Reference tracks

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  • joecoulson
    joecoulson Posts: 4,943
    Ok, I have a new one to add to the short list now thanks to @vr3

    Haim - Summer Girl

    Great track - thanks Trey!
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  • VR3
    VR3 Posts: 28,640
    Oh yeah, incredible imaging
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  • miner
    miner Posts: 1,305
    The Robert Palmer trilogy - Sailin' Shoes, Hey Hey Julia, Snealin' Sally....
    Has vocals, acoustic, electric, bass
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,801
    miner wrote: »
    The Robert Palmer trilogy - Sailin' Shoes, Hey Hey Julia, Snealin' Sally....
    Has vocals, acoustic, electric, bass

    Plus it is tonnes of fun. :)
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  • jumpindick
    jumpindick Posts: 428
    Well, I do not know if these would be considered reference tracks, but Barcelona Gypsy band is pretty good. I like their music. Probably don't understand a damn thing that they say in their songs, but music is pretty good. Another band is Pink Martini, especially the one called Amado Mio....
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  • jdjohn
    jdjohn Posts: 3,148
    miner wrote: »
    The Robert Palmer trilogy - Sailin' Shoes, Hey Hey Julia, Snealin' Sally....
    Has vocals, acoustic, electric, bass
    We heard ya the first time (on the first page of this thread) :D Just ribbing ya. Those songs are definitely not what I think of when I think of Robert Palmer (I think of his MTV videos and stint with Power Station), but I have enjoyed listening to the songs you mentioned, and reading about his 'eclectic' style over the years. He passed too soon :(
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  • GlennDog
    GlennDog Posts: 3,120
    Great thread!

    Here's a list of tracks from some of the NY Audio Rave Cd's

    Wynton Marsalis Quartet - "Feeling Of Jazz" (The Magic Hour)

    The Bad Plus - " Keep The Bugs Off Your Glass, And The Bears Off Your ****" (These Are The Vistas)

    Bozzio, Levin, Stevens - "Duende" (Black Light Syndrome)

    Ben Harper - "Gold To Me" (Fight for Your Mind)

    Morphine - "Buena" (Cure for Pain)

    Nils Lofgren - "Keith Don’t Go" (Acoustic Live)

    Mino Cinelu - "Oncoming Horizons" (Mino Cinelu)

    Copland - "Fanfare For The Common Man" (Copland: Appalachian Spring; Rodeo; Fanfare for the Common Man -Louis Lane, and Atlanta Symphony Orchestra on Telarc)

    Ben Vaughn - “Too Happy” (Designs in Music)

    Rimsky-Korsakov - “Dance Of The Tumblers” (Eiji Oue/ Minnesota Orch.)

    Dean Peer -“Mars” (Think...It's All Good)

    Weather Report - "Confians" (Sportin' Life)

    Bernadette Peters - "Blackbird" (I'll Be Your Baby Tonight)

    ZZ Top - ""La Grange" (Tres Hombres)
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  • VR3
    VR3 Posts: 28,640
    @joecoulson

    Add London grammar - hey now

    You will love the bass and vocals
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  • VR3
    VR3 Posts: 28,640
    Oh and eskmo cloudlight if you are an electronic fan.., bass and imaging like you wouldn't believe
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  • headrott
    headrott Posts: 5,496
    I will add:

    Ryuchi Sakamoto - Left Handed Dream (whole album). You need the “European version” though....

    Gary Numan - Pleasure Principle whole album

    Anything by Vangelis

    Anything by the Talking Heads

    Anything by Dire Straights
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  • BlueBirdMusic
    BlueBirdMusic Posts: 2,278
    GlennDog wrote: »
    Great thread!

    Here's a list of tracks from some of the NY Audio Rave Cd's



    Dean Peer -“Mars” (Think...It's All Good)



    I agree regarding Dean Peer and his base guitar. Some unusual stuff.
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  • BDT
    BDT Posts: 212
    Pretty much anything with Eva Cassidy......Particularly Nightbird LP.

    If a rig gets her voice right....that's what I'm looking for.

    BDT
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  • jdjohn
    jdjohn Posts: 3,148
    Eva...gone too soon. There is no better test for female vocals.

    I want to add Bruce Springsteen's "The River" title track. It was basically recorded in a gym with mattresses on the walls...and sounds like it. Embrace that, and listen for it.
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    Regarding collectibles: "It's not who gets it. It's who gets stuck with it." - Jimmy Fallon
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  • jdjohn
    jdjohn Posts: 3,148
    Civil Wars "My Father's Father":
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGwnFz_5xRE
    "This may not matter to you, but it does to me for various reasons, many of them illogical or irrational, but the vinyl hobby is not really logical or rational..." - member on Vinyl Engine
    "Sometimes I do what I want to do. The rest of the time, I do what I have to." - Cicero, in Gladiator
    Regarding collectibles: "It's not who gets it. It's who gets stuck with it." - Jimmy Fallon
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  • VR3
    VR3 Posts: 28,640
    Chocolate chip trip, imaging awesomeness aside, the drums sound flat out incredible
    - Not Tom ::::::: Any system can play Diana Krall. Only the best can play Limp Bizkit.
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  • joecoulson
    joecoulson Posts: 4,943
    Agree completely
    That is a clear number two of the best tracks on the album. With Invincible taking the cake.
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  • joecoulson
    joecoulson Posts: 4,943
    I also think that Dave Grohls “Play” is a great track for drums and riffs. It gets a little muddled in the highest dynamic parts, but what a great recording.
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  • VR3
    VR3 Posts: 28,640
    Will have to check those two out
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  • BjornB17
    BjornB17 Posts: 752
    VR3 wrote: »
    Will have to check those two out

    Hey, do you still sell crossovers for RTiA's?
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  • Nightfall
    Nightfall Posts: 10,086
    Puscifer has some great sounding recordings.
    afterburnt wrote: »
    They didn't speak a word of English, they were from South Carolina.

    Village Idiot of Club Polk
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  • ZLTFUL
    ZLTFUL Posts: 5,648
    Yosi Horikawa - Vapor...pretty much the whole album.
    He uses a lot of natural sounds in his tracks and it images incredibly.
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  • halo
    halo Posts: 5,616
    VR3 wrote: »
    Chocolate chip trip, imaging awesomeness aside, the drums sound flat out incredible

    You should hear it live! :D
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  • jdjohn
    jdjohn Posts: 3,148
    Nightfall wrote: »
    Puscifer has some great sounding recordings.
    Yeah, the title track of The Humbling River should give your sub a workout with the timpani drums.
    "This may not matter to you, but it does to me for various reasons, many of them illogical or irrational, but the vinyl hobby is not really logical or rational..." - member on Vinyl Engine
    "Sometimes I do what I want to do. The rest of the time, I do what I have to." - Cicero, in Gladiator
    Regarding collectibles: "It's not who gets it. It's who gets stuck with it." - Jimmy Fallon
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  • daddyjt
    daddyjt Posts: 2,505
    If you want to stretch the legs of a DTS enabled system, this disc is outstanding. Impeccably recorded, an active surround mix, solid and punchy bass line, and a varied style throughout.

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  • WLDock
    WLDock Posts: 3,073
    GlennDog wrote: »
    Great thread!

    Here's a list of tracks from some of the NY Audio Rave Cd's

    Weather Report - "Confians" (Sportin' Life)
    I was going through this thread and saw this. Brings back memories. I bought the Sportin' Life album on vinyl back in college when it first released. I remember the hook from that song... Prye, prye, prye - o. Prye, prye, prye-oo.

    Been a weather report fan for years, I saw them live about a year prior on the Domino Theory tour. They blew my mind!

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  • joecoulson
    joecoulson Posts: 4,943
    My mom turned me on to WR - Birdland in the early 80's - fond memories of dancing around the living room as a kid
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  • treitz3
    treitz3 Posts: 19,027
    Please forgive me if you think that this is inappropriate, Joe. I just so happened to be looking for some older threads that were based upon "Reference" type songs and ran across these three. I figured I'd just add them here since they are all still somewhat "on topic".

    https://forum.polkaudio.com/discussion/146876/one-song-and-your-system/p1

    https://forum.polkaudio.com/discussion/120609/the-most-dynamic-well-recorded-music-you-have-heard-to-date/p1

    https://forum.polkaudio.com/discussion/62984/best-live-album-recorded-albums-youve-heard

    Tom
    ~ In search of accurate reproduction of music. Real sound is my reference and while perfection may not be attainable? If I chase it, I might just catch excellence. ~
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  • joecoulson
    joecoulson Posts: 4,943
    Only your boots on my carpet was inappropriate Tom :D

    I welcome the addition of info as it directly relates to the topic at hand!
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,801
    edited January 2020
    Just read through this ol' thread in a (perhaps vain) attempt to make sure I don't repeat myself! :p

    Nice trip down memory lane, this thread.

    The topic got me to thinkin' about audio flashbulb memories -- hifi experiences that are aurally and/or visually/sensually (so to speak) burned into some nonvolatile RAM in my age-addled consciousness :) -- and I thought of one that I hadn't for a long time.

    I have a flashbulb memory of hearing this on a full Edgarhorn system (including Dr. Edgar's phonebooth-sized Seismic subwoofer). Jerry Douglas, with Steve Earle on vocals. A brilliant performance and recording of a tremendous old (1958) Johnny Cash song.

    https://youtu.be/BpslzuhXrtk

    Seek out a copy.
    (IMO, of course. YMMV)
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  • joecoulson
    joecoulson Posts: 4,943
    Bump here as I in the middle of testing
    Fantastic song

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