If you could only choose 3 artists, for their entire albums to be released in 5.1...

[Q8]

And I'll do a bonus one for R&B/Disco/Fusion

The Crusaders
Kool & The Gang
Chic

 

[Bob Romano]

Other than the Beatles...

Frank Zappa
Kate Bush
Steely Dan

(Donna Summer.... i tried... I tried.... couldn't do it)

 

[Bob Romano]

one more... Barry White....








and Isaac Hayes

 

[Bob Romano]

And I'll do a bonus one for R&B/Disco/Fusion

The Crusaders
Kool & The Gang
Chic

I would LOVE the Chic catalog in surround.

 

[cutter]

Decided not to list bands that have been mentioned. I would love to hear all the bands that have been listed. I want to hear artists with big catalogs that I thought would be interesting.

Elvis Costello
Joe Jackson
Sloan

 

[dr. simple]

Joe Jackson
Sloan

I won't argue with these two!

 

[lmwallnj]

ELO (I remember waiting for the Quad 8-track of "Eldorado" that was never released)
Yes
Supertramp (With all of the A&M Quad titles, why "Crime of The Century" and "Even In The Quietest Moments" were never released in Quad still baffles me)

 

[Quad Linda]

Crime was released near the tail end of Quad and really didn't begin to sell well until '77. Likely I wouldn't have heard it that early, except that I got a promo. I started turning lots of people on to it. had it sold briskly at the outset, it probably would have been a CD-4/Q8 release.

ELO (I remember waiting for the Quad 8-track of "Eldorado" that was never released)
Yes
Supertramp (With all of the A&M Quad titles, why "Crime of The Century" and "Even In The Quietest Moments" were never released in Quad still baffles me)

 

[phydo]

CCR

Tomita

Chicago

 

[slowpoke67]

The Beatles (Going with the flow here, but Love was a great taste of what their catalog could sound like in 5.1. With new Beatles products every few years I expect this might actually happen, one of these days.)
Yes (Not their whole catalog maybe, we can skip the 80s and 90s, but Going for the One? Close to the Edge? Relayer? Yes, please!)
Dead Can Dance (Too bad they didn't do any 5.1 when they remastered their back catalog for SACD a few years ago.)

I've seen a few mentions of Cocteau Twins, and I looooove them, but their sound is so dense with layered vocals and guitars that I tend to think that may be one catalog best left in stereo. Of course I'd be glad to be proven wrong!

 

[Neil Palfreyman]

Yes
Pink Floyd
Big Big Train

...I appreciate that you may have to look that last band up, but they're damned good!!

 

[John Svensson]

Yes- At least through Tormato, built for surround.
Led Zeppelin or Hendrix- Close to universal choices I think, and they would be relatively huge sellers.
Steely Dan- First 5......the best. I like the DTS conversions that had been done of the first 3 but.....these have been up there with early Genesis on my all time Wish List since 5.1 was invented.
The Band- Nah, a top 2 band for me, but not cut out for surround.
Jimmy Rogers- How about that yodel spinning around the room.......

 

[CPR]

Stones, Beatles, & ......................................................................................

 

[jsrstereo]

1) 10cc/Godley & Creme
2) Alan Parsons Project
3a) Tomita
3b) Andreas Vollenweider
3c) Tonto's Expanding Head Band

Look, I know I'm already over my quota, but I've got to add the following:

JADE WARRIOR:

1- Floating World
2- Waves
3- Kites
4- Way of the Sun

 

[quadsearcher]

+1 for Floating World.

Stevie Wonder.

 

[Q8]

Since most of us are way over quota anyway, I'm going to add

Walter/Wendy Carlos

Just having the full Tron Soundtrack in Surround would be worth it.

 

[inkubuzz]

The Beatles
Metallica (Except St. Anger. you can throw that away)
Rammstein (yeah baby! Harcore!)

 

[Quad Linda]

Since everyone else is adding to their list, I will, too. With over 20,000 albums, surely there are others:

4- Everything But the Girl
5- Frank Zappa
6- Eurythmics
7- Chicago
8- Moby Grape
9- Dire Straits
10 - Miles Davis

Although I own over 500 Miles albums, I hesitated because much of his early stuff was mono only.

1- Beatles
2- Santana
3- Steely Dan

 

[depeche76]

oh my god, this is a very tricky question:

of course the beatles will be my first pick. but im not gonna count it for my list.

Then:

1. Led Zeppelin
2. The Cure
3. Radiohead (specially O.K. Computer, applying dolby to this record i wish it could be in true surround)

 

[DennisMabry]

Led Zeppelin
The Beatles
Pink Floyd