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mc chris - "mc chris is dead"

I love this opening track, it really sets the style for the rest of the album and shows just how far he's come as a wordsmith from his earlier songs like "fett's vett"



Blackalicious - "World of Vibrations"

The other two Blackalicious albums start with a kind of short and totally forgettable intro song, but their 2005 release The Craft actually started on a real song... that is incredibly catchy.



O'Death - "Lowtide"

Much like with "mc chris is dead", "Lowtide" does a terrific job of giving the listener a perfect example of what they're going to be listening to for the next 30-40 minutes. Incredibly faced paced and featuring a fiddler that could destroy the Devil in a fiddling contest, this song is one of the best album openers I've ever heard.



Corb Lund - "I Wanna Be in the Cavalry"

Upbeat, catchy, and kind of uplifting despite the fact that it's talking about war. It makes it so much better when they do the reprise later in the song and say "yeah... war is pretty shitty".



Sort of a lame opening but it quickly turns into a soothing and catchy beat that just goes to show that the xylophone needs to be in more hip hop beats.

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