What's your best "rock" c.d. for subwoofer work-out?

**Huck** · **11-01-06, 08:22 AM**

Hi: I have found a c.d. of a band while I was "surfin" with my t.v. remote and saw this band doing an outside concert and they sounded pretty good, so I went out and bought their c.d. Just about every song has loads of low bass, which I think is hard to find on many of the "mass produced" c.d.'s these days. Anyways, the band is called Maroon5 and their c.d. is called "Songs about Jane" and I guess they would be in the "rock" genre. Your sub-woofer will thank you! Any other good two-channel "rock" c.d.'s for for sub work-out? Thanks, Huck

**Josuah** · **11-01-06, 01:33 PM**

I find it very amusing you speak about Maroon 5 as if they're some unknown artist.

IIRC, they were as popular as artists like the Backstreet Boys or the Spice Girls, when they first came out. Mass media marketing.

**Sthrndream** · **11-10-06, 11:51 PM**

Godsmack - Changes

**rcarlton** · **11-11-06, 10:46 PM**

I always thought Aerosmith's Toys in the Attic had some bass.

**zetabass** · **01-09-07, 08:54 AM**

Adam Nitti- Evidence

Great bass Player- good production- plenty of thump

**Eddie Horton** · **01-17-07, 05:09 PM**

Just about anything by Primus has been part of my demo material for a while. Also the "Waiting For Columbus" live album by Little Feat is my favorite whole-system workout including subwoofers. Throw in some "The Complex" by the Blue Man Group, and you're covered.

**scott** · **01-20-07, 07:20 PM**

the red hot chili peppers always use lots of base in their music.

**Sonnie** · **01-21-07, 01:06 AM**

How about Pink Floyd ... my favorite for good bass is the PULSE CD. It has several of their classics. A few I really like for bass are Learning to Fly and Yet Another Movie... Us and Them is pretty good as well. Actually Momentary Lapse of Reason might be better.

**drf** · **01-22-07, 02:15 AM**

Anthrax and public enemy -bring the noise,
fear factory -digimortal and demanufacture are both bass heavy albums,
the double bass kick from pantera will give most subs a workout,
and queen, with the right eq just about any queen album should make windows shake.

**Karl_in_Chicago** · **01-24-07, 05:07 PM**

Well if the category could be expanded from just CD to also include DVD-A I'd have to say Crystal Method's "Legion of Boom" gives a subwoofer a major workout. The music may not be everyone's cup of tea but it's sure a boomer.

**Hakka** · **01-24-07, 05:17 PM**

Linkin Park - Reanimation, it is a rerecording of Hybrid Theory made for DVD-A multi channel, I also have it on CD, but have never played the CD in my main system, only the DVD-A. Incredible bass.

**Otto** · **01-24-07, 07:20 PM**

Tool - 10,000 Days, especially "The Pot"

Peter Gabriel - "Shaking the Tree", which I only have from the compilation Shaking the Tree: Sixteen Golden Greats.

I'll second Blue Man Group's The Complex! That's just awesome fun from start to finish, but perhaps not the best recording. If you're into "performance art" at all, you should own the DVD (even though it's not in DD or DTS, which is lame.). We saw this the day we decided to buy a big TV, and it just blew us away. We also saw them live in Chicago (many years ago). Very cool.

Robert Randolph & The Family Band Colorblind. Has some nice bass lines and dynamic transitions.

White Zombie - Supersexy Swingin' Sounds includes a number of remixes from the Astro-Creep 2000 album. Not the punchy, articulate bass of Tool, but heavy and growling from the start, without question.

**muse77** · **01-27-07, 01:43 PM**

How about Pink Floyd "One of these Days" on Meddle.

or Gravity Kills

CRANK IT UP!!!

**bob1029** · **08-04-07, 07:05 AM**

I would have to say either The Complex (not really rock, but no complaints here), or Metallica SnM DTS album. If your sub has the extension there seems to be amazing subsonic transients with the bass drum kicks on many of the songs. Probably has something to do with the acoustics of the room being calibrated to the symphony instruments.

**MatrixDweller** · **08-29-07, 11:16 AM**

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drf wrote:

fear factory -digimortal and demanufacture are both bass heavy albums

Fear Factory - Obsolete is a very polished album that gives my whole system a workout. It's loud and fast and not for everyone though.

**bob1029** · **08-29-07, 11:57 AM**

Im going to second Pink Floyd and Linkin Park(hybrid theory or meteora).

**JDRoberts** · **08-29-07, 07:01 PM**

here's the current Playlist-

Slipknot-Duality/Before I forget/Circle
Metallica-Fuel/No leaf Clover
Puddle of mudd-Blurry/Control
Rob Zombie-Living Dead Girl
Saliva-Click Click Boom
Van Hagar-Amsterdam
Stained-Mudshovel
Perfect circle-The Hollow/weak and powerless
Theory of a Deadman-nothing could come between us/no Surprise/Say Goodbye
tool-Aenema/forty six &two/Parabola/Sober/Vicarious/Jambi/Right in two/

not quite rock.....
Paranoid Social Club-Two Girls
Gorrilaz-Feel Good Inc/clint eastwood
Infected Mushroom-in front of me
P.M. Dawn-I'd die without you

I could go on LOL......

**Blaser** · **09-05-07, 04:36 PM**

Linkin Park

**Warpdrv** · **11-27-07, 02:13 PM**

Joe Satriani - The Crush of Love song..
The Electric Joe Satriani_ An Anthology

The Double Kick Drums will Slaughter a room with bass.. Great Test of your sub.

Also +1 on the "Blue Man Group - The Complex" with the Huge Drums...
Love that whole movie and album... The Live movie version is pretty wicked.

**Captain Crunch** · **11-27-07, 03:29 PM**

Veggie Tales all the way!!!!!!!!!!

**OvalNut** · **11-27-07, 03:58 PM**

Dream Theater - "The Dark Eternal Night" on the Systematic Chaos Special Edition DD5.1 release.

Tim

**Josuah** · **11-27-07, 04:18 PM**

Not a CD, but the audio in Hitchhiker's at -3dB from reference made my subwoofers push the grilles off. (My fault, because I didn't build them with enough space in front.) Would bottom out most subs though. I need to build some better thing to mount the grilles on, so this won't be an issue in the future.

**tonyvdb** · **11-27-07, 04:21 PM**

Quote:

Captain Crunch wrote:

Veggie Tales all the way!!!!!!!!!!

My kids love them.

Seriously, Joe Satriani has some great stuff.
As far as DVDs go have any of you tried the Animusic DVDs, They are fully computer animated to music and the audio on the Animusic 2 DVD is fantastic.

**thxgoon** · **11-28-07, 08:22 PM**

Ya Dream Theater! I can't believe somebody else actually knows who they are.

Would second Linkin Park pts of athourity DVD-A and Blue Man DVD-A

The Monster Music recording of Three Doors Down has some pretty intense bass as well as powerful vocals and surrounds. It is the most taxing thing I've ever played on my system and the only one that draws upwards of 10 amps from the wall continuously

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