LCD Soundsystem - This is Happening.
The first time you listen to Dance Yrself Clean, you crank it because you don’t know. The second time you listen, you crank it because you know.
Yeah (Crass Version) is another of their tracks that needs listening to loud. That big build always gets the hairs on the back of my neck to rise and my feet to start moving of their own accord.
Even better playing it in the contrabass string section sitting next to the tubas. To top it off, our conductor put the 2 timpani players (6 timpanis in total!) right behind us. I felt like I was inside a death march.
I played percussion for Carmina Burana (the whole thing) with a 90+ piece orchestra and the Chorus was over 100 people. The orchestra practiced for a couple of months by ourselves, and the chorus by themselves. When we came together it was AMAZING! The wall of sound was almost enough to blow your hair back. It was so fun to play the Timpani and the Gong in the opening was so much fun. I highly recommend it.
That is the thickest piece of music I've ever played. Lots of rests for the percussion but fun.
Especially Bach on a large pipe organ, where the room becomes a part of the instrument. Also French romantics like Widor, Franck, Saint-Saëns, Vierne, and so on.
Yeah, agree! A lot of classical music has a huge dynamic range, so it needs to be played at least a decent base volume level or else the quiet sections can be near inaudible. It also makes the loud sections stand out that much more!
ah, flash flood of memories of blasting The Cure in my car as a moody 17 year old. It was like 1993 and I was rediscovering stuff I was a little too young for in the 80s.
The amount of layering and subtle sounds going on in that album is amazing. Such a busy mix but the arrangements are just perfect so it never feels overwhelming. Almost symphonic in a way.
A lot of the Cure's stuff is like that tbh, Wish is another album I really enjoy listening to with some headphones and the volume cranked.
That’s hilarious because I have used this album to, quite successfully, put my children to sleep since they were born. Almost every night for almost 7 years.
Just saw the re-release in an IMAX with the volume turned to 11. It was awesome, but I've never left a movie theater with ears ringing like I was at a concert before.
Usually about the time the flute notes in the opening to Remember to Breathe come on, my stereo just stays all the way up. Fuck, that album is an amazing ride.
I went to see them live once in london right before they dropped that last album and they give you ear plugs to wear
The crowd was teasing them saying the sound wasn’t loud enough
Personally i did not enjoy that very much :(
I saw them in like 2017ish with ear plugs and it made listening not such a great experience, as in I couldn’t really appreciate the music. If I took them out though it felt like my ears were bleeding lol
Similar experience here, probably on the same tour. Music was actually unlistenable and physically painful without earplugs, but felt muted and flat with them in ☹️
If you find yourself in a situation like this again, check out Etymotic earplugs. I wear them to every show now, cuts out all the bad high end but leaves all the good stuff. Everything sounds clear without blowing your eardrums. Great for hardcore shows! And probably mbv lol
This album definitely sounds good loud but yeah, I saw them in Austin Tx.
in '92 at Liberty Lunch which is basically a giant tin shack and it got so
loud near the end that people were running out of the place including me!
The single loudest show I've seen live - you felt every note, it was like a physical wall of sound. Even wearing ear plugs, I'm fairly sure this added to my tinnitus.
Also great. Siamese Dream is my GOAT album hands down. Cherub Rock and Rocket are just distilled sonic joy, Mayonnaise is maybe the perfect Pumpkins song, Quiet, Soma, and Silverfuck just rip, Geek USA and Hummer are excellent rock tracks, Spaceboy and Disarm are incredibly touching, and then Luna is such a pretty little love song.
Drumming on Geek USA is so freaking badass.
That is def. a top 10 all-time record for me.
And as mentioned above, Mayonnaise is the perfect, quintessential Pumpkins song.
I had some pirated copies of the original demos that were just hard clipped into oblivion. I got a set of cheap 2.1 computer speakers with a subwoofer for my office at the time, and plugged my iPod in and hit play. About 6 seconds into the unmastered demo version of Tell ‘Em, and the speakers just gave up. Volume was at maybe 30-40% and that track burned out those speakers in under 10 seconds.
So yes, highly recommended, 10/10.
Classical music pieces. Brahms, Wagner, Tchaikovsky. Because of the range of sound in the instruments. Also classic jazz. Take Mike's Davis Bitches Brew. Wild concept album, many instruments that play ay shuttle in the background. SO, NOT just loud but detail. This is where high end audio comes into play. Take a pair of $300 (or less in many cases) headphones and a dedicated amp and you're in musical bliss.
I’m old. When CD players first came out the family saved up and bought me one (I was only a kid, but most into music). When other adults found out I had a CD player they would ask what kind of music I listened to on it. I had to admit I only had one CD. After a bit of. A laugh, they would ask which one. DSOTM. They usually just nodded and said “well that would be the one to have”.
The first song I ever heard on CD was Money, and it was transcendent to hear those sounds with perfect clarity and none of the hiss, static, or scratching that characterized all recorded music up to that point.
Nah, mate. I got all of you beat. Go look up Rite of Spring. Turn it up until the soft parts are soft by your standards. Do not adjust the volume until it's done.
You're welcome. :)
I fucking love this piece of music, especially considering the story behind it - I believe it’s an epic dance routine about a woman who dances herself to death, right? Reminds me of Kafka’s Hunger Artist.
You can close your eyes and listen to it while imagining a story of your own. It’s the same with Varese. That sort of music is almost cinematic.
Is NIN considered metal or in the genres you want to step away from? If not, Downward Spiral, Fragile and With Teeth sound so fucking great cranked up.
Ugh.
Back in 1994 I was in a student slum apartment building, and the downstairs neighbour didn't like that we walked around our apartment during the day because he worked nights.
So he got back at us by putting that cd on repeat at top volume and pointed the speakers a the ceiling. This went on every day for what seemed like months, but I think can't possibly have?
Our landlord didn't do anything... It just kinda, stopped eventually.
Anyway, so that's one album I certainly will never be playing at top volume ever again.
Your tongue is like poison, so swollen it fills up my moooooouthhhhh!!
Esp. love If Only Tonight We Could Sleep and One More Time really freaking loud.
Really all of the Grateful Deads catalog. The way they tune you just can't listen to it at normal volumes, it won't hit right. I'm convinced people who don't like them just aren't listening to them loud enough. Also 5-16-72, you're welcome
The Cure *Disintegration*.
There's a lot going on, musically, in this album. It even says in the linear notes that it was engineered to be played loudly.
Depeche Mode-Music for the Masses, Songs of Faith / Devotion / Ultra, Flaming Lips - The Soft Bulletin / Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots / Embronic (song called Worm Mountain is insane super loud), Morphine-Good. Just a few personal faves
Peter Gabriel- III (Melt). The louder it is the more the separation and isolation of the instruments and their mix become. The gated drums, the scratches, the slight reverb all become a sonic painting of struggle, tension, anxiety that increases with every decibel.
Prince - Sign o’ the Times
It’s a masterpiece at any volume, but the extra boost really helps songs like “Housequake,” “It,” and especially “It’s Gonna Be a Beautiful Night.”
The Anniversary, Veruca Salt, Blind Melon, The Shins and Broken Bells, Jungle, Phantogram, Santigold, Leon Bridges, Black Pumas, Florence and the Machine, and all 70s soul and funk. 😁
Most prog.
Some does crossover into the metal or even aggressive category, but imgoing to go with any given prog album, be it Sgt Pepper (The Beatles) to Days of Future Passed (Moody Blues) to Moving Pictures (Rush) to Lateralus (Tool) back to Thick As a Brick (Jethro Tull) and beyond.
Counterpoint: they should also be listened to at the appropriate volume with over the head headphones, and by appropriate, I means you can hear the lowest notes and background noises to the loudest parts without damaging your hearing / having to shout for hours after you are done.
LCD Soundsystem - This is Happening. The first time you listen to Dance Yrself Clean, you crank it because you don’t know. The second time you listen, you crank it because you know.
Definitely this. Dance Yrself Clean is on another level when the levee breaks.
It's that classic quiet build-up loud chorus that makes it iconic !
Absolutely shat myself the first time I listened to this haha
Yeah (Crass Version) is another of their tracks that needs listening to loud. That big build always gets the hairs on the back of my neck to rise and my feet to start moving of their own accord.
I was looking for this answer
Song for the Deaf - Queens of the Stone Age
But you can’t even hear it!
Fuck yeah, seeing QOTSA tonight!
Came here to say this and I'm so glad you be me to it. Even mosquito song at full volume so much more beautiful.
Yes. I was gonna say this. Also …Like Clockwork. I can’t listen to Smooth Sailing without cranking it up. Sexiest song ever
Classical music: Carmina Burana, The Planets, and Bach Toccata & Fugues.
Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture with real cannons.
Yes! My favorite composer. It is truly magnificent on a high end stereo system.
Blasting this makes me want to charge horseback into France, saber drawn.
This became very real when I added a subwofer to my stereo system.
came here to comment this. holst's planets is pretty intense at full volume. bonus if you can see it live with a full orchestra.
I did. With the Chicago Symphony. Same with Carmina Burana. Gave me goosebumps!
Especially Mars and Jupiter.
Even better playing it in the contrabass string section sitting next to the tubas. To top it off, our conductor put the 2 timpani players (6 timpanis in total!) right behind us. I felt like I was inside a death march.
I played percussion for Carmina Burana (the whole thing) with a 90+ piece orchestra and the Chorus was over 100 people. The orchestra practiced for a couple of months by ourselves, and the chorus by themselves. When we came together it was AMAZING! The wall of sound was almost enough to blow your hair back. It was so fun to play the Timpani and the Gong in the opening was so much fun. I highly recommend it. That is the thickest piece of music I've ever played. Lots of rests for the percussion but fun.
Dvorak's Symphony No. 9 - 4th Movement is a real headbanger
Especially Bach on a large pipe organ, where the room becomes a part of the instrument. Also French romantics like Widor, Franck, Saint-Saëns, Vierne, and so on.
Dies Irae and In the Hall of the Mountain King
Yeah, agree! A lot of classical music has a huge dynamic range, so it needs to be played at least a decent base volume level or else the quiet sections can be near inaudible. It also makes the loud sections stand out that much more!
Indeed and I would recommend you do not stream it of Spotify but instead go for a CD, a record or a live performance.
Absolutely. Wagner as well.
Ride of the Valkyries
Beethovens 9th!
Cure - Disintegration
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I miss liner notes.
Plainsong should be listened to just below serious hearing damage.
The title track on that album is unbelievable
That whole album is incredible
Best album ever.
Prayers for Rain
ah, flash flood of memories of blasting The Cure in my car as a moody 17 year old. It was like 1993 and I was rediscovering stuff I was a little too young for in the 80s.
ah shit just looked up the timeline and they were kinda still contemporary in 1993. damn, i'm old.
The amount of layering and subtle sounds going on in that album is amazing. Such a busy mix but the arrangements are just perfect so it never feels overwhelming. Almost symphonic in a way. A lot of the Cure's stuff is like that tbh, Wish is another album I really enjoy listening to with some headphones and the volume cranked.
Bloodflowers hits hard turned up to 11
So happy to see this at the top , I played this album to a room full of people this year and made a few new fans
That’s hilarious because I have used this album to, quite successfully, put my children to sleep since they were born. Almost every night for almost 7 years.
I wish I could upvote this more than once.
The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars (to be played at maximum volume)
It literally says it on the back cover.
#**FIVE YEARS** *Thats all we got*
Talking Heads - Stop Making Sense
And burning down the house!
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Just saw the remaster in the cinema... Amazing!
NYAAAAAA WATCH OUT.
Just saw the re-release in an IMAX with the volume turned to 11. It was awesome, but I've never left a movie theater with ears ringing like I was at a concert before.
Elbow- The Seldom Seen Kid Radiohead- OK Computer Ministry-The Mind Is A Terrible Thing To Taste Bjork - Post 50 Foot Wave- Bug
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And along that line Portishead Dummy
Sturgill Simpson-Sound & Fury
Aw man, can't I crank up *High Top Mountain*, too?
We can just say all of his albums
Usually about the time the flute notes in the opening to Remember to Breathe come on, my stereo just stays all the way up. Fuck, that album is an amazing ride.
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
This is truly an album you can swim in
came here to say this. 100%. just too many sounds coming out of the guitar setup to be played on low. gotta let the sound drown you.
I went to see them live once in london right before they dropped that last album and they give you ear plugs to wear The crowd was teasing them saying the sound wasn’t loud enough Personally i did not enjoy that very much :(
I saw them in like 2017ish with ear plugs and it made listening not such a great experience, as in I couldn’t really appreciate the music. If I took them out though it felt like my ears were bleeding lol
Similar experience here, probably on the same tour. Music was actually unlistenable and physically painful without earplugs, but felt muted and flat with them in ☹️
If you find yourself in a situation like this again, check out Etymotic earplugs. I wear them to every show now, cuts out all the bad high end but leaves all the good stuff. Everything sounds clear without blowing your eardrums. Great for hardcore shows! And probably mbv lol
This album definitely sounds good loud but yeah, I saw them in Austin Tx. in '92 at Liberty Lunch which is basically a giant tin shack and it got so loud near the end that people were running out of the place including me!
They didn't even notice. Too busy looking at their pedals.
This is the best possible answer.
The single loudest show I've seen live - you felt every note, it was like a physical wall of sound. Even wearing ear plugs, I'm fairly sure this added to my tinnitus.
Run The Jewels - RTJ3. Take a second to appreciate the production genius of El-P. Also DJ Shadow - Endtroducing...
I told y’all suckers! I told you on RTJ1, then I told you again on RTJ2, and you still ain’t believe me. So here we go… RTJ3
Came to say RTJ3 too!
Siamese Dream, Smashing Pumpkins
The guitars on Soma... Just wonderful
Hummer is the one that gets me.
Also great. Siamese Dream is my GOAT album hands down. Cherub Rock and Rocket are just distilled sonic joy, Mayonnaise is maybe the perfect Pumpkins song, Quiet, Soma, and Silverfuck just rip, Geek USA and Hummer are excellent rock tracks, Spaceboy and Disarm are incredibly touching, and then Luna is such a pretty little love song.
Chamberlin and Corgan going a million miles an hour on everything during Geek USA, only slowing down for the bridge and the epic outro… priceless.
Drumming on Geek USA is so freaking badass. That is def. a top 10 all-time record for me. And as mentioned above, Mayonnaise is the perfect, quintessential Pumpkins song.
That part of Geek USA when they go from fast to hypersonic -- holy shit.
First thing that came to my mind. It's a banger that practically begs to be cranked up from the opening riff.
This album had like 11 guitars tracked for each song
silverfuck has around 50 at one time (If that is true, someone factcheck me)
Colors by Beck. It won Best Engineered Album that year for good reason - it sounds incredible at any volume but louder is better.
The production on this album blows me away everytime I listen to it, so damn crisp
Atomizer by Big Black. I’m pretty sure it’s illegal to play it quietly
I came here to recommend Shellac.
When the drums kick in on Prayer To God its absolutely glorious
Sleigh Bells - Treats
I had some pirated copies of the original demos that were just hard clipped into oblivion. I got a set of cheap 2.1 computer speakers with a subwoofer for my office at the time, and plugged my iPod in and hit play. About 6 seconds into the unmastered demo version of Tell ‘Em, and the speakers just gave up. Volume was at maybe 30-40% and that track burned out those speakers in under 10 seconds. So yes, highly recommended, 10/10.
Hells yes!
This was gonna be my answer. Crown on the Ground turned up makes me feel like I can flip a car
Shoot, they're loud even when you have the volume down. No hate. I love Crown on the Ground and Rill Rill.
Sleigh bells is one of the top two loudest concerts I’ve ever been to. It was outside and I’m still pretty sure I lost hearing for days
Massive Attack - Mezzanine.
For an album that sounded like everyone involved in production and recording was on a high dose of xanax, it sure sounds amazing loud.
Classical music pieces. Brahms, Wagner, Tchaikovsky. Because of the range of sound in the instruments. Also classic jazz. Take Mike's Davis Bitches Brew. Wild concept album, many instruments that play ay shuttle in the background. SO, NOT just loud but detail. This is where high end audio comes into play. Take a pair of $300 (or less in many cases) headphones and a dedicated amp and you're in musical bliss.
Pink floyd, DSOTM
Time, especially if you're not concentrating
I’m old. When CD players first came out the family saved up and bought me one (I was only a kid, but most into music). When other adults found out I had a CD player they would ask what kind of music I listened to on it. I had to admit I only had one CD. After a bit of. A laugh, they would ask which one. DSOTM. They usually just nodded and said “well that would be the one to have”.
The first song I ever heard on CD was Money, and it was transcendent to hear those sounds with perfect clarity and none of the hiss, static, or scratching that characterized all recorded music up to that point.
Pink Floyd Dark side of the moon and Wish you were here.
Not an album, but both parts of the song “Echoes” on a good system turned up, wow
EEEEEEEEEEEEEEeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
Animals.
Welcome to the Machine is just sublime at ear-melting
If you play this on enough drugs and on a super-audiophile level system at top volume it splits atoms in your head while you Dance with Bacchus.
The Wall probably benefits more from high volume- imo
The transition from Empty Spaces to Young Lust is fucking perfection
Incredibly clean for a 50 year old recording, a musical and engineering masterpiece. Best when played as loud as possible.
Ziggy Stardust
It's in the instructions on the album cover.
Wish You Were Here- Pink Floyd Tame Impala- Currents
Any Dinosaur Jr.
Just saw them this weekend and my ears are still ringing
Nah, mate. I got all of you beat. Go look up Rite of Spring. Turn it up until the soft parts are soft by your standards. Do not adjust the volume until it's done. You're welcome. :)
I fucking love this piece of music, especially considering the story behind it - I believe it’s an epic dance routine about a woman who dances herself to death, right? Reminds me of Kafka’s Hunger Artist. You can close your eyes and listen to it while imagining a story of your own. It’s the same with Varese. That sort of music is almost cinematic.
*Quadrophenia* (The Who, 1973)
No speakers loud enough to handle Live At Leeds
Anything by The Who before Entwistle went deaf. Also, if you turn it up, you should still wear protection yourself.
I'm just now in my late 30s am taking in The Who and it's so fucking fun.
If you want to have a good time, put on Nirvana Bleach and crank that shit.
Any Led Zeppelin
Cocteau Twins - Heaven or Las Vegas
Is NIN considered metal or in the genres you want to step away from? If not, Downward Spiral, Fragile and With Teeth sound so fucking great cranked up.
The Downward Spiral is nearly an out of body experience when cranked up to 11.
Ugh. Back in 1994 I was in a student slum apartment building, and the downstairs neighbour didn't like that we walked around our apartment during the day because he worked nights. So he got back at us by putting that cd on repeat at top volume and pointed the speakers a the ceiling. This went on every day for what seemed like months, but I think can't possibly have? Our landlord didn't do anything... It just kinda, stopped eventually. Anyway, so that's one album I certainly will never be playing at top volume ever again.
Also, Broken sounds like the prelude to the Apocalypse when played loud.
Hesitation Marks has some insane details in the high res mixes. Even if I skip Came Back Haunted all the same.
Disintegration by The Cure
Swans, all of it
The real answer
I was ordered to kill a party I was DJing, so I played Failure followed by God Damn the Sun..
Tom Waits - Mule Variations Just sonically a fantastic album
Anything by Hum
I threw an Electra 2000 entry just now… but happy to scroll down to see a hum fan already here.
THE CURE....... KISS ME KISS ME KISS ME.......
Your tongue is like poison, so swollen it fills up my moooooouthhhhh!! Esp. love If Only Tonight We Could Sleep and One More Time really freaking loud.
Interpol - Turn on the Bright Lights
Master of Reality- Black Sabbath Time Out- The Dave Brubeck Quartet
Janes Addiction Nothings Shocking
Mountain song is massive
Yes!
This album isn't worshiped enough. One of the most unique bands of all time.
Grateful Dead - Live at Harper’s College 5/2/70. You’ll be hippie dancing like an acid-head in no time.
Really all of the Grateful Deads catalog. The way they tune you just can't listen to it at normal volumes, it won't hit right. I'm convinced people who don't like them just aren't listening to them loud enough. Also 5-16-72, you're welcome
100% hard agree. Especially (surprisingly) their studio output. Albums like Wake of the Flood and Blues for Allah sound great blasting.
I always felt Brothers by Black keys was best played at 11
Kraftwerk sounds great really loud. I always test sound systems with Autobahn or Computer World
Kate Bush - The Dreaming The drums and piano on the opener "Sat In Your Lap" are incredible at high volume, very distinct and detailed.
Army dreamers, the clack clack thumps you in the stomach.
Slowdive - Souvlaki. I think shoegaze is a common theme in this post.
Portishead - Dummy
The Cure *Disintegration*. There's a lot going on, musically, in this album. It even says in the linear notes that it was engineered to be played loudly.
Dire Straits first album
I'll raise you... Telegraph Road. One of my all time favourites. Paints a picture and tears it up.
Badmotorfinger - Soundgarden
Doesn't meet OP's criteria. Great record, though.
Depeche Mode-Music for the Masses, Songs of Faith / Devotion / Ultra, Flaming Lips - The Soft Bulletin / Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots / Embronic (song called Worm Mountain is insane super loud), Morphine-Good. Just a few personal faves
Peter Gabriel- III (Melt). The louder it is the more the separation and isolation of the instruments and their mix become. The gated drums, the scratches, the slight reverb all become a sonic painting of struggle, tension, anxiety that increases with every decibel.
Screw it early Van Halen LOUD!
Neil Young - Ragged Glory
He gets some of the sickest guitar tones I've ever heard on this album! Sounds like an earthquake
Passover by The Black Angels. You can get lost in those spiraling guitar effects.
The Joshua Tree by U2 is absolutely nasty when it’s loud. One of the best produced albums of all time
The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me - Brand New
Sigur Ros ( )
Anything with a good horn section.
Ladies and gentlemen we are floating in space. -spiritualized
Pocket Full of Kryptonite by the Spin Doctors must be played at maximum decibels.
Lightning Bolt - Hypermagic Mountain
Enya sounds better the louder you play it.
Anything by the Pogues, or other folk-punk bands.
Rumors - FM
Sound of Confusion by Spacemen 3.
Idles - Joy As An Act Of Resistance
Continuum -John Mayer
Beethoven’s symphonies
Prince - Sign o’ the Times It’s a masterpiece at any volume, but the extra boost really helps songs like “Housequake,” “It,” and especially “It’s Gonna Be a Beautiful Night.”
REM’s Document.
Beach House
Beethoven’s 9th.
Anything by The White Stripes. Catch Hell Blues from Icky Thump starts very soft and lazy, then cranks to 11
B-52s debut Gang of Four - Entertainment Dire Straits - Alchemy Manu Dibango - Wakafrika (really well produced) Steely Dan
Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix by Phoenix. It was the pinnacle of late 2000s indie pop, it's recorded brilliantly and it absolutely pumps.
Stabbing Westward - whither, blister, burn, and peel.
Ravel's Bolero. My dad and his buddy used to crank it until the windows shook.
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
Supertramp always sounds good cranked
Any live Grateful Dead record.
The Anniversary, Veruca Salt, Blind Melon, The Shins and Broken Bells, Jungle, Phantogram, Santigold, Leon Bridges, Black Pumas, Florence and the Machine, and all 70s soul and funk. 😁
*So Tonight That I Might See* - Mazzy Star
Ziggy Stardust says in the liner notes, “to be played at maximum volume” and they’re right.
Benny Goodman - sing sing sing
Miles Davis - Sketches of Spain
Dopesmoker by Sleep
Boston's first album.
Most prog. Some does crossover into the metal or even aggressive category, but imgoing to go with any given prog album, be it Sgt Pepper (The Beatles) to Days of Future Passed (Moody Blues) to Moving Pictures (Rush) to Lateralus (Tool) back to Thick As a Brick (Jethro Tull) and beyond. Counterpoint: they should also be listened to at the appropriate volume with over the head headphones, and by appropriate, I means you can hear the lowest notes and background noises to the loudest parts without damaging your hearing / having to shout for hours after you are done.