Headphone Albums

[The Inside of Outside]

The Who's Quadrophenia

The Jayhawk's Sound of Lies

[anthony]

Listening to this one today and reminded me it was a good headphone album: Iron & Wine "Kiss Each Other Clean"

 

[Shug]

If you have any inclination towards mainstream mid 70s smooth rock, Fleetwood Mac and Rumours are incredible headphone albums because of the way you can hear the spatial arrangement of the instruments, totally distinct from one another and each in a very specific place. Often the drums sound front and center with the other instruments in a semi circle behind the drums. Those engineers were fucking brilliant. (Keith Olsen and Richard Dashut and Ken Calliat). Even if you think you are burned out on these from too much radio play, a good loud listen on headphones might give you a renewed appreciation for these recordings.

[PopTodd]

Nice bit of info, Shug!

I love these albums and am looking forward to taking a good, hard listen on headphones. Thanks for the tip!

[Fritz]

Also remember listening a lot to Exile On Main Street on headphones as a teenager. Lots of great noises on "I Just Wanna See His Face".

[DewieCox]

Growing up, I did not have a proper stereo system and listened to pretty much everything on headphones. My early musical tastes ran to Zep, so I always kinda associate those records as great headphone albums. Especially the third album (even though prolly not traditionally thought of as a 'headphone album', per se).

 

 

That's just crazy talk

 

 

 

Pearl Jam-Binaural

Pink Floyd-Meddle, DSOTM, WYWH

Led Zep- I, III, Phys Graffiti

Hendrix- Electric Ladyland and Axis

Beatles-Revolver, Sgt Pepper's, Abbey Rd

Tool-Aenima, Lateralus

Flaming Lips-Soft Bulletin

Radiohead- The Bends, Ok Computer, Kid A, In Rainbows

[PopTodd]

Public Enemy - Fear of a Black Planet

Jane's Addiction - Nothing's Shocking

Jane's Addiction - Ritual de lo Habitual

Beastie Boys - Paul's Boutique

[calvino]

Jane's Addiction - Nothing's Shocking

 

Not sure if you get into the whole Audio Fidelity Gold releases, but they just re-released this a couple of months ago - it does sound better than the original release, esp. on the phones. Just happen to listen to it this a.m. (in the car though - not headphones).

[PopTodd]

Pardon my self, but I wrote and recorded this song specifically to be listened to on headphones:

http://hoponpop.bandcamp.com/track/hey

Especially the drum arrangement.

 

Mods: delete post if you see this as self-promotional. With my apologies.

[williamblanda]

Blake Mills - Break Mirrors.

 

Not sure how many here have givin it a listen, but it's really, really good! I think it was originally recorded as a "calling card" of sorts for his musicianship/producing skills, and the song writing is top notch too.

 

Headphones or nice warm speakers bring out lots of slide guitar flourishes and vocal layers that create a really wondeful sounding album.

 

I'd throw the Whole Love and Time Out of Mind in there along with Doug Paisley's Constant Companion. Not a lot of studio trickery going on, but rather a lot of warm background sounds. Garth Hudson's on there too which is always nice.

[rareair]

Listening to this one today and reminded me it was a good headphone album: Iron & Wine "Kiss Each Other Clean"

 

I think Shepherd's Dog also qualifies.