[daniel0407]

I am interested to know what songs do you use to test headphones, amps, source, etc.
 
My test songs are:
 
The Beatles - Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)
The Beatles - Don't let me Down (Let it be naked... version)
Massive Attack - Angel
Getz/Gilberto - Garota do Ipanema
Portishead - Undenied
Led Zeppelin - I Can't Quit you Babe
 
What are yours?

 

[TwelveTrains]

Rage Against the Machine - Take The Power Back
Massive Attack - Risingson
Massive Attack - A Prayer For England
Active Child - Hanging On
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King Soundtrack - The White Tree
Daft Punk - Human After All
OC ReMix - Clamato Fever
Rush - Hope
Les Miserables: Original London Cast - Red & Black

 

[KT66]

a 24/96 needledrop of Classic Records 200gm 45 rpm pressing of Dave Brubecks Time Out
and a CD from XTC - The Man Who Sailed Around His Soul - from Skylarking, Mobile Fidelity Pressing 
 
These are my first two, then I will listen to some superb sounding DCC Cds and
always something poorly recorded/mastered like Lovin Spoonful or Matthew Sweet

 

[fabio-fi]

Anything from Joe Satriani or Hans Zimmer

 

[MrLazyAnt]

Kingston Wall - And It's All Happening/Shine On Me
Pink Floyd - Money/Comfortably Numb
Massive Attack - Three/Angel/Teardrop
Krusseldorf - Choclop/Soe Doe
Acoustic Dub Messengers - Ham and Egg/Musik, Liebe Und Daisy
Shpongle - Room 23/Behind Closed Eyelids
Lauryn Hill - Forgive Them Father
Dusty Kid - The Fugue
The Beatles - Eleanor Rigby/Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite
Lamb - Trans Fatty Acid (The K&D Sessions remix)/Strong the Root (A cappella) 
 
 
I don't, of course, use all of them every time. I usually pick 4-6 of the above and 3 or 4 things more at random

 

[jpoyarzun]

Mezzanine (Massive attack)
Inception OST (Hanz Zimmer)
Medulla (Bjork)
Waltz for Debby (Bill Evans)
Sgt Peppers (The Beatles)
Mozart Requiem (any version that i have in hands)
 
Any album by Tommy Bennet
Anything that i have in my hands from Ella fitzgerald and Bill Armstrong
Any album from Ahmad Jammal

 

[spitf1r3]

I always use
Andromeda - Oxygen (jean michel Jarre cover) on Goa Neo  vol. 3
Metallica - My friend of misery
Adrian von Ziegler - Kanpai!
Bozzio Levin Stevens - Duende
Bozzio Levin Stevens - Tziganne
David Maxim Micic - Everything's Fine
Jean Michel Jarre - Aerology
Øresund Space Collective - Good Planets Are Hard To Find
Demians - Empire
Krypteria - Victoriam Speramus
Guilt Machine - Twisted Coil
Maurice Ravel - Bolero
Isildurs Bane - A Blank Page
Judas Priest - Leather Rebel
OSI - Kicking (Kevin Moore remix)
The Aristocrats - Bad Asteroid

 

[TwelveTrains]

This thread gettin' SO much Massive Attack love.

 

[iso-b]

Snowy White - Bird of Paradise
Lord of The Rings OST
and random tracks from Hans Zimmer

 

[MrLazyAnt]

  This thread gettin' SO much Massive Attack love.

Probably because Massive Attack have such amazing bass, not to mention that the rest of their sound is exemplary, but that bass man, the bass.
 
I put Kingston Wall up here, if you like prog rock, slightly different from the classics, this is well worth checking out, for reason both sonic, and musical

 

[MCImes]

anything on James Blake's Overgrown
anything on OTT's Hallucinogen in Dub
anything on Phillip Glass's Solo Piano
Most things Simon Posford (shpongle/younger brother)