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Best Opening Track On Any Album

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    Griever931
    Registered Users Posts: 328 ✭✭Griever931


    This is the first song that comes to mind for me.



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    SilverScreen
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,113 ✭✭✭SilverScreen


    Either this

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkM3M3zGcGE


    or this

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uJ61jgFCMM


    Both of them my two favourite songs of all time :)


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    wendell borton
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    Smells lke teen spirit on nevermind.


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    SilverScreen
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,113 ✭✭✭SilverScreen


    wendell borton wrote: »
    Smells lke teen spirit on nevermind.
    Any time I listen to Nevermind these days I usually skip that song.


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    noby
    Registered Users Posts: 2,114 ✭✭✭noby


    SilverScreen wrote: »
    Either this


    or this


    Both of them my two favourite songs of all time :)


    Yes to both of them.

    A couple of others:

    Cliched, perhaps, but I Wanna Be Adored - The Stone Roses

    The Concept - Teenage Fanclub

    Autobahn - Kraftwerk


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    Welsh Megaman
    Registered Users Posts: 71,628 ✭✭✭✭Welsh Megaman


    noby wrote: »
    The Concept - Teenage Fanclub

    Good call :)

    Also, 'Electric Head - Part One: The Agony' by White Zombie.


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    groovie
    Registered Users Posts: 807 ✭✭✭groovie


    Welcome To The Jungle - G 'n' R


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    GLaDOS
    Moderators, Regional East Moderators Posts: 23,202 Mod ✭✭✭✭GLaDOS


    Ok only half of it is the opening track, but still

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zACEJdFOpA


    Also

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzyu1izQUb0

    Cake, and grief counseling, will be available at the conclusion of the test



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    SilverScreen
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,113 ✭✭✭SilverScreen


    Dopesmoker by Sleep ;)


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    Achtung Maybe
    Registered Users Posts: 144 ✭✭Achtung Maybe


    Simple . Where The Streets Have No Name (an epic intro to an epic album)


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    SoapMcTavish
    Registered Users Posts: 461 ✭✭SoapMcTavish




    They Might Be Giants - Flood ( Pooh band - pooh album - but this song works in me head )


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    Midlife Crashes
    Registered Users Posts: 954 ✭✭✭Midlife Crashes


    The 3 that instantly come to mind







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    Harry Palmr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 40,061 ✭✭✭✭Harry Palmr


    Two that always pleased me and very different in nature

    The first is by Todd Rundgren - For the Want of a Nail from Nearly Human (1989)

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-pdoUibphc


    and the second is by Deep Purple - Highway Star live on Made in Japan. Perfect live hard rock.



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    Limerick91
    Registered Users Posts: 528 ✭✭✭Limerick91


    Zoo Station from Achtung Baby


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    drugstore cowboy
    Registered Users Posts: 1,105 ✭✭✭drugstore cowboy


    Like A Rolling Stone


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    themountainman
    Registered Users Posts: 58 ✭✭themountainman


    Mojo Pin


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    Icaras
    Registered Users Posts: 926 ✭✭✭Icaras


    A subject close to my heart. Ive had plenty of discussions and what make a good opening track for me is one that makes you want to listen to the rest of the album rather than the song again. Seven nation army is a good example, a great song that you want to listen to again even though it is followed by the brilliant Black Math.

    The stand out ones to me are:

    Oasis - Hello - even after all those years that the shine has worn off Whats the Story this is still a track that gets me going (along with Some might say), especially after the release of Whatever which would have been a fantastic opening track.

    Unkle - Guns Blazing - long inrto, loud, agressive and rocking.

    Grand national - Talk amongst yourself (Sasha remix) on the involver album - my favorite opening track, I love everything about it - the sound level, the pace, the tone it sets for the rest of the album, that the original isnt actually that good a song.



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    groovie
    Registered Users Posts: 807 ✭✭✭groovie


    Tom Sawyer from Moving Pictures by Rush, just wow. Mind you, Subdivisions from Signals is fairly impressive (also by Rush).


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    Icaras
    Registered Users Posts: 926 ✭✭✭Icaras


    Beck - Looser (also Golden age on the Sea Change ablum is good)
    LCD Soundsystem - dance yourself clean. Not a big fan of them but this song is great.
    Eminem - Kill you. Great opening track to the difficult second album


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    SilverScreen
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    Icaras wrote: »
    Eminem - Kill you. Great opening track to the difficult second album
    Eh, Kill You was the opening track on his third album. My Name Is was the opening track on his second.


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    Icaras
    Registered Users Posts: 926 ✭✭✭Icaras


    SilverScreen wrote: »
    Eh, Kill You was the opening track on his third album. My Name Is was the opening track on his second.

    My mistake, should have done my homework. Still a good song.


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    lordgoat
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 11,358 Mod ✭✭✭✭lordgoat


    At least that what you said - A Ghost is Born (Wilco)


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    Manchegan
    Registered Users Posts: 240 ✭✭Manchegan


    Everyone thinks he looks daft - Wedding Present


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    trashcan
    Registered Users Posts: 3,906 ✭✭✭trashcan




    It's obvious;). Debut album too. What a way top announce your arrival to the world.

    Or maybe this:



    or even this



    Three classics.


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    strawberryb0y
    Registered Users Posts: 192 ✭✭strawberryb0y


    I am Trying to Break Your Heart on Yankee Hotel Foxtrot by Wilco


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    Griever931
    Registered Users Posts: 328 ✭✭Griever931


    How could I forget about this one?



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    Yarf Yarf
    Closed Accounts Posts: 289 ✭✭Yarf Yarf


    Bring Da Ruckus from 36 Chambers by Wu-Tang Clan.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbfGkiecl2M


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    loyatemu
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    Talking Heads "Thank you for sending me an Angel" from More Songs about Buildings and Food. Kicks the album off at a serious gallop (could also suggest "I Zimbra" off the following album):

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W888EzZ0lrk


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    thesultan
    Registered Users Posts: 2,670 ✭✭✭thesultan


    Riverboat Song Ocean colour Scene
    Taxman The beatles
    Cradle Rock Rory Gallagher


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    PropJoe10
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    Led Zeppelin - Black Dog.


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