Great Headphone Albums

[Deluge Of Sound]

I'm surprised that I couldn't find a thread on this when I searched, so let us right this wrong and compile a list of Great Headphone Albums.


I'll start with Pink Floyd's Dark Side Of The Moon

 

[VinylRepairKit]

Zeppelin II

 

[Andrew.Glose]

Lots of great music sounds even better through a pair of hi-end headphones. Or even monitors, for that matter. You'll hear things you've never heard before.

 

[Deluge Of Sound]

Lots of great music sounds even better through a pair of hi-end headphones. Or even monitors, for that matter. You'll hear things you've never heard before.

But there's a difference between sounding better and being a great headphone album--it really has to do with records that take advantage of the stereo experience to the fullest, though that's probably an oversimplification.


Radiohead's Kid A is a prime example.

 

[Rocinante_x1]

Are we talking Headphones or Earbuds?

 

[Mharris]

Shpongle is BY FAR the greatest audio experience you will ever have. Listen to either Tales of the Inexpressible or Are you Shpongled?.I still cannot get over how intensely awesome it truly is. Master pieces! Make sure you have really good headphones though. Trust me, you don't want to miss this.

 

[rfclef]

Hemispheres - Rush

 

[nad]

Future Sound of London - Lifeforms
Pink Floyd - Meddle, most others
Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral and Fixed
King Crimson - The Power to Believe
Ulver - Silence Teaches You How to Sing and Silencing the Singing
The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Axis: Bold as Love
maudlin of the Well - Bath and Leaving Your Body Map
Supertramp - Crime of the Century

Lots and lots more.

 

[Gordon of Eden]

Genesis-Seconds out
Sixun - Nomads Land (It's like weather report on steroids. Michel Alibo on bass, amazing)
Anything from Bruce Hornsby
Both heads up Jaco big band tribute discs are just a pleasure in the phones.
Anything by Zeppelin
I could go on but it's late

 

[Alvaro Martín Gómez A.]

it really has to do with records that take advantage of the stereo experience to the fullest

No other album does it better than this one. Unfortunately, it is extremely hard to find. I have it in LP format and transferred it to mp3 some years ago. Just in case some of you are interested, just let me know and I'll gladly send you a copy.

 

[iamthebassplayr]

Pink Floyd - Meddle, most others

+1

 

[Benjamin Strange]

Roger Waters - Amused to Death
Radiohead - Kid A
Seal - Human Being
Strapping Young Lad - Alien (you need four ears to listen to this)
King Crimson - The Power To Believe

 

[9mmMike]

YES - Close To The Edge

 

[bryan bailey]

Lateralus.

 

[SteveC]

RUSH - Power Windows

 

[Mystic Michael]

YES - Close To The Edge

Absolutely...

MM

 

[Mystic Michael]

Love, Devotion, Surrender - John McLaughlin & Carlos Santana

MM

 

[Baryonyx]

Love, Devotion, Surrender - John McLaughlin & Carlos Santana

MM

+1

A great record! It's fanastic to hear John and Carlos's notes flying back and forth! Add to this John Mclaughlin, Paco De Lucia and Al Di Meola's "Passion Grace and Fire" record, which is also a stereo masterpiece!

Paul Simon's "Graceland" album reveals a lot of wonderful complexities on headphones, with it's multitudes of layers and sounds. As does Rush's "Hold Your Fire".

 

[kelleysdad]

Twelve Dreams of Dr. Sardonicus

"I could say this record doesn't truly represent the psychedelic movement, but then I'd be wrong."

 

[Kaa]

MY favorite is "Aja" by Steely Dan.

TREMENDOUS use of the spaces in the music.

You can, literally, follow any instrument in any song that you choose.