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[[I Thought It Meant|Has nothing to do with]] the practice of [[Caustic Critic|critically lambasting a work without restraint]], at least not inherently.
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* [[The Beatles]]:
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** ''Black Sabbath'' mostly pans the guitar towards the left channel, either obviously ("Black Sabbath", "Sleeping Village") or more subtly (exception being "Evil Woman"). "Black Sabbath" also pans the the bass to the right channel, "The Warning" puts the guitar solo on the right channel, and "Wicked World" reverses the guitar-left-bass-right panning of "Black Sabbath".
** ''Paranoid'' mostly shoves the guitar on the right channel and the bass on the left channel, with the exception of "Hand of Doom", where their position is reversed, and "Fairies Wear Boots", "Rat Salad" and "Paranoid", which center both.
** ''Master of Reality'' begins with a tape loop of Tony Iommi coughing panned from left to center. "Embryo" uses subtle panning. "Children of the Grave" uses panning on the [[Last
** ''Volume 4'' continues the trend of centering everything, with the exception of "FX" and "Laguna Sunrise".
* (In general: see above) In the late 60's it was a trend to pan psychedelic guitar solos back and forth, regardless of the 'static pan' of the other instruments.
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* In Propellerheads version of "On Her Majesties Secret Service" the opening trumpets swing repeatedly from left to right.
* Symbion Project's "the difference between order & chaos is only the distance between your two speakers" has on one channel percussion and a recording of the captain's announcement from an airplane takeoff and on the other channel all the other instruments and the famous "Oh the humanity!" recording from the Hindenburg crash.
* The second part of the song "A Man's Gotta Do" from ''[[Doctor
* "Before the Storm" by Joker (off the [[Overclocked Remix]] album ''Project Chaos'') opens with a synth-bell melody that switches between the left and right channels with every single note. It's fast enough that you have to listen to the song on headphones to catch it.
* The vocals on the final line of the [[Vocaloid]] song ''Wide Knowledge of the Late, Madness'' use this trope to great effect, even more so when watching the video: the repeated 'watashi, watashi' swings back and forth from left to right, creating the illusion of Miku gradually breaking down until the abrupt cutoff.
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* Therion's 2007 album "Gothic Kabbalah" contains a song titled "Tuna 1613" (nothing to do with fish) which does this once, as the only instance on the entire album. It's brief, only done with the guitar, and falls right smack in the middle of the song, but for some reason it really jumps out at you.
* [[Leonard Bernstein]] must have had some kind of deal with Columbia Records to promote quadraphonic sound in the early 1970s. His ''Mass'' opens with what is effectively a quadraphonic sound test with four vocal/percussion ensembles operating independently of each other, and also incorporates an unaccompanied oboe solo which moves around all four channels. For the 1974 revival of ''Candide'', the (reduced) orchestra was spread out into four groups of players.
* The [[Buffy
* [[Leftfield]]'s "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvXuBUYq-Mo A Final Hit]". Listen to the beginning with headphones. [[Dizzy Cam|Don't forget your Dramamine.]]
* Bubble Puppy's "Hot Smoke & Sasafrass" is a knob-twiddling extravaganza. The stereo placement of both vocals and instruments changes after every line.
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