My favorites that haven't been said yet:
Pink Floyd- One of These Days
Radiohead- Planet Telex
Radiohead- 2+2=5
Radiohead- 15 Step
Arcade Fire- Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels)
Joy Division- Disorder
Nirvana- Serve the Servants
The Rolling Stones- Every opening track from Beggars-Exile
Sonic Youth- Teenage Riot
I think I'll kind of agree with Robert Anton Wilson.
It's not that they're the WORST band for album openning tracks
BUT
You WOULD expect someone as awsome as Pearl Jam, a band that has MANY MANY brilliant tracks, to make better choices for their album openers, wouldn't you?
pearljammer13 wrote:
Robert Anton Wilson wrote:
The WORST band for their album opener tracks - Pearl Jam!!!!
NO. Once???? Go??? Brain of J??????? Sometimes?? (subdued but a perfect intro) Breakerfall? Can't Keep? Life Wasted? Gonna See My Friend?? The only one of their 9 studio albums that doesn't have a perfect opener is Last Exit off Vitalogy.
Makes me sad how often I have to defend Pearl Jam on this site.
I think I'll kind of agree with Robert Anton Wilson.
It's not that they're the WORST band for album openning tracks
BUT
You WOULD expect someone as awsome as Pearl Jam, a band that has MANY MANY brilliant tracks, to make better choices for their album openers, wouldn't you?
Maybe I'm in the minority but Once, Brain Of J, Gonna See My Friend and Can't Keep are all probably top 20 Pearl Jam songs for me. The others I mentioned I also still love. But I guess like you said when a bands catalogue is made up of countless borderline perfect tracks, it's hard to always live up to the brilliance.
And I know I always mention this album, but Kissing The Lipless off Chutes Too Narrow (The Shins) is another opener that works to perfection.
Reel Around The Fountain off the Smiths self-titled.
Funny cos I love The Smiths but I'd say there's 5-6 better tracks than Reel Around The Fountain just on that album, and I guess for a track to qualify for this thread it should probably be the best track off an album.
So The Queen Is Dead is an excellent choice, as is Teenage Riot as is Can't Stand Me Now.
I'd also back Release The Pressure from Leftism and Smack My Bitch Up from The Fat Of The Land _________________ Shut up mate you're boring!
[quote="pearljammer13"] when a bands catalogue is made up of countless borderline perfect tracks, it's hard to always live up to the brilliance. [quote]
That is sorta what I mean, I am not saying these tracks are no good, they're all good. What I am talking about is the "WHOA" effect. While nearly all Pearl Jam albums made me go Whoa it literally has NEVER been on the first track.
Talking Heads-Born Under Punches
Tortoise-Djed
Wilco-I Am Trying to Break Your Heart
Joanna Newsom-Ys
Sun Ra-The Magic City
Stooges-Search and Destroy
PJ Harvey-To Bring You My Love
Pere Ubu-Nonalignment Pact
Patti Smith-Gloria
Ornette Coleman-Lonely Woman
Miles Davis-Concierto de Aranjuez
Mercury Rev-Chasing a Bee
Mercury Rev-Meth of a Rockette's Kick
Massive Attack-Angel
MC5-Kick Out the Jams
Madonna-Lucky Star
The Knife-Silent Shout
John Coltrane-My Favorite Things
Iggy Pop-Lust for Life
GY! BE-Dead Flag Blues
Gun Club-Sex Beat
Fela Kuti-Zombie
Exuma-Exuma, the Obeah Man
Daft Punk-One More Time
Charles Mingus-Pithecanthropus Erectus
Can-Pinch
Built to Spill-Randy Described Eternity
Black Sabbath-Sweet Leaf
Beat Happening-Jamboree
Art Blakey-Moanin'
Albert Ayler-Ghosts
Lee Morgan-The Sidewinder
it's a shame rap albums usually start with skits...
I think my two personal favorites are Born Under Punches and I Am Trying to Break Your Heart
blackened-and justice for all
everything in its right place-kid a
untitled 1-()
beneath the remains-beneath the remains
Apocalypse Please-absolution
natural mystic-natural mystic
black sabbath black sabbath
ataraxia-team sleep
venus-talkie walkie
lizard point Ambient 4: On Land
thursday afternoon-thursday afternoon
easy skanking-kaya
taxman-revolver
hunter-homogenic
up the beach-nothing's shocking
strength beyond strength-far beyond driven
immigrant song-led zepp3
bloom-king of limbs
2plus2-com lag
Born Under Punches (The Heat Goes On)-remain in light
cherub rock-siamese dream
hunted by a freak-happy songs for happy people
angel of death reign in blood
prison song-toxicity
Cumbia & Jazz Fusion-Thirteen Pictures: The Charles Mingus Anthology
Astronomy Domine-piper at teh gates
speak to me-dark side
shine on you-wish you were here
my own summer-around the fur
diamond eyes-diamond eyes
debaser-doolittle
the suburbs-the suburbs
my name is jonas-the blue album
war pigs-paranoid
angel-mezzanine
bring da ruckus-Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)
them bones-dirt
imagine-imagine
breadcrumb trail-spiderland _________________ "I would expect something wrong with the poll if the chart favorite was not the poll winner" - naples 12-8-11
"I was hoping he was gone for good, guess it was just too much to ask" - polythene pam 05-10-12
"Nickelback > Radiohead" - bork 05-14-12
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