Helena, it blows every song ITT out of the water. Top 10 greatest openers includes : Changes (Hunky Dory) Trash (Coming Up) Moving Out (The Stranger) Tarot Woman (Rising) Detroit Rock City (Destroyer) The Adults are Talking (The New Abnormal)
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Idols (2025) by YungbludI know it's a relatively new record, however, I do believe its one of the best album openers ever made. Though it is kinda lengthy, and I am not usually a fan of long tracks, I think this one is so well made that it deserves a mention. Such a great way to prepare us of the sound of YUNGBLUD's latest album 'Idols'. A genre I personally call stadium rock and I love so much. If you haven't already, check it out, you won't regret it.
Antisocial, the first track on Trust's album Répression, released in 1980.
In French, of course... This song was later translated into English and performed by the bands Anthrax and Children of Bodom. Metallica also performed it during their 2017 tour in France.
Idols (2025) by YungbludI know it's a relatively new record, however, I do believe its one of the best album openers ever made. Though it is kinda lengthy, and I am not usually a fan of long tracks, I think this one is so well made that it deserves a mention. Such a great way to prepare us of the sound of YUNGBLUD's latest album 'Idols'. A genre I personally call stadium rock and I love so much. If you haven't already, check it out, you won't regret it.
Goin to need to check this album out. I’ve heard a lot of good things about it
Two of my favorite album openers: “Running Up That Hill” from Hounds of Love (1985) by Kate Bush, and “Jackie” from The Lion and the Cobra (1987) by Sinéad O’Connor.
Both are statements of total artistic control, with Kate and Sinéad operating outside pop norms, rejecting convention and reframing pop as personal art.
Kate uses a propulsive, synthetic beat and an instantly memorable melody to take an abstract idea, the desire to swap emotional positions, and render it universal and danceable.
Sinéad could easily have opened her debut with one of the more accessible pop tracks (“Mandinka” or “I Want Your (Hands on Me)”). Instead, rather than playing the industry game, she opens with her least radio-friendly song, a career-defining act of defiance that makes her intentions unmistakably clear.
Two of my favorite album openers: “Running Up That Hill” from Hounds of Love (1985) by Kate Bush, and “Jackie” from The Lion and the Cobra (1987) by Sinéad O’Connor.
Both are statements of total artistic control, with Kate and Sinéad operating outside pop norms, rejecting convention and reframing pop as personal art.
Kate uses a propulsive, synthetic beat and an instantly memorable melody to take an abstract idea, the desire to swap emotional positions, and render it universal and danceable.
Sinéad could easily have opened her debut with one of the more accessible pop tracks (“Mandinka” or “I Want Your (Hands on Me)”). Instead, rather than playing the industry game, she opens with her least radio-friendly song, a career-defining act of defiance that makes her intentions unmistakably clear.
Paid In Full is rightfully lauded as being a cornerstone in the formation of modern hip hop both in terms of Rakim's flow/lyricism and Eric B's greater usage of sampling in his production. "I Ain't No Joke" serves as both the opening to the album and a transitional song in the history of hip hop, featuring elements of what had been done and what was to come. What strikes me every time I hear this song is the first ten seconds. The percussion comes in, typical 808 sound, complete with the reverbed hand clap. 👏 Something the avid hip hop listener had heard a hundred times before. But at 10 seconds, Rakim's titular declaration triggers the live drum sample and JB's horns to come into the mix. Rakim confidently delivers his consistently dense rhymes while Eric B. cuts and scratches behind him with ease. Gone are the electro/disco influences of the early 80s. So is the "stop at the end of every bar" flow that dominated previous hip hop acts. It all comes together in a way that simply had not been done previously. It's shocking to listen to Rakim's rapping in the context of songs that came out before and after this album was released.
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I know it's a relatively new record, however, I do believe its one of the best album openers ever made. Though it is kinda lengthy, and I am not usually a fan of long tracks, I think this one is so well made that it deserves a mention. Such a great way to prepare us of the sound of YUNGBLUD's latest album 'Idols'. A genre I personally call stadium rock and I love so much. If you haven't already, check it out, you won't regret it.
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