cross-posted from: https://lemmy.today/post/33411412
Recently I switched from Apple Music to Spotify free/Navidrome. I am moving my library to Navidrome slowly. I have done a similar thing in the past as well.
I noticed that both times, as well as trying out new speakers, the first song I listened to was In the End by Linkin Park, followed by their latest album.
What is yours?
Edit: Holy Shit! I was not expecting so many replies. It is not possible for me to reply to everyone right away. I will listen to each of your first songs and reply to everyone.
Bear with me on this one.
I like to use the maestoso from Saint-Saëns’s Symphony No. 3 in C Minor, often called the Organ Symphony, for testing speakers. Turn it way up and blast that organ sound. Also reminds me of the movie Babe since they used the theme from this movement for that movie. 😁
(Links below are YouTube Music, but I’m confident you can find the same recordings on Spotify.)
Here’s a good recording, listen to at least the first 1:45, though the full movement isn’t very long (a bit over seven minutes). Again, volume is your friend for this movement. It’s MAJESTIC, and on a good set of speakers it’s incredible.
Another good orchestral work for this type of showing off is Holst’s Jupiter, or the fourth movement of Dvořák’s New World Symphony
(There are many more but these are some relatively well-known-without-people-knowing-they-know-them ones.)
Jazzmataz vol. 1 by Guru
“Frank’s Wild Years”
Florence + the Machine - June
Just to open it gently
Amon Amarth - Twilight of the Thunder God
10.8 by Deadmau5 and Mr. Bill
Pure ear candy
Electronic is not my genre.
This song is good. It has a feel good vibe.
A lot of different “instruments” make it good for testing new speakers, I guess. Soft, subtle and loud, harsh, the whole range.
Voodoo by Godsmack
Overture 1928 - Dream Theater
AC/DC - “Back in Black”
Dire Straits - Walk of Life.
For testing speakers, Infected Mushroom, Tame Impala and 20syl/AllttA are always good choices. Maybe Tool as well (10000 days). Song depends on what I’m most familiar with atm.
For a new library, I’d probably just choose whatever I listen to the most. Which would be The Fearless Flyers and Aesop Rock rn.
Fellow IM enjoyer in the wild! 🍄
Mindful Solutionism is probably my favorite track from Aesop even after black hole superette came out, such a banger
One of the THX Deep Notes
Herbie Hancock - Chameleon
Then listen to the whole Head Hunters album tbh
„Rumors“ by Fleetwood Mac.
The Chain
Probably A Night at the Opera by Queen, which was the first album I ever bought with my own money. A ton of classic tracks, lots of tonal range, weirdass spatial effects from early-era screwing around with stereophonic production, and a hell of a good time any day of the week.
https://music.apple.com/us/album/put-me-under/1693342526?i=1693342534&ls=
Figueroa - Put Me Under
