I'm making a chart for the best albums to test some good quality headphones on. So far I've got these standard ones. What are some other albums that sound amazing on quality cans /mu/?
Rage Against the Machine
>Piper
dude what?
I guess the mono version has loads going on, but I hope you don't mean the Stereo version, that has instrumental tracks missing, and shitty panning.
This gets my vote
Remain in Light, picking out all the different elements and polyrhythms is pretty fun
>>61317729
oasis - nevermind
Chamber music is the best way to test headphones.
>>61317747
been meaning to hear that. heard it has very good production.
>>61317750
wait what instrumental tracks missing?? which ones? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Piper_at_the_Gates_of_Dawn#Track_listing
i do listen to the stereo version but i've heard not to. why is this? apart from that crazy pan in interstellar overdrive, the rest of the album sounds great.
but i guess it was late 60s when everyone was experimenting with stereo, so i see your point.
>>61317754
for sure. i love hearing the drums move around in the great curve.
>>61317756
meme??????
Literally any music should be headphone music. That said, I think the kind of music that should definitely be headphones only should really focus on the minute details, changes, textures. To get on this chart of only 25 albums they would all have to be fantastic.
First up is Michael Jacksons Thriller, I'm not a huge MJ fan, but you cannot deny that this album is intricate as fuck and produced perfectly. Every last sound is dialed perfectly, every chord has great voicings, there are loads of parts and instruments and lots to hear. Add it.
After that, I would go with a good number of ambient/drone/drone metal albums. Only pick the cream of the crop though, it will be all about really listening to those sounds change and develop.
Next up, you need a lowercase work/album. It's a genre created from the idea of making music from quiet sounds. It really needs to be digested through headphones in a quiet setting.
Last, add Giles Corey - Giles Corey. Sit with good headphones, grab a copy of the accompanying book (or PDF) and let this album change you.
>>61317794
oh nice. could you give any examples? not really familiar with the genre. if you mean classical/minimalism, i have glassworks and steve reich downloaded which i need to get around to listening to. or do you mean something else?
>>61317805
If you add Good morning Goodnight as 'lowercase' Ill kill you.
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>>61317796
Definitely meme
This chart is looking pretty shit so far t b h.
goes without saying, really- this and basically any evala release
(ryoji ikeda, headphonics)
>>61317813
Idealy with headphones you want neutrality.
Chamber music shows imbalances in neutrality in the headphones and you can pretty easily notice them if it's recorded well.
Acoustic music is also pretty good at this.
https://rateyourmusic.com/customchart?page=1&chart_type=top&type=album&year=alltime&genre_include=1&include_child_genres=1&genres=chamber+music&include_child_genres_chk=1&include=both&origin_countries=&limit=none&countries=
The RYM chamber music has good examples of this.
Electric Ladyland
>>61317729
Baroness - Blue Record
>>61317805
alright thanks. you'd think every album should be, but some just don't have the same intricate attention dedicated to production. i'll add your recs. what would you rec for drone and lowercase? not as familiar with them.
>>61317817
what would you add brah. i know the albums are mainly meme mucore so that's why i'm asking for a bit more broad examples.
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>>61317850
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>>61317878
right thanks guys
Baro - HOWGOODISGOOD
C418 - Bushes and Marshmallows
CASIOPEA - FRESHNESS
Daft Punk - Homework
DEAFCULT - DEAFCULT
Fugazi - Seven songs
>>61317937
alright mate got it up. haven't heard that daft punk but discovery is great. was debating whether to put up justice's cross actually, but wasn't completely sure. i put fugazi's 13 songs instead as it includes the other ep too, which i think is just as good
>>61317981
Substrata - Biosphere is quite interesting to listen to with headphones instead of speakers.
>>61317796
By instrumental tracks I mean parts of the song.
compare
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4o2sA0vpA-4
and
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPoZoEV9AsU
and
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpVeysdJA30
with
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGU9fAkrc98
In Interstellar Overdrive, an entire organ line is missing from the stereo intro, in addition to various parts within the song.
In Flaming, the vocals are heavily processed in the mono, which greatly adds to the psychedelic feel imo.
"Take up thy stethescope and walk" is much better in mono too, it feels more like a band jamming, than the sterile feel that primitive stereo technology gave it.
Also, the problem with the panning can be heard with Lucifer Sam, where nothing happens in the left channel for quite a while, it's not nice.
any dalek album
it's like a good version of meme grips
Steely Dan - Aja
Kurt Rosenwinkel - our secret world
Anything by: Stacey Kent, Diana krall, Kat edmonson
Not having the glow pt.2 or Helplessness blues is stupid, since they are absolutely fantastic folk albums for headphones
Phil Elverum is the master of stereo
>>61318026
huh. do you mean this version of overdrive? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcoFiGEaiwQ because if so then yeah, i can hear that organ. the vocals are different on flaming too. and i know what you mean about lucifer sam it is a bit uncomfortable. i'll download the mono version then and compare. i still really like how the stereo sounds though production wise. although i like the raw jam aspects of mono, i think stereo does suit psychedelic better.
>>61318125
thanks. never occured to me about glow pt 2 though. it does have some great production actually. and samurai sword with headphones...
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>>61318015
ty guyss
>>61318168
I want wind to blow, The moon, Headless Horseman and My Roots Are Strong and Deep, are exceptionally great, when it comes down to stereo production, you can serously listen to the songs tens of times, and still be able to discover something new with each listen if you focus. It's somewhat the same with helplessness blues as i said, try them both.
>>61318199
yeah i love hearing all the little details on some good headphones. it's been a long time since i've heard both, and i don't think i've heard them on anything other than earphones, so i'll give them a relisten again soon. great albums indeed.
It should be OK computer instead of Kid A
Also, Lateralus and Lonerism
>>61318199
the instrumental tracks too, the way the four different guitar lines ping across the stereo field is mesmerising
>>61318451
hmm not too sure. i think kid a definitely benefits from the immersiveness thy headphones provide for sure. although pretty much every radiohead album could be on here. tempted to put in rainbows on there too.
added a couple more and switched out maggot brain to the doors. love some big beat.
change baro for Madvillainy, add play by moby, Get Rekt by Seth Boyer and Synkronized by Jamiroquai
>>61318556
I totally understand Kid A being on this list, but I still feel like OKC has more texture from the piano, acoustic guitar, bass, etc.
Might wanna put Piper at the Gates of Dawn and Hallelujah! Don't Bend, Ascend! On there.
Since I left you by the avalanches
by the throat by Ben frost
hurtbreak wonderland by World's End girlfriend
also aesop rock's appleseed
>>61318644
huh could have sworn i put madvillainy on there. good call with moby too. i'll add the others.
>>61318650
yeah fair enough. never been the biggest fan of okc, and tended more to their post-okc stuff, but there are definitely loads of textures in okc.
piper is on there but gybe will be added. tyy.
I'm surprised no one has said Sunbather yet
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>>61318759
alright thanks guys
i think this should be enough. does this look alright with everyone? there's a lot of really good stuff on here. i haven't heard them all but i trust that they should be good.
anything i should change? although it looks good to me, and bigger than i thought it'd be lel.
>>61318809
Change the sublime album with Robbin' the Hood
>>61318809
looks good just add this
Obligatory
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>>61318845
sure thing
>>61318851
what a cover. kek did you just fuck around in paint and make this?? google turns up nothing :/
>>61318884
Your chart is shit.
>>61318884
Good chart
>>61318884
this and legends never die and return to the 36 chambers
>>61318915
This is what happens when you just add every single thing that anyone posts without any reasoning, research or listening.
Most of these albums have no benefit to listening on headphones apossed to anything else.
>>61318884
Remove The Glow Pt. 2 and add The Goslings - Grandeur of Hair and My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
>>61318915
What did you expect from a thread called good headphones chart?
>>61318884
noice chart
>>61318924
>>61318959
hopefully not sarcastic but if not then ty guys
>>61318929
will do
>>61318915
>>61318937
>>61318946
what i wanted to do was have a chart with albums that really show off quality headphones. kind of blue or cosmogramma for instance really pop out and use the soundstage of open headphones so well, and i wanted a chart with albums that do that as well.
but yes, unfortunately i haven't heard a bunch of these so i'm taking people's words for it. what i've added is a bunch of obscure stuff which i don't know about at all, but i can't exactly 'research' or 'listen' to them that quickly either.
so what would you guys add, change, or remove from the chart?
DJ Sparkles - Midtown 120 Blues
>>61319034
milo-So The Flies Don't Come
>>61318945
Was going to post that Goslings album, good shit
>>61319055
dj sparkles? haha but yeah good stuff. haven't heard the full album but this b-side has some amazing production: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_OqQSfdC0Zo
exactly what i'm looking for.
>>61319090
tyy
>>61319034
why all that rock bullshit lmao like family im gonna test some new headphones with twing-twangs made before 1980 lmao also cosmogramma is brickwalled as fuck and saw1 sounds like shit srsly kill urself ledditor
>>61319174
Yeah, Sparkles has good bass response. That's why that album was never pressed on vinyl
>>61319184
meme??????
>>61319218
oh really? wow. and no i was confused because you keep referring to him as dj sparkles. it's dj sprinkles isn't it? or am i being memed?? it wouldn't bother me that much but dj sparkles just reminds me of that minecraft guy kek.
>>61319174
btw
>>61319260
ah right couldn't find the one with the artwork when i did it before. found it now so there we go!
>>61319393
opertion dooms day,demon days, skullgirls ost
>>61319393
Yeezus
MBDTF
Donuts
Endtroducing
this
>>61317817
is I.S.O. good enough for your superior patrician tastes? :)
>>61318152
>>61318152
and this
>>61317729
Any Steven Wilson-produced album, including his remasters of King Crimson etc.
>>61319259
Oh yeah, just got the name mixed up
>>61319454
alright i'll add some of those
>>61319468
>>61319543
i prefer mbdtf's production, but yeezus' production is very good too. endtroducing should have been on there before t b h .
>>61319618
have fleet foxes on there already but they definitely do sound great with quality cans.
>>61319695
>>61319698
will do
>>61319718
ah right ahaha
Spideyland
>>61319393
CoH - To Beat
Snd - Travelog
Eleh - Homage
>>61319759
Way too much hip-hop.
Way not enough bleep.
>>61319759
is this alright? i feel like i could get rid of maybe a few of the ones in rows 2-5, like the more obscure ones or the women albums.
>>61319778
i actually don't think spiderland sounds that much better with better headphones. any type of earphones or headphones would be alright. don't think it's that well produced. still adore that album though.
>>61319782
how are these like?
>>61319793
thinking the same desu. i think bleep is my favourite for this kind of stuff desu. might put justice on there, and take off what i feel is a bit too obscure. clean it up a little i guess? what would you rec m88.
>>61319825
To Beat and Travelog are both fantastic minimal bleeps.
Homage is also minimal, but more drone.
>>61319759
>t b h
Stop bypassing the filters.
>>61319847
added Travelog (i think you mean Travelogue?) but I couldn't find the other two.
>>61319964
never f a m
how does this look?
>>61320068
Travelogue is by The Human League, which is underrated, but the album Travelog is by Snd.
Also, you can add the other two manually.
>>61319034
Talking about Cosmogramma, Until The Quiet Comes is amazing on headphones too
Tago Mago and Future Days, obviously.
>>61320068
Why do you insist on breaking the rules so much?
The filters were implemented on the board for a reason. People spammed these particular words until they made any possible discussion impossible. And when you use these words again, you're lowering down the level of discussion. There's no reason for you to bypass the filters either; there are plenty of other terms you could use.
But no. You chose this particular route, even when it's directly against the law, just because your ego makes you.
I hope you're ashamed of yourself.
>>61320123
ah right. changed it. and i think you mean you mean homage by jimmy somerville? i'll add that one
>>61320197
right course. i'll add tago mago.
>>61320136
yess man flylo is so good for this! i was tempted to put up his whole discog because it is perfect with good phones. i'm listening to you're dead again and the first half especially is just an eargasm.
>>61320234
s m h f a m
desu
>>61320346
yes
Nobody posted this yet.
Solid set OP
Self Titled The Cars
>>61320437
Slipknot - Slipknot (1999)
Ratatat - Classics
>>61320455
thanks m8
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>>61320639
good stuff guys. slipknot though? haven't heard it but haven't exactly heard good things about it. the rest look good though. for animal collective, MPP is a good one too.
>>61320683
oh whoops forgot the chart
>>61320832
add king crimson in the court of the crimson king
and add ultraviolet from sadistk
>>61317729
add whitehouse- bird seed
>>61317729
also add if you want no new york
Starfucker- Miracle Mile
Yankee Hotel Foxtrot is essential headphones music
Have a Nice Life- Deathconciousness
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>>61321900
whoops almost forgot about this. thanks guys. added one of my own time. how's this? looks great tb h. a lot of really top quality albums here.
>>61322678
looks nice and solid
>>61322678
>>61322741
thanks man. hope it will help others like me who like this sorta stuff. edited in itcotck as well as the lack of cover was annoying me. should be good though!! thanks to everybody in this thread!
This
>>61317729
you're gonna need this
>>61322795
Oh youre definitely going to want to add whitehouse - bird seed. makes about as much sense as the rest of this fucking nonsense list
>>61324555
oh my god its already on there. well. truth is stranger than fiction
>>61324555
you are actually going to need it, the music is meant to sound like ear rape and how do you expect to get raped without headphones
>>61317729
13 by Blur
