Top Album Openers

[eversonpoe]

this is a thread to discuss the best songs that open albums. or as they say in high fidelity, "top track one, side ones"

(hopefully i haven't already made this thread, i couldn't find it if i had)

some of my favorites that come to mind right away

APC - the package
brand new - sowing season
NIN - somewhat damaged
rosetta - red in tooth and claw
mastodon - oblivion
chelsea wolfe - feral love
the cure - one hundred years
deftones - diamond eyes
jimmy eat world - bleed american
judas priest - sinner
king crimson - 21st century schizoid man
marilyn manson - great big white world
tori amos - beauty queen/horses
oingo boingo - just another day
pj harvey - rid of me
porcupine tree - blackest eyes

[Krazy]

This is where my favorite bands really shine, proabaly why I like them so much and most are great live openers:

NIN:
- Head Like a Hole
- Pinion/Wish
- Mr. Self Destruct
- Somehat Damaged
- 999,999/1,000,000
- The Eater of Dreams/Copy of A

Tool:
- Sweat
- Stinkfist
- The Grudge
- Vicarious

Pantera:
- Cowboys From Hell
- Mouth For War
- Stength Beyond Strength
- The Great Southern Trendkill

Iron Maiden:
- Aces High

[Exocet]

Killing Joke - Requiem
My Bloody Valentine - Only Shallow
Jesus and Mary Chain - Just Like Honey
The Smiths - The Headmaster Ritual
Aphex Twin - Xtal
Prodigy - Smack My Bitch Up
Ministy - New World Order
R.E.M - Radio Free Europe
Massive Attack - Angel

[piggy]

Cracker, "Low"
Pearl Jam, "Last Exit"
Brian Eno, "No One Receiving"
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, "Love Burns"
The Cure, "Want"
Depeche Mode, "Never Let Me Down Again"
The Jesus And Mary Chain, "Just Like Honey"
My Bloody Valentine, "Only Shallow"
Nine Inch Nails, "Head Like A Hole"
The Smiths, "The Queen Is Dead"

[thevoid99]

David Bowie:

Space Oddity
The Width of a Circle
Changes
Five Years
Watch that Man
Rosalyn
Future Legend
Young Americans
Station to Station
Speed of Life
Beauty and the Beast
Fantastic Voyage
It's No Game Pt. 1
The Wedding
Leon Takes Us Outside
The Next Day
Blackstar

[Harry Seaward]

I love this!

These are some seriously random ones I just thought up.

Beck - "Loser" (Mellow Gold)
Beck - "Colors" (Colors)
Beck - "E-Pro" (Guero)
The Faint - "Agenda Suicide" (Danse Macabre
The Flaming Lips - "Fight Test" (Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots)
The Kills - "U.R.A. Fever" (Midnight Boom)
King Crimson - "21st Century Schizoid Man" (In the Court of the Crimson King)
Led Zeppelin - "Whole Lotta Love" (Led Zeppelin II)
Led Zeppelin - "Immigrant Song" (Led Zeppelin III)
Led Zeppelin - "Black Dog" (Led Zeppelin IV)
Marilyn Manson - "Great Big White World"(Mechanical Animals)
Marilyn Manson - "GodEatGod" (Holy Wood)
Marilyn Manson - "If I Was Your Vampire" (EAT ME DRINK ME)
The Mars Volta - "Frances The Mute" (Frances The Mute)
The Mars Volta - "Since We've Been Wrong" (Octahedron)
Mindless Self Indulgence - "Shut Me Up" (You'll Rebel To Anything)
Mindless Self Indulgence - "Never Wanted To Dance" (If)
modwheelmood - "Problem Me" (Pearls to Pigs)
Nine Inch Nails - "Mr. Self Destruct" (The Downward Spiral)
Nine Inch Nails - "Somewhat Damaged" (The Fragile)
Nine Inch Nails - "All The Love In The World" (WITH TEETH)
Nirvana - "Smells Like Teen Spirit" (Nevermind)
Pink Floyd - "Speak To Me" (Dark Side of the Moon)
Pink Floyd - "Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Parts I–V)" (Wish You Were Here)
Pink Floyd - "Pigs on the Wing 1" (Animals)
Pink Floyd - "In The Flesh?" (The Wall)
A Perfect Circle - "The Package" (Thirteenth Step)
Puscifer - "Tiny Monsters" (Conditions of my Parole)
Queens of the Stone Age - "This Lullaby" (Lullabies to Paralyze)
St. Vincent - "Hang On Me" (MASSEDUCTION)
Tool - "Intolerance" (Undertow)
Tool - "Stinkfist" (Ænima)
Tool - "The Grudge" (Lateralus)
Tool - "Vicarious" (10,000 Days)
Ween - "I'm Dancing in the Show Tonight" (The Mollusk)
Ween - "Fiesta" (La Cucaracha)
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - "Zero" (It's Blitz!)
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - "Sacrilege" (Mosquito)
The xx - "Intro" (xx)


I guess I'll leave it with this for now. I'm sure there's a lot more I'll think of, but I might as well split things up.

[burnmotherfucker!]

The Cure should put on a clinic on how to open an epic album

Holy Hour
100 Years
Inbetween Days
Plainsong
Open
Want
Out of this World
Underneath the Stars

They're all good, pretty much just any Cure album's track 1

Somewhat Damaged is so good it makes the rest of the record impressive it could live up to that opener.

Smells like teen spirit may be overplayed but will probably never be topped in terms of grabbing your attention from the first 2 seconds of an album.

High fidelity is a great movie I don't care what anyone says.

[bobbie solo]

/thread

[liquidcalm]

There is in fact only one correct answer:
At the Drive In - Arcarsenal

[acrid avid jam shred]

This is an awesome thread!

Elliott Smith - Speed Trials
Depeche Mode - World in My Eyes
Blur - Beetlebum
Deftones - Swerve City
QOTSA - Feel Good Hit of the Summer
Aphex Twin - 4
Spiritualized - Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space
Radiohead - Bloom
Nine Inch Nails - All the Love in the World
My Bloody Valentine - Only Shallow
Primal Scream - Kill All Hippies
Massive Attack - Angel
Liars - Broken Witch
Interpol - Untitled
Chris Cornell - Can't Change Me
Soundgarden - Let Me Drown
Death From Above - Turn it Out
Gorillaz - Re-Hash
Underworld - Cups
The Flaming Lips - Race for the Prize
Battles - Africastle
The Mars Volta - Vicarious Atonement

[eversonpoe]

/thread

wish i had been at this wedding ^^^

some additions to my list that no one has mentioned yet

telefon tel aviv - the birds
thrice - firebreather | kill me quickly
KISS - i was made for lovin' you
russian circles - fathom
these arms are snakes - woolen heirs
austra - darken her horse
radiohead - airbag | everything in its right place | 2+2=5

[Disassociative]

Oh I could list plenty of these but off the top of my head right now Cherub Rock by the Smashing Pumpkins comes to mind. And I suppose it doesn’t count because it starts disc 2 of Mellon Collie but goddamn Where Boys Fear To Tread really kicks things off.

[october_midnight]

/thread

My vote is for this, but also:



/now​ thread lol

[center27j]

Slayer - Angel of Death / Reign in Blood
Metallica - Blackened / AJFA

[Space Suicide]

Some ones that pump me up! There's more but scrolling through my digital library...

Alice In Chains - Them Bones (Dirt)
Behemoth - Sculpting The Thrones Ov Seth (Demigod)
Deafheaven - Dream House (Sunbather)
The Dillinger Escape Plan - Prancer (One Of Us Is The Killer)
Converge - Dark Horse (Axe To Fall)
KMFDM - Light (Angst)
Marilyn Manson - Irresponsible Hate Anthem (Antichrist Superstar)
Mastodon - Blood and Thunder (Leviathan)
Massive Attack - Angel (Mezzanine)
Ministry - Thieves (The Mind Is A Terrible Thing To taste)
Nine Inch Nails - Mr. Self Destruct (The Downward Spiral)
Queens Of The Stone Age - Turnin' On The Screw (Era Vulgaris)
Rammstein - Rammlied (Liebe Ist Für Alle Da)
Slayer - War Ensemble (Seasons In The Abyss)

[eversonpoe]

Mastodon - Blood and Thunder (Leviathan)

can't believe i forgot about this one. so, so good.

[virushopper]

Arch Enemy - Enemy Within

What better way to introduce your then new singer.

[henryeatscereal]

So many to choose from; but here's some of my faves:


Pink Floyd - In the Flesh?
The Rolling Stones - Gimmie Shelter
The Who - Overture
Nine Inch Nails - Pinion/Wish
Jane's Addiction - Up the beach
Pearl Jam - Once
Smashing Pumpkins - Cherub Rock
Alice in chains - We Die Young
Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath
Led Zepellin - Black Dog
Iron Maiden - Ides of March/Wrathchild
Rollins Band - Disconnect
Marilyn Manson - Prelude/Cake and Sodomy
Rob Zombie - Call of the Zombie/Superbeast
Danzig - Brand new god
Ghost - Deus Culpa/Con Clavi Con Dio
Tool - Stinkfist
A Perfect Circle - The Package
Porcupine Tree - Fear of a Blank Planet
Queens of the Stone Age - You Think I Ain't Worth a Dollar, But I Feel Like a Millionaire
Joy Division - Disorder
The Smiths - The Queen is Dead
Happy Mondays - Kinky Afro
New Order - Crystal
Radiohead - Everything in its right place
Daft Punk - One More Time
Blur - Girls and Boys
David Bowie - Leon Takes us outside/Outside
Iggy Pop - No Shit/Nazi Girlfriend
Nick Cave - The Mercy Seat (both in "Tender Prey" and in "Live Seeds")

[roolfdriht]

Fantastic thread. I've always found album sequencing to be an interesting puzzle. Figure there must always be some degree of temptation to put a (if not the) clear single at the head of the pack (e.g. HLAH), but I generally find it more interesting when the opposite happens (e.g. ATLITW).

Attempting to avoid repeats from above and excluding NIN/HTDA:
U2 - Zooropa (Zooropa)
IAMX - President (The Alternative)
Foetus - Mortgage (Gash)
Erasure - Take Me Back (I Say I Say I Say)
KMFDM - Megalomaniac (Symbols)
Moby - Hymn (Everything Is Wrong)
16Volt - I'm Just a Mess (Fullblackhabit)
Pet Shop Boys - Being Boring (Behaviour)
Dive - Snakedressed (Snakedressed)
Liz Phair - White Chocolate Space Egg (Whitechocolatespaceegg)
Perfume Genius - Otherside (No Shape)
Cubanate - Vortech I (Barbarossa)
Pig - The Fountain of Miracles (The Swining)
Depeche Mode - World in My Eyes (Violator)
Prick - Communique (Prick)
Nitzer Ebb - Getting Closer (Showtime)
Hot Chip - Thieves in the Night (One Life Stand)
Thrill Kill Kult - Hit & Run Holiday (Hit & Run Holiday)
Muse - Take a Bow (Black Holes & Revelations)
C-Tec - Brutal (Cut)
Jesus Jones - Zeroes and Ones (Perverse)
Hooray for Earth - Realize It's Not the Sun (True Loves)

[implanted_microchip]

The Cure — Plainsong
Depeche Mode — Black Celebration
Rammstein — Mein Herz Brennt
Crystal Castles — Plague
The Beatles — Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band
Nine Inch Nails — Mr. Self Destruct
Marilyn Manson — Irresponsible Hate Anthem
Bowie — Five Years
Iggy Pop — Lust for Life (what a fucking classic beginning)
The Postal Service — The District Sleeps Alone Tonight
A Perfect Circle — The Package
Kanye West — Say You Will
Tears For Fears — Shout
Smashing Pumpkins — Cherub Rock
Radiohead — Everything In Its Right Place
Prince — Let’s Go Crazy
U2 — Where the Streets Have No Name
Queens of the Stone Age — Millionaire
Nick Cave — We Know Who U R
Soft Cell — Frustration
Joy Division — Atrocity Exhibition

[PhoenixML]

Nice!

APC - The Package
Anthony Green - You'll Be Fine
Archive - Again, Noise, Controlling Crowds
Atoms for Peace - Before You Very Eyes
Coldplay - Don't Panic, Politik, Square One
Circa Survive - Schema, Birth of the Economic Hit Man
Death Cab for Cutie - Marching Band of Manhattan
Deftones - My Own Summer, Feiticeira, Hexagram, Hole in the Earth, Diamond Eyes, Pyramid / Triangle
Garbage - Temptation Waits
Interpol - Pioneer to the Fall
Keane - Atlantic
NIN - Somewhat Damaged, All The Love In The World
Pink Floyd - Shine On You Crazy Diamond
Puscifer - Tiny Monsters
Radiohead - 2+2=5
Silverchair - Emotion Sickness
Thirty Seconds To Mars - Capricorn
Travis - Sing

[BenAkenobi]

Prison song - System of a Down

[elevenism]

Rush-Dreamline-Roll the Bones
A Perfect Circle-The Hollow-Mer De Noms
The Breeders-New Year-Last Splash
Rasputina-Doomsday Averted-Frustration Plantation
David Bowie-Leon Takes us Outside/Outside-Outside
Outkast-Return of the G-Aquemini
Rush-Tom Sawyer-Moving Pictures
Rasputina-My Little Shirtwaiste Fire-Thanks for the Ether
Pearl Jam-Go-Vs.
Pearl Jam-Once-Ten
Pantera-Mouth for War-Vulgar Display of Power
Metallica-Battery-Master of Puppets

good idea for a thread; this is fun

[Krazy]

good idea for a thread; this is fun

Agreed. I’m sure most of these are just rolling off our brain and not doing much digging, so updating or multi-posting will be normal.

- White Zombie: Electric Head
- Slayer: Angel of Death
- Ozzy: Bark At The Moon
- Dr Dre: The Chronic intro/Dre Day
- NWA: Straight Outta Compton

Im starring to cheat, looking at the albums I own. :P

[elevenism]

i thought of a couple more.

Tricky-Overcome-Maxinquaye
Portishead-Mysterons-Dummy (that Portis-head sample being manipulated with the turntable is SO fucking cool.)
Tricky-Vent-Pre Millennium Tension
Boards of Canada-Wildlife Analysis-Music Has the Right to Children

[ton]

Nas - NY State of Mind [Illmatic]
Frank Ocean - Nikes [Blonde]
Talking Heads - Born Under Punches [Remain in Light]
Depeche Mode - Never Let Me Down Again [Music for the Masses]
nine inch nails - Mr. Self Destruct [The Downward Spiral]
Jay Z - The Ruler's Back [The Blueprint]
Joy Division - Atrocity Exhibition [Closer]
Notorious B.I.G. - Things Done Changed [Ready to Die]
Metallica - Fight Fire With Fire [Ride the Lightning]
Run-DMC - Peter Piper [Raising Hell]
Tears for Fears - Shout [Songs from the Big Chair]
M.I.A. - Bamboo Banga [Kala]
Sonic Youth - Teen Age Riot [Daydream Nation]
Kanye West - Dark Fantasy [My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy]
Marvin Gaye - What's Going On [What's Going On]
U2 - Where the Streets Have No Name [The Joshua Tree]
Radiohead - Bloom [The King of Limbs]
D'angelo - Playa Playa [Voodoo]
A Tribe Called Quest - Excursions [The Low End Theory]
Yellow Magic Orchestra - Technopolis [Solid State Survivor]
the Police - Don't Stand So Close to Me [Zenyatta Mondatta]
Lauryn Hill - Lost Ones [The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill]
the Beatles - Come Together [Abbey Road]

[wight rabbit]

Chevelle - Family System [Wonder What's Next]
Chris Cornell - Can't Change Me [Euphoria Mourning]
††† - †his is a †rick [†††]
Deftones - Swerve City [Koi No Yokan]
Jimmy Eat World - Bleed American [Bleed American]
Massive Attack - Future Proof [100th Window]
Marilyn Manson - Great Big White World [Mechanical Animals]
Ministry - Let's Go [The Last Sucker]
Nine Inch Nails - Somewhat Damaged [The Fragile]
Opeth - The Leper Affinity [Blackwater Park]
A Perfect Circle - The Package [Thirteenth Step]
Pink Floyd - Shine on You Crazy Diamond (Pts. 1-5) [Wish You Were Here]
Portishead - Mysterons [Dummy]
The Prodigy - Smack My Bitch Up [The Fat of the Land]
Queens of the Stone Age - Feet Don't Fail Me Now [Villains]
Radiohead - 2 + 2 = 5 [Hail To the Thief]
Chelsea Wolfe - Carrion Flowers [Abyss]

I've exhausted myself trying to compile as many as I could think of. This is all I'm going to do.

[ton]

wish i had been at this wedding ^^^

some additions to my list that no one has mentioned yet

telefon tel aviv - the birds
thrice - firebreather | kill me quickly
KISS - i was made for lovin' you
russian circles - fathom
these arms are snakes - woolen heirs
austra - darken her horse
radiohead - airbag | everything in its right place | 2+2=5

Fuck, I love that Telefon album

honestly, every post in this thread is great so far

[Louie_Cypher]

1. burning down the house speaking in tongues talking heads
2 4.33 AM (Running Shoes) 4:08 Roger Waters The Pros and Cons of Hitch Hik Progressive Rock 0
3. 01 In The Evening.mp3 6:51 Led Zeppelin In Through The Out Door Hard Rock 0 9
4. VROOOM 4:39 King Crimson THRAK Rock 0
-Louie

[botley]

Every Radiohead album