What made it on to your auditioning list???
Funnily enough one of the stages I've enjoyed the most so far is choosing an auditioning list totalling 10 of my current favourite songs and consisting of some different music styles - harder to choose than I thought and I reckon it's worth doing this every now and then whether you plan to audition anything or not.
This by the way was mine (in no order of preference):
1. In the Air Tonight (Phil Collins) - live
2. The Letter (Box Tops)
3. Baby Can I Hold You (Tracy Chapman)
4. The Flower Duet (All Angels). Stop sniggering.
5. Voices (Dario G)
6. Paper Romance (Groove Armada)
7. Teenage Crime (Adrian Lux)
8. E=MC2 (Big Audio Dynamite)
9. Are Friends Electric? (Gary Numan & Tubeway Army)
10. Be The One (The Ting Tings)
I said stop sniggering............!
One thing I do know is that my list will change fairly regularly and REM's Find the River would have got in there also if time allowed.
Interested to see yours?
(Sir Duke)
('My Boy Lollipop' by Millie Small)
('Don't let Your Heart' Mint Juleps)
('No Thugs In Our House' and 'Fly On The Wall')
('Fly Me To The Moon')
('For Unto Us a Child Is Born')
('I'm A Hog For You Baby')
Tchaikovsky violin concerto - Janine Jansen
Peer Gynt - Barbirolli
Carmina Burana - there's many different versions, but they surely work out whether the dynamics of you speaker are good or not
Norah Jones - Come away with me. Great production, music's a bit bland
AC/DC - Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheat (you've gotta have some fun in an audition after all)
Asteroid Galaxy Tour - poor compressed production lets you see how a system deals with bad recordings.
That's it.
My typical audition list would look something like this:
Mozart - 'Hostias' (Requiem Mass), John Alldis Choir/ECO/Barenboim - EMI Great Recordings of the Century
Schubert - Impromptu Op.90 No.3, Alfred Brendel - Philips Classics (now re-released on the Decca label)
Beethoven - Symphony No.6, IV Storm and Tempest, Philharmonia Orchestra/Klemperer - EMI
Verdi - Celeste Aida (Aida), Carlo Bergonzi/Vienna Phil/Karajan - DG
Liszt - Piano Concerto No.1 in E flat, I Allegro maestoso section, Richter/LSO/Kondrashin - Philips Classics
Barclay James Harvest - The World Goes on (Octoberon) - Polydor Remaster
Fairport Convention - Matty Groves (Liege & Lief) - Island Remaster/Deluxe Edition
Strawbs - The Hangman & The Papist (From The Witchwood) - A&M Remaster
Van Der Graaf Generator - Every Bloody Emperor (Present) - EMI
Megson - The Long Shot (The Long Shot)
Fleetwood Mac - Lies
Paul Simon - Graceland
Crowded House - Distant Sun
BT - Satellite
Royksopp - In Space
Pink Floyd - Another Brick in the wall
Chaka Chan - Ain't nobody
Toyota Man
I haven't heard "Breadfan" since about 1976!! Must try to hear it again soon - it's a great track.
Hi SteveD
Nathin Swahney (Beyond Skin) - favourite tracks Letting Go, Nadia, Anthem Without Nation
Mickey Hart (Global Drum Project) - favourite tracks Dances With Wood, Heartspace, I Can Tell You More
Kronos Quartet and Ashla Bhosle (You've Stolen My Heart) - favourite tracks Piya Tu Ab Tu Aaja, Dum Maro Dum
All the best
Rick @ Musicraft
Toyota Man
I haven't heard "Breadfan" since about 1976!! Must try to hear it again soon - it's a great track.
Aren't you too old to be excitable!! 
I don't have a certain list, here's some recent/old favourites:
Fela Kuti - Zombie
Gregory Porter - 1960 What?
any Marie Boine Persen
Early Sonic Youth e.g. Sister CD
Nitin Sawhney - Beyond Skin
any Chopin recordings on Naxos label
any Radiohead
Charles Mingus - II B.S.
Ali Farka Toure/Toumani Diabate
Manu Chao live album
ZZ Top - La Grange
Kim Duk Soo / Samulnori
any Sly and Robbie
...
bit of everything, making sure I pick things I like to listen to rather than tracks I know sound good. The usual suspects are
Sam Cooke
Ray Charles
Sonny Rollins
Coleman Hawkins
Joshua Redman
John Mayer
Lauryn Hill
Outkast
Nas
John Mayer
Simon and Garfunkel
Temptations
Clapton Unplugged
+ Mrs Helmut picks classic and a few wildcards
Excitable Boy My son bought me In for the kill + Never turn your back on a friend for xmas both remastered well worth a listen I am listening to Argus wishbone ash as I type another classic IMO
I don't have a top ten as such but there are several tracks I like to try and then I see what I feel like playing after those, see where the system takes me.
November Rain - Guns n' Roses live
Refuse to Dance - Celine Dion
Yoda's Theme – Star Wars
The Power of Good-bye – Madonna
Chasing Sheep – Michael Nyman
Drive – Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Plays the Music of REM
Oxygene (Part IV) – Hank Marvin version
A classical CD, depending on what I've been listening to recently
Might take a dance music CD, but don't often listen to that music any more
Maybe another CD that I've been listening to lots recently
A few other CD's to test aspects of the system depending on how those tracks sound
Laptop playlist
Billy Burnette - My Love Will Not Change (24/92)
Madeleine Peyroux - Don't Wait Too Long
Adele - Make you Feel My Love
Fleetwood Mac - Gold Dust Woman (24/92)
AC/DC - Rock 'n' Roll Damnation
Keb Mo - A Better Man
oh, I'll be checking all those tracks!
A varied top ten for me too, but will usually consist of:-
1. Genesis - Squonk (off Barry Diament mastered "Trick of the Tail")
2. Yes - Starship Trooper (Barry Diament master from the original Atlantic release)
3. Julie Feeney - Impossibly Beautiful (From "Pages")
4. Procul Harum - A Whiter Shade of Pale (Union Square debut CD reissue)
5. Bjork - Big Time Sensuality / Venus As a Boy (off "Debut")
6. Rush - Tom Sawyer (original Mercury "Moving Pictures")
7. Phil Collins - You Know What I Mean - (Barry Diament master "Face Value" - on WEA)
8. Bob Dylan - Man of Peace (from "Infidels")
9. Bob Dylan - Thunder On The Mountain (from "Modern Times")
10. Motorhead - I'll Be Your Sister (from "Overkill", Castle Communications 1986 version)
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