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Title: Best first song on an album?
Post by: Don Flamenco on November 04, 2008, 05:46:49 PM: Impossible to say, but here are some of my favorites:

Teenage Riot - on Daydream Nation by Sonic Youth
Summer Babe - on Slanted and Enchanted by Pavement
Djed - on Millions Now Living Will Never Die by Tortoise
Milkman - on Milkman by Deerhoof
Acknowledgment - on A Love Supreme by Coltrane
Right Off - on A Tribute to Jack Johnson by Miles Davis (kinda unfair since it's a two song album)
Woody Woodpecker - on Spiderman of the Rings by Dan Deacon
Everything in its Right Place - on Kid A by Radiohead
Title: Re: Best first song on an album?
Post by: fistfulofmetal on November 04, 2008, 06:08:58 PM: I feel like I'm repeating myself

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Title: Re: Best first song on an album?
Post by: Phoenix Dark on November 04, 2008, 06:11:06 PM: [youtube=425,350]6gmQZtfx51k[/youtube]

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Title: Re: Best first song on an album?
Post by: Phoenix Dark on November 04, 2008, 06:15:30 PM: I'll put trademarks around ya fuckin eyes
Title: Re: Best first song on an album?
Post by: trippingmartian on November 04, 2008, 06:33:26 PM: Quote from: Kranz Fafka on November 04, 2008, 05:46:49 PM
Everything in its Right Place - on Kid A by Radiohead
Excellent choice.

Here's a few:

The Future / The Future / Leonard Cohen
Sleep to Dream / Tidal / Fiona Apple
Smells Like Teen Spirit / Nevermind / Nirvana
Alice / Alice / Tom Waits
Crucify / Little Earthquakes / Tori Amos
Spark / From the Choirgirl Hotel / Tori Amos
Gold Lion / Show Your Bones / Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Title: Re: Best first song on an album?
Post by: Flannel Boy on November 04, 2008, 06:43:55 PM: Quote from: Genghis Cohen on November 04, 2008, 06:08:52 PM
Nothing by the Beatles
You'll be surprised to learn that I agree with you. They've had some pretty good opening songs--"I Saw Her Standing there," "Help," "A Hard Day's Night," "Come Together," and "Taxman"--but nothing that would be considered the best opening ever.

Maybe
"War Pigs"
"I Wanna Be Adored"
"Shine On You Crazy Diamond"

edit:
and "Imagine" and "Mother"

edit2:
"London Calling"

edit3:
"White Room"

edit4:
"Like a Rolling Stone" WINNER
Title: Re: Best first song on an album?
Post by: Don Flamenco on November 04, 2008, 06:52:32 PM: Breathe - on DSOTM by Pink Floyd. so classic. I wish I hadn't over-listened to that album while stoned in high school.
Title: Re: Best first song on an album?
Post by: MyNameIsMethodis on November 04, 2008, 06:55:55 PM: TOM FUCKING SAWYER
Title: Re: Best first song on an album?
Post by: John Dunbar on November 04, 2008, 07:04:16 PM: Welcome To The Jungle, duh.

Honorable mention: The Headmaster Ritual on Meat is Murder.
Title: Re: Best first song on an album?
Post by: Robo on November 04, 2008, 07:07:04 PM: Quote from: Night Man on November 04, 2008, 06:43:55 PM
edit4:
"Like a Rolling Stone" WINNER

:bow

Welcome back!
Title: Re: Best first song on an album?
Post by: OptimoPeach on November 04, 2008, 07:30:25 PM: Quote from: Kranz Fafka on November 04, 2008, 05:46:49 PM
Impossible to say, but here are some of my favorites:

Teenage Riot - on Daydream Nation by Sonic Youth
Summer Babe - on Slanted and Enchanted by Pavement

Ohh my god yes. First songs I heard from both of those bands, too.

Stereo by Pavement is excellent as well
Randy Described Eternity by Built to Spill
The Village Green Preservation Society by The Kinks
Title: Re: Best first song on an album?
Post by: Don Flamenco on November 05, 2008, 01:03:33 AM: the first song on I Am Not Afraid And I will Beat Your Ass by Yo La Tengo is pretty awesome too.
Title: Re: Best first song on an album?
Post by: TVC15 on November 05, 2008, 01:09:04 AM: Arcarsenal - At the Drive-in
Title: Re: Best first song on an album?
Post by: BobbyRobby on November 05, 2008, 01:26:50 AM: Baba O'Riley - Who's Next
Arthur - The Kinks - Arthur
Five Years - Ziggy Stardust

also really love the Tommy Overture.
Title: Re: Best first song on an album?
Post by: BlueTsunami on November 05, 2008, 05:27:34 AM: MCMXC a.D (Intro)
[youtube=425,350]YOxuaGp1gJc[/youtube]

No album can pull me in like the first Enigma album can
Title: Re: Best first song on an album?
Post by: Bloodwake on November 05, 2008, 05:32:51 AM: Say what you want to about Plans, but the opener for the album sets the tone for the rest of it.

Marching Bands of Manhattan - Death Cab for Cutie.

I would probably come up with better selections if I wasn't sleep-deprived at the moment.
Title: Re: Best first song on an album?
Post by: Phoenix Dark on November 05, 2008, 10:34:05 AM: [youtube=425,350]pl3vxEudif8[/youtube]

[youtube=425,350]nOt3n4DAyC4[/youtube]

:rock
Title: Re: Best first song on an album?
Post by: ferrarimanf355 on November 05, 2008, 10:43:32 AM: Quote from: John Dunbar on November 04, 2008, 07:04:16 PM
Welcome To The Jungle, duh.

The first, last, and only answer to this question. :-*
Title: Re: Best first song on an album?
Post by: Brehvolution on November 05, 2008, 10:44:50 AM: There are a ton of good choices here, but I've never heard an album's first tune that topped this:
Eazy E - (Prelude) Still Talkin'
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Title: Re: Best first song on an album?
Post by: Darunia on November 05, 2008, 11:17:19 AM: Tangled up in Blue
Debaser
More than a feeling
See no Evil
Search and destroy
Sunday Morning
Signapore
Title: Re: Best first song on an album?
Post by: Phoenix Dark on November 07, 2008, 05:45:17 PM: [youtube=425,350]AfwBoumNpmc[/youtube]

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[youtube=425,350]pl3vxEudif8[/youtube]

[youtube=425,350]m99ybtk4QNs[/youtube]

and the best (non-song) intro:
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:gun
Title: Re: Best first song on an album?
Post by: xnikki118x on November 07, 2008, 06:15:51 PM: Smells Like Teen Spirit is a hell of an opener. So is Baba O'Riley.