Ear Candy: Most startling recordings.

Serebrier conducts Serebrier. A very unusual and sometimes weird classical CD, but....

the drum solo on track 4 is unlike anything I have ever heard on a classical recording. It will wake the dead. Not just your typical big orchestral dynamics with the usual typanis, but rather it sounds like a lost rock drummer wandered into an orchestra and found a drum set on "steroids". These 20 seconds are worth the price of the CD.

A classical recording from Reference Recordings.

Jazz at the pawnshop, Roger Waters-Ammused to Death, Eagles-Hell Freezes over, Patricia Barber-cafe blue, Dean Peer-Ucross.

Taraf de Haidouks - gypsy music: double bass, accordions, violins, cymbals.
Nonesuch Records.
Astounding!

James Taylor - Hourglass - track 4 - "gaia",
phenomenal bottom end reach and energy. (careful with that volume, eugene...)
Flim and the BB's - Big Notes - Gold Ed. - track 4 - "Funhouse" - soundstage all over the room - pipe organ "breath" rich and textured.
Al Dimeola - Elegant Gypsy - track 3 - "Mediterranean Sundance" - A balls out acoustic Flemenco duet with Paco De Lucia.
Diane Schurr - Pure Schurr - track 1 - "Nobody Does Me" -
vocals with dynamic range and pure output capability unequaled by anybody i've ever found. Her deeply soulful celebration of her gift is a joy share. A true Diva.

Especially the kazoo solos on the cut "Accidents"..not to mention car wreck sound effects...Brainticket's "Cottonwood Hill" is more psyched-out ear candy.