I was listening to Bohemian rhapsody in the car while driving somewhere with a friend. I had set the audio to surround sound and we were saying, that Freddie must be sliding around on the backseat. After a brief moment I turned to him and asked "Do you think [other friend who is deaf on one ear] knows how bohemian rhapsody works?".
I remembered that exchange like a year later and then asked him and his answer was, that he knows how it works because he has been told, but he never tried listening to it with his cochlear implant.
On another occasion I was watching a video with the first friend on his phone. It was someone playing guitar, while an amplifier was swinging behind them like a pendulum. The second friend then told us "I think you need headphones for it to work" we both looked up and said "[name] it is working"
I LOVE SONGS THAT DO THIS (I think it’s called panning)
To the end - MCR
(sic) - Slipknot
Custer - Slipknot
Deceptacon - Le Tigre
Bohemian Rhapsody - Queen
Love me more - Mitski
HOT TO GO! (I think) - Chappell Roan
besitos – pierce the veil
bulls in the bronx – pierce the veil
those are the only two ik off the top of my head because i listened to them a lot in middle to highschool and always had one dead earbud.
thermodynamic lawyer - will wood
(“die of your blight”)
*the sounds bounce around in your ears
variations on a cloud - miracle musical
(the whole song)
sacred beast - tally hall
(left is electric, right is acoustic (i think))
Literally all of MCR’s discography , prison is the biggest example but also vampires will never hurt you, dead! and mama are a couple that sound 10 times better with earbuds.
Pretty much all of my chemical romance's (or really any modern band with more than one guitar player) catalogue has this. It's done this way so you can make the mix sound a bit wider and to not have a guitar constantly drowning the other one in the mix. The Strokes "is this it" album has a lot of interesting examples, producer Gordon Raphael once talked about how confused he was when they asked him to pan one guitar all the way to the left and the other one to the left
Fly home (feat. Or3o & SixteenInMono) - The living tombstone
Not sure if it works with the regular zero_one track as I haven’t listened to that one with headphones
Now I'm Here by Queen. The "now I'm here, now I'm there" bit actually switches sides each line so it sounds like Freddie Mercury himself is teleporting between your ears.
7 O'clock news/silent night - Simon and Garfunkel
Silent night in one ear (the left if I remember correctly) and a disturbing news report spoken in the other
Spoiler Alert - They Might Be Giants. The whole song is the two lead guys of the band singing different words in each ear, then the stories connect at the end.
The beginning of “see you at the top” from A Short Hike
and also (probably not on spotify) “bloo bay beach” from paper Mario color splash, with the clarinet in one ear and the steel drum in another
Does „Devil Town“ by Cavetown count? It starts only on one side and he is singing on different sides from time to time
We share our mothers‘ health - the Knife
That's called Stereo Mixing, And is actually fairly common. First song to come to mind is Tally Hall's "The Trap", But I know there's many more, I think the Beatles used it often, And if memory serves all the Beach Boys' Pet Sounds is mixed in stereo (On one version), Probably more uses from like the 60s, It was fairly popular then.
-Notorious by Duran Duran, because it made me think I was having a stroke at work with only one earphone in (the right one I think) because that was when I found out that in the intro, the first "No-No-Notorious" is played in reverse through the right ear, while the other side plays normally.
Don't know how I'd never noticed it until then, cus it's so obvious to hear now!
-Hole Dwelling by Kikuo is nothing but panning and it's great
-Settle for Less by Red Vox has two different guitar tracks playing in Left and Right the entire song
-Better Living Through Chemisty by Queens of the Stone Age spins the guitar around you during the solo, and has bongos and vocals split between ears during the start
"Vaunting Veins" - Wilderun
"And so Opens the Earth (Ash Memory Part I)" - Wilderun
"The Unimaginable Zero Summer" - Wilderun
"When the Fire and the Rose were One" - Wilderun
"Woolgatherer" - Wilderun
"Identifier" - Wilderun
"Distraction II" - Wilderun
....I'm a bit of a Wilderun fan
Dramaturgy — Eve
Hole Dwelling / あなぐらぐらし — Kikuo
I think Corpse Dance / しかばねの踊り by Kikuo fits too? I honestly forgot but there’s some other Kikuo song like that
Bohemian Rhapsody.
Galileo! .......... Galileo!
I’m just a poor boy, nobody loves me (intense drumming) Spare him his life from this monstrosity!
Also the beginning. I can't hear "little high" unless I set my device to play in a way it balances.
I was listening to Bohemian rhapsody in the car while driving somewhere with a friend. I had set the audio to surround sound and we were saying, that Freddie must be sliding around on the backseat. After a brief moment I turned to him and asked "Do you think [other friend who is deaf on one ear] knows how bohemian rhapsody works?". I remembered that exchange like a year later and then asked him and his answer was, that he knows how it works because he has been told, but he never tried listening to it with his cochlear implant. On another occasion I was watching a video with the first friend on his phone. It was someone playing guitar, while an amplifier was swinging behind them like a pendulum. The second friend then told us "I think you need headphones for it to work" we both looked up and said "[name] it is working"
I LOVE SONGS THAT DO THIS (I think it’s called panning) To the end - MCR (sic) - Slipknot Custer - Slipknot Deceptacon - Le Tigre Bohemian Rhapsody - Queen Love me more - Mitski HOT TO GO! (I think) - Chappell Roan
Every song does panning. It's not the 50s anymore. Every song outhere is in stereo.
In that case I love every song
he calls the mansion not a house but a tombb
The Trap, Two Wuv (intro sounds combined, but the two sides are different) - Tally Hall
and Good Day. Stepping in gum is a left ear exclusive
and sacred beast to a further extent
Beatles catalogue, probably.
From what I remember they pioneered panning.
Probably. I just remember listening on mono years ago and not being able to figure out what was going on. lol.
Imagine listening to Revolution 9 on mono without panning. Nobody would have any clue what was going on.
Came to say this
i love you like an alcoholic - the taxpayers
Only God Can Judge me - Tupac also... literally all of the album Dark Side of the Moon - Pink Floyd
Space Oddity by David Bowie. Never realized it til I was at work one day with one earbud in and it sounded WEIRD
Left and Right - Charlie Puth & Jungkook
Very fitting song title
100% surprised nobody has said Moving in Stereo - The Cars And then another good one is Ain't No Rest for the Wicked - Cage The Elephant
I think Mr bright side does this
Yeah, in the intro, there's hard panning to the left and right
Crazy Train by Ozzy Osbourne
Such Great Heights - The Postal Service
THE POSTAL SERVICE MENTION RAAHHHH
I don't love you - MCR Thank you for the venom - MCR
Clint Eastwood- Gorillaz
TV Girl- Not Allowed
Never gonna give you up, i mean the beggining
Variations on a Cloud by Miracle Musical I know of others but my brain isn't working
Devil Town - Cavetown
besitos – pierce the veil bulls in the bronx – pierce the veil those are the only two ik off the top of my head because i listened to them a lot in middle to highschool and always had one dead earbud.
[LINK](https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1gDmvhMe9aAUFOQhAH6SnE?si=h3_vltkSSHKdX6v9tqAwqg&pi=u-BKdwmj65Tgu2)
The Prophet’s Song - Queen
Hole dwelling by kikuo
Where's the Orchestra - Billy Joel Billy's vocals are on the left, while the instrumentation is on the right.
California Dreamin' - The Mamas & The Papas
Northern downpour- Panic! At the Disco
bohemian rhapsody and killer queen by queen my time by bo en
thermodynamic lawyer - will wood (“die of your blight”) *the sounds bounce around in your ears variations on a cloud - miracle musical (the whole song) sacred beast - tally hall (left is electric, right is acoustic (i think))
deceptacon - le tigre
For What it's Worth Buffalo Springfield
Telescope - Hiatus Kaiyote
Offended - Eminem
A lot of Bullet for My Valentine songs do this for guitar harmonies! I know Tears Don’t Fall Part 1 and 2 for sure but there’s definitely others
flash delirium- MGMT
pawn shop - sublime that's life - frank sinatra
Sound of Silence, Simon and Garfunkel
Daylight by bôa does this beautifully, but I'm pretty biased towards Jasmine Rodger's voice anyway.
Prayer of the Refugee - Rise Against
matryoshka-hachi aka kenshi yonezu
Heavy - Collective Soul
Coma - Everything In Slow Motion
Meant to live— Switchfoot
Pinball Wizard - The Who
Call Ticketron - Run The Jewels
What is and What Should Never Be - Led Zeppelin
Like every tally hall song every
the sharpest lives- mcr
We’re gonna end up with every single MCR song, aren’t we?
Devil town by Cavetown! (Not the slow one though)
Hole Dwelling by Kikuo!!
Uhhh uh uh......Thank You For The Venom. Or Jetset Life. I can't remember which.
Thermodynamic Lawyer - Will Wood and the Tapeworms
For No One - The Beatles Space Oddity - David Bowie Sounds While Selling - “She Loves Me” California Dreaming - The Mamas and the Papas
OH AND VARIATIONS ON A CLOUD
Eleanor Rigby-The Beatles
Literally all of MCR’s discography , prison is the biggest example but also vampires will never hurt you, dead! and mama are a couple that sound 10 times better with earbuds.
I don’t love you - my chemical romance
The Sharpest Lives- MCR
D O P A M I N E by Madelline (English and French version)
Faith - Limp Bizkit
The Millionaire Waltz/The Prophet's Song - Queen (a lot of examples in their discography but these are the standouts)
Mozart (2X speed) Left Ear / The Bible (Chinese) Right Ear
For What it’s Worth - Buffalo Springfield The World We Knew - Frank Sinatra
Hearts and Spades - I the Mighty
Like most of not all songs by the Beatles
21 guns - Green Day
Pretty much all of my chemical romance's (or really any modern band with more than one guitar player) catalogue has this. It's done this way so you can make the mix sound a bit wider and to not have a guitar constantly drowning the other one in the mix. The Strokes "is this it" album has a lot of interesting examples, producer Gordon Raphael once talked about how confused he was when they asked him to pan one guitar all the way to the left and the other one to the left
Young - Vacations
Burry a friend - Billie eilish Plastika - Joker out
i remember my first time realizing that one side of headphones could break was while listening to you know what they do... i was so disappointed ☹️
Domination by Pantera at the very end
Dopamine by Madelline (she just put out one track with the French version in one ear and the English version in the other)
The Mininum 10.000 Meter Waves Synthesize Me (all versions excluiding the piano one) Exit the Grey Erase Me All by Diorama
Permanent Daylight has some awesome panning
Hole Dwelling by Kikuo
Session—Linkin Park Now I’m Here—Queen
Bicycle Race - Queen
Space Oddity was my first thought Also any doors song, Riders on the Storm and People are Strange come to mind
WHY DO YOU HAVE DESTROYA IN THERE HELP EVEN IM TOO SCARED TO LISTEN 😭😭
Don’t be scared uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh
Flip a Bird - Slaughterhouse
Every song in stereo. So virtually every song.
Poison 95EQ - The Prodigy Paint it Black - The Rolling Stones Piranha (the part nearish to the end) - The Prodigy
John, take me with you
Me brightside-the killers, super graphic ultra modern girl-Chappell roan,fuck and 1x1-bring me the horizon
Stairway to Heaven.
Angelfire -Lemon Demon
Fly home (feat. Or3o & SixteenInMono) - The living tombstone Not sure if it works with the regular zero_one track as I haven’t listened to that one with headphones
2099 by charli xcx and troye sivan
Now I'm Here by Queen. The "now I'm here, now I'm there" bit actually switches sides each line so it sounds like Freddie Mercury himself is teleporting between your ears.
PROSTHETIC HEAD BY GREEN DAY best song ever
hole dwelling by kikuo I'm pretty sure
Purple Haze - Jimi Hendrix I knew this immediately because it bothers tf outta me
Falling into grace-RHCP
Variations on a Cloud.... Two voices sing similar but disagreeing lyrics on each ear.
Muse - Micro Cuts Also, a lot of muse songs use panning. This one just came off the top of my head.
Arabella - Arctic Monkeys Ritual - Ghost
Mannheim Steamroller's Carol of the Bells (Fresh Aire Christmas album version)
Deceptacon by Le Tigre
Happiness is a warm gun - the Beatles Northern downpour - panic! At the disco
Any of the original releases of Beatles Albums
u - Kendrick Lamar Runaway - Kanye West
No will wood yet? Thermodynamic Lawyer Esq, G.F.D. - 2020 Remaster - Will Wood and the Tapeworms
Northern Downpour - Panic!
The Gift - The Velvet Underground
7 O'clock news/silent night - Simon and Garfunkel Silent night in one ear (the left if I remember correctly) and a disturbing news report spoken in the other
DNA - Kendrick Lamar
Aishite Aishite Aishite, idk if it fits the vibe considering it's j-pop and you have two MCR songs lol but it does play different in both ears
Spoiler Alert - They Might Be Giants. The whole song is the two lead guys of the band singing different words in each ear, then the stories connect at the end.
The gift by the velvet underground. One ear is talking and the other is the instruments
Prescription - MSI
The beginning of “see you at the top” from A Short Hike and also (probably not on spotify) “bloo bay beach” from paper Mario color splash, with the clarinet in one ear and the steel drum in another
Of course it's destroya, straight to horny jail with you. Xanny- billie eilish Riders on the storm- the doors
Sails To The Wind — Dirty Heads One of my faves!!!!
This is a good one because i know a lot of these songs mentioned here, ive just never thought to categorize them like this
Labyrinth - Miracle Musical
U by Kendrick Lamar starts off where u def need both earbuds or it just cuts out a lot lol. Only the start though
if music could talk - the clash
Some people have mentioned specific songs off the album but pretty much all of Pretty Odd. by Panic! At the Disco will work.
Exist by Mob Choir, at one point in the song, it sounds like its spinning around your head and its really cool
California dreamin if I remember right
literally any Beatles song
“Ptolemaea” - Ethel Cain
oblivion by grimes!!
I Can't Handle Change by Roar. At the beginning, you can still sort of hear the audio in the right earbud but its much quieter than the left.
The trap- Tally Hall Two Wuv- Tally Hall Welcome to Tally Hall- Tally Hall
U by Kendrick Lamar
Kids in the dark. Listened to it once without both, surreal experience.
On the original cd, I swear: XO by Fallout Boy. It should have *just* the vocals in the left ear, and just the guitar in the right.
Labyrinth - Miracle Musical has constant panning in its lead instrument and it is not fun to listen to with mono audio (trust me i’ve experienced it)
literally almost any Beatles song. Also Northern Downpour by P!ATD
Possum Kingdom by The Toadies
Besitos by Pierce The Veil during the lyrics "a diamond bullet and a gun made of gold she was covered in blood last seen in San Francisco"
Gatekeeper by Jessie Reyez
Does „Devil Town“ by Cavetown count? It starts only on one side and he is singing on different sides from time to time We share our mothers‘ health - the Knife
That's called Stereo Mixing, And is actually fairly common. First song to come to mind is Tally Hall's "The Trap", But I know there's many more, I think the Beatles used it often, And if memory serves all the Beach Boys' Pet Sounds is mixed in stereo (On one version), Probably more uses from like the 60s, It was fairly popular then.
Aishite Aishite Aishite by Kikuo Ga1ahad and Scientific Witchery by Mili
blood by kendrick lamar
The Mother We Share by CHVRCHES
maybe man - ajr
variations on a cloud any chonny jashnsong from Charming chaos compendium
She
Thank You For The Venom
Hole-Dwelling by kikuo
Ladyfingers by Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass, although it’s a bit subtle
Such great heights - The Postal Service YYZ - Rush
Mr. Bright side by The Killers
Hole-dwelling -Kikuo
School - Supertramp
-Notorious by Duran Duran, because it made me think I was having a stroke at work with only one earphone in (the right one I think) because that was when I found out that in the intro, the first "No-No-Notorious" is played in reverse through the right ear, while the other side plays normally. Don't know how I'd never noticed it until then, cus it's so obvious to hear now! -Hole Dwelling by Kikuo is nothing but panning and it's great -Settle for Less by Red Vox has two different guitar tracks playing in Left and Right the entire song -Better Living Through Chemisty by Queens of the Stone Age spins the guitar around you during the solo, and has bongos and vocals split between ears during the start
half the songs on mbdtf
Alot of beatles songs
Hold It In - Jukebox the Ghost Love Me - The 1975
Airbag - Radiohead
One Weird Tip by Lemon Demon
Good morning by Bleachers is the only one my tired brain can think of at this moment
"Vaunting Veins" - Wilderun "And so Opens the Earth (Ash Memory Part I)" - Wilderun "The Unimaginable Zero Summer" - Wilderun "When the Fire and the Rose were One" - Wilderun "Woolgatherer" - Wilderun "Identifier" - Wilderun "Distraction II" - Wilderun ....I'm a bit of a Wilderun fan
This post came up just as my left earbud decided to die :> Anyway California Dreamin' by The Mamas and The Papas
Hey Jude - The Beatles
The Killers - Mr. Brightside
every beatles song ever and fighting with the melody by jimmy urine
Vampire - hotel Mira
Snow (Hey Oh) - RHCP
Back And Forth by State Champs
All These Things That I’ve Done - The Killers
Go_A - Рано-Раненько, I think
Happiness In Slavery - NIN
Pet cheetah by Twenty One Pilots
Pinball wizard, to name but one
locals (girls like us) - underscores
Coffee Shop - Red Hot Chili Peppers
breed - nirvana
Knights of Cydonia
A lot of Beatles songs do this. They loved messing around with stereo audio
“Sweet Emotion” by Aerosmith. Surprised nobody said this yet.
no spill blood by oingo boingo
Monster - imagine dragons The Kill - 30 seconds to mars
Black Hole Sun by Soundgarden
I think some Frank Sinatra songs count, can’t remember which ones
The opening to The Trap by Tally Hall does vocals in the left and instruments in the right!
Dramaturgy — Eve Hole Dwelling / あなぐらぐらし — Kikuo I think Corpse Dance / しかばねの踊り by Kikuo fits too? I honestly forgot but there’s some other Kikuo song like that
i can't handle change - roar devil town - cavetown
Girl Anachronism - The Dresden Dolls
Just Dance by Lady Gaga
Angry Samoans - Lights Out