Your fav SQ songs
 

Just wondering what you SQ guys like to listen to..

to me theres nothing like the following played on a good SQ system..

Styx: Renagade, Too much time on my hands
Kansas: Carry on my wayward son
foreigner.. Genesis.. Police.. Rush..etc..
mostly songs with nice tight bass...

here's another post of the same thing.

http://www.canadiancaraudio.com/online/general-sq/21538-sq-songs.html

JEEEZ sounds like my HS graduation...

Jennifer Warne, Ain't no cure....... :D

shakira - laundry service album
twisted sister - stay hungry
metallica - black

Enya seems to run the gamut of high to subsonic frequencies and the recordings are really clean. Evanescence has some really good dynamics as well. See if you can find the live recording of Bryan Adam's "Summer of 69"...works really well too.

Patricia Barber "Too Rich For My Blood"... cut 9 on "cafe blue"... SACD version

This is the song I test all systems by and can turn a non-SQ guy in to an SQ addict. :)

A great test of everything from dynamics, depth to transient response (drum passage at the end is something else)

phil collins, Feel it in the air tonight.. For some reason I cannot pass that song on the radio if I hear it, Up goes the volume no matter who is with me(thank god my kids are older, and don't live with me)

SRV (lenny),tracy chapman (baby can i hold you )CCR bad moon rising
i would look for so more but i need a refill on my rum and coke then i will see if i have some F Zappa

laughing at the twisted sister becouse i saw them in van for that album many many moons ago (god that made me feel old) lol

(JOE'S GARAGE "CATHOLIC GIRLS" OR "WHY DOES IT HURT WHEN I PEE")
O yes it is Zappa
now back to what i was doing (rum and coke )

i think alot of theese songs are past my time so from a younger guys stand point i like alot of killswitch is really good and big bass chamillionare

i have a drirk a play some of the old mans crap LOL

i would have to go with "hairy jewish princess" myself

i play CATHOLIC GIRLS because my wifr is a CATHOLIC

how about cheech and chong

Some might laugh but Cotten Eye Joe, bit of everything in it

can never go wrong with some good old cheech and chong :smokin:

haha Wayne! same here! I love that song! One of my buddies always used to rave about it, so I sat down and listened to it one night cranked up as loud as I could stand

Michael Jackson's "Man in the Mirror" is a great recording!

just about anything by massive attack should test the dynamics of your system.

Over and over by Nelly and Tim Mcgraw, such tight bass!

A female vocalist from Taiwan called "Cai Cin" her CD is one of the reference cds amongst the audiophile community in Asia. It's musical, dynamic and full of emotions. One of her albums from 90's is still on my best demo list.

I forgot to list Portishead and Delirium... Right there with Massive attack, any of them will give your system a good workout.

Fourplay - The best of Fourplay

an amazing album, from start to finish, if you havn't heard it, buy it, track 5 will give you shivers!

Just heard a track from a new disc that will be making it into my collection. I forget what it's called, but it's about 3 weeks old now, by a woman named "Georgia Fumanti"... best female vocal rendering I've ever heard, if your system can reproduce her voice without resonance, my hat is off to you.

Sassmaster, I bought that "Fourplay - The best of Fourplay" album. I love it!

One of my personal fav is Celine Dion's "Let's Talk About Love". Very nice recording, very good songs, and needless to say - excellent, excellent singing voice!

This thread needs more testosterone.

For lows and sweeping ranges I love my Crystal Method.
For highs and vocals I trust my White Rabbit by Jefferson Airplane.
For double kicks and how fast the subs react my drummer friend's test CD he burnt me, also good for testing high hats as well as how 'real' the speakers sound.

If you have a friend with a professional recording setup and an instrument of any sort, ask for them to test their full range and some happy melodies they like playing, you won't regret it when it comes to seeing how close your system can recreate it.

50 Cent fits pretty well with my ears. He keeps me awake!

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Lion king soundtrack

Henry Mancini

Pink Panther Theme (great horns)
James Bond Theme(wicked song to drive to even if i dont have an austin martin)
Godfather Theme

any other Henry Mancini will work though

Apocalyptica

The Path (vol. 1 or 2)

How about the Eagles.

The entire hell freeze over album is amazing and also avalible in DTS 5.1 c.d.

Blue man group.

Nuff said ;)

Icecream truck music is pretty tight.

my first post. sup everyone

Nils Lofgren - Acoustic Live
Tracey Chapman - sev.
Pearl Jam - sev.
And every now & than some Hardhouse for the bass .

Prince of Egypt soundtrack.
Nicole nordman: this mystery

CBC radio 2 is great, classical music, no ads, and we pay for it anyways.

MMMMMMMMMMMM what the radio

ok i can see the classical music but the radio

what are you on

^ yeah i agree, CBC (105.7 fm) is also the best sounding station and i believe 99.3 is the worst.... harshly compressed.

Rush YYZ has some awesome dynamics. Starts with the real highs with the chimes and some real tight bass from geddy's guitar and neal's drums. Actually the drum tracks on their live album "different stages" are well miked and sound real good. feels like i'm there!

not only that, their f***in CANADIAN!!!:cheeky4: :cAnada:

Annie Lenox.
Diva, Medusa, Bare.
All three, or any one reveal a lot of flaws in any sytem.

Fleetwood Mac
 

Tango in the Night CD from fleetwood Mac sounds amazing. Particularly tracks 4 and 5 if you have a good system listen for all the different sounds on track 5 see if you can hear the spoons( i think) being played mostly in the left channel. Not to bassy but great to absolutly crank and still sound crisp as I have ever heard. I heard that Dire Straits Brothers in Arms was really good to but haven't tried it yet. Anyone agree/disagree ??? The recording on the fleetwood mac cd is really good to with extremely low noise which is good for sq compititions I know i hated systems that before the song started or at any quiet parts it sounded as if the wind was howling inside the car.