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Recordings with incredible effects or imaging that we may not know about

I thought this could be fun and actually helpful for some of us wanting something different in our collection. 
One recording that I show off my system with is 
Supertramp - Even in the Quietest Moments.... at the beginning of this track,  there is a bird chirping,  on my system, it is about 3 feet beyond the left speaker and about 10 to 12 feet up,  this bird flies forward, then turns and comes right above your head.  Above your head, it is about 8 to 10 feet up,  it then turns and flies away going right above the right speaker and disappears into the distance.  
So,  what else is there out there that we should all know about that you just know we would all like to have in our collection.  
Please let us know,  Tim 

timlub
hifijunky
126 posts
 
+ for Andreas Vollenweider White Winds 
Also try his
Behind the Gardens- Behind the Wall- Under the Tree
ddrave44
146 posts
 
 The first few seconds of Simple on Collective Soul's CD Collective Soul come in above my right ear. 

+1 on 10cc
tomcarr
1,504 posts
 
+ for Amused  To Death, especially the Blue-Ray version. Even better than the already good RB version. 
bondmanp
1,810 posts
 

Delite - CD "World Clique" - sounds come from all over the room, even adjacent to one ear or the other, if your system is up to it.


+1 on Porcupine Tree, especially "In Absentia".

martykl
3,578 posts
 
QSound was an ambience processing technology that produced recordings with very dramatic sound staging/imaging.  Roger Waters "Amused to Death" featured some good effects and Madonna's Greatest Hits Collection was even more dramatic.  They did a bunch of others before going bust, so I'd hunt them down.  The sound was highly variable (often bad) in all other ways, but - if you want imaging - this is your tech.

in more conventional ways, records like "Space Age Bachelor Pad Music" and "The Shaft Soundtrack" (title track) are also good examples - they're both potted to an inch of their lives, so images move around.  

Yet a different variation of image processing can be found on Lindsey Buckingham's album "Under the Skin".  On some tracks, he moves densely layered overdubs of his voice around the stage ("Show You How") to pretty dramatic effect.  Nothing natural at all about this recording, tho.
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