Must Have Music for 5.1

[crazy]

Greetings, I thought of creating this thread to explore the best music that's available for 5.1 enjoyment.

It would be great if everyone can enter their favorite 5.1 specific music here using the formating below, i.e. specify the genre first as a category and then the Album/ Artist under the specific genre category. Make sure to incude the type of media (SACD, DVD-Audio etc.)

Thanks and looking forward to a great collection here!

Example:

Smooth Jazz

1) Winelight - Grover Jr. Washington (DVD-Audio)

Rock

1) Hell Freezes Over - Eagles (DTS)
2) In Absentia - Porcupine Tree

Electronic

1) Audio - Blue Man Group (DVD-Audio)

[Driver]

Electronica

1) Maximum Minimum - Kraftwerk (SACD, DVD)

these guys are the grandfarthers of electronica music, they have been around sicne the early 70's, and have very clean structured sound, no one sounds like Kraftwerk.
now im not too sure about the sacd version, but the dvd is outstanding, the dts mix is quite impressive and they still know how to put on a show. well worth a listen.

[aaharvel]

another thread? aren't there like 10 of these already or somethin'?

[Driver]

yeah but it makes us look :D

[Danny Tse]

Electronica

1) Maximum Minimum - Kraftwerk (SACD, DVD)

these guys are the grandfarthers of electronica music, they have been around sicne the early 70's, and have very clean structured sound, no one sounds like Kraftwerk.

now im not too sure about the sacd version, but the dvd is outstanding, the dts mix is quite impressive and they still know how to put on a show. well worth a listen.

Anyone want to pay $765.00 for the SACD??!!

I will let mine go for half that price. :D

[bobman1235]

I don't think it even needs mentioning, but just in case : Pink Floyd, Dark Side of the Moon. SACD.

[comfortablycurt]

I don't think it even needs mentioning, but just in case : Pink Floyd, Dark Side of the Moon. SACD.

I think that's the only CD I ever listen to in surround sound anymore.

[ben62670]

I think that's the only CD I ever listen to in surround sound anymore.

Yep:)

[comfortablycurt]

Yep:)

I think it's the only CD even worth listening to in 5.1 anymore IMO.

I used to prefer multi-channel for everything, but that was before I actually got some half decent equipment. I think the only reason I preferred multi-channel before was because having many bad sounding speakers was better than having two bad sounding speakers...lol...it helped to disguise how bad my system really sounded.

Now that I have some half-decent equipment though...I've realized that music sounds MUCH better in two channel.

Personal preference comes into play though obviously.

I do like listening to some of my live Grateful Dead CD's in 5.1...but those are few and far between anymore. Those are usually 2-channel these days as well...

[Fongolio]

Blue Man Group The Complex
Audio

Porcupine Tree...Any
Doobie Brothers ...The Captain and Me
Donald Fagen...Morph The Cat
Sting...Any
Spyro Gyra...Any

I love my two channel vinyl but still love great surround music as well. The above are only some of my very favorite. I have somewhere around 500 surround selections in SACD DVD-Audio or DTS cd formats. I also have many analog transfer (4 channel LP) to dts cd's.

[Fongolio]

Sorry I forgot about the formatting.

[LessisNevermore]

Peter Gabriel -UP
Elton John -Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
Who -Tommy

curt, hearing these through a set of LSi's might change your mind about MCH/2 CH.....:D

[Fongolio]

Peter Gabriel -UP

I've got a copy of that on vinyl and the sound is superb. I didn't even know there was a surround release. I've got to check it out.

[comfortablycurt]

Peter Gabriel -UP
Elton John -Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
Who -Tommy

curt, hearing these through a set of LSi's might change your mind about MCH/2 CH.....:D

Well in that case...Machesney Park isn't to far from where I'm at(Dixon)...Maybe I'll have to come see if you can change my mind sometime.;)

[TNRabbit]

Dianna Krall: The Girl in the Other Room
Holst: The Planets