Unless I have the house to myself I listen to nearly all classical music on headphones. Otherwise I find I keep turning up the quiet passages and turning down the loud parts, which feels like I am defeating the object.
Anything by Tears For Fears? 60's Stereo on headphones occasionally makes my head feel weird with the hard panning. It's awful. But even without that, it's just distractingly awkward on headphones for rock music.
Anything mastered and engineered well should sound good. Things that don’t sound good are compressed, brick-walled stuff. FWIW, I do enjoy listening to a compilation of The Brothers Johnson. Lots of well-assembled funk songs there, for sure. Whenever I listen via headphones, it seems like I find some other little piece in a song that strikes my fancy.
Fair enough! If you want Revolver in your headphones that's the one. The original stereo mix, great as it is, is no good listening experience in headphones! The panning is too extreme and sometimes makes your ears hurt (like when Paul sings "Eleanor Rigby" only in your right ear). And the mono mix is... well, mono! When I said "most stereo albums" I certainly didn't include early Beatles albums, and not even Revolver and Sgt. Pepper.
Pink Floyd - The Dark Side of The Moon The Doobie Bros - The Captain and Me Jackson Browne - The Pretender Genesis - A Trick Of The Tail Barbra Streisand - Guilty Rickie Lee Jones - Pirates The Alan Parsons Project - Eye In The Sky Tears For Fears - The Seeds Of Love Roger Waters - Amused To Death Aaron Neville - Warm Your Heart Shawn Colvin - Fat City Counting Crows - Everything And After Toto - Tambu Sting - Mercury Falling Isaac Hayes - Branded
An album I know extremely well through speakers. I recently listened to it through headphones and it was like listening to a whole new album. Some mixing and instrumental decisions, and nuances, that I just didn't know were there. Really a great album.
