Music Banter - Great Album Openers

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Metallica - Hit The Lights (Kill Em All)
Megadeth - Holy Wars (Rust In Peace)
Hope of The States - The Black Amnesias (The Lost Riots)
The Music - The Dance (S/T)
The Stooges - Down On The Street (Fun House)
Cooper Temple Clause - Did You Miss Me? (See This Through and Leave)
Faith No More - From Out Of Nowhere (The Real Thing)
Guns n Roses - Welcome To The Jungle (Appetite For Destruction)
Tricky - Overcome (Maxinquaye)
Manics - Sleepflower (Gold Against The Soul)

And loads more, but I'm tired.

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Originally Posted by Molecules (Post 609347)

the only one that springs to mind as punching you in the face is 'the Classical' from the Fall's ...you know the bloody album

Definitely, there couldn't be a better way to kick off the album.

Another of my fav openers is Brainstorm from Hawkwind's Doremi Fasol Latido. What a fantastic no-bullshit way to embark on a cosmic journey!

Oh, and Starless and Bible Black Sabbath from Acid Mothers Temple. ;)

We Dance Wowee Zowee by Pavement
Teenage Riot Daydream Nation by Sonic Youth
Act Won (Things Fall Apart) Things Fall Apart The Roots
Pink Moon Pink Moon Nick Drake
I Will Dare Let It Be The Replacements
Hardcore UFOs Bee Thousand Guided by Voices
Speed of Life Low David Bowie
Accidents Will Happen Armed Forces Elvis Costello
Thunder Road Born to Run Bruce Springsteen

100% on Sonic Youth's Dirty.

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Originally Posted by mojopinuk (Post 611475)

Faith No More - From Out Of Nowhere (The Real Thing)

That's a great one, though I think "Land of Sunshine" from Angel Dust is even better. I love how abruptly it starts.

Animal Collective- "In The Flowers" (Merriweather Post Pavillion)
Arcade Fire- "Neighborhood #1" (Funeral)
Beach Boys- "Our Prayer/Gee" (Smile)
Beck- "Devil's Haircut" (Odelay)
David Bowie- "Five Years" (Ziggy Stardust)
Clash- "Safe European Home" (Give Em Enough Rope)
Deerhunter- "Cover Me (Slowly)" (Microcastle)
Bob Dylan- "Like A Rolling Stone" (Highway 61 Revisited)
Fall- "The Classical" (Hex Enduction Hour)
Richard Hell- "Love Comes In Spurts" (Blank Generation)
Joy Division- "Disorder" (Unknown Pleasures)
Modern Lovers- "Roadrunner" (s/t)
My Bloody Valentine- "Only Shallow" (Loveless)
Neutral Milk Hotel- "Song Against Sex" (Avery Island)
Nirvana- "Serve the Servants" (In Utero)
Pavement- "Silence Kit" (Crooked Rain)
Pixies- "Debaser" (Doolittle)
Radiohead- "Airbag" (OK Computer)
Replacements- "I Will Dare" (Let It Be)
Rolling Stones- "Rocks Off" (Exile on Main Street)
Sex Pistols- "Holiday In The Sun" (Nevermind the Bollocks)
Smashing Pumpkins- "Cherub Rock" (Siamese Dream)
Soft Boys- "I Wanna Destroy You" (Underwater Moonlight)
Sonic Youth- "Teen Age Riot" (Daydream Nation)
Swell Maps- "H.S. Art" (A Trip to Marineville)
Television- "See No Evil" (Marquee Moon)
T. Rex- "Metal Guru" (The Slider)
Velvet Underground- "Sunday Morning" (VU&Nico)
Who- "Baba O'Reilly" (Who's Next)
Weezer- "My Name is Jonas" (Blue Album)
X- "The Once Over Twice" (Wild Gift)

Off the top of my head:

Like a Rolling Stone - Bob Dylan (Highway 61 Revisited)
Lust for Life - Iggy Pop (Lust for Life)
Purple Haze - Jimi Hendrix (Are You Experienced?; re-release)
Beetlebum - Blur (Blur)
Sunday Morning - The Velvet Underground (VU & Nico)
Astronomy Domine - Pink Floyd (The Piper at the Gates of Dawn)
Sympathy for the Devil - The Rolling Stones (Beggar's Banquet)
Dead Leaves on the Dirty Ground - The White Stripes (White Blood Cells)

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Originally Posted by Janszoon (Post 611591)

That's a great one, though I think "Land of Sunshine" from Angel Dust is even better. I love how abruptly it starts.

Yeah, but how much more awesome would The Real Thing be if they opened with Surprise, You're Dead! instead of From Out of Nowhere? The bell intro and overcharged tempo is a great attack.

My Favorites, in no particular order:

Everything in It's Right Place - Radiohead (Kid A)
A Salty Salute - Guided By Voices (Alien Lanes)
Care of Cell 44 - The Zombies (Odessy and Oracle)
London Calling - The Clash (London Calling)
Nebraska - Bruce Springsteen (Nebraska)
Alone Again Or - Love (Forever Changes)
Sunday Bloody Sunday - U2 (War)
In the Flesh? - Pink Floyd (The Wall)
Where the Streets Have No Name - U2 (The Joshua Tree)
A Minor Place - Bonnie "Prince" Billy (I See A Darkness)
Randy Described Eternity - Built to Spill (Perfect from Now On)
Suzanne - Leonard Cohen (Songs of Leonard Cohen)
Bring Da Ruckus - The Wu Tang Clan (Enter the Wu Tang, 36 Chambers)
Gimme Shelter - The Rolling Stones (Let it Bleed)
Time Has Told Me - Nick Drake (Five Leaves Left)
Torn Foam Blue Couch - Grand Archives (The Grand Archives)
Two of Us - The Beatles (Let it Be)
Dry the Rain - The Beta Band (The Three EPs)
Maggot Brain - Funkadelic (Maggot Brain)
Pink Moon - Nick Drake (Pink Moon)
Summer Babe - Pavement (Slanted and Enchanted) <-- I am not a huge fan of this band or this album even though it is so praised, but I really liked the first song on the album.
The Queen is Dead - The Smiths (The Queen is Dead)

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Originally Posted by lucifer_sam (Post 611653)

Yeah, but how much more awesome would The Real Thing be if they opened with Surprise, You're Dead! instead of From Out of Nowhere? The bell intro and overcharged tempo is a great attack.

That could've been a cool way to start it too, although the rest of the album might have sounded like kind of a letdown after that. I always liked they kind of built up to that song.

Speaking of the track order on that album, I never understood why they moved "Edge of the World" to the end of the album on the CD. I liked it so much better coming right after "Zombie Eaters".