Name 3 songs where audio quality and song quality completely align

Great answers.

I want to add an oddity -- I love Steely Dan. But many of their albums -- including the ones which are supposed to sound amazing -- are very bright, full of glare, harsh. And no, it’s not just because they’re digital. It has to do, I suspect, with *early* digital processes.

There are some points at which they got markedly better -- for example, Fagen’s Kamakiriad is much better than The Nightfly, Two Against Nature is much better than Gaucho. Aja is ok, but given that these were albums playing in nearly every hifi shop back in the day, I’m surprised at how hard (some) can be to listen to on a good system.

On the PLUS side: Andrew Bird's The Mysterious Production of Eggs fires from both barrels for me.

This is a great list. Lady Blackbird is a recent discovery, and wow is she well recorded and musical.

I've found a number of great things on this list: 

@mrmb "It is as impossible to pick just 3-tracks, as it is meaningless to try. "

I’m not asking you to rank them. Just to name 3.

Others have not found it impossible. They have not found it meaningless. 

If I asked you to name three fruits, I bet you could do it.

It’s really that easy.

Perhaps have a drink first so you can relax into it. ;-)

@audioman58 

Define audio quality, sound quality

Audio quality -- as you define it.

Sound quality -- as you define it.

The lack of a universal definition for these things has not kept dozens of people from weighing in, so the lesson here may ultimately be about definition, itself. (Paging Wittgenstein...)

Great responses! Played some music yesterday for friends visiting from UK and Finland. Played mixture of pop and other genres. Amazing how varied the quality can be. Amazed at how bad ABBA sounded, even in a recent re-release. We wondered if some music just wasn't well-recorded, initially or whether they just don't bother to release better sounding mixes (market too small for that trouble and expense)?