Top 5 Album Opening Songs
Bloc Party - Silent Alarm 'Like eating Glass'
Arctic Monkeys - Favourite Worst Nightmare 'Brianstorm'
Marcy Playground - Marcy Playground 'Poppies'
Death From Above 1979 - You're A Woman, I'm A Machine 'Turn It Out'
Transplants - Transplants 'Romper Stomper'
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Faith No More -From Out Of Nowhere (Real Thing)
Tears For Fears -The Hurting (The Hurting)
Travis -Chinese Blues (Ode To J.Smith)
The Smiths -A Rush And A Push (Strangeways)
Underworld -Crocodile (Oblivion With Bells)
some real good ones:
Sweet Jane on Rock And Roll Animal by Lou Reed
Farewell on Pink by BORIS
The Kicking Machine on Nude With Boots by Melvins
Pioneer To The Falls on OLTA by Interpol
Title track of Doomsdayer's Holiday by Grails
<3 Transplants.
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Beatles - a hard days night
The Verve - a new decade
Pink Floyd - astromony dominie
MC5 - ramblin rose
Funkadelic - free your mind and your ass will follow
One Hundred Years — The Cure (Pornography)
Leave Them All Behind — Ride (Going Blank Again)
Debaser — Pixies (Doolittle)
I Wanna Be Adored — The Stone Roses (The Stone Roses)
Cherub Rock — Smashing Pumpkins (Siamese Dream)
Runners-up:
Eastside Stories — Underground Lovers (Leaves Me Blind)
Like Eating Glass — Bloc Party (Silent Alarm)
So Much for the Afterglow — Everclear (So Much for the Afterglow)
Gun — The Plums (Gun)
I Like Your Old Stuff Better Than Your New Stuff — Regurgitator (Unit)
Kill All Hippies — Primal Scream (XTRMNTR)
Everything in its Right Place — Radiohead (Kid A)
Seven Nation Army — The White Stripes (Elephant)
For Tomorrow — Blur (Modern Life Is Rubbish)
Silence — Portishead (Third)
Zero — Yeah Yeah Yeahs (It's Blitz)
Pass the Hatchet, I Think I'm Goodkin — Yo La Tengo (I Am Not Afraid...)
Leave Them All Behind — Ride (Going Blank Again)
yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes the best song of all time
other good tracks;
15 step - in rainbows
untitled - turn on the bright lights
travel by telephone - united by fate
taxman - revolver
Leave Them All Behind
is a monster, no? It's got everything you want in an opener for a massive album.
Ether by Gang of Four
There are no others
One of these 5...
Arcade Fire - Neighbourhood #1 (Funeral)
Beirut - Gulag Orkestar (Gulag Orkestar)
Decemberists - The Infanta (Picaresque)
Islands - The Arm (Arm's Way)
The La's - Son of a Gun (The La's)
Los Campesinos - Death to Los Campesinos (Hold On Now Youngster)
Love - Alone Again Or (Forever Changes)
Manic Street Preachers - Yes (The Holy Bible)
Metric - Empty (Live it Out)
The National - Fake Empire (Boxer)
Neutral Milk Hotel - King of Carrot Flowers Pt. 1 (ITAOTS)
The Postal Service - The District Sleeps Alone Tonight (Give Up)
The Shins - Caring Is Creepy (Oh Inverted World)
Sigur Ros - Gobbledigook (Med Sud...)
The Smiths - The Queen Is Dead (The Queen Is Dead)
I could list loads more as well.
arcade fire or sigur ros... yes yes yes.
God to many options
Elbow-Ribcage[Cast Of Thousands]
Arcade Fire-Tunnels[Funeral]
Manic Street Preachers-Yes[The Holy Bible]
Television-See No Evil[Marquee Moon]
The Strokes-Is This It[Is This It]
David Bowie-Station To Station
Joy Division-Disorder[Unknown Pleasures]
Only one immediately springs to mind
Arcarsenal - At the Drive-In (Relationship of Command)
Amazing energy. Makes me want to go out and have a riot, but I'll settle for just listening to the rest of the album.
One of these.........................
The Stooges - Funhouse 'Down on the Street'
Dinosaur Jr. - Youre Living All Over Me 'Little Fury Things'
Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation 'Teenage Riot'
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless 'Only Shallow'
Sebadoh - Sebadoh 3 'The Freed Pig'
Harder than picking 5 closing tracks
MBV- Only Shallow
Radiohead- Airbag
Nirvana- Serve the Servants
QOTSA- Millionaire
Muse- Take A Bow
Runners Up
Coldplay- Politik
Pixies- Bone Machine
MSP- Elvis Impersonator
Blur- Girls and Boys
Soundgarden- Let Me Drown
Airbag
is by far the weakest song on OK Computer
well one would be
trompe le monde
Tough one.
Bob Dylan - Subterranean Homesick Blues [Bringing It All Back Home]
The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Foxy Lady [Are You Experienced]
The Arcade Fire - Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels) [Funeral]
Pixies - Debaser [Doolittle]
Massive Attack - Angel [Mezzanine]
Oh darn!
what I meant to say was: also Interpol - Untitled [TOTBL]
Popping into my head and out through my fingers are...
Station To Station/David Bowie
The Fun Powder Plot/Wild Beasts
Born Under Punches/Talking Heads
Narcolepsy/Ben Folds Five
Beyond Belief/Elvis Costello and the Attractions
Off the top of my head..
Bat for Lashes- Glass (Two Suns)
Cut Copy- Feel the Love (In Ghost Colors)
Pavement- Summer Babe (Winter Version) (Slanted & Enchanted)
Animal Collective- In the Flowers (MWPP) (Specifically the last part of the song)
Massive Attack- Angel (Mezzanine) (GO Liz Frasier!)
The Knife- Heartbeats
LCD- North American Scum
Brian Jonestown Massacre- All Around You
North American Scum. Good song, but not an opener!
Deftones - Hexagram
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Rich
Placebo - Come Home
Nine Inch Nails - Head Like A Hole
QOTSA - Feel Good Hit Of The Summer
Converge - Concubine
Every Time I Die - Romeo-a-Go-Go
Blood Brothers - Set Fire To The Face On Fire
Bear vs Shark - Catamaran
Mastodon - The Wolf Is Loose
These do what all rock albums should do - start as they mean to go on.
BLOOD BROTHERS.
You are good.
Do you want to type it, or shall I?
NOOO, RESIST
'sure shot' on ill communication
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Pig - Sparklehorse
The Chad Who Loved Me - Mansun
Airbag - Radiohead
Blister in the Sun - Violent Femmes
The King of Carrot Flowers Part 1. - Neutral Milk Hotel
pig
aye
i like how the rest of the album sounds nothing like it too.
Punk as Fuck - The American Analog Set [Know by heart]
The Plan - Built to Splill [Keep it like a secret]
Farewell - Boris [Pink]
The Greater times - Electrelane [No shouts, No calls]
Sleeping lessons - The Shins [Wincing the night away]
^^^^ yes to sleeping lessons
Nine Black Alps - Get Your Guns (Everything Is)
Radiohead - Everything In It's Right Place (Kid A)
Interpol - Untitled (Turn On The Bright Lights)
The National - Fake Empire (Boxer)
Tokyo Police Club - Centennial (Elephant Shell)
YES to Get Your Guns. YES to Untitled. Yes to Everything In Its Right Place.
YES.
Untitled - Interpol (Turn On The Bright Lights)
I Wanna Be Adored - Stone Roses (S/T)
Private Eye - Alkaline Trio (From Here To Infirmary)
The King Of Carrot Flowers Part 1. - Neutral Milk Hotel (In The Aeroplane Over the Sea
Summer Babe (Winter Version) - Pavement (Slanted And Enchanted)
QOTSA-You Think I Ain't Worth a Dollar, but I Feel Like a Millionaire.
Jesus Lizard-Boilermaker
Pixies-Bone Machine
Weezer-My name is Jonas
Torche-Triumph of Venus
Also
Blood Brothers-Set Fire to the Face on Fire
My Bloody Valentine-Only Shallow
Soundgarden-Let Me Drown
The Bronx - Heart Attack American x5
Weezer - Tired Of Sex
Pearl Jam - Go
SFA - God! Show Me Magic
Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit
Ryan Adams - To Be Young (Yeah it's track 2, but 'Argument...' isn't a song)
My Bloody Valentine- Only Shallow
Pavement- Silent Kit
Fucked Up- Crusades
Pixies- Debaser
The Field- Over the Ice
^this except
replace fucked up with Kraftwerk-Europe Endless.
Nine Acre Court on The Charlatans (s/t)
Not like it's the greatest song ever, or owt, but it's great. There's a fade in. And it sets the scene for a top album.
The "Nine Acre Dust" remix by The Chemical Brothers is a good twist on it.
Good call!
Top, top album!
I'd go for
Ladies and Gentleman we are floating in Space
Spiritualized
this is not a top 5it is just 5 i can think of off the top of my head
- Sloy 'Idolize' off 'Planet of Tubes' LP
- mclusky 'Lightsabre cocksucking blues' off 'mclusky do dallas' LP
- Shellac 'Prayer to God' off '1000 hurts' LP
- Bob Log III 'Log bomb' off 'Log Bomb' LP
- Penthouse 'Voyeur's blues' off 'Gutter Erotica' LP
Pretty Girls Make Graves - Speakers Push The Air
Weezer - My Name Is Jonas
Reuben - No One Wins The War
LCD Soundsystem - Get Innocuous!
Idlewild - Little Discourage
Tired of Sex - Weezer
Disorder - Joy Division
21st Century Schizoid Man - King Crimson
Prayer To God - Shellac
Candyman - Siouxsie and the Banshees
these aren't my votes, but they should get a mention
Blackened - Metallica
Strength Beyond Strength - Pantera
Davidian - Machine head
Angel Of Death - Slayer
Refuse/Resist - Sepultura
Melvins - The Talking Horse (Senile Animal)
Bjork - Earth Intruders (Volta)
Shellac - My Black Ass (At Action Park)
Panda Bear - Comfy In Nautica (Person Pitch)
Oneida - The Eiger (The Wedding)
runners up:
Peacebone & Leaf House - Animal Collective
Suffer For Fashion - of Montreal
The Modern Leper - Frightened Rabbit
The Vowels Pt 2 - Why?
Dry The Rain - Beta Band
Brother - Annuals
These are all followed by great albums
Debaser-Pixies [Doolittle]
Teenage Riot-Sonic Youth [Daydream Nation]
Arcarsnel-ATDI [Relationship of Command]
Dramamine-Modest Mouse [This is a Long Drive...]
Kissing the Lipless-The Shins [Chutes too Narrow]
I fink...
Pixies, Debaser (Doolittle)
The National, Fake Empire (Boxer)
Pavement, Silence Kit (Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain)
Arcade Fire, Neighbourhood #1 (Funeral)
The Beatles, Taxman (Revolver)
Pixies- Debaser
The Beatles - Come Together
The Microphones - I want wind to blow
Joy Division-Disorder
Forward, Russia - Thirteen
Jamie T-Brand new bass guitar