Music Suggestions for Exhibitors at Show

[mattd2308]

Moby-Reprise - God moving over the face of the waters

The Dark Knight OST - Why so serious

Matt Berninger - (lead singer of The National) Serpentine Prison  Album - One More Second 

Mark Lanegan - Blues Funeral - Bleeding Muddy Water

Agnes Obel - Aventine - Fuel to Fire & Aventine

Crash Test Dummies - God Shuffled his Feet - Two Knights and Maidens

Mark Knopfler - Sailing to Philadelphia - Speedway at Nazareth & Prairie Wedding

The War on Drugs - A Deeper Understanding - Pain

The War on Drugs - I Don't Live Here Anymore - album title track

[~Spyne~]

I know the band is done to death for "audiophile" demo'ing, but I rarely see this song on any lists -

Dire Straits - Across the River

 

Rufus (du Sol) - Hypnotised / Innerbloom / I Don't Wanna Leave

London Grammar - Hey Now / Wasting My Young Years

I'd love to hear some Tool, just for raw guitar and drum dynamics. Maybe Parabol/Parabola

Fleetwood Mac - Big Love (live, from The Dance)

Bjork - Frosti

Alabama Shakes - Don't Wanna Fight

Toccata and Fugue in D Minor, from the Fantasia soundtrack (the 1982 re-release with Irwin Kostal and the Disney Studio Orchestra is the cleanest recording I've found that matches nicely the timing a nuances of Stokowski's original)

[Cloth Ears]

Maybe cutting it a little fine, but...

Thula Mama - Béla Fleck with Vusi Mahlasela (from Throw Down Your Heart: Tales From The Acoustic Planet, Vol. 3)

There's More To Life Than This - Björk (from Debut)

Public Image - Public Image Ltd (from First Issue)

Small Blue Thing - Suzanne Vega (from Suzanne Vega)

Funky Cold Medina - Tone Lōc (from Lōc-ed After Dark)

Fever - Elvis Presley (from Elvis is Back!)

Down To The Waterline - Dire Straits (from Dire Straits)

[henry218]

K. by Cigarettes After Sex

 

it has some room filling ambience with some nice tunes, but its a winding down type of song, prob best at the end of the show day...

 

 

[Steam]

Anything by Tool.  If forced to choose - the pot, or vicarious, or ticks n leeches, or….

Edited May 18, 2022 by Steam

[WorkinClassAudio]

On 04/03/2022 at 3:45 PM, aussievintage said:

Didn't we just have a thread full of tracks people like to listen to in order to audition a system?

These aren't tracks, they are albums.  You know your system works when you listen to albums.  Skipping to tracks betray a problem with a system.

[aussievintage]

2 minutes ago, BlueCollarAudio said:

These aren't tracks, they are albums.  You know your system works when you listen to albums.  Skipping to tracks betray a problem with a system.

Huh?????

[blybo]

Like a lot of others here I think exhibitors need to crank some of the tunes we listen to at home, whilst also having some reference track traits to keep the exhibitors happy.

 

Muse- The 2nd Law- Unsustainable

Gotye- Making Mirrors- State of the Art

Top Gun OST- Kenny Loggins- Danger Zone (just for fun and I saw Maverick last night)

Fairground Attraction- The First of a Million Kisses- The Moon is Mine (for the obligatory female jazz track)

Vangelis- Blade Runner OST- Love Theme (nod to our dearly departed)

TOOL- Fear Inoculum- Pneuma

Bjork- Post- Hyper-ballad

 

[Laosman]

Jordi Savall and Hysperion XX1. The travels of Ibn Battuta. Agaetis Byrjun with Sigur Ros.
 

[Willco]

 

Wrong Thread

 

W

 

Edited May 29, 2022 by Willco

[BugPowderDust]

I'd pay a few shekels to hear someone play Holly Herndon's stellar track Frontier just to watch the absolute "WTF?" moment from the audience.

 

 

A serious  experimental electronic music track with Holly singing alongside Spawn, her self made Artificial Intelligence singing partner. 

[wiredforsound]

For my 10 cents worth:

 

Chris Jones   Long after you're gone

Imelda May   Black tears

Jeremy Green   Michael and me

 

[Esoterica]

Dunno about hifi show audition tracks, but I've been checking out some of these suggestions on my (new) Wharfedale's and I have enjoyed and found some new artists, which is always good. The Dry Cleaning sound is cool!

Edited June 6, 2022 by Esoterica

[BruceS]

I am not sure about those fixed play lists.

It makes me think that the host has something to hide (as I mentioned in the other thread).

Actually the host in the gigantic room with the fixed play list was bordering rude to me as he very definitely refused to deviate from his fixed play list.

I guess that those people are the ones who lose with that sort of attitude!

I reckon that the customer is right.

I remarked to one super obliging host that I did not want to empty his room and he answered, 'Does not matter, it will fill up again in five minutes'.

Just some thoughts.

Bruce

[Luc]

Guess what... Heard Pink F at the show today... Pink F, yes... fancy that eh.

[aertex]

On 17/05/2022 at 6:09 PM, henry218 said:

K. by Cigarettes After Sex

 

it has some room filling ambience with some nice tunes, but its a winding down type of song, prob best at the end of the show day...

super cool vocals with a dreamy shoe gaze touch?

Edited June 6, 2022 by aertex

[SeeEmArgh]

On 26/05/2022 at 2:48 PM, blybo said:

 

TOOL- Fear Inoculum- Pneuma

 

 

First track I played when I got home.

[March Audio]

I would be interested in hearing members suggestions for interesting music they would like to hear at the show.  Our team can go nuts hearing the same old tracks going round and round for 3 days and Im sure it can be frustrating for visitors to hear the same cliche tracks in many rooms.

 

So get your suggestions in.  We cant guarantee to play something specific, but will try our best.

 

Cheers

 

Alan

[Guest]

You beat me to it - it's the biggest complaint post show. So here's the chance to put forward your suggestions.

 

Here's last year's:

 

 

I will once again link exhibitors to this thread if it's actually taken seriously with genuine contributions.

[rand129678]

[Guest]

79 views and only one suggestion. Let's hope we don't see any complaints about music selections this year!

[playdough]

Daft Punk

Tron and

Discovery. 

CD or Vinyl, both are very good.

To be fair not to everyone's taste, however, if you are going to "test" new equipment this is an absolute go to... for me anyway.

 

playdough

 

 

 

[rand129678]

[Guest]

Some tracks on my list at the moment:

 

 

 

 

 

[sleach]

Some of my go-to tracks...