Zappa. Them or us and Sheik Yerbuti. Just listened to both back to back this week and they sound amazing on headphones.
2pac all eyes on me Luther vandross self titled Beck odelay The future sounds of London life forms Overkill WFO Sarah Mclaughlin fumbling towards ecstasy
I find electronic music very satisfying over headphones, though I rarely use them. Anything by Orbital, Massive Attack, Fluke or Chris & Cosey for example.
Avalon and The Seeds of Love are good shouts. A few others that I love on headphones: Steely Dan's Aja, The Stranglers' The Gospel According to the Meninblack, Ultra by Depeche Mode, Radiohead's Kid A
The last 2 albums by Jean Michel Jarre ('Amazonia' & 'Oxymore'), both available as binaural mixes. And Holger Czukay 'Movies' and 'Peak Of Normal', so much fun on headphones!
Pirates floored me back in the day. We Belong Together sounded great. One of the first digitally recorded albums I believe.
For some reason I always enjoyed concept-y albums best on the headphones. The "immersion" of it. So Quadrophenia, Thick As a Brick etc.
copied from an earlier thread Talk Talk - Spirit Of Eden and Laughing Stock Slint - Spiderland Most King Tubby albums Madvillain - Madvillainy Boards Of Canada - Geogaddi Yes - Close To the Edge Talking Heads - Remain In Light Cure - Disintegration Global Communication - 76:14 My Bloody Valentine - Loveless lots of CTI's disclaimer - I don't own an expensive system or expensive headphones
One interesting headphone bit from Zappa was on Roxy & Elsewhere where on a few songs ("Pygmy Twylyte" and "Village of the Sun") he had Napoleon Murphy Brock overdub vocals in the studio double or triple tracking his voice. Good on headphones. Zappa did something similar with his own vocals a few times on Sheik.
"Nektar ~ Remember the Future" Part 1 [side one]: Part 2 [side two]: https://youtu.be/zOWvn_RzHn0 "Remember" [p. i.] the 1st ceedee issue had an issue [p. i.] of the Quad Master being used, so two channels of info are lacking in the presentation.
McCartney II-Lots of fun, quirky stereo separation. Hall & Oates-Big Bam Boom (So many sonic colors in the mix and more things happening in the stereo soundstage than watching the stars twinkle in the sky).
For critical listening I’m an unrepentant floor standing speaker guy, but the crazy panning on ‘Red House’ from Are You Experienced? still makes me feel like I’m 14 years old, from my Koss to my AirPods.
you managed to include the really Big 3 of intellegent/trippy 90s electronica in one sentence you sir, have great taste in music , congratulations
Highly subjective of course, but thank you! I had Massive Attack on my Sennheisers last night and it was superb too.
