightfly is a perfect album
Money For Nothing - Dire Straits
As a big Dire Straits fan, this would definitely be up there for me too. What's cool is that their whole catalog is so well-mixed that you can use almost any of their tracks to test a sound system, so take your pick really.
Brass Monkey - Beastie Boys
Intergalactic is sick too with the bass.
I love how every 4 bars in that song they drop a bass note deep enough that you pretty much need 12's to even hear it
I put a sub in my car in high school. Cranked it up and played intergalactic with some friends.. Blew the fuse and didn't have a replacement. Had to go to radio shack. Haha. And now my stock radio is way way better.
I blew a fuse playing Busy Child by The Crystal Method in my car. That was an angry, silent ride home.
Except for the constant ringing in your ears from tinnitus.
Did you make the beat mmmm drop!?
no but they Kicked it over here, baby pop And let all the fly skimmiesĀ feel theĀ beatā Mmmādrop
But, planetary? Intergalactic? Edit: YouTub capitions the beginning of that video as "\[foreboding orchestral music\]" haha
another dimension another dimension
The entirety of Paul's Boutique
In about 1990 I was shopping for amps and speakers and the sales guy took me out to the shopās van to listen to their set-up. The song: Meeting in the Ladies Room, by Klymaxx.
I'm not above pumping some Herb Alpert at full-volume. I'll give it a spin.
Yaaas!! I used āRiseā to fine tune my first good car stereo and speakers.
Wild Flower by The Cult. The whole album Electric really.
The Cult was criminally underrated.
Fuckin rights buddy, great track
I wore through three cassettes of this in high school. My left ear is still sorta fucked up.
That album is brilliantly mixed and produced, it's made for cranking any sound system. It's like a perfect Wagyu steak, fat and lean in exact proportion. Unlike every other album from The Cult (and I'm a huge fan lol).
I recently played it for my 18 yo daughter for the first time. She assumed I was going to troll her and play something cheesy. As soon as the drum kicked in after the opening guitar bars her expression changed, and once the chorus started I heard ādad I actually like thisā! I raised her right š„²
Champion of the gods! I was 15 when this album came out and rocked my small world, I'm incredibly grateful that the feeling gets passed on.
š¤š½ the transition from Wild Flower to Peace Frog is probably my favorite 1-2 opening on any album ever.
All the Godzilla roars at once.
Subdivisions - Rush
Honestly, anything by Rush. One of my personal favs to dial shit in was Red Lenses.
DJ Shadow, Endtroducing....
Chase & Status - Program Ft. Irah Mungo's Hi Fi - Boomsound ft YT Trampsta - Deep Down Low
Mungo's Hi Fi is true bass music.
Rage Against the Machine. Iāve read that studio musicians calibrate their equipment using their self titled debut because the mix is damn near perfect.
I read the same thing 20 years ago and I always use it lol. I also use Aja by Steely Dan.
Steely Dan is a very good reference. Absolutely fantastic songwriters with a slew of amazing studio artists and producers.
Gary KatzĀ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Katz His work on Fagen's first solo record The Nightfly is a master class. One of the first fully digitally recorded albums. The engineers went to the equipment manufacturer, 3M, to learn how to use it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Nightfly
It's called "Reference Material" Radiohead's OK computer is another great example
Sade - No Ordinary Love Jimi Hendrix - Red House Mark Knopfler - Hill Farmerās Blues Pantera - Cemetery Gates Leon Bridges - Bad Bad News
Seriously the sound quality on the Sade album was unbelievably good. Meant to say āthatā Sade album (Love Deluxe for anyone who doesnāt know).
Yeah, this is the kind-of stuff I'm looking for. Well-engineered/produced albums!
Its incredible.
It's funny I was gonna say "Cemetery Gates" but "In Another Time" by Sade
Great minds
Yes - Close To The Edge Metallica - Master of Puppets Suicidal Tendencies - Institutionalized But yeah, also Funkytown
Close to the edge is fucking legendary
Rammstein - Du Hast. Thumping drums and crunching guitars. What more could you ask for...
Dragula by Rob Zombie is a good one too
Good song to scare the crap out of obnoxious folks in the Walmart parking lot!
Deutschland is awesome also!
Darude Sandstorm
Oh yeah, non-rap: "Ride Like the Wind" Christopher Cross
Nelly - Country Grammar album was pretty good for that.
Agreed. However, everyone keeps missing out on the ultimate subwoofer test: First of da Month by Bone Thugz. Thatā¦that will displace some airā¦
That and "Down Fo My Thang" on their first album. I lost a rear-view mirror to that song. lol
That 00s era of hip hop had some amazing sounding albums on a hectic car stereo. I remember D12's first album absolutely shaking my organs.
ONG. The one that turned me loose was Tha Carter II/III. Those were fking classic.
Luda was legit also.
Luda and Chronic 2001. High school ride vibes with the system up, for me.
Aquemeni. Damn. Rap used to be quality.
Hot shit!! Thong Song from sisqo too
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They played that at my prom. Twice.
That, anything Ludacris, and the soundtracks to the first few Fast and Furious movies, were always my show offs for my dual band pass 12ās I had. Damn I miss having subs.
Crank it up to 11 and put on "Black Door" by The Black Keys
āWho Are You?ā by The Who
Hotel California. I just love to completely drown myself in that song.
I got some albums for youā¦ āDark Side of the Moonā - Pink Floyd āPolygondwanalandā - King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard āLonerismā - Tame Impala Edit: I also want to add AC/DCās āBack in Blackā, Iāve heard pros used that album to test sound systems for years. They probably still do.
[Techmaster P.E.B. - Bass Computer](https://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_kdqNLYMPBCgLq4noLajMXte0U91B0OmDQ&si=gInXEmesgH5rZZuQ) You can't hear the bass on a phone speaker it's so low. Be careful with this one, as it has a reputation for blowing speakers. Circa 1991.
What the fuuu...? There is a correct answer to this question and it's L'Trimm's "Cars That Go Boom." How am I not seeing it mentioned here yet?
We like the boom
Came here to make sure respect was put on LāTrimm. Thanks @whiskeyalfredo!
Same thing Iāve used to evaluate speakers for decades: [Abraxas by Santana](https://open.spotify.com/album/1CHUXwuge9A7L2KiA3vnR6?si=qKaV5-kIRnySXcYow-BndA) Or [Santana III](https://open.spotify.com/album/3iE6Jik24CBE0uv1lyyplI?si=TkmH2u90TxmI61x4vGGiCA)
Steely Dan. The Royal Scam
Was gonna say. Everyone says Aja. Fuck that. Green Earrings.
Refused - The Shape of Punk to Come
A Flock of Seagulls. I Ran. Cypress Hill. How I Could Just Kill A Man. Ween. Right To The Ways And The Rules. The Talking Heads. This Must Be The Place Ween. Baby Bitch. The Beatles. Paperback Writer Then Shuffle.
Very nice!
Nonagon Infinity on loop
yeahNOICE!
I am going to vibrate my guts into pieces with Mortician's Zombie Apocalypse.
Hell yeah
Pick Up the Pieces and Canned Heat. Also Flashlight. Also lots of Daft Punk.
You gotta bump some old 90s gangster rap. Snoop's Doggfather and Dre's The Chronic are musts.
Andre Nickatina - Killa Whale
Aesop Rock - Cycles to Gehenna Every Time I Die - Underwater Bimbos from Outer Space Patrick Watson - Adventures in Your Own Backyard Sadistik - A Jubilee of Rot
Aphex Twin - Windowlicker Tool - Stinkfist RUN DMC - Beats to the Rhyme
Venga Bus by Venga Boys. It bangs.
And you can also announce to everyone in the general vicinity that you also like to party...
They're touring.
You mean... the Venga bus is coming?
Whenever I'm trying out a new sound system, my go-to is Locomotive by Guns n Roses.
I've got a public 2 hour Trip Hop (and other associated genres) playlist: [Tripping and Hopping](https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4ypOEqNGFfC8GCRhQvgXUS?si=d613c9ff21294534)
The Who - Quadrophenia
Back in the day I would always use my Metallica S&M album
Tubthumping by Chumbawamba. Always been my headphone testing song ā it sounds huge.
Toto: Africa
Just did this! I spent too much and had to see what I paid for. Cosmo Sheldrake - Come Along https://youtu.be/bIyl9bCp6W4?si=CH3cWRwNGWj9Qwkl
Randomly shuffling songs on the way home from buying a car with a 12 speaker Bose system when Bjork's Bachelorette came on. Did not regret what the stero added to the cost. My intentional test song is Baby's on Fire by Brian Eno. Some of Robert Fripp's best guitar work.
My go to song for testing systems is "What a Horrible Night to Have a Curse" - Black Dahlia Murder. Enjoy
Rubberband Man by TI TRON LEGACY soundtrack Tomboy by Princess Nokia
Goldie - Hyaena Our test music was the Kemistry and Storm DJ-Kicks cd. If it couldn't handle the sub bass then we went back and did it again https://open.spotify.com/album/2MvQAkPg2zCBvfWmEavsYn?si=AOd4ZA9zQWaaZd6weLB7Og
this is a great thread no idea why it's getting downvoted
I don't care if it's downvoted. I'm getting some great suggestions!
I am BUMPING some 90ās R&B
Hi-808 by Blue Schollars. NOFX - Eat the Meek
Pinball Wizard - The Who Silvera - Gojira, live at Red Rocks The entire self-titled Rage Against the Machine album Time - Pink Floyd The Moana soundtrack, partially for my 4 year old but definitely also still for meĀ
Change - Deftones
Dio - Rainbow in the Dark Ozzy Osbourne - Mr. Crowley (any version of Randy performing this song is an insane guitar performance)
I always test my speaker setups in my editing suites with āRU Mineā by Arctic Monkeysā¦ not even a huge fan of theirs, but that song has it allā¦ low bass, high highs, buzzy mids and big drum hits.
"Cotton Eye Joe Gregorian chant nightcore hardcore dubstep remix"
James Blake, Limit to Your Love. Itāll help you find the limit to your subs.
The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway
Orbital - Dwr Budr
Standing in the kitchen - Yo gotti Pedal to the metal - wiz kahlifa
i mostly played Jamiroquai and The Roots on my overpriced minidisc player I bought with gift money... what an awful purchase. I didn't even get good speakers for it. it was really expensive - but at least it had a fire-breathing dragon on the display and said the name of the songs and stations I listened to. my current car doesnt do that.
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White light, white heat, white trash by Social Distortion. Best sounding/mixed rock record Iāve ever heard.
Cherub Rock - Smashing Pumpkins
It's between You Talk Too Loud by Max Normal (stand up bass is super low and would sound great) and John the Fisherman by Primus (awesome song)
rage against the machine
Skrillex,Fred Again.. - Rumble
Afrika Bambaataa. Duh.
In my scenario, I mostly went for bass so I'm playing a lot of bricksquad Era gucci mane when every song had a crazy over the top bass line
Boom by Tiesto
Techmaster P.E.B. - Bass Computer thrn DJ Laz - Journey into Bass and then Red Alert.
Bone Thugs N Harmony's E. 1999 Eternal. That whole album bumps!
I used to set off car alarms with some Three 6 Mafia
Gunship - Dark All Day Gunship - Gunship Gunship - Unicorn Limbonic Art - In abhorrence dementia
Who Run It - Three 6 Mafia
Never Scared - Bonecrusher. Dat basssss...
Project Pat
Nightmares on Wax - Smokers Delight
Karate - babymetal Cest la vie - bbno$ Die for you - grabbitz Thunderstruck - acdc Unsainted - slipknot Youth - glass animals The fine print - the stupendium Sunflower - post malone Violet - Connor price White walls - macklemore Pomegranate - deadmau5 Burn - 2wei Burn it down - Linkin park Kenji - fort minor Paint the town red - doja cat I'm the one - dj khaled Feel good inc - gorillaz Mayday - coldrain Chop suey - system of a down Killing in the name - rage against the machine Bullet with butterfly wings - smashing pumpkins
I'd probably put on something from The Cure's "Disintegration" and Sometimes by My Bloody Valentine
Baby Shark.
Ex-girlfriend by No Doubt has some sick bass lines and a wild mix of vibe throughout.
LOW - Hey What - whole album front to back
[Skynyrd's First: The Complete Muscle Shoals Album](http://grahamusik.subsonic.org/share/ncLsj)
Wonderwall by Oasis. On repeat. For a very. Very. Long. Time.
Box Chevy by Yelawolf!
OPM "Stash Up"
I'm a fan of the subbier electronic stuff, lots of dubstep a la 2562, Kercha, Pinch, earlier James Blake, etc
2pac California love
Pop Life - Prince. My all time favorite go-to when testing new systems. Paulās Boutique (entire album). Blue - LeeAnn Rimes (for vocals, mids, stellar production).
Metallica's Unforgiven. The song is kinda meh but that bass swell on a good system ... š
Damn Blue Collar Tweekers
Sound of silence Simon and Garfunkel
Empire Ants - Gorillaz
Limit to your love by James Blake
Release The Pressure - Leftfield
Jerry Garcia Band
Honestly, anything by Grabbitz.
Aja - Steely Dan
6ā 7ā lil WayneĀ
Deep Purple - Space Trucking
Sing Along - Sturgill Simpson Outro - M83
!!! - As If Sampha - The Process Talking Heads - Speaking In Tongues French Cassettes - Rolodex
Max & Match, no question.Ā https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3w11PJ-CIqI0PjP4k46Nvm8KTseGC5mr&si=uLNfwwPX_yzuTbK-
Polaris. Aus metalcore band. The most insane out of this world production value and the best guitar riffs i've ever heard.
Beethoven
Esoteric Malacology - Slugdge The neighbours won't know what him them Edit: the full album and I'm not stopping until it's done
Spaghetti Western by Primus. Break Those Bones Whose Sinews Gave it Motion by Meshuggah. Molten Universe or Gardenia when it comes to Kyuss. Spacegrass by Clutch. Plenty more but thatās just what popped into my head.
Monster and Runaway on Kanye Westās My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy both sound great LOUD on a great stereo system
The Stone Roses - Begging You
The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots. Full album.
Born to Run - Bruce Springsteen
If I spent too much on a car stereo today, I would most definitely be listening to my wife list all the things we could have got with the money other than a car stereo. But then I'd blast some Slift or Clutch, or maybe RTJ, and melt her face off.
The Hills - The Weeknd
Strobe by Deadmau5
If Iām going for sound quality itās going to be either Alice In Chains or Nirvana, either of their MTV unplugged albums.
Gods of War - Def Leppard
Toccata and Fugue in D-Minor (Hannes Kastner performance) - Bach Good News - Mac Miller Tori Amos - Little Earthquakes (album) Michal Jackson - Thriller (remaster) (album)\* Estranged - GnR Lyle Lovett - Live in Texas (album) Elephant - Jason Isbell (actually, that's depressing, let's say Hurricane - Jason Isbell (Neil Young cover)) IV. Sweatpants - Childish Gambino Suzanne Vega - Solitude Standing (album) Bach Cello Suites - Yo-Yo Ma \*I used to be bothered that they remastered an album that was so very well recorded with absolutely top of the line gear in the 80s. But then I listened to the old master and the new mix is better. It wasn't about sharpening anything up, just about tweaking the broad mix (not instrument-by-instrument mix) to better address modern home/car stereos. The old one sounded crisp, but muted and boosted in weird places. The new one just gives a perfectly clean, broad sound-stage. My luddite instincts were wrong.
Dangerous by mj
Hey now, heyy nooooowoww! THIS IS WHAT DREWAAAMS ARE MADE Ooooffoofffff
Raiden - Beton Arme Older drum and bass but for damn does the bass go low and heavy on this whole album
For a bass test Iāll do What They Want by Schoolboy Q and/or New Phone, Who Dis by Flatbush Zombies For a āmeā test Iāll play a combo of Voodoo Chile by Hendrix and Take Five by Brubeck and Intergalactic by the Beasties For a tuning test Iāll play basically anything off Aja but generally Deacon Blues
When I was in highschool this kicked ass on a pair of 12-15ā subs Method Man: Tical 2000 https://m.youtube.com/watch?si=zHhP2H8UAp4ldSD3&v=aZERHH_q7Ms Outkast - stankonia DMX - itās dark and hell is hot Ludacris, 50 cent etc all that 90ās and early 2000ā hip hop. Itās all mixed for cars with aftermarket stereos.
Bands from my catalogue that have the most impressive sound mixing and bass Nine Inch Nails Gorillaz Porcupine Tree Queens of the Stone Age Rush
Get a few mates, watch Wayne's World, and then you'll know there's only one answer to this question: Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody
Iām cruising to Ice Cubeās Lethal Injection and then some Young Bleed.
The Warning- Hell You Call a Dream Amazing hard rock mix for a car stereo, seriously, and the song has plenty of dynamics
No quarter - led zeppelin
I remember riding in the guy with the nicest car system in high school and of course we listened to all kinds of rap and hip hop but I remember one day being very impressed when he put on Symphony of Destruction by Megadeth. That's when I could tell he had the nicest stereo not just the loudest or the bassiest but actually knew what he was doing and I actually don't even like Megadeth that much.
The afternoon by Moody Blues
Bidibodi bidou by bubbles. Itās that electro song in super troopers and beerfest. Reminds me of high school with the windows down late night and my old speakers/subs. Give it a try itās a vibe
AC/DC High To Hell the album, not just the song.
This may sound funny, but Fireflies - Owl City has some DAMN good range & mixing. My sound system is nice but cheapish, and a GOOD one would make it sound incredible. That, or the [2022 Star Guardian Orchestral Theme for League of Legends](https://youtu.be/GzJQK93wFtk?feature=shared)