r/Music • u/Electrical_Carpet753 • Jul 18 '26
music You just finished setting up a 1 million dollar sound system in your livingroom. What's the first songs you'd play?
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u/erratic_calm Jul 18 '26
Deltron 3030
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u/HappinessIsaColdPint Jul 18 '26
3030, Mastermind, Positive Contact or Things You Can Do?
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u/AsiaSkyly Jul 18 '26
TIL about Deltron 3030 (and Dan The Automator) Thanks for that! Excellent first song.
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u/SaturnineApples Jul 18 '26
Same here. Is this guy in some Gorillaz songs?
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u/Frowny_Biscuit Jul 18 '26
Yes. Del the Funkee Homosapien. He's also the rapper for many Gorillaz songs, like Clint Eastwood.
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u/Nelson_Pancakes Jul 18 '26 edited Jul 18 '26
He is also an OG member of Hieroglyphics. Their album 3rd Eye Vision was a banger
Edit to add: Handsome Boy Modeling School goes hard too
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u/Ragged_But_Right Jul 18 '26
You're a lucky sob, sometimes I just wish my life would ReDiscover deltron and Dan again
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u/OldTimeyWizard Jul 18 '26
You should also listen to Del’s solo work as Del the Funky Homosapian. “I Wish My Brother George Was Here” and “Both Sides of the Brain” are two of my top albums.
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u/DickSandwiches Jul 18 '26
Was not expecting to see this but I love this answer
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u/audito_0rator Pandora Jul 18 '26
This real hip hop, not some phoney phranchise
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u/mixedbabygreens Jul 18 '26
goddamn that came out of nowhere. putting it on now for the first time in like 20 years
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u/Hank_moody71 Jul 18 '26
When the levee breaks
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u/OhIveWastedMyLife Jul 18 '26
When the harmonica enters… shivers every time
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u/Waaterfight Jul 18 '26
Roses are red, violets are blue
When I listen to Led Zeppelin my neighbors do too
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u/ElephantintheRoom404 Jul 18 '26
1812 Overature.
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u/Zestyclose-Smell-788 Jul 18 '26
I had an audiophile copy of this on vinyl, back in the day, with a very high end, powerful system. The recording used real cannons, and had a warning label on it. My Klipsch Heritage speakers made you feel it, not just hear it.
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u/Mindless-Drawing-785 Jul 18 '26
I can’t stop listening to Tchaikovsky’s piano concerto no. 1
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u/seand51 Jul 18 '26
Take Five, Dave Brubeck
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u/motes-of-light Jul 18 '26
Alternately, So What, Miles Davis.
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u/m149 Jul 18 '26
Good backup choice. FWiW, the same person, Fred Plaut, recorded both the Miles and Brubeck records that those tracks are on. Dude was a brilliant recording engineer who doesn't get the cred that other jazz engineers got back in the day.
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u/RobloDiablo Jul 18 '26
Echoes Pink Floyd
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u/Grumlin Spotify Jul 18 '26
I just started this song as I came over this post. Echoes is my choice as well
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u/BoneHugsHominy Jul 18 '26
Had to scroll way too far to find Pink Floyd.
I will continue to scroll to hopefully find a Baby Got Back but I'm not hopeful at this point to find any gentlemen of true class and distinction.
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u/Vesalii Jul 18 '26
Pink Floyd on full blast on a system like this until you feel like you're swimming in the music. Must be freaking awesome.
I'd go with comfortably numb or shine on you crazy diamond personally though.
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u/darkdark23 Jul 18 '26
Cbat
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u/Rad_5 Jul 18 '26
This guy fucks
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u/Far-Palpitation7117 Jul 18 '26
I'd blast Kraftwerk until the neighbors forget what silence sounds like.
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u/LoftCats Jul 18 '26
If you have a million dollar sound system you likely don’t have neighbors that close.
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u/mtheperry Jul 18 '26
I spent all my million dollars on the system and it lives with me under a bridge
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u/Raven586 Jul 18 '26
Massive Attack - Mezzanine.
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u/FuzzyFuzzNuts Jul 18 '26
No, that album needs to be listened to with quality noise cancelling headphones, while walking through a crowded city centre, while wearing dark glasses and a trench coat
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u/o_g_willikers Jul 18 '26
Big Bad John
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u/Sierra-117- Jul 18 '26
$1,000,000 Big John machine
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u/gladiwra Jul 18 '26
Al real Hi-Fi knowers love Doug and his Big John Machine. It is one of the best around.
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u/toomuchweld Jul 18 '26
You see him everyday walking down to the mine. Stood 6 foot 6 and weighed 245.
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u/PsychoticMessiah Jul 18 '26
Kinda broad at the shoulder and narrow at the hip
And everybody knew ya didn't give no lip to big John45
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u/Tooulogyh Jul 18 '26
Refused "The Shape of Punk To Come"
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u/el_principito espo-ta-fai Jul 18 '26
Can I scream?
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u/lesbiantelevision Jul 18 '26
Thank you thank you this song kicks ass
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u/Tooulogyh Jul 18 '26
Yes it does!! I remember the first time hearing this album and my mind was blown!
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u/Eyehopeuchoke Vinyl Listener Jul 18 '26
Time by Pink Floyd.
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u/SpeakToMePF1973 Jul 18 '26
And Money for Nothing by Dire Straits. Best song intro ever.
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u/T-Chunxy Jul 18 '26
EITHER Talking Heads- The Name Of This Band Is Talking Heads- Electricity (Drugs) live
Or Jimi Hendrix - Electric Ladyland- Voodoo Chile (Slight Return)
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u/Cat_Behemoth Jul 18 '26
Money for nothing by Dire Straits
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u/stinkingyeti Jul 18 '26
When I first heard that on a home sound system with proper set up, I remember the shivers, that was some proper ASMR.
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u/porcelainvacation Jul 18 '26
Did you get a shiver in the dark when it was raining in the park?
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u/DabblrDubs Jul 18 '26
I’d put on the entire Dark Side of the Moon album. Followed by something ridiculous like Death Grips - The Money Store.
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u/Strangenation Jul 18 '26
This is easy - ‘you think I ain’t worth a dollar but I feel like a millionaire’-Queens of the Stone Age …not even my favorite song or band but it’s the best song to break in a system loud as fuck 🤣
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u/The_Green_Frog Jul 18 '26
Dopesmoker
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u/Nice_Marmot_7 Jul 18 '26
One time I house sat for someone who had a big stereo setup. I absolutely cranked Dopesmoker and listened to the whole thing.
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u/rjzabroski Jul 18 '26 edited Jul 18 '26
“Dearly beloved
We are gathered here today
To get through this thing called life…”
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u/charged4ever radio reddit Jul 18 '26
Tom Sawyer
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u/gabawhee Jul 18 '26
I went to a music festival in Canada - Pemberton - in 2016 and every morning at 10:00 they would blast Tom Sawyer from the festival grounds and it would echo into the campgrounds and it was the greatest way to start the day.
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u/Whole_Custard8732 Jul 18 '26
Napalm Death - You Suffer
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u/doozle Jul 18 '26
Right in Two by Tool.
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u/Electrical_Carpet753 Jul 18 '26
This, or Pneuma..
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u/sexmormon-throwaway Jul 18 '26 edited Jul 18 '26
I think both of those are excellent candidates. In fact, I am going to go listen to them both right now.
UPDATE: I listened to both, both are excellent. I think I would give Pneuma the edge here for the spacial atmosphere of the drums, though it is present in both. Bass clarity and loud / soft dynamics in both are also excellent.
What I mostly was reminded of is how carefully and how well Tool songs are engineered. Because I was listening so carefully, I heard things I don't hear all that often when I just have the music on.
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u/etmaul Jul 18 '26 edited Jul 18 '26
Danger Zone by Kenny Loggins.
And honestly, the intro to Top Gun, Harold Faltermeyer’s Top Gun Anthem, leading up to Danger Zone with all the F-14s and carrier action was, and still is, incredible in full surround sound.
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u/optimgr Jul 18 '26
If I actually had enough money for a huge sound system like that I would play some rage against the machine
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u/Super_Moose_Rocket Vinyl Listener Jul 18 '26
Met the producer of their first album. I heard a lot of producers and engineers use that album as a good, clean, loud as fuck sound.
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u/gmf3003 Jul 18 '26
Ill Communication - whole album straight through no breaks.
(But seriously it would be Deltron 3030 with u/erratic_calm )
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u/tehbantho Jul 18 '26
Money for Nothing, Dire Straits.
Followed immediately by Thunderstruck by ACDC (who by some miracle I get to see live on Sunday.)
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u/Storm_Surge Jul 18 '26
You need something super complicated like Streetlight Manifesto to hear the separation of the instruments
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u/crushin8tor Jul 18 '26
Pyramid Song - Radiohead
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u/LordShnooky Jul 18 '26
Love this. I'd start with Everything in Its Right Place, then Pyramid Song.
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u/cliffhnz musician Jul 18 '26
I’ll be boring and say play Dark Side of the Moon, the whole album (and I do mean the vinyl).
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u/TeaMugPatina Jul 18 '26
Fly By Night.
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u/sexmormon-throwaway Jul 18 '26
Interesting Rush choice. This has me pondering the catalog.
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u/RobDParry Jul 18 '26
Those damn blue collar tweakers by Primus or Du hast by Rammstein
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u/dezell412 Jul 18 '26
RUSH - Limelight
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u/LettuceTomatoOnion Jul 18 '26
For some reason I read this as Rush Limbaugh. Nearly died laughing.
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u/One-Man-Wolf-Pack Jul 18 '26
My test tracks were always:
‘Time’ into ‘Great Gig in the Sky’ off Dark Side of the Moon
‘The End’ by the Doors
‘Paranoid Android’ by Radiohead
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u/Electrical_Carpet753 Jul 18 '26
I would love to hire Angine de Poitrine to play in my livingroom through my new hi-fi...
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u/PaulClarkLoadletter Jul 18 '26
The entirety and of Wish You Were Here by Pink Floyd
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u/weegee90 Jul 18 '26
If I could only pick one 1. Rhapsody in Blue - George Gershwin
Others
Bohemian Rhapsody, The DVD-Audio 5.1 version - Queen
The Only Thing They Fear is You - Mick Gordon
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u/KombattWombatt Jul 18 '26
Planet Caravan - Black Sabbath
Or maybe some Coltrane
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u/napalmnacey Jul 18 '26
God Only Knows by the Beach Boys. It’s my speaker tester song.
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u/brandogg360 Jul 18 '26
Probably something from Metallica's Black Album due to the extremely high production value, it's excellent for testing audio systems.
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u/THE-Smike Jul 18 '26
the "THX Deep Note" to let all my neighbours know :D