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The beginning of the “Dies irae” section of Verdi’s “Requiem” - especially the Solti/Vienna Philharmonic recording.
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Sousa’s “Stars and Stripes Forever” - the last section, with all the brass - especially a live performance.
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Tchaikovsky’s “1812 Overture” with real canons.
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Wagner’s “Ride of the Valkyries” - even when it’s not played loud, it still seems loud.
Iron man, Ac/Dc anything, Turbo Lover by judas Preist.
“Locked in the Trunk of a Car,” by the Tragically Hip. Download it off Napster and see if I’m not right. No wait, that’s illegal. forget I said that, really!
(Actually, downloading 2-3 Hip songs will inevitably lead to Hip CD purchases.)
“In Your Room” by Depeche Mode <swoon>
The opening movement of Mahler’s Second.
Agreed on Verdi’s “Dies Irae” and Wagner’s “Ride of the Walkyries,” with addition of most other minor requiem or mass music (Mozart, Dvorak…)
Most things Zeppelin.
“Comfortably Numb” by Pink Floyd.
Anything by Velvet Acid Christ and Funkervogt.
Gee, most of my favorite songs need to be played really loudly!
The final movement of Beethoven’s Ninth. I would crank it up and use it to convince the neighbour to turn down his stereo.
(Of course, it should always be played that way anyway.)
Freebird - Lynard Skynard
Won’t Be Fooled Again - The Who
Baba O’Reilly - The Who
The overture on Metallica’s S&M CD
For Whom the Bell Tolls - Metallica
I just got the latest Cypress Hill effort, Skull and Bones last night.
The second disc (cleverly called the “Bones” disc) is their take on the whole rap/metal hybrid thing that no-good wankers like Limp Bizkit are throwing down these days.
It kicks major ass!! I played it at about 10 1/2 while making dinner, and I’m surprised I didn’t break something.
“So you wanna be a rock superstar?”
Fishbone’s “It’s a Wonderful Life (Gonna Have a Good Time)”
The entire Akira soundtrack
Cracker’s “Teen Angst (What the World Needs Now)”
Elvis Costello’s “Radio, Radio”
The live version of They Might Be Giants’s “The Sun Is a Mass of Incandescent Gas”
Oingo Boing’s “No One Lives Forever”
The Who’s “Baba O’Reilly” and Townsend’s solo “Rough Boys”
The interesting thing is how many of these (from everybody’s lists so far)are also the songs that make you run around the house playing stenuous air guitar…
Zeppelin: Achilles’ Last Stand or Rock and Roll
Pink Floyd: One of These Days (I’m going to cut you into little pieces…)
Zappa: Sofa #2, Peaches En Regalia
Santana: Black Magic Woman, Oye Como Va
Virtually anything by Hendrix.
you guys don’t get out much huh? Anything by Motorhead. Hell I’ve seen em a number of times and twice they’ve played so loud they shut the power off to the place. That always gets Lemmy happy.
Oddly enough though I’ve found that ballads come out better loud then the hard and fast songs. Scorpions “Wind of Change” really comes out cool played loud.
my favorite loud song today it Lit Up by Buckcherry.
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in the early days of CDs 1987 my room mate had a Beethoven something - battle of the something something - that I couldn’t play too loud because of the cannon fire that would damage the speakers. Anybody heard of that?
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Iron Maiden’s Hallowed Be Thy Name - the song starts out sort of quiet so you always reach to turn it up then…
WHEN THE PRIEST COMES TO READ ME THE LAST RIGHTS!!
I TAKE A LOOK THROUGH THE BARS AT THE LAST SIGHT
OF A WORLD THAT HAS GONE VERY WRONG FOR ME
They don’t call him AIR RAID for nothing folks!
Must agree with many of you here, 1812 Overture, Ride of the Valkyries, ANYTHING by John Williams (the man is approaching God-hood.)
Probably the version of Tchaikovsky’s “1812 Overture” (on the TelArc label, IIRC) that had this large WARNING - DIGITAL CANNONS!!! on the cover. IIRC, it was released around that time with a lot of media hoopla "WARNING - THIS RECORDING PLAYED AT LOUD VOLUME CAN DAMAGE YOUR SPEAKERS, blah blah blah.
(Peter Schickele/PDQ Bach did a great parody of this with his “1712 Overture” with WARNING - DIGITAL BALLOONS!!! label - ya see, in stead of the cannons, they popped balloons…at the end…of…never mind.)
:slinks away, abashed:
Oh gotta go with the women anthem:
Quarterflash “Harden My Heart”
Crank it up, LOUD.