You know what I mean.
You get an album, you stick it on your CD player (or record player or whatever) and the first thing that comes out just blows you away.
Like "Nevermind" by Nirvana (opening track "Smells like teen spirit) or Music for the masses by Depeche Mode (opening track Never let me down again) or Beggars Banquet by the Stones (opening track Sympathy for the devil).
It's not a question about great albums in this case. I'm just talking about the "WHOA" effect when you hear those first notes.
Albums where I think the opening track is the best one:
Abbey Road
Kid A
White Light/White Heat
The Velvet Underground & Nico
The Piper at the Gates of Dawn
In the Wee Small Hours
Loveless
Blood on the Tracks
Highway to Hell
Back in Black
Exile on Main St.
astronomy is one of the best opening tracks, instellar is so good though. _________________ "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
Airbag on OK Computer blew me away the first time. Still does to this day. Definitely the best opening track I've ever heard.
Other great ones:
Cherub Rock- Siamese Dream
Only One- Mean Everything To Nothing (Manchester Orchestra)
Everything In It's Right Place- Kid A
Across The Night- Diorama (Silverchair)
Brain Of J- Yield (Pearl Jam)
Apocalypse Please- Absolution
Some others from the top of my head:
Sunday Bloody Sunday (U2 - War)
Bridges & Balloons (Joanna Newsom - Milk Eyed Mender; in fact, the first three songs here form what is probably my favourite opening to an album ever)
Speak to Me/Breathe (Pink Floyd - DSotM)
Only Shallow (MBV - Loveless)
Don't Panic (Coldplay - Parachutes)
Soft as Snow (MBV - Isn't Anything; again, fantastic opening to the album together with Lose My Breath)
Hidden Place (Björk - Vespertine; the same as above... works perfectly with Cocoon as the next track)
The Rainbow (Talk Talk - Spirit of Eden)
Since I Left You (Avalanches - Since I Left You)
The opener is the most important song on an album. If the opener and the closer is great, you can put almost everything in between, and the album will still be good. A good closer = you want to hear the album. A good closer = You think the album was good.
Great openers:
Death On Two Legs - Queen
Oasis - Rock'n Roll Star
Kings Of Leon - Knocked Up
Pixies - Debaser
The opener is the most important song on an album. If the opener and the closer is great, you can put almost everything in between, and the album will still be good. A good closer = you want to hear the album. A good closer = You think the album was good.
Great openers:
Death On Two Legs - Queen
Oasis - Rock'n Roll Star
Kings Of Leon - Knocked Up
Pixies - Debaser
Oops! The first song is not called Queen by a band called Death On Two Legs, but of course a song called Death On Two Legs by Queen.
The opener is the most important song on an album. If the opener and the closer is great, you can put almost everything in between, and the album will still be good. A good closer = you want to hear the album. A good closer = You think the album was good.
Great openers:
Death On Two Legs - Queen
Oasis - Rock'n Roll Star
Kings Of Leon - Knocked Up
Pixies - Debaser
Oops! The first song is not called Queen by a band called Death On Two Legs, but of course a song called Death On Two Legs by Queen.
(Definitely second Debaser, by the way.)
Also, I think you meant "a good opener = you want to hear the album", right?
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