Name 3 songs where audio quality and song quality completely align


Lately I’ve found myself alternating between music I love (but sounds mediocre) and music I don’t know well or only like (but sounds incredible).

Occasionally, I stumble across a track where the song could both serve as a great show off piece for my gear and I love the music.

If you can, name up to 3 songs where the audio and song quality take you over the moon with pleasure.

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Most any album by Eva Cassidy; Grateful Dead - Dark Star (Live at Winterland, 1973), Grateful Dead, Celebrating Jerry Garcia (engineering and song version are all exceptional on this album, including one of my all time favorites - Morning Dew (Live at Barton Hall, Cornell University - epic show!); Traffic - The Low Spark of High Healed Boys, any song off Dire Straits - Dire Straits. Mostly classic rock I listed, but I could rattle off pages of great songs with great engineering in most any genre too.

Jonah Yano - Shoes (not all in English in case it bothers someone)

Lady Blackbird - Fix It (the whole album is great)

Daily Bread, Artifakts (it's under Various Artists on Roon for some reason) - Next Level Style (great for bass, really, don't play late if you have neighbors)

And an extra that definitely is showoffie but I really enjoy - Aisha Duo - Despertar

 

I have tons of well recorded music I like listening to favorited on Roon. I'm always searching. My tastes are anything but opera, classical and most R&B with folk, hip hop/rap, funk and jazz as probably my favorites...and the Grateful Dead.

Blues Delight - Slightly Hung Over

Roberta Flack - The First Time I Ever Saw Your Face

Bill Withers - Ain't No Sunshine When She's Gone

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Dire Straits: "Your Latest Trick" from Brothers in Arms

Boz Skaggs: "I just go" and "Desire" from album, Dig.

ELP: "From the Beginning" ("Lucky Man" is good too)

Donald Fagan: "Morph the Cat" from album of same name.

Supertramp: most of album "Crime of the Century".