Your Personal Favourite Album Openers...
 

Whether it be a simple, minute long intro, or a full song. The first track on an album can set the mood for what you're in store for on the rest of the album. It can even throw you off, not knowing what you'll hear next. Some album openings are more significant than others, but there is no denying that, more than likely, it will be your first initial impression of what the album will be like. There has been a whole heap of great album openers. What are some of your favourites?

Here is one of mine:
Cog - 'No Other Way' (ALBUM: Sharing Space)
*a lot of raw emotion here, right from the start you know that you're in for something special. Most of the themes presented on the album are laid out in an epic that soars.

Intro/The Philosopher - Death - Live in L.A.

Too lazy too find the vid, just go check it out.

Oh god... So many great openers...

In terms of being more of an opener then a song, though... I have to say this is pretty sick.

This song is just amazing

This one springs to mind...

This is easily my all time favorite opener. That really dark, crescendo-like repetition gets me every time. The rest of the song is some terrific mathcore, and I love the lyrics.

With that opening guitar riff and the visually stimulating lyrics "It's a Man Ray kind of sky", Feeling Gravity's pull perfectly sets the tone for the rest of this eerie album. The closer Wendell Gee is also one of my favorite closers of all time.

2nded

Feel-Big Star
No arguing with that as a track one side one.

Meh. I love Screamadelica, but I really don't think Movin' On Up fits with the rest of it musically. Maybe it's just me. As a standalone track though it's pretty good.