re: Best album openers in music

Posted by CaptainPanic

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Posted on 11/18/14 at 2:01 pm to GCTiger11

Posted by Dave England

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Posted on 11/18/14 at 2:04 pm to lsu2006

quote:
Radiohead

Airbag, yo

2+2=5 is also incredible. 15 Step is great as well and Planet Telex isn't shabby.

Bowie may be the king of openers though.

Five Years
Station to Station
Young Americans
The Width of a Circle
Space Oddity
Speed of Life
Changes
Modern Love

fricking stacked

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Posted on 11/18/14 at 2:06 pm to Dave England

quote:
Bowie is the king of music

Posted by Godfather1

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Posted on 11/18/14 at 2:06 pm to GCTiger11

Whole Lotta Love - Led Zeppelin II

Posted by JohnZeroQ

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Posted on 11/18/14 at 2:21 pm to danman6336

I have a like for TMV- "Cygnus....Vismund Cygnus"

It just sets a good tone to what that album was.

TOOL- Stinkfist

Posted by Fontainebleau Dr.

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Posted on 11/18/14 at 2:23 pm to GCTiger11

Corrosion of Conformity's "In the Arms of God" starts off with "Stonebreaker."

Pepper Keenan + Stanton Moore = Winning.

LINK

Posted by lsu2006

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Posted on 11/18/14 at 2:23 pm to Godfather1

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Whole Lotta Love - Led Zeppelin II

Nice.

Good Times, Bad Times on I is a quality entry as well.

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Posted on 11/18/14 at 2:42 pm to Sheep

A More Perfect Union by Titus Andronicus off The Monitor.

Posted by Spaulding Smails

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Posted on 11/18/14 at 2:55 pm to GCTiger11

My Name is Jonas

Posted by MountainTiger

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Posted on 11/18/14 at 2:56 pm to GCTiger11

Links added to make Nativebullet happy.

Nuclear Burn - Brand X (Unorthodox Behavior) (Let this run a minute or two before you give up on it. It starts off a bit slow but just smokes once it gets going.)
Kid Charlemagne - Steely Dan (Royal Scam)
New Horizon - Royal Southern Brotherhood
Watcher of the Skies - Genesis (Foxtrot)
Treat Yo Mama - John Butler Trio (Sunrise over Sea)
You Just Don't Wanna Know - Jules and the Polar Bears (Got No Breeding)
Jerusalem - Emerson, Lake & Palmer (Brain Salad Surgery)
Spyroid - Ozric Tentacles (Curious Corn) (Subwoofer torture test)
School - Supertramp (Crime of the Century)
Utopia - Todd Rundgren's Utopia
Tubes World Tour - The Tubes (Young and Rich)
Waitin' for the Bus - ZZ Top (Tres Hombres)
Bad Little Doggie - Gov't Mule (The Deepest End)

This post was edited on 11/18/14 at 9:33 pm

Posted by Cdawg

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Posted on 11/18/14 at 2:57 pm to Baloo

Beastie Boys - Jimmy James off Check your Head

Posted by danman6336

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Posted on 11/18/14 at 2:58 pm to MountainTiger

frick this I'm making this it's own thread

This post was edited on 11/18/14 at 3:05 pm

Posted by WG_Dawg

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Posted on 11/18/14 at 3:06 pm to danman6336

Runnin with the devil - Van Halen

first song first album

Posted by Tigris

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Posted on 11/18/14 at 3:09 pm to GCTiger11

Thunder Road kicks off Born to Run nearly perfectly.

Posted by TigerPanzer

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Posted on 11/18/14 at 3:27 pm to Tigris

School's Out/Alice Cooper
Intolerance/Tool
21st Century Schzoid Man/KC
And the Gods Made Love/Have You Ever Been (To Electric Ladyland?)/JH
Singing winds, Crying Beasts/Black Magic Woman/Santana
I Am Anarchy/Sex Pistols

This post was edited on 11/18/14 at 3:33 pm

Posted by Poodlebrain

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Posted on 11/18/14 at 4:39 pm to GCTiger11

Hair of the Dog by Nazareth.

Posted by AlxTgr

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Posted on 11/18/14 at 4:47 pm to GCTiger11

Next To You - Police
Let's Go - The Cars
Burning House of Love - X

Posted by SirWinston

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Posted on 11/18/14 at 5:02 pm to GCTiger11

I'll go further - "Zoo Station" and then "Even Better Than the Real Thing" are the first two songs on "Achtung Baby". U2 - the greatest band of the 80's reinventing themselves with a WTF and emerging as the greatest band of the 90's.

Best album of all time IMO - admittedly I'll get killed on this board for saying that though.