QQ Top 10 Surround Music Discs of all time! (?)

[Bob Squires Jr]

Emerson Lake & Palmer - Brain Salad Surgery (DVD-A)
Eagles - Hotel California (DVD-A)
Moody Blues - Question Of Balance (SACD)
Moody Blues - Every Good Boy Deserves Favour (SACD)
Weather Report - Mysterious Traveller (SACD)
Foreigner - 4 (DVD-A)
Donald Fagen - Morph The Cat (DVD-A)
Temptations - In All Directions (CD-4)
Pink Floyd - Dark Side Of The Moon (RM)
Crowded House - Crowded House (DVD-A)
T-Rex - Electric Warrior

(so I can't count! )

No order really.
I could get stuck on an island with these recordings!

[leevitalone1]

Many joyous moments across many fine releases, but I always come back to this core set:

Porcupine Tree - Stupid Dream (DVD-A)
Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Brain Salad Surgery (DVD-A)
The Beatles - Love (DVD-A)
Pink Floyd - The Dark Side Of The Moon (AP ala DVD-A)
The Doors - Best Of (quad DTS)
Edgar Winter Group - They Only Come Out At Night Q8 (DTS)
Jeff Beck - Blow By Blow (SACD)
Deep Purple - Machine Head (SACD sometimes DVD-A)
Moody Blues - Days Of Future Passed (SACD)
Toy Matinee - s/t (DVD-A)

Ouch, that made my head hurt; 100 titles would be alot easier...

YAA! BlowxBlow!!! OVERLOOKED!!!! OOP and the 5.1 mix is tits.

[timbre4]

Where you at in upstate? I was born in Fulton...

[bmoura]

Sound & Vision has created their list of the top 10 surround music discs of all time (digital age, that is), and you can see that thread here.

However, how about a QQ list? If you feel so inclined, create a list of your 10 favorite surround music discs, ANY FORMAT, and list them in a reply to this thread.

In the past when I've tried threads like this, they usually peter out due to lack of participation, but how about it? If you love surround music, list your favorites - first time posters join in. You won't get belittled by your choices. Pop/Rock/Classical, just make them great SURROUND music!

PS - You don't even have to do 10 if you can only come up with a few. HINT: Use the HiRez Poll to jog your memory!

Is there a way to use the scores from the HiRez Poll for a QQ Top 10 ?

[Chris Gerhard]

Is there a way to use the scores from the HiRez Poll for a QQ Top 10 ?

9.76 Talking Heads BRICK DVD-A
9.74 Porcupine Tree STUPID DREAM DVD-A
9.74 Porcupine Tree FEAR OF A BLANK PLANET DVD-A
9.72 Porcupine Tree LIGHTBULB SUN DVD-A
9.54 Bucky Pizzarelli SWING LIVE BOTH
9.54 Roy Orbison BLACK AND WHITE NIGHT BOTH
9.54 Dire Straits BROTHERS IN ARMS BOTH
9.50 Bob Dylan BLOOD ON THE TRACKS SACD
9.50 Richard Thompson RUMOR AND SIGH DVD-A
9.47 Talking Heads REMAIN IN LIGHT DVD-A

That is what is shown right now.

Chris

[SoonerCaniac]

Where you at in upstate? I was born in Fulton...

I was born in Syracuse and grew up (18 years) near Oneida Lake in Kirkville (near Minoa, Bridgeport, and Chittenango). LOL, small world!

[bmoura]

9.76 Talking Heads BRICK DVD-A
9.74 Porcupine Tree STUPID DREAM DVD-A
9.74 Porcupine Tree FEAR OF A BLANK PLANET DVD-A
9.72 Porcupine Tree LIGHTBULB SUN DVD-A
9.54 Bucky Pizzarelli SWING LIVE BOTH
9.54 Roy Orbison BLACK AND WHITE NIGHT BOTH
9.54 Dire Straits BROTHERS IN ARMS BOTH
9.50 Bob Dylan BLOOD ON THE TRACKS SACD
9.50 Richard Thompson RUMOR AND SIGH DVD-A
9.47 Talking Heads REMAIN IN LIGHT DVD-A

That is what is shown right now.

Chris

Thanks. Very interesting !

[Mats Lindgren]

1. Nilsson Schmilsson Harry Nilsson
2. Love Beatles
3. All directions Temptations
4. Debut Björk
5. The divine Miss M Bette Midler
6. Butterfly Barbra Streisand
7. Greatest hits Diana Ross & the Supremes
8. Ship O'hoy O'Jays
9. Perception box Doors
10.Gratest hits Sly & the family Stone

Mats

[etzeppy]

Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon (DVD-A Parsons mix)
Elton John - Tumbleweed Connection
Beatles - LOVE
Deep Purple - Machine Head (SACD)
Black Sabbath - Paranoid (CD-4)
David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust
Eagles - Hotel California
America - Homecoming
The Allman Brothers at Fillmore East (DTS)
The Doors - Perception box set

[haleirwin]

1.- Scorpions - Moment of Glory (SACD)
2.- Alison Krauss and Union Station Live (SACD)
3.- Cardigans - Long Gone Before Daylight (SACD)
4.- R.E.M - Out of time (DVD-Audio)
5.- Fourplay S/T (DVD-Audio)
6.- Dire Straits - Brothers in Arms (SACD)
7.- Elton John - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road (SACD)
8.- Foreigner - 4 (DVD-Audio)
9.- Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon (SACD)
10.- James Taylor - Flag (SACD)

[beached]

1. America - Homecoming
2. Porcupine Tree - FOABP
3. Pink Floyd - DSOTM (SACD)
4. Herbie Hancock - Gershwins World
5. Boz Scaggs - Dig
6. The Beatles - Love
7. The O'jays - Ship Ahoy
8. Deep Purple - Machine Head (SACD/DVD-A)
9. Roxy Music - Avalon
10.Steely Dan - Gaucho (DVD-A)

[sukothai]

I can't come up with a list of favorite 10, but I can summarize what has been voted so far. I didn't worry about format preferences. You will have to search the thread for that info. I have this in a sortable HTML table, but can't insert HTML into a post; so this will have to do:

Votes	Artist	Title
18	Pink Floyd	Dark Side Of The Moon
13	Beatles	Love
8	Pocrupine Tree	Fear Of A Blank Planet
6	Porcupine Tree	Lightbulb Sun
6	Deep Purple	Machine Head
6	Porcupine	Tree Stupid Dream
5	Talking Heads	Remain In Light
4	ELP	Brain Salad Surgery
4	Dire Straits	Brothers In Arms
4	Steely Dan	Gaucho
4	America	Homecoming
4	Jeff Beck	Blow By Blow
3	Metallica	Black Album
3	Eagles	Hotel California
3	The Who	Tommy
3	Pink Floyd	Wish You Were Here
3	O'Jays	Ship Ahoy
3	Roxy Music	Avalon
3	Elton John	Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
3	Temptations	All Directions
3	Donald Fagen	Nightfly
3	Richard Thompson	Rumor And Sigh
2	R.E.M.	In Time: The Best Of R.E.M. 1988-2003
2	David Bowie	Young Americans
2	Bjork	Vespertine
2	Depeche Mode	Ultra
2	Diana Krall	Love Scenes
2	Doors	Best
2	Doors	Perception Box
2	Edgar Winter Group	They Only Come Out At Night
2	Elton John	Honky Chateau
2	Flaming Lips	Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots
2	Fleetwood Mac	Rumours
2	Foreigner	4
2	Grateful Dead	American Beauty
2	Harry Nilsson	Nilsson Schmilsson
2	Herbie Hancock	Head Hunters
2	R.E.M	Automatic For The People
2	Moody Blues	Days Of Future Passed
2	Pere Ubu	Modern Dance
2	Queen	A Night At The Opera
2	Black Sabbath	Paranoid
2	Herbie Hancock	Gershwins World
2	Seal	Best: 1991-2004
2	Toy Matinee	S/T
2	David Crosby	If I Could Only Remember My Name
2	Bob Dylan	Blood On The Tracks
2	Carole King	Tapestry
2	Crowded House	Crowded House
2	James Taylor	Gorilla
1	Yellow Note	We Love Everybody... You'Re Next
1	Boz Scaggs	Dig
1	Eagles	On The Border
1	Elton John	Tumbleweed Connection
1	Eric Clapton	461 Ocean Boulevard
1	Fourplay	S/T
1	Frank Zappa	Quadaudiophiliac
1	Dredg	El Cielo
1	Genesis	Tha Lamb...
1	Goldfrapp	Supernature
1	Graham Nash	Songs For Beginners
1	Graham Nash	Songs For Survivors
1	Jackson Browne	Late For The Sky
1	James Taylor	Flag
1	James Taylor	Hourglass
1	Jethro Tull	War Child
1	John Mcewan & Jimmiy Ibbotson	Nitty Gritty Sound
1	Keb' Mo'	Just Like You
1	Linda Ronstadt	What'S New
1	Macy Gray	Trouble With Being Myself
1	Moody Blues	Every Good Boy Deserves Favour
1	Moody Blues	Question Of Balance
1	Neil Young	Harvest
1	Nicklecreek	This Side
1	Doobie Brothers	What Were Once Vices Are Now Habits
1	Weather Report	Mysterious Traveller
1	Tom Cochrane & Red Rider	Trapeze
1	The Guess Who	Greatest Hits II
1	The Guess Who	Greatest Hits I
1	The Allman Brothers	At Fillmore East
1	Talking Heads	Speaking In Tongues
1	Talking Heads	Naked
1	Talking Heads	Fear Of Music
1	Talking Heads	Brick Box
1	T-Rex	Electric Warrior
1	Sly & The Family Stone	Greatest Hits
1	Seal First	S/T
1	Scorpions	Moment Of Glory
1	Roy Orbison	Black And White Night Both
1	Rick Wakeman	King Arthur
1	Ray Charles	Genius Loves Company
1	R.E.M	Out Of Time
1	Porcupine Tree	In Absentia
1	Porcupine Tree	Deadwing
1	Pink Floyd	Atom Heart Mother
1	Peter Gabriel	Play The Videos
1	Genesis	1976-1982 Box
1	Alice Cooper	Welcome To My Nightmare
1	Donald Fagen	Morph The Cat
1	Diana Ross & The Supremes	Greatest Hits
1	Diana Krall	The Girl In The Other Room
1	Depeche Mode	Violator
1	David Bowie	Ziggy Stardust
1	David Bowie	Reality
1	Cornelius	5.1
1	Chicago	Chicago VII
1	Carpenters	Now And Then
1	Carpenters	Singles 1969-1981
1	Carly Simon	No Secrets
1	Cardigans	Long Gone Before Daylight
1	Bucky Pizzarelli	Swing Live
1	Bjork	Homogenic
1	Bjork	Debut
1	Billy Joel	Turnstiles
1	Billy Cobham	Spectrum
1	Bette Midler	The Divine Miss M
1	Beck	Sea Change
1	Bass Communion	Loss
1	Barbra Streisand	Butterfly
1	Alison Krauss And Union Station	Live
Votes	Artist	Title

[bmoura]

1. Nilsson Schmilsson Harry Nilsson
2. Love Beatles
3. All directions Temptations
4. Debut Björk
5. The divine Miss M Bette Midler
6. Butterfly Barbra Streisand
7. Greatest hits Diana Ross & the Supremes
8. Ship O'hoy O'Jays
9. Perception box Doors
10.Gratest hits Sly & the family Stone

Mats

Good list. I've heard most of these - and would agree.

I'm curious about Barbra Streisand's Butterfly. Never heard that one. What songs are on it ?

[bliss_band]

Alice Cooper - Muscle Of Love (CD4 LP)
Joni Mitchell - Court & Spark (CD4 LP)
Jefferson Airplane - Volunteers (CD4 LP)
The Raiders - Indian Reservation (SQ LP)
Pink Floyd - Dark Side (Q8)
Simon & Garfunkel - Bridge Over Troubled Water (SQ LP)
Talking Heads - Fear Of Music (DVD-A)
America - Holiday (CD4 LP)
America - Homecoming (DVD-A)
Average White Band - AWB (CD4 LP)

[Mats Lindgren]

The songs on "Butterfly" with Barbra Streisand are:

Love in the afternoon, Guava Jelly, Grandma's hands, I won't last a day without you, Jubilation, Simple man, Life on Mars, Since I don't have you, Cryin' time, Let the good times roll.

Good recording, good quad mix, excellent sound

The album was released 1974.

Mats

[wolfram]

Beck - Sea Change (Both)
Pink Floyd - DSOTM (DVD-A)
Talking Heads - Speaking In Tounges (Actually all of them) (DVD-A)
Flaming Lips - Yoshimi (DVD-A)
Beethoven - String Quartets Vol. 1 by Tacet (and ALL other Tacet Real Surround Productions) (DVD-A)
Depeche Mode - Ultra (SACD)
Queen - ANATO (dts & DVD-A)
Beck - Guero (DVD-A)
Dire Straits - Brothers In Arms (SACD)
Eagles - Hotel California (DVD-A)

Man, looking at my list makes me feel I've been lurking this forum for far too long...

[JonUrban]

I can't come up with a list of favorite 10, but I can summarize what has been voted so far. I didn't worry about format preferences. You will have to search the thread for that info. I have this in a sortable HTML table, but can't insert HTML into a post; so this will have to do:

Votes	Artist	Title
18	Pink Floyd	Dark Side Of The Moon
13	Beatles	Love
8	Pocrupine Tree	Fear Of A Blank Planet
6	Porcupine Tree	Lightbulb Sun
6	Deep Purple	Machine Head
6	Porcupine	Tree Stupid Dream
5	Talking Heads	Remain In Light
4	ELP	Brain Salad Surgery
4	Dire Straits	Brothers In Arms
4	Steely Dan	Gaucho
4	America	Homecoming
4	Jeff Beck	Blow By Blow
3	Metallica	Black Album
3	Eagles	Hotel California
3	The Who	Tommy
3	Pink Floyd	Wish You Were Here
3	O'Jays	Ship Ahoy
3	Roxy Music	Avalon
3	Elton John	Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
3	Temptations	All Directions
3	Donald Fagen	Nightfly
3	Richard Thompson	Rumor And Sigh
2	R.E.M.	In Time: The Best Of R.E.M. 1988-2003
2	David Bowie	Young Americans
2	Bjork	Vespertine
2	Depeche Mode	Ultra
2	Diana Krall	Love Scenes
2	Doors	Best
2	Doors	Perception Box
2	Edgar Winter Group	They Only Come Out At Night
2	Elton John	Honky Chateau
2	Flaming Lips	Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots
2	Fleetwood Mac	Rumours
2	Foreigner	4
2	Grateful Dead	American Beauty
2	Harry Nilsson	Nilsson Schmilsson
2	Herbie Hancock	Head Hunters
2	R.E.M	Automatic For The People
2	Moody Blues	Days Of Future Passed
2	Pere Ubu	Modern Dance
2	Queen	A Night At The Opera
2	Black Sabbath	Paranoid
2	Herbie Hancock	Gershwins World
2	Seal	Best: 1991-2004
2	Toy Matinee	S/T
2	David Crosby	If I Could Only Remember My Name
2	Bob Dylan	Blood On The Tracks
2	Carole King	Tapestry
2	Crowded House	Crowded House
2	James Taylor	Gorilla
1	Yellow Note	We Love Everybody... You'Re Next
1	Boz Scaggs	Dig
1	Eagles	On The Border
1	Elton John	Tumbleweed Connection
1	Eric Clapton	461 Ocean Boulevard
1	Fourplay	S/T
1	Frank Zappa	Quadaudiophiliac
1	Dredg	El Cielo
1	Genesis	Tha Lamb...
1	Goldfrapp	Supernature
1	Graham Nash	Songs For Beginners
1	Graham Nash	Songs For Survivors
1	Jackson Browne	Late For The Sky
1	James Taylor	Flag
1	James Taylor	Hourglass
1	Jethro Tull	War Child
1	John Mcewan & Jimmiy Ibbotson	Nitty Gritty Sound
1	Keb' Mo'	Just Like You
1	Linda Ronstadt	What'S New
1	Macy Gray	Trouble With Being Myself
1	Moody Blues	Every Good Boy Deserves Favour
1	Moody Blues	Question Of Balance
1	Neil Young	Harvest
1	Nicklecreek	This Side
1	Doobie Brothers	What Were Once Vices Are Now Habits
1	Weather Report	Mysterious Traveller
1	Tom Cochrane & Red Rider	Trapeze
1	The Guess Who	Greatest Hits II
1	The Guess Who	Greatest Hits I
1	The Allman Brothers	At Fillmore East
1	Talking Heads	Speaking In Tongues
1	Talking Heads	Naked
1	Talking Heads	Fear Of Music
1	Talking Heads	Brick Box
1	T-Rex	Electric Warrior
1	Sly & The Family Stone	Greatest Hits
1	Seal First	S/T
1	Scorpions	Moment Of Glory
1	Roy Orbison	Black And White Night Both
1	Rick Wakeman	King Arthur
1	Ray Charles	Genius Loves Company
1	R.E.M	Out Of Time
1	Porcupine Tree	In Absentia
1	Porcupine Tree	Deadwing
1	Pink Floyd	Atom Heart Mother
1	Peter Gabriel	Play The Videos
1	Genesis	1976-1982 Box
1	Alice Cooper	Welcome To My Nightmare
1	Donald Fagen	Morph The Cat
1	Diana Ross & The Supremes	Greatest Hits
1	Diana Krall	The Girl In The Other Room
1	Depeche Mode	Violator
1	David Bowie	Ziggy Stardust
1	David Bowie	Reality
1	Cornelius	5.1
1	Chicago	Chicago VII
1	Carpenters	Now And Then
1	Carpenters	Singles 1969-1981
1	Carly Simon	No Secrets
1	Cardigans	Long Gone Before Daylight
1	Bucky Pizzarelli	Swing Live
1	Bjork	Homogenic
1	Bjork	Debut
1	Billy Joel	Turnstiles
1	Billy Cobham	Spectrum
1	Bette Midler	The Divine Miss M
1	Beck	Sea Change
1	Bass Communion	Loss
1	Barbra Streisand	Butterfly
1	Alison Krauss And Union Station	Live
Votes	Artist	Title

Nice job on the list!

[leevitalone1]

YAA! BlowxBlow!!! OVERLOOKED!!!! OOP and the 5.1 mix is tits.

correction!! blow by blow is NOT- NOT OOP!! and is readily available
MY real bad

[dbmay75]

No order and subject to change...

1. Steely Dan - Gaucho (SACD)
2. Donald Fagen - The Nightfly (DVD-A)
3. Beck - Sea Change (DVD-A)
4. Grover Washington Jr. - Winelight (DVD-A)
5. Pink Floyd - Dark Side Of The Moon (SACD & DVD-A)
6. Talking Heads - Speaking In Tongues (DVD-A)
7. Elton John - Honky Chateau (SACD)
8. Seal - Best Of 1991-2004 (DVD-A) [acoustic]
9. Joe Satriani - Strange Beautiful Music (SACD)
10. Ray Charles - Genius Loves Company (Superdisc)

Ouch...choosing only 10 hurt more than I expected it to.

Dan

[filper]

Hi Dan,

I'm glad you are enjoying 'Honky Chateau'.

Great disc.

[tcdriver]

Here is my list, not in order of best to worst or worst to best:

1. Beatles, Love (DVD-A)
2. Alan Parsons, A Valid Path, (DualDisc - Dolby Digital)
3. Queen, A Night At The Opera, (DVD-A)
4. Linkin Park, [Reanimation], ( DVD=A)
5. Chicago, Chicago, (DVD-A)
6. The Moody Blues, Days of Future Past, (dts-CD)
7. Faith Hill, Cry, (DVD-A)
8. Renee Fleming, Renee Fleming, (DVD-A)
9. Dire Straits, Brothers In Arms, (DualDisc – DVD-A)
10. John McEuen and Jimmy Ibbotson, Nitty Gritty Surround, (DVD-A)

[JohnG]

My favs:

Violator/ Depeche Mode
Avalon/ Roxy Music
LOVE/ The Beatles
Stupid Dream/ Porcupine Tree
Dark Side of the Moon/ Pink Floyd
Wish You Were Here/ Pink Floyd
The Lamb/ Genesis
Brain Salad Surgery/ ELP
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road/ Elton John
Six Wives Of Henry The Eighth/ Rick Wakeman

Looking forward to finally hearing In The Court Of The Crimson King.

[hego]

The Incident - Porcupine Tree (dvdv)
Stupid dream - Porcupine Tree (dvda)
Lightbulb sun - Porcupine Tree (dvda)
Deadwing - Porcupine Tree (dvda)
Manafon - David Sylvian (dvdv)
Together we're Stranger - No man (dvda)
Schoolyard Ghosts - No Man (dvda)
Vespertine - Bjork (sacd)
Medulla - Bjork (sacd)
Live NYC - Blackfield (dvd)

[patrick1]

Hello!

In No Particular Order, My 10-

1- Peter Gabriel- "UP"
2- Porcupine Tree- "IN ABSENTIA"
3- Graham Nash- "SONGS FOR SURVIVORS"
4- Rush- "SNAKES AND ARROWS"
5- No-Man- "SCHOOLYARD GHOSTS"
6- David Bowie- "HEATHEN"
7- Steven Wilson- "INSURGENTES"
8- Frankie Goes To Hollywood- "RAGE HARD...."
9- Kitaro- "THE SACRED JOURNEY OF KU-KAI"
10- Elton John- "GOODBYE YELLOW BRICK ROAD"

Thank You.

[JohnN]

Elton John Madman Across The Water SACD
Elton John Captain Fantastic And The Brown Dirt Cowboy SACD
Beatles LOVE DVD-A
Chicago II DVD-A
Eagles Hotel California DVD-A
Doors LA Woman DVD-A
Pink Floyd Dark Side SACD
T. Rex Electric Warrior SACD
Billy Joel The Stranger SACD
Billy Joel 52nd Street SACD