What was the first track you played on your Squeezebox

[peejay]

Once all set up, I put on Tori Amos's 'Father Lucifer', from her album 'Boys for Pele'. Tori's stuff is so well recorded (husband is her sound engineer) that you don't miss a thing. And it won me over. No returning this piece of kit.......

[lrossouw]

Veronique - Pink Martini?

No cant remember what it was. but i have tracked down a track from Pink Martini, called Sympathique. Fun track.

ps: look at what is playing on the pictures of the sb3 on the website,

[gerph]

Once all set up, I put on Tori Amos's 'Father Lucifer', from her album 'Boys for Pele'. Tori's stuff is so well recorded (husband is her sound engineer) that you don't miss a thing. And it won me over. No returning this piece of kit.......

I used The Corrs' 'Erin Shore', because that's the track I used for testing an audio MPEG decoder I was working on some years ago and I know what it should sound like. I really hate the track now - listening to it over-and-over again for a couple of weeks can do that to you - but it still makes a reasonable test (for me).

[gwak]

Run, All You...

(first track on the album)

Blackend Air was recorded by my favorite recording engineer steve albini.

http://www.amazon.com/Blackened-Air-Nina-Nastasia/dp/B000063IVO
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Albini

-best
-gwak

[davep]

This has been one of my standard test/demo tracks for several years and is usually the first track I play on any new system configuration. Very "clean" with good dynamic range, lots of space, and strong rhythmic drive in places.

davep

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Mountains-Could-Sing-Terje-Rypdal/dp/B000024H5C/sr=1-33/qid=1164205780/ref=sr_1_33/203-2949780-8879911?ie=UTF8&s=music

[chinablues]

Not squeezebox, but Transporter. Maria Callas, 'Callas Opera Arias' EMI. Recorded in 1954. I'm not really a classics or opera fan, but Maria Callas is just outstanding. I repeat here some words from the CD insert. It's a little like Oscar Wilde's response to the question of what to do in Paris if you only had 24 hours. 'Weep'. To have heard Callas live must have been one of the musical experiences of the 20th Century.

'....I don't think it is an exaggeration to say that nobody before or since has achieved half the combined vocal and dramatic effect that she made on me, and undoubtably most of her audience. That effect consisted of various characteristics. The first, sheer magnetism of presence, is quite indefinable, but once she appeared on stage, you had to keep your eyes on her whether she was singing or not.....'

Unique and unmistakable voice. To have seen her live must have been a lifetime of experiences. No wonder Onassis had to have her.

[adamslim]

Not squeezebox, but Transporter. Maria Callas, 'Callas Opera Arias' EMI. Recorded in 1954. I'm not really a classics or opera fan, but Maria Callas is just outstanding. I repeat here some words from the CD insert. It's a little like Oscar Wilde's response to the question of what to do in Paris if you only had 24 hours. 'Weep'. To have heard Callas live must have been one of the musical experiences of the 20th Century.

'....I don't think it is an exaggeration to say that nobody before or since has achieved half the combined vocal and dramatic effect that she made on me, and undoubtably most of her audience. That effect consisted of various characteristics. The first, sheer magnetism of presence, is quite indefinable, but once she appeared on stage, you had to keep your eyes on her whether she was singing or not.....'

Unique and unmistakable voice. To have seen her live must have been a lifetime of experiences. No wonder Onassis had to have her.

Yeah it really annoys me when classical critics constantly go on about how some soprano is the 'new' Callas. There have been - and are - many that overshadow her from a technical perspective, but opera, more than any other kind of music, is all about conveying the emotion. She did that better than anyone else, ever.

Although, to answer the question, I put Tortelier's Bach cello suites on first. Callas (Tosca) was the first thing I put on when I moved the SB3 to the kitchen - it's impossible to cook to anything but opera :)

[reverber]

I streamed Bulgarian radio for my wife (who moved away from her hometown of Sofia 15 years ago and made me a very happy man).

Then I played a track off of Vlatko Staefanovski's album Krushevo.

Cody

[Seineseeker]

Talking Heads - Love for Sale from True Stories.

It was the CD I took with me when I bought my first proper Hifi from a shop in 1989, and I always use it as the first track on any new system!

[stinkingpig]

This album was the one that killed my "very long cable from the computer to the stereo" approach, because it sounded like it was coming through the blown speakers in an 85 Nissan Sentra. I plugged it in and started up Autobahn, and was surprised to hear several details in the first quiet section that I'd never heard before. Then the car started and the first synthesizer chord was played, and I was hooked.

[Paul Shields]

One of Bach's cello suites in lossless format. Mainly because I wanted to check out the transparency of the equally new Adam A7 speakers I had also just acquired :). Needless to say, both items passed the test with flying colours.

[Benway]

Diabaram from Beauty by Ryuichi Sakamoto

[Brian Ritchie]

This has been one of my standard test/demo tracks for several years and is usually the first track I play on any new system configuration. Very "clean" with good dynamic range, lots of space, and strong rhythmic drive in places.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Mountains-Could-Sing-Terje-Rypdal/dp/B000024H5C/sr=1-33/qid=1164205780/ref=sr_1_33/203-2949780-8879911?ie=UTF8&s=music

When I saw the thread, I just knew I had to respond with mine... but I wasn't expecting to find someone else mention Terje Rypdal as well!

Terje Rypdal / Miroslav Vitous / Jack DeJohnette - Sunrise

When I bought my first CD player, I first made sure that I could get this album on CD that day, and this was the first track I played on it. I'll never forget how wonderful it was to hear those opening cymbals without the preceding "thunk" of needle or any other noise. Since then, it's become a ritual to make it the first track I play on almost any new device, and the Squeezebox was no exception.

-- Brian

[stovis]

I went to an 80's interneet radio station and heard:

Art of Noise - Close to the Edit

nice

[EasilyConfused]

Since the release of 'Trailer Park' by Beth Orton, 'She Cries Your Name' has always been the fanfare first track for a new piece of audio equipment. I closely follow that with 'Soukora' by Ali Farka Toure and Ry Cooder from 'Talking Tymbuktu' .... So it's not just me who has these enchanting little rituals !? ...Does anyone else p!ss in the sink whilst shaving? (Only in order to save time when very very late for a gig you understand)

[ashmore]

It was an extra special event for me, as I had just rigged up a complete new system: Rotel amp, Quad Speakers, stands, disturbingly expensive cables (I've bought cars for less than these leads).

I pressed random and Nick Drake started singing Hazey Jane II more beautifully than ever before. Perfect.

If only my personal relationships could be as rewarding as my SqueezeBox...

[raaphor]

Once all set up, I put on Tori Amos's 'Father Lucifer', from her album 'Boys for Pele'.

How Funny, I also put this album on first. Started with track 1 (Beauty Queen / Horses) followed by track 10 (Hey Jupiter).
Right after that I played some Motörhead and Metallica :)

[BigTony]

Zappa in New York - Cruisin' For Burgers, what a band, what a tune, what a performance. Yes .. then I was happy with My Squeezebox!

BT

[peejay]

Zappa in New York - Cruisin' For Burgers, what a band, what a tune, what a performance. Yes .. then I was happy with My Squeezebox!

BT

Yes, Frank is amazing in any format, but through the SB3 I can only imagine how that was. Good call for a first track.

[4mula1]

I think I first played Ball by Craig Armstrong on the Windows setup. When I *finally* got SlimServer running on Solaris it was Life Wasted by Pearl Jam. My wife probably thought so with all of the time I spent on the Solaris box...