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Ear Candy: Most startling recordings.

OK, we all respect great musical talent and muscianship, but sometimes you put in a CD and you get one of those startling zany recordings that make you smile it is so strange. Some of Neil Young's stuff is kind of like that. Alot of Pink Floyd is like this. Sounds racing across the sounds stage, shifting mike position in mid recording. What are your favorite "ear candy" recordings?
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dustych
53 posts
 
On headphones: Jean-Michel Jarre: Equinoxe Pt. 4 (a good recording of this will actually tickle the first time you hear it), Magnetic Fields Pt. 1; Pink Floyd: Shine On You Crazy Diamond Pt. 4 (the guy laughing after one of the lines sounds like he's in the room with you); Mike Oldfield: Platinum Pt. 1 (the most separated I've ever heard).
danvetc
527 posts
 
In orchestral music, Water Lily Acoustic's "Nature's Realm" is a must have.
winoguy17
1,190 posts
 
Try " The Legendary Marvin Pontiac"
sek
105 posts
 
Toru Takemitsu - "From Me Flows What You Call Time" and "Legacy For The Future"
Miles Davis - "Big Fun" and "Bitches Brew"
Jimi Hendrix - "Axis Bold As Love"
fiddler
581 posts
 
Serebrier conducts Serebrier. A very unusual and sometimes weird classical CD, but....

the drum solo on track 4 is unlike anything I have ever heard on a classical recording. It will wake the dead. Not just your typical big orchestral dynamics with the usual typanis, but rather it sounds like a lost rock drummer wandered into an orchestra and found a drum set on "steroids". These 20 seconds are worth the price of the CD.

A classical recording from Reference Recordings.
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