Best tracks to "show off" your system

I get out the Oingo Boingo records. 80s vinyl is so much fun because all that stuff they did in the studio was still largely analog, and the recording engineering had reached its peak. But I also like to get out Sgt. Pepper; I tell my friends: "This will be the BEST you've ever heard this!" I always get comments like, "Wow, I never heard that flute part there before," and "Paul MaCartney's bass sounds like THAT?!," and etc.

I agree with Sdcampbell's recomendation of "I've got the music in me" I hear it on the D to D LP at a friends place, I wanted it also but could not get hold of it.

Some from the top of my head....

"Too Rich for my blood" and Nardis from Patricia Barber's album Cafe Blue

"The girl from Ipanema" Getz/Gilbarto

"Summertime" from Porgy and Bess by Ella and Louis

Track 1 and 2 from Stunz and Farah's album Primal Magic

"The Look of Love" by Dusty Springfield from the Casino Royale's soundtrack album

Track 1 from Cassandra Wilson's album New Moon Daughter

"Cheek to Cheek" By Ella Fitzgerald from Verve's Grammy Winners

"Making Music" from the album of the same name featuring John Maclaughlin, Jan Garberak, Zakir Hussain, Hariprasad Churasia.

Mountain'o things by Tracy Chapman on her debut album

S'Wonderful by Diana Krall from her album "The look of love"

Track 9 and 10 from the album Harpes du nouvel age by alan Stivell

"Gailtacht" from “Renaissance of the Celtic Harp” by Alan Stivell

Pablo de Sarasate-Zigeunerweisen op 20 (from Carmen Fantasy) Anne Sophie Mutter with Weiner Philharmoniker (DG)

Track 2 from album by John Williams-Rodrigo: Concierto De Aranjuaz

If I remember more I will come back to this thread.

1) Chris Isaak, The Baja Sessions, track 3 "Only The Lonely" and track 4 "South Of The Border"; GRRRREEEEAATTTT recording, beatiful balance with all frequency ranges, great voice too.

2) Elton John, "Daniel" off any RECORD (LP) not CD. Intricate melody, beautiful song.

3) Aaron Neville, Warm Your Heart cd, any track.

Some other good ones too, but these are my preferred ones.

homer,

now that you mentioned it i think i need to pick up that chris isaak cd. i've been wanting to get something from him for a while.

some others...

1. Most of the Stan Getz CD's are great!
2. Jack Johnson's Brushfire Fairytales CD is good.
3. One i always use is 'My love is' by Diana Krall

The Chris Isaak cd is a very good one, makes you wonder why all music is not recorded with great care like that.
I forgot to mention;
Cowboy Junkies; The Trinity Sessions, track 2 "Blue Moon Revisited".
This was recorded on a portable DAT, 1 mic, in a church in Toronto. Terrific coice, great recording. On some parts of the album you can hear the low frequency rumbling (faint) of the HVAC system. Adds to the ambiance.