Best Album Opener? - Music Banter Music Banter

Go Back   Music Banter > The Music Forums > General Music
Best Album Opener? Best Album Opener?
Register Blogging Today's Posts
Welcome to Music Banter Forum! Make sure to register - it's free and very quick! You have to register before you can post and participate in our discussions with over 70,000 other registered members. After you create your free account, you will be able to customize many options, you will have the full access to over 1,100,000 posts.

Reply
Page 3 of 4 12 3 4
 
Thread Tools Display Modes
Old 06-28-2015, 02:04 PM   #1 (permalink)
Still sends his reguards.
 
bob.'s Avatar
 
Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: Trying to get out of the cat town....
Posts: 5,039
Default

^heaven on earth


^i don't think i can honestly think of an opening track that sets up the general feel and philosophy of an album better than this one
bob. is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 06-28-2015, 02:35 PM   #2 (permalink)
⁣
 
Plainview's Avatar
 
Join Date: Dec 2014
Posts: 721
Default
Quote:
Originally Posted by Ki View Post
I'm just messing with you.
Damn you and your dry sarcasm.

Quote:
Originally Posted by bob. View Post

^heaven on earth
Great call.

Quote:
Originally Posted by FaSho View Post
Also these:
Great call too.
__________________
Quote:
Originally Posted by DeadChannel
The overuse of babe/baby, the lack of any sort of discernible originality, the melodrama and the general sense of an especially heinous sort of hardcore vapid stupidity all make me want to jab my eyes out with a drill-press and then hang myself from the CN Tower with an electrified rope that sends shocks in excess of 10,000 volts through my body as I slowly die. While listening to Dream Theater.
Plainview is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 06-28-2015, 04:57 PM   #3 (permalink)
Music Addict
 
Screen13's Avatar
 
Join Date: Jan 2010
Posts: 1,388
Default
Quote:
Originally Posted by bob. View Post


^i don't think i can honestly think of an opening track that sets up the general feel and philosophy of an album better than this one
Bringing back some major memories of listening to this album for the first time around 1992.
Screen13 is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 06-28-2015, 02:08 PM   #4 (permalink)
silky smooth
 
YorkeDaddy's Avatar
 
Join Date: Aug 2011
Location: Pangaea
Posts: 4,079
Default
I think I'd nominate London Calling

Also Nujabes - Feather is pretty ****ing superb

__________________
http://cloudcover1.bandcamp.com/
http://daydreamsociety.bandcamp.com/

9-Time Winner of MusicBanter's "Most Qualified to be a Moderator" Award

Quote:
Originally Posted by The Batlord View Post
On this one your voice is kind of weird but really intense and awesome
YorkeDaddy is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 06-28-2015, 02:15 PM   #5 (permalink)
SOPHIE FOREVER
 
Frownland's Avatar
 
Join Date: Aug 2011
Location: East of the Southern North American West
Posts: 35,541
Default
Sleep - Dopesmoker
__________________
Studies show that when a given norm is changed in the face of the unchanging, the remaining contradictions will parallel the truth.
Frownland is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 06-28-2015, 02:16 PM   #6 (permalink)
moon lake inc.
 
Machine's Avatar
 
Join Date: Oct 2014
Location: Detroit
Posts: 2,125
Default
Quote:
Originally Posted by Frownland View Post
Sleep - Dopesmoker
True
Machine is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 06-28-2015, 02:31 PM   #7 (permalink)
____
 
FaSho's Avatar
 
Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: NC
Posts: 5,279
Default
The first section of Storm by GY!BE which shares the same title as the album is pretty much the perfect way to start an album.

Also these:

__________________
Quote:
Originally Posted by Janszoon View Post
What? No. No. No. No no no.
FaSho is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 06-28-2015, 03:27 PM   #8 (permalink)
Remember the underscore
 
Pet_Sounds's Avatar
 
Join Date: Feb 2014
Location: The other side
Posts: 2,488
Default
London Calling, without a doubt.
__________________
Everybody's dying just to get the disease
Pet_Sounds is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 06-28-2015, 04:29 PM   #9 (permalink)
moon lake inc.
 
Machine's Avatar
 
Join Date: Oct 2014
Location: Detroit
Posts: 2,125
Default


Honestly I've never heard a more bleak opening to an album.
Machine is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 06-28-2015, 04:47 PM   #10 (permalink)
Music Addict
 
Screen13's Avatar
 
Join Date: Jan 2010
Posts: 1,388
Default
To those who have not heard this, the feedback starts up in this video about 4 seconds in, and it's a high pitch and loud.
Screen13 is offline   Reply With Quote
Reply
Page 3 of 4 12 3 4

« Previous Thread | Next Thread »

Similar Threads


Terms & Privacy - Contact Us - Music Banter - Archive - Top

© 2003-2025 Advameg, Inc.