Recordings with BASS

2nd option;

Rolling Stones - Hot Rocks1 CD or SACD.

Easily my reference disc since 2004;
Jamie Cullum - twentysomething CD or SACD.

Dead Can Dance - Into the Labyrinth

Well well well by john lennon. Sounds likes this recording could collapse
my rear wall. Clean, tight and dynamic.

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James Blake's Limit to Your Love--- the amount of bass is stupid

Apparently the teens are listening DJ Billy-E these days. Much fun for a bass test.

Eberhard Weber "Pendulum" recording on ECM has nine excellent solo bass pieces using a double bass...

Metallica - And Justice For All

Walking jazz basslines...count basis...basis jam... John Lennon dbl fantasy

Humble Pie Smokin'. "30 Days in the hole"
The regular CD is pretty good, and the SHM CD is even better.

Morphine

The genie talking on AMUSED TO DEATH SIDE 3!

(Caution---woofer blower)

"I'm the Greatest" on "Ringo" by Ringo! Klaus Voormann will really surprise you. Full deep sound. Fun recording to listen to.

Jennifer Warnes "The Hunter"

One a little more hard to find is Peter Gabriel "Soft Dog" on the 45rpm Charisma 12" pressing.

One album with cavernous and deep bass is the Mad Season album "Above". The opening few notes of the first track sort the men from the boys when it comes to what your system can reproduce.

"Raising Sand" @ "Icky Thump" on vinyl. Neither are perfect but if your system can make sense of it, you're doing something right.

Haven't noticed any mention of Jimmy Smith. Prayer Meeting is a great track and - played sufficiently loud - it will relocate furniture in your listening room.

Morphine 'Cure for Pain'

High Kings. The have a Timpanist that plays on several tracks. Have to like the genre though.

Also maybe Welcome to the Machine by Pink Floyd. That should rattle the your eardrums.

"Hello Jeff" on Journey to Love by Stanley Clarke. Will sound like whale farts if your system doesn't have low end extension and articulation. Slammin' tune though when all is well.

Sunn 0)))

Love it.

99.9% of the people on this forum won't know who they are.

Jamie Cullum- twentysomething CD/SACD.

Try Dead Can Dance "Into the Labyrinth" on the original 4AD LP or CD.

Here's a few:
http://www.atma-sphere.com/Backup/awards/bya/index.html

A guy I know has dual Eminent Technology Thigpen Rotary subwoofers.......he asked for a bass disc suggestion, and I turned him on to the disc I mentioned above... "Archetribe / Earthtones"

A couple of years later, he's still in love with the Disc!

Dave

Agree with "Morph The Cat" although the bass is completely out of balance and unnatural.

A poorly engineered recording.

Surprised that a stickler like Fagan would approve it.

"Flight of the Cosmic Hippo" Bela Fleck, I imagine is from the Fleck Tones which would feature Victor Wooten on Bass. I suggest any of Vic's own stuff. "Yin-Yang" is an excellent well rounded double album. He does an incredible version of Coltrane's Niama on his album "What Did He Say". I am a BIG fan and have his Fodera Bass.

"Flight of the Cosmic Hippo"

I can imagine the bass just from the name......

I had a serious bass moment yesterday. Zwischentone (Nuances) by Windwerk (24/192 !!). Major pipe organ action, track 2, "Improvisation".

+1 "Bela Flec- Flight of the Cosmic Hippo"

i was listening to porcupine tree`s 'lightbulb sun' yesterday.awesome bass and drumming.
Al

Old rock record/CD from Pink Floyd called Dark Side of the Moon. Cut with the deep bass is called "Time".

Here is my "Low end" reference list.

Opera:
Rigoletto, Act 1 scene 2, duet with Rigoletto and Sparafucile (the Baritone) "vecchio maledivami"

Pagliacci, End of act 1, the instrumental conclusion after the aria "Vesti la giubba". It ends on a low note, setting the tone for things to come in act II.

Jazz:
Kind of Blue, blue in green, Paul Chambers concludes the track by playing the bass with a bow. This is only really evident on a system with tight bass.

Electronic:
Shuttle, Tunnel, on Ninja Tune records. This is a slowed down drum and bass style (UK grime without the rapping) track.

Pop/Rock:
Sarah Mclachlan, on the Album surfacing, the track "I love you". The baseline is very low and has tendency to come accross very muddled (if at all) on poorly set-up systems.

Blue Rodeo, 5 days in May. Featuring Sarah McLachlan on back-up vocals (not that this is relevant).

Hip-hop:
Digable Planets, their second Album, the track "Cool Like That". There is a second baseline (accent) that only comes in at certain points, again it is low frequency and is not apparent on most systems. It plays over the main baseline, so it has tendancy to get lost if the system cannot provided sufficent low end definition (more of a room thing really).

Well those are my picks.

I can't wait to check out Learsfools Wagner suggestion.

most of Ray Browns recordings

If you get the Wasserman make sure it is the 24 bit remaster. I got it in a 3 CD set ; solos, duets and trios. The last two are really excellent for bass and sound in general.

Here are some I use.

Pendulum Immersion

This entire album has a lot of bass through and through.

The Sheffield Lab Drum and Track Disc (XRCD24) by Jim Keltner and Ron Tutt

The Great Fantasy Adventure Album from Telarc

You gotta love it when there is a warning label on the CD stating that you may damage your equipment.

Lots of great suggestions. I will need to look up some of these.
If I remember correctly Sumiko recommends a Bob Wasserman CD/LP with Jennifer Warnes called Duets for setting up speakers but I think the Donald Fagen SCAD of " Morph the cat" may be my favorite.

Jennifer Warnes' "The Hunter" features a really well recorded rhythm section.

Sunn 0)))

*not for the faint of heart*

Every single one of Anouar Brahem's 8 albums is a gem in its own right. If you like the Arab drum I also suggest you check our the album Nafas by Rabih Abou-Khalil.

Paula Cole, 1st song on This Fire album "Tiger".
Soundtrack from the first Pirates of the Carribean movie.
Better tack down mammas antiques when these two play. They both also hit both ends of the sonic spectrum and will put your system to the test.
Have fun, John

This is incredible for bass-testing or simply listening:

Artist: Anouar Brahen.
Recording: The Astounding Eyes of Rita.

Anouar plays the oud; Klaus Gesing,bass clarinet; Björn Meyer, bass; Khaled Yassine, drums of various tpes. I stumbled across this via YouTube. Track #5 was playing in the background of a Rega turntable "ad". Thought it was just beautiful, sent a note to the audio shop. Best music/musician discovery in a long time for me.

For setting up subs REL recommends the sound track from "Sneakers". I have it and it is quite good for both bass and musical content.

Stevie Ray Vaughan - Tin Pan Alley on the Texas Flood Album

Much of "Monkey Business" by the Black Eyed Peas for bass you should feel.

"On the Threshold of a Dream" by the Moody Blues for bass articulation, detail and control.

If both of these sound good, most everything else should also and you are in very good shape bass-wise.

Donald Fagen, " Morph the Cat" on vinyl.

Look for CDs or SACDs of the group Kodo - Japanese taiko drumming.