5 Iconic Songs You’ve Gotta Hear With Meters Hi-Fi Headphones

Not all songs are created equal. Some are meant to bypass your ears and travel straight through your body. Add the right headphones to the mix – ones with rich, warm audio – and the experience can transform you altogether. If not into a better person, then definitely into an audiophile. Don’t believe us? We’ve compiled 5 iconic songs that will not only prove our theory, but have you ditching those shitty little AirPods (if you haven’t already lost one of them).

“Comfortably Numb” – Pink Floyd

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The haunting emotional depth of Pink Floyd’s 1979 tranquilization ballad demands to be heard on a visceral level, down to the bone. Possessing your vessel like a ghost, it brings forth dormant emotions and startling sensations. No matter what set of speakers it’s swirling from, “Comfortably Numb” posits itself as one of the best songs of all time. But imagine the track blasting from inside your being, transforming you from passerby to paralyzed protagonist. 

“Ready or Not” – Fugees

A sonic combination of Enya and The Delfonics, The Fugees’ “Ready or Not” combines an aggressively well-crafted message with confident melodic flow, paving the way for alternative hip-hop groups to come. Yet, it’s the song’s history that’s best heard in high fidelity. Legend has it, Lauryn Hill – who had recently decamped from the group – broke down in tears as she delivered the track’s bridge. The trio would ultimately decide to stick with that struggle-stained rendition. 

“My Heart Will Go On” – Celine Dion

Ah, the 1997 eternal-love track attached to the film about a purportedly unsinkable ship that, in fact, sank in deathly frigid waters. Celine Dion had no desire to record the song. Director James Cameron didn’t want the commercial pop record to undermine the film’s heavier sentiments.  Forecasts were icy. Almost nobody was confident it would be a success. But it was. A big one. Dion’s sultry, sweeping vocals atop the intense tin-whistles and violins crash in the ears like ruinous waves. It’s a showcase of incredible capacity and control as well as a nostalgia-laden experience primed for a closer listen. 

“Sic” – Slipknot

“Here comes the pain!” That’s the opening line of Slipknot’s rage-rot canticle. And what ensues is just that: a sloshing, pumping paroxysm of guttural suffering. However, unlike some of its flailing counterparts, “Sic” is a rhythm-heavy, highly-structured thrasher that begs for synchronized, cult-like headbanging. What’s more, the nine-member innovative ensemble makes for an instrumental onslaught that doesn’t so much assault the ears as it does astonish them. 

“Unchained Melody” – The Righteous Brothers

In 1965, ten years after its release, blue-eyed soul specialists, Bill Medley and Bobby Hatfield,  recorded a cover of Alex North and Hy Zaret’s “Unchained Melody.” From there, it became the “jukebox standard,” for obvious reasons. The duo’s palpable longing, coupled with Hatfield’s soaring, hungry solo, has transportive qualities; it conjures images of pencil skirts and cigarette packs rolled into white t-shirt sleeves, troops sending letters from ‘Nam and mom’s gelatin molds. It’s a definitive classic and a “vocal tour de force,” as has been said by many. 

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