# Greatest Headphone Albums **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [August 21, 2000, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-headphone-albums/30121 "2000-08-21T03:12:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![casdave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c6cbf5/32.png) [@casdave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/casdave)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2000, 8:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-headphone-albums/30121/21 "2000-08-22T08:08:24Z")
Jean Michel-Jarre Oxygene but especially Equinoxe(turn the lights off as well) Anything by Kraftwerk or Yello Human League - Dare Genesis - Seconds out Electronic stuff seems to do well in the stereo separation game. ---
**Author:** ![Why\_A\_Duck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/13edae/32.png) [@Why\_A\_Duck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Why_A_Duck)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2000, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-headphone-albums/30121/22 "2000-08-22T16:23:55Z")
My two cents… - Klaatu’s first album, sometimes called “2:47 PM EST”. The song Little Neutrino was built for headphones. - Vangelis’ “Albedo 0.39”. Used a lot in Carl Sagan’s Cosmos series. In a dark room with phones on, man that’s good chicken. - Robert Fripp’s “Exposure”. Who would have thought and album with both Daryl Hall and Peter Gabriel would be so cool. Terry Roche’s vocals on the title track still give me shivers. - Queen’s “A Night at the Opera”. Prophet’s Song, 'nuff said. and embarassingly… - “Welcome to the Pleasuredome” by Frankie Goes to Hollywood. Way back when, a buddy with Stax headphones let me listen to this. It was a digital recording and just blew me away. On a side note, do the albums that are great headphone albums also make great “crankin’ in the car when alone” discs, or are there different criteria involved. ---
**Author:** ![Lucretia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/13edae/32.png) [@Lucretia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucretia)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2000, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-headphone-albums/30121/23 "2000-08-22T17:12:42Z")
One of my favorite CDs to listen to on 'phones when I worked out (back when I _did_ work out…uugh) was Terence Trent D’Arby’s “Vibrator”. He has a voice that seems like it’s made to be whispering in your ear, not blasting to a crowd. ---
**Author:** ![Profane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e47774/32.png) [@Profane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Profane)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2000, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-headphone-albums/30121/24 "2000-08-22T17:23:38Z")
NIN-Broken Daft Punk-Homewerk ---
**Author:** ![Outrider](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/9d8465/32.png) [@Outrider](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Outrider)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2000, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-headphone-albums/30121/25 "2000-08-22T19:10:22Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Rocket88 \* > \*\*Garbage 2.0 would be a good choice. Massive Attack’s “Mezzanine”. Led Zeppelin, from the first album up to “Physical Graffiti”. Maybe XTC’s “Skylarking” or “English Settlement”. \*\* I second “Mezzanine” The proof? Neo is listening to it on his headphones in the beginning of “The Matrix” 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![MadPoet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8c91f0/32.png) [@MadPoet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MadPoet)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2000, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-headphone-albums/30121/26 "2000-08-22T20:57:57Z")
Cyborgasm. It was made to be played on headphones, and damn if it doesn’t _feel_ like a woman is breathing in your ear. (And it has a couple of tracks for the ladies too I think) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-headphone-albums/30121.md?page=1)