Having been into car audio since before I was old enough to drive, and having older friends with systems in their cars, and having one in every vehicle I've ever owned since, I would be interested to hear what some of the car audio guys consider "must have" songs to demo their systems. Any genre, any time period, anything goes.
We all know there are "great" songs that just dont SOUND great on an amplified system. And conversely, shit songs, that actually sound decent, because of the system. Not these songs.
Good songs that also " bump" or sound "clean" is the name of the game here.
Off the top, in no particular order, covering a range of genres without going too deep, these still get semi-regular play:
Kraftwerk - Digital World
Afrikka Bambaata - Planet Rock
Megatron- Bass That Ate Miami
2 Live Crew - Ghetto Bass, Throw the D
A Town Players - A Town Drop
MC ADE - Hit Harder, Sex Crime, & Drugs
Gucci Crew II - Sally, Shirley, They Call Me Gucci
Mantronix - Bassline,
Jam Pony Express - Anything
Sir Mix Alot - Posse on Broadway, Rippin
Beastie Boys - Paul Revere, Slow and Low
Zapp - More Bounce
Earth, Wind, Fire - Groove Tonight
DJ Magic Mike - You want bass? M&M getting off, Lower the D
Bass Boy - anything
Bass Mechanik - Lock on Target, Sine Sweep 20khz-20hz
Techmaster P.E.B. - anything
Bass 305 - anything
DJ Laz - Journey into Bass
Dre Dog - Smoke Dope & Rap
Easy E - Boyz In The Hood, Easy Does It, Real MF'n G's
Ice T - Cold As Ice, 6 in the Mornin, Squeeze the Trigger
Too Short - Freaky Tales, Dope Fiend Beat, Cusswords, Life Is
LL Cool J - Rock the Bells, I'm Bad
RUN DMC - Peter Piper
Stevie B - Spring Love, In My Eyes
Lil Suzie - Take me in your arms
Will to power - Believe
Dino - Summer Girls
Planet Soul - Set you free
Everything But the Girl - Missing
Outkast - Benz Or A Beamer
Nas - The Setup, If I Ruled the World
Raekwon- Glaciers Of Ice, Live From New York
Method Man - Bring The Pain
Supercat- Scalp Dem
Mobb Deep - Shook Ones, Right Back at You
Kool G Rap - Where you at
Scarface - Never seen a man Cry
MC Nas D - My Cadillac
MC Breed - Ain't No Future
Rob Base - It Takes 2
Vanilla Ice - Ice, Ice, Baby
N2Deep - Back To The Hotel
SC Cartel - Servin Em Heat
Dru Down - Pimp Of The Year
E40 - Sprinkle me, Get Chopped, Player's Ball, Tell me when to go
Andre Nicatina - Cocaine Raps, Killer Whale
Pastor Troy -No Mo Play In Ga
Manny Fresh - Real Big
Juvenile - Ha
Silk The Shocker - It Ain't My Fault
Pink Floyd - Money, Is There Anybody Out There
Rush - Tom Sawyer, YYZ (live w/ drum solo)
The Doors - Carmina Burana
Steve Miller Band - Fly Like an Eagle
The Eagles - Hotel California
Dire Straights - Sultans of Swing
Toto - Rosanna, Africa, Georgie Porgie
Bon Jovi - Dead or Alive
Bob Seager - Here I am
The Police - Do Da Da, Roxanne
Talking Heads - Burning Down the House, Psycho Killer
B52s - Planet Claire, Rock Lobster
Pet Shop Boys - West End Girls
Yaz - Dont Go, Move Out
Flock Of Seagulls - I Ran
Eurythmics -
Tears For Fears - Everybody Wants To Rule the World
Depeche Mode - Everything Counts
The Cure - A Forest
Joy Division - Disorder, She Lost Control
Bauhaus - Bela Lugosi's Dead
She Past Away.- Asimilasyon
Cabaret Voltaire - The Operative
Lebanon Hanover - Gallowdance
The Fixx - Saved By Zero
Black Sabbath - Fairies Wear Boots
Slayer - South Of Heaven
Metallica - Nothing Else Matters, Blackened, Seek and Destroy
Lamb Of God - Ashes of the Wake
Radiohead - Creep, Polyethylene
Nirvana - Come As You Are
Weezer - Say It Ain't So
Soundgarden- Black Hole Sun
Jive Bunny - Sing, Sing, Sing
Miles Davis - High Speed Chase
Okay, theres a pre-2000 tip of the iceberg, to get it rolling.
More current shit on deck is like:
ASAP Ferg - Work
ASAP Rocky - Lord Pretty Flocko Jodye
Offset - Rick Flair Drip
Future - Monster
Cardi B - Money
Made In Tyo - Ned Flanders
Yo Gotti - Got dat Sack, Law
Young Jeezy - How Ya Feel, Hypnotize
Folio- Slide
DaBaby - Suge
Fat Nick - Dont Tell Me, Shhh
SOBxRBE - Roll the Dice, Different
Shoreline Mafia - Stick Up
Fenix Flexin - Go Getter
Jerron Benton - Gimme The Loot
Blue Face - West Coast
Bobbie Brackins - ESO
Waka Flocka - Pussy
Juicy J - Low, Ice
Gucci Mane - Nights Like This, Trap House 3, 1st Day Out.
T.Rub - All Deez
Figg Panamera - What's Wrong
B.O.B. High As Hell
Obviously some giant holes in genre and timeline, please add on: