Time by Floyd. The whole CD is clear and Time switches up a lot, it's good to hear all those different frequencies. Lots of highs, mids, lows, everything in between, and done with an instrument and not something fake. Sweet.

Floyd Cramer.
Too Short
Guns N Roses

Supertramp: Live in Paris, but just about anything from them. A lot of songs suck you in to cranking it, then the crash hits all of a sudden, poor drivers :(

On the other end of the spectrum, Cars.

Queen: Live in Montreal

That Wang Chung tune is stuck in my damn head now...Bette Davis eyes too. Love those 2 songs.

Genesis

, gonna hit the record store later today. I need that song ;)

Flunk - Blue Monday (New Order cover)
This version has a female vocalist with a Norwegian accent, clear acoustic guitar, subtle electronic accents and some nice smooth bass pulses. Excellent!

I'll definitely have to check that one out.

Eagles - Hotel California (XRCD/Red book)

wisin y yandel-una noche mas
angel & khriz-quiere mas
bobby valentino-slow down

Radio Head - Paranoid Android.

Dave Matthews Band - Say Good-bye.

Just about every DMB track is stellar, IMO. Definitely worth checking out.

For bassy music I'm listening to Daft Punk right now.

Micheal Buble too, but I feel a little :supergay: if I`m driving with it cranked.

James Blunt, and Coldplay sound really nice too.

Its kind of weird because i listen mostly to heavy metal and rock, but the best song in my opinion is Blue October - Into The Ocean. I use that song when i ATTEMPT to fine tune my system lol. Extremely clear vocals and tight relatively punchy bass.

Michael Jackson,BAD.Jeff Beck,Line dancing with monkees.Yello,80-85.Dire Straits,brothers in arms,and the best quality live album,Jeff Beck, the official bootleg

Blue October - Into The Ocean...Dont ask...just download it and give it a test lol

breaking benjamin-diary of jane

btw does anyone know "fav bassy tracks" thread went?

Flobots - Handlebars
Buddy Guy - Five Long Years
Flo Rida - Low
Eric Clapton - Motherless Child
New Born - The Observer
Early Mariah Carey, Danzig, Sarah Brightman, Portishead...

isley brothers-i need that

Starting acquiring all these songs/albums starting with those listed on the first pages of this thread. Pretty good stuff. Thanks guys.

I have quite a few songs that sound absolutely Fabulous in my car

Newsboys - Everybodys Someone, Beautiful Sound
Collective Soul - Why Pt2
Justice - Genesis - Wicked Song!!!!(The one off the Cadillac Escalade Hybrid Commercial)
Amanda Marshall - Dark Horse - Bass is Incredible with punch
Avenged Sevenfold - Dear God
Need For Speed Album - Psyconaught
Carrie Underwood - Wasted - Some Hearts - Lesons Learned
Chasing Victory - Kings
Chevelle - Comfortable Liar
Cynical Limit - Cynical Limit
Darkwater - (The Whole Album is Crazy Kick)
Dire Straits - So Far Away
Jeff Dyck - Corroboree (email me for this one its my Absolute Favorite for SQ Trust Me)
Megadeath - Symphony to Destruction
Michael Buble - Lost, Me and Mrs. Jones, Everything
Papa Roach - Tightrope
Rammstein - Los
Bubbles - Bidibody bidibu
StereoMud - Dont Be Afraid
The Used - Light With The Sharpened Edge

email me for any of these songs as i have them all

the postal service - such great heights

I don't have an SQ system in my car, but I use these songs to demo my Home Theater:

Time to Say Goodbye - Andrea Bocelli and Sarah Brightman
Ave Maria - Andrea Bocelli
Anything else Bocelli or Brightman
Nessun Dorma - Luciano Pavarotti
My Way - Frank Sinatra
Come Fly With Me - Frank Sinatra
Aria - Yanni
Layla - Eric Clapton
Tears in Heaven - Eric Clapton

^^^ ooo good one

Michael Jackson: Don't Start (DS)
Dire Straits: Tunnel Of Love
Funkadelic: Maggot Brain
Rage Against The Machine: Killing In The Name Of
Will.I.Am: Get Your Money

amazing tracks from multiple genres, between these songs you will definitely exploit weakness in your system....and if you haven't, lol, you have acheived the impossible congratulations!

oo ill have to try that combo... i really need to get an MJ cd. his music sounds so good in my car

anything by in flames or killswitch!!

Pink Floyd - Have a Cigar, Welcome to the Machine, Time. High quality recordings and lots of quiet synthesizer sounds to appreciate hearing with SQ speakers. The "OOOO" and "AHHHHH" female sings are high pitched, and they have low bass.

Those sound very good in my van...
Infected Mushroom - Becoming Insane
Infected Mushroom - Heavyweight
Gwyneth Herbert - Only love can break your heart
Natalie Cole - Tell me about it

Yello - Baby
the whole album

Jamiroquai.. Canned Heat - It's not too embarrassing if you are into hiphop ;)

lmao!!!!!

Never thought about it, but BT's newer single "Rose of Jericho" is pretty dynamic.
Still say "canned heat" will turn the heads of anyone in the passenger seat. I agree with an above poster on Dave Matthews Band Songs.. I personally use Ants Marching because it's very "bright."

Another favorite of mine if Goldfrapp's A+E for a saturated flood of sound

Here's the top 3 songs sound engineers use to "ring out their rigs on concert rigs."
-Fields of Gold Sting
-Desert Rose Sting
-A song by Angelique Kidjo, Possibly Adouma

I dont make this up.. and remember this is not to show off the rig, but to help get the rig to sound vocal.

I've heard all of these songs on soundcheck's from Nelly Furtado's engineer, to Avenged Sevenfold's, from The Rolling Stone's to Dave Matthews.

smoke a joint then stairway led zepplin, disarm pumpkins,children robert miles and you will be fine lol

I'm in his group for music choices muha ha ha ha ha

one really good song for all aspects of the system is reload by rob zombie

MJ's music sounds good in everybody's car...some of the best engineered, cleanest, cd's around! If you like that, try Quincy Jone's SACD greatest hits...very clean.

JULIA DUNCAN...great vocal and instrument

i wish i had something that could play sacd's... but i can do dvd-audio. MJ on dvd audio would be awesome

Imogen heap is really good for sq specialy the song headlock
lots of really intricate organic and electronic sounds

killswitch is a good choice

i also like alexisonfire

One of my favourites is the Braveheart Soundtrack, in particular "Revenge".

Easily the greatest song for testing all the components of SQ is The Eagles, Hotel California live edition, I know a number of bands that have this song specifically on standby for all of their soundchecks!

Billie Jean - Michael Jackson

Is this love - Bob Marley