Weekly Tracks What Good is Your Crown? Queen Mary by Francine Thirteen is a dramatic, bass-heavy cut with fantastic left-right panning effects and a soulful, menacing, female vocal performance.
Weekly Tracks Have You Any Dreams You'd Like to Sell? Dreams by Fleetwood Mac, off their 1977 mega-hit album "Rumors," is syrupy-smooth 70s folk pop perfection.
Weekly Tracks I Got What I Got All Despite You The Raconteurs are chomping at the bit with a bluesy-rock freakout: Salute Your Solution. If you want to put a hi-fi system's dynamics to the test, you'd be hard pressed to do better.
Weekly Tracks Throw Cares Away What if Transformers raided the handbell room at the church down the street? It would probably sound like Mannheim Steamroller's Carol of the Bells.
Weekly Tracks I Have To Beg Your Pardon Rebecca Pidgeon's Spanish Harlem is a legendary soundstage and dynamic range reference. Good or bad, this will expose your hifi system for what it is.
Weekly Tracks Looking Through a Broken Diamond On Paper Tiger, Beck casts his postmodern sonic mania aside in exchange for clear-minded melancholia you can both hear and feel.
Weekly Tracks Jet Planes, Islands, Tigers on a Gold Leash Royals by Lorde is a rightful mega-hit that everyone has heard, but is worth a closer listen.
Weekly Tracks You Can Check Out Any Time You Like Hotel California as recorded on MTV in 1994 is an astounding display of sonic perfection. And I don't even like the Eagles.
Mix Tapes Better Together Mix Tape Voices joining to create something more than the sum of their parts. An audiophile mix tape of fantastic vocal harmonies.
Weekly Tracks I Need You To Drive The Nail Broken Man by St. Vincent is blistering, moody industrial rock with a hidden superpower–sick guitar tone.
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