Best Album Beginnings and Endings

[JMan]

You can list the beginning and ending of an album, or just one of them. I don't have a lot on my mind right now, so I'll just throw a short number out.

Bat 3. The Monster is Loose/Cry to Heaven
The beginning and ending of Surrealistic Pillow

I'll think of others later.

[Jasonconfused]

Led Zeppelin kicks of with Good Times Bad Times and closes with my favorite Zeppelin track, How Many More Times.

The Doors: Break On Through, and then The End.

Let it Bleed starts with Gimme Shelter and ends with You Can't Always Get What You Want.

Who's Next starts with Baba O'Reilly and closes with Won't Get Fooled Again.

I'll probably post more later but this is a good start.
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[MrFrogger]

Highway 61 Revisited starts with Like a Rolling Stone and ends with Desolation Row

Merriweather Post Pavillion starts with In the Flowers and ends with my favorite ac song, BrotherSport

Sgt Pepper starts with The Title Track and ends with A Day in the Life

London Calling starts with the Title Track and ends with Train in Vain

[pearljammer13]

Buried somewhere are threads for both the best opening and closing tracks. Lots of good shit in there if anyone can find them.

[Silver]

Let It Be begins with I Will Dare and ends with Answering Machine
Is This It begins with the title track and ends with Take It Or Leave It
Who's Next begins with Baba O'Riley and ends with Won't Get Fooled Again
Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm not begins with View From The Afternoon and ends with A Certain Romance
All the first three Clash albums start and end really strong
Ziggy Stardust and The Spiders From Mars beings with Five Years, ends with Rock N' Roll Suicide
Strange Days has the title track and When The Music's Over
Up The Bracket has Vertigo and I Get Along
Moon And Antarctica has 3rd Planet and What People Are Made Of
Kid A has Everything In It's Right Place and Motion Picture Soundtrack
In Rainbows has 15 Step and Videotape
Tim has Hold My Life and Here Comes A Regular
Daydream Nation has Teen Age Riot and The Trilogy
The Stones Roses has I Wanna Be Adored and I Am The Resurrection
Low End Theory has Excursions and Scenario

[thejoj96]

doing only 80-81 albums in this post, as i have to go to bed
will do more tomorrow

1980:
Closer has Atrocity Exhibition and Decades
Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables has Kill the Poor and Viva Las Vegas
Peter Gabriel III has Intruder and Biko
Crazy Rhythms has The Boy With the Perpetual Nervousness and the title track
Jeopardy has I Can't Escape Myself and Desire

1981:
Youth of America has Taking Too Long and the title track
Fire of love has Sex Beat and Goodbye Johnny
The Ascension has Lesson No.2 ans the title track

[Robert Anton Wilson]

But of course ... Brain Damage/Eclipse at the end of the Dark Side of the Moon. What else?

[ShaneSpear]

(After Horn Intro) The World At Large / The Good Times Are Killing Me - Modest Mouse Good News for People Who Love Bad News

[Silver]

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