# Your choice of first songs on your lovely headphones **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [January 28, 2023, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-choice-of-first-songs-on-your-lovely-headphones/978970 "2023-01-28T23:09:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![EnglishGrey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/englishgrey/32/14111_2.png) [@EnglishGrey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EnglishGrey)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2023, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-choice-of-first-songs-on-your-lovely-headphones/978970/1 "2023-01-28T23:09:27Z")
So, Amazon delivered your new noise cancelling headphones earlier today… Now you’ve settled in to bed (alone apart from that ridiculous dog over there)… Which are the first two songs do you choose to christen the immersive experience? I chose Don’t worry Baby by the Beach Boys then Killing In The Name Of by Rage. I don’t regret it… but in retrospect I think it was odd! What’s your two? ---
**Author:** ![SuntanLotion](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suntanlotion/32/16165_2.png) [@SuntanLotion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuntanLotion)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2023, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-choice-of-first-songs-on-your-lovely-headphones/978970/2 "2023-01-28T23:19:47Z")
My God Is Awesome by Charles Jenkins. Who’s Your Daddy by Toby Keith. ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2023, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-choice-of-first-songs-on-your-lovely-headphones/978970/3 "2023-01-29T00:46:49Z")
“Armenia City in the Sky” (The Who) And “Strawberry Fields Forever” (The Beatles) ---
**Author:** ![dirtball](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dirtball/32/18772_2.png) [@dirtball](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dirtball)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2023, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-choice-of-first-songs-on-your-lovely-headphones/978970/4 "2023-01-29T00:53:09Z")
Fanfare for the Common Man - Emerson, Lake and Palmer Achilles Last Stand - Led Zeppelin ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2023, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-choice-of-first-songs-on-your-lovely-headphones/978970/5 "2023-01-29T01:31:43Z")
They’re new headphones so we need to take them for a sonic test drive. 1st: Mvmt 4 of Leopold Stokowski conducting London Symph, Rimsky-Korsakoff’s Scheherazade, cranked as wide open as the settings will allow. (phase 4 stereo circa 1964 or thereabouts) (wow) 2nd: Alan Parsons Project, “In the Lap of the Gods” from Pyramid, remastered edition. 3rd: I don’t know who was at the podium, bootleg classical, Also Sprach Zarathustra by Richard Strauss, with incredible bass reproduction esp. at the beginning where the low organ before the trumpet will shake your spine bones. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2023, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-choice-of-first-songs-on-your-lovely-headphones/978970/6 "2023-01-29T01:33:40Z")
Honestly, the first thing I did when I bought noise-cancelling headphones was just to turn on the noise cancellation feature without listening to _anything_, just to see how much the ambient noise was reduced. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2023, 10:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-choice-of-first-songs-on-your-lovely-headphones/978970/7 "2023-01-29T10:31:13Z")
This Mortal Coil - [Mr Somewhere](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQ4rDlX0Zpg) and Dead Can Dance - [Fortune Presents Gifts Not According To The Book](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLvZvjkLrtg) ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2023, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-choice-of-first-songs-on-your-lovely-headphones/978970/8 "2023-01-29T14:34:50Z")
Queen - “The Prophet’s Song” Wishbone Ash - “Throw Down The Sword” ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2023, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-choice-of-first-songs-on-your-lovely-headphones/978970/9 "2023-01-29T19:03:05Z")
> [@Shoeless](#): > > Queen - “The Prophet’s Song” Excellent choice. ---
**Author:** ![Tamerlane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tamerlane/32/7602_2.png) [@Tamerlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamerlane)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2023, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-choice-of-first-songs-on-your-lovely-headphones/978970/10 "2023-01-29T19:08:25Z")
I posted this over in the memorial thread, but in honor of the late Tom Verlaine you could do worse than Breakin’ In My Heart: [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/lQXoxKqnQDc/hqdefault.jpg "• Tom Verlaine • Breakin' In My Heart") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQXoxKqnQDc) ---
**Author:** ![TRC4941](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trc4941/32/6792_2.png) [@TRC4941](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TRC4941)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2023, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-choice-of-first-songs-on-your-lovely-headphones/978970/11 "2023-01-30T15:36:58Z")
Another Park, Another Sunday - Doobie Brothers Sunburn - Fuel ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2023, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-choice-of-first-songs-on-your-lovely-headphones/978970/12 "2023-01-30T16:16:35Z")
Garbage - Vow Chemical Brothers - Setting Sun Both contain lots of panning and sound effects. ---
**Author:** ![Lancia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lancia/32/17174_2.png) [@Lancia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lancia)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2023, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-choice-of-first-songs-on-your-lovely-headphones/978970/13 "2023-01-30T18:57:59Z")
Patti Labelle, _Lady Marmalade_ John Baldry, _Conditional Discharge/Don’t Try to Lay No Boogie-Woogie on the King of Rock and Roll._ ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2023, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-choice-of-first-songs-on-your-lovely-headphones/978970/14 "2023-01-30T19:42:56Z")
“Prelude / Nothing To Hide” from _The 12 Dreams Of Dr. Sardonicus_ “Karn Evil 9” from _Brain Salad Surgery_ ---
**Author:** ![SCAdian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scadian/32/3292_2.png) [@SCAdian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCAdian)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2023, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-choice-of-first-songs-on-your-lovely-headphones/978970/15 "2023-01-30T19:58:32Z")
“Turn! Turn! Turn!” by the Byrds The Kathy Mattea/Suzy Bogguss cover of “Teach Your Children” ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2023, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-choice-of-first-songs-on-your-lovely-headphones/978970/16 "2023-01-30T20:00:02Z")
“Inertia Creeps” by Massive Attack “Only Shallow” by My Bloody Valentine or “Good Vibrations” by The Beach Boys Ok, I cheated a little. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2023, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-choice-of-first-songs-on-your-lovely-headphones/978970/17 "2023-01-30T21:05:57Z")
My wife bought me $1000 headphones for work meetings (I work from home since COVID). A lovely gesture. I have not listened to any music on them though. Would be kinda a waste because my hearing problem is tinnitus. The ‘background noise’ I hear is in my ears. Can’t cancel it. But two Pink Floyd choices - Time. The Great Gig in the Sky. ---
**Author:** ![RitterSport](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rittersport/32/6326_2.png) [@RitterSport](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RitterSport)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2023, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-choice-of-first-songs-on-your-lovely-headphones/978970/18 "2023-01-30T21:09:27Z")
I like to check the bass response, so Computer World by Kraftwerk. If that works, then Future Rhythm by Digital Underground. Then, if that works, I check for that really, really low note in No Scrubs by TLC. I’m not sure I’ve come across headphones that can hit that one at reasonable volume levels. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2023, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-choice-of-first-songs-on-your-lovely-headphones/978970/19 "2023-01-30T21:22:25Z")
Just curious; what model headphones were they? ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2023, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-choice-of-first-songs-on-your-lovely-headphones/978970/20 "2023-01-30T21:34:01Z")
Mark Levinson 5909. Has Blue tooth connection and built in mic on them. Not a boom mic like I’m used to, but mics on the side of the ear pieces. It’s nice that I don’t have to fiddle with USB. I assume they are good. But sadly with my hearing, won’t really be able to tell. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-choice-of-first-songs-on-your-lovely-headphones/978970.md?page=2)