Name an album that you need headphones to fully appreciate.

[LostInAnomie]

I would have to say Rage Against the Machine's "Renegades". The is some very subtle guitar and bass work on there that you need to hear free of distraction to catch.

White Zombie's "LaSexorcisto" would be another good one. It is a incredible multi-layered album that needs to be heard up close and personal. I listened to it for years in my car and on my stereo and loved it but I gained a much deeper appreciation for it when I listened to it with headphones.

[Floogeldy]

1. Nazz Nazz

It is not so much how you are listening, but to what you are listening. ;)

[Tikki]

2. Electric Ladyland.....Jimi Hendrix Experience.....n/t

[SnohoDem]

44. Even 'Experienced'

is a little better through good headphones.

[Spider Jerusalem]

3. DJ Shadow - Endtroducing

[Phillycat]

23. Aw, this is a great record! nt

[sendero]

32. A personal all time favorite..

... of mine, but I've never heard it on headphones. Have to try that sometime, at midnight, in a perfect world. :)

[swag]

4. "Street Hassle" by Lou Reed,

since it was created using binaural recording techniques.

Same for Lou Reed's Take No Prisoners, Live, which is really a very funny record, with almost every song degenerating into a rant against something. Can't remember which song, maybe "Sweet Jane," degenerates very quickly into a rambling diatribe against rock criticism and Robert Christgau. All recorded binaurally.

[shugh514]

38. Metal Machine Music

on headphones will separate the men from the boys.

edited just read the post below:)

[mitchum]

41. Damn you! Damn you! Damn you!

Beat me to it :)

The suite "Street Hassle" is his finest work. And that is from an artist with an astonishing body of work. The last vocal section beginning with "Love has gone away..." is still the most tender and vulnerable performance I have ever heard from anyone, but the whole piece is simply beautiful.

Re: "Take No Prisoners"
It may not be his best record, but it is a fascinating document of a brilliant man at the end of his rope

My favorite cut is probably "Walk On The Wild Side":
"Yeah, c'mon...you know the riff"
"Little Joe...Little Joe was a fucking idiot, man"

And it is indeed "Sweet Jane" which degenerates into a well deserved diatribe where Christgau is called "a toefucker" and likened to some kind of school teacher grading assignments.

[KitchenWitch]

5. Alan Parsons Project - "IRobot"

[XemaSab]

6. NIN- Downward Spiral

[NMMNG]

7. Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here

So many subtleties in the different parts of Shine on You Crazy Diamond.

[Mojambo]

8. Soft Bulletin by the Flaming Lips n/t

[ornotna]

9. Alice Coltrane - Universal Consciousness

As close to an out of body experience as you can get.

[Heidi]

10. Pink Floyd: "Dark Side of the Moon" (nt)

[Common Sense Party]

11. And Pink Floyd "The Wall"

Lots of different voices, sounds coming from one speaker or the other.

[Heidi]

13. Right on.

Call Me Wesley has a lot of Pink Floyd on vinyl. I might just hook up the turntable and dig out the headphones this weekend. ;)

[Scout1071]

39. Pink Floyd...all of it...but especially "The Wall."

I did it for more than a year every single night before I fell asleep. To this day, I know every note and sound like no other album.

[RagingInMiami]

14. I'm surprised it took ten posts

before someone mentioned it.

That is the ultimate headphones album.

[Heidi]

17. Yep.

Much of my misspent youth was misspent listening to that album with headphones. ;)

[sendero]

33. It is the ultimate..

.... especially when you drowse off in a chemical coma just before those infernal clock-bells startle you into jumping out of your skin :)

[Spirochete]

35. Not the SACD version,

that's better through a surround system. But the original is definitely enhanced by a huge margin with headphones.

[Quantess]

45. ..................

:toast:

[MnFats]

12. Electric Ladyland....Jimi Hendrix...

...nothing else comes close.

[livetohike]

21. Definitely!

I agree :hi:

[jobycom]

25. Isn't that a spoof of an Adam Sandler song?

[Broken_Hero]

15. ILL Nino's

Revolutions cd...every song on that cd, is awesome...but, I prefer pushing it through my home speakers...I'm of the mind, if the music is vibrating through your body, you need to turn it up!...:)

[JCMach1]

16. Roger Waters- "Pros and Cons of Hitchhiking"

:)

[Hissyspit]

18. Neil Young "Arc"

Half faceticious, half serious.

[swag]

19. Ha. Good one.

Even better than Metal Machine Music.

I guess it was Thurston Moore who suggested that Neil do something like Arc, wasn't it?

[bbernardini]

20. Anything by Porcupine Tree. nt

[Phillycat]

22. Agree on WZ - also Peter Gabriel's last Temptation of Christ sdtk. nt

[Magrittes Pipe]

24. Hotel California.

If I have really good headphones, I can't hear it when some asshole decides to play that slab of shit.

[jobycom]

26. You nailed it!

:rofl:

[jpgray]

30. Can-Future Days

[Burma Jones]

34. Bless You..........

However, the Gypsy Kings' cover of the title song is just fine...

[ghostsofgiants]

42. That's why I take my ipod whenever I drive somewhere with my dad.

[BurtWorm]

27. Diamond Dogs

[LanternWaste]

28. Moody Blues - Seventh Sojourn

Or pretty much all of thier stuff...

[Efilroft Sul]

29. Anything by Garbage.

Lots of subtle stuff going on you normally don't hear, and the stuff you thought you heard without headphones will be amplified and carom off the insides of your skull for a sound spectacular.

[RandomKoolzip]

31. "Secaucus" by The Wrens

Very dense production. You can tell they used hundreds of tracks to record this one. There's multi-part harmonies buried so ddep in the mix on some songs that headphones are necessary to even HEAR them.

[Jets2Brazil]

36. Spiritualized - Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space...

But mad props to the guy who said the Flips Soft Bulletin.

[WritingIsMyReligion]

37. Anything by Steely Dan.

Too complicated to fully appreciate on mere stereo. :P :P

[grannylib]

40. Robin Trower's "Bridge of Sighs" and of course, the Pink Floyd mentioned

above, particularly DSOTM.

[mike_c]

43. lots of good ones in here but I'll add Tarkus by ELP....

Don't know why this came to mind-- it's been DECADES since I last listened to it, but it's GREAT with a doob and a nice set of cans.