WastedL1ght Posted January 18, 2014 Share Posted January 18, 2014 Since there is a thread for album enders, I thought why not make one for great openers too. Here are some of my favorites:Circa Survive - Birth of the Economic Hit Man (Violent Waves)Circa Survive - Holding Someone's Hair Back (Juturna)Eisley - Currents (Currents)Eisley - Many Funerals (Combinations)Sucré - Hiding Out (A Minor Bird)Basement - Whole (Colourmeinkindness)Deafheaven - Dream House (Sunbather)City and Colour - ...Off By Heart (Sometimes)Balance and Composure - Parachutes (The Things We Think We're Missing)Queens of the Stone Age - You Think I Ain't Worth A Dollar, But I Feel Like A Millionaire (Songs For The Deaf)Underoath - In Division (Disambiguation)We Are The Ocean - Stanford Rivers (Maybe Today, Maybe Tomorrow)Touché Amoré - ~ (Parting The Sea Between Brightness and Me)Skream - Perferated (Outside The Box)Burial - Untitled / Archangel (Untrue) Mogwai - White Noise (Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will)The xx - Intro (xx) amnstypls 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thrice55 Posted January 18, 2014 Share Posted January 18, 2014 FailureByDesign 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eight1echo Posted January 18, 2014 Share Posted January 18, 2014 Queens of the Stone Age - You Think I Ain't Worth A Dollar, But I Feel Like A Millionaire (Songs For The Deaf) One of the best openers ever. some more: Interpol - Untitled (Turn on the Bright Lights) GZA - Liquid Swords (Liquid Swords) Black Sabbath - Sweetleaf (Master of Reality) Built to Spill - The Plan (Keep It Like A Secret) Shit, every Built to Spill album has a killer opener. Miamasa 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted January 18, 2014 Share Posted January 18, 2014 Yes! I Am A Long Way From Home by Mogwai is the best album opener ever. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
topher Posted January 18, 2014 Share Posted January 18, 2014 Planet Telex Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amnstypls Posted January 18, 2014 Share Posted January 18, 2014 Finch - New Beginnings Converge - Dark Horse Emery - Walls mike_eppenbro 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wiscodeman Posted January 18, 2014 Share Posted January 18, 2014 I am a big fan of how bands open their albums. I could make a long list, but I'll keep it short. Converge - Concubine (Jane Doe) Do Make Say Think - Fredericia (Winter Hymn Country Hymn Secret Hymn) Explosions In The Sky - every Track 1 for every album, honestly. Justice - Genesis (†) LCD Soundsystem - Dance Yrself Clean (This Is Happening) M83 - Moonchild (Before The Dawn Heals Us) M83 - Intro (Hurry Up, We're Dreaming) Modern Life Is War - The Outsiders aka Hell Is For Heroes (Witness) Murder By Death - The Devil In Mexico (Who Will Survive, And What Will Be Left Of Them?) Wu-Tang Clan - Bring Da Ruckus (Enter The Wu-Tang - 36 Chambers) mike_eppenbro 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sonsofvipers Posted January 18, 2014 Share Posted January 18, 2014 From the top of my head: 'Contact' from Come Now Sleep by As Cities Burn'The Birth and Death of the Day' from All Of A Sudden I Miss Everyone by Explosions in the Sky 'A Three Legged Workhorse' from This Will Destroy You by This Will Destroy You also 'Torches Together', 'Messes of Men', and 'February 1878' by mewithoutYou, from Catch For Us the Foxes, Brother Sister, and Ten Stories respectively. edit: oooh also 'Back to Back' from The Fiancee by the Chariot grizzlyfoz, Koolhandnick and deafening 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shelby Posted January 18, 2014 Share Posted January 18, 2014 Pavement - Summer Babe Pixies - Debaser Mount Eerie - Pale Lights Built to Spill - Goin' Against Your Mind, plus the rest. Modest Mouse - 3rd Planet Archers of Loaf - Web in Front Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andi Posted January 18, 2014 Share Posted January 18, 2014 Old Man Gloom . gift /// Chritmas Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deafening Posted January 19, 2014 Share Posted January 19, 2014 Explosions In The Sky - every Track 1 for every album, honestly. Especially Greet Death. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deafening Posted January 19, 2014 Share Posted January 19, 2014 The Morning Benders - Big Echo | Excuses Moving Mountains - Pneuma | Aphelion This Will Destroy You - Young Mountain | Quiet Maserati - Inventions for the New Season | Inventions Matt & Kim - Grand | Daylight Derek™ 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eight1echo Posted January 19, 2014 Share Posted January 19, 2014 Maserati - Inventions for the New Season | Inventions Good one Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deafening Posted January 19, 2014 Share Posted January 19, 2014 I've listened to it more times than I can count, and I still never grow tired of it. and I forgot the most important one From Monument to Masses - Schools of Thought Contend | Deafening Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maskedvigilante Posted January 19, 2014 Share Posted January 19, 2014 Skinny Mean Man by Say Anything Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrewest Posted January 19, 2014 Share Posted January 19, 2014 Deftones - Hexagram Dredg - Symbol Song Muse - Apocalypse Please (I don't count "Intro") Thursday - For the Workforce, Drowning Thrice - Cold Cash & Colder Hearts & for the win... Russian Circles - 309 nobodybrokeurheart and Derek™ 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Youinreverse Posted January 19, 2014 Share Posted January 19, 2014 Modest Mouse have a ton of good openers. Dramamine, Teeth Like Gods Shoeshine, and 3rd Planet are all excellent openers. Edit: ooh, Willful Suspension of Disbelief is really good too... njpunkmusic 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dusted_By_Space Posted January 19, 2014 Share Posted January 19, 2014 The cures 100 years opening pornography. Such a good indicator of things to come on that record. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Youinreverse Posted January 19, 2014 Share Posted January 19, 2014 I'm also going to throw Radiohead's 15 Step in here. Right as soon as that guitar part came in I was hooked on that album. withengineheart and tvham 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tvham Posted January 19, 2014 Share Posted January 19, 2014 Counting Crows - Round Here Guns n Roses - Welcome to the Jungle TV on the Radio - Halfway Home Phoenix - Lisztomania R.E.M. - Begin the Begin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
diabretic Posted January 19, 2014 Share Posted January 19, 2014 Metallica-Hit The Lights Saves the Day-At Your Funeral Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Youinreverse Posted January 19, 2014 Share Posted January 19, 2014 Titus Andronicus - A More Perfect Union And So I Watch You From Afar - Set Guitars To Kill Ride - Seagull Captain Beefheart -Sure 'Nuff N' Yes I Do Beck - The Golden Age Fever Ray - If I Had A Heart Josh Ritter - Girl In The War New Order - Ceremony Isis - Hall of The Dead Mogwai - Yes! I Am A Long Way From Home My Morning Jacket - Wordless Chorus Eels - Theme From Blinking Lights Elvis Costello - Welcome To The Working Week Yann Tiersen - J'y Suis Jamais Alle Neil Young - Out On The Weekend This was my first record, and the pop and crackle of the beginning of this song holds some great memories for me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
withengineheart Posted January 19, 2014 Share Posted January 19, 2014 Metallica- Blackened gets me stoked every time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted January 19, 2014 Share Posted January 19, 2014 BLACK SABBATH - BLACK SABBATH HOW OFTEN DOES A SONG FUCKING CREATE A GENRE AND JUST NAIL IT PERFECTLY AT THE SAME TIME? THIS SONG DOES THAT. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paynegretzky Posted January 19, 2014 Share Posted January 19, 2014 So many great ones. These were the first that came to mind suicidal tendencies - suicide's an alternative (the laughing, most notably) at the drive in - arcarsenal new order- age of consent weezer - tired of sex radiohead - planet telex sex pistols - holiday in the sun kanye west - good morning nas - no introduction sunny day real estate - seven & friday AlexMBentley 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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