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"Litmus test" songs

I know, I know, you can't evaluate a component, let alone a whole system based on a single piece of music, or even a half-dozen pieces. That said, are there any songs out there that you use as litmus tests when evaluating a purchase? Some song that you use when you say, "If this gear doesn't sound good with this song, then I don't care what else it does, it's going back"?

For me the Number 1 is "It's For You" by Pat Metheny Group.
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Last movement of Mahler's 6th by MTT and San Francisco. "The Drifter" on Justice Reocrd's "Strike a Deep Chord" and Odetta's "America" on the same record. "Poppa Was a Rolling Stone" on grp's "a twist of motown"; Jennifer Warnes' "If It Be Your Will" on "Famous Blue Raincoat"; "music for Organ, Brass and Timpani" on Sonoma. Karrin Allyson's "Blame it On My Youth" with Mike Metheny on flugel, I forget the album name.

I focus on different things on each. If it could be only one, it'd be the Mahler 6th because I haven't found a system that does that well that can't do all things well.

Dave
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