what do you think is the best album opener?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

for me its:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Black Dog-Led Zeppelin IV

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Whole Lotta Love-Led Zeppelin II

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Immigrant Song-Led Zeppelin III

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Song Remains the Same-Houses of the Holy (Led Zeppelin)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Achilles Last Stand-Prescence (Led Zeppelin)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Speak to Me/Breathe in the Air-Dark Side of the Moon (Pink Floyd)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Shine on your Crazy Diamond-Wish you were here (Pink Floyd)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Hellion/Electric Eye-Screaming for Vengeance (Judas Priest)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Painkiller-Painkiller (Judas Priest)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Kill the Poor-Fresh Fruits for Rotting Vegetables (Dead Kennedys)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Holiday in the Sun-Never Mind the Bollocks, We're the S3x Pistols (s3x Pistols)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Prison Song-Toxicity (System of a Down)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Suite Pee-System of a Down (System of a Down)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hit the Lights-Kill Em' All (Metallica)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Blackened-...And Justice for All (Metallica)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Battery-Master of Puppets (Metallica)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Welcome to the Jungle-Appetite for Destruction (Guns N Roses)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We Die Young-Facelift (Alice in Chains)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Them Bones-Dirt (Alice in Chains)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hells Bells-Back in Black (AC/DC)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Highway to Hell-Highway to Hell (AC/DC)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Long Way to the top (if you wanna rock n roll)-High Voltage (AC/DC)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sweet Leaf-Master of Reality (Black Sabbath)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sabbath Bloody Sabbath-Sabbath Bloody Sabbath (Black Sabbath)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Black Sabbath-Black Sabbath (Black Sabbath)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Come Together-Abbey Road (Beatles)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Back in the USSR-White Album (Beatles)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sgt. Peppers Lonley Hearts Club Band-Sgt. Peppers Lonley Hearts Club Band (Beatles

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Where Eagles Dare-Piece of Mind (Iron Maiden)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Aces High-Powerslave (Iron Maiden)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thick as a Brick-Thick as a Brick (Jethro Tull)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Aqualung-Aqualung (Jethro Tull

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Death on Two Legs-Night at the Opera (Queen)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Angel of Death-Reign in Blood (Slayer)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

i'll add more if i can think of some.

It's hard to consider any of your suggestions as 'the best' or your favourite when you list so many. Pick a few man.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I'd say...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Highway Star (Machine Head) - Deep Purple

What kind of things does a great album opener need according to you? Comming up with a list of great songs that happen to be the first track on an album isn't too hard.

"Aces High" - Powerslave (Iron Maiden) and "Breaking the Law" - British Steel (Judas Priest) are the best album openers IMO.

Sounding The Seventh Trumpet - Avenged Sevenfold.

I see these songs as ones that are perfect for the opening track, not just good songs that happen to be the first one.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Stratovarius - Hunting high and low = Not really my kind of music, but pretty catchy song and a good intro in this song.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Darkthrone - En Vind av Sorg = Panzerfaust isn't even close to being the best album from Darkthrone, but still had to put this song. Raw and brutal song that really shows what Darkthrone is.

escape from hellview sets the scene pretty aptly in cKys "infiltrate, destroy, rebuild"

What kind of things does a great album opener need according to you? Comming up with a list of great songs that happen to be the first track on an album isn't too hard.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Yes. :)

"Who did you think I was?" by John Mayer on his new album, Try!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

It's a pump-up song, during which he renounces his old acoustic-love-girl-getting style and sets the tone for the entire cd.

Tool - Lateralus - The Grudge

 

 

 

Nine Inch Nails - Pretty Hate Machine - Head Like A Hole

 

 

 

A Perfect Circle - Thirteenth Step - The Hollow

 

 

 

Placebo - Sleeping With Ghosts - Bulletproof Cupid

 

What kind of things does a great album opener need according to you? Comming up with a list of great songs that happen to be the first track on an album isn't too hard.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Yes. :)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Yes what? I ask you a question why you put those songs up, and all you come up with this? You're not stupid, right? Or are you just empty but to try to give yourself some content you come up with good songs, in that case you're just as bad as the community you despise in other topics.

MoH 17-Dj Outblast Unleash the Beast , especially because the number became known :D

I like Jacqueline on Franz Ferdinand's first album - it's a nice, soft opening for a real rockin' album.

 

 

What kind of things does a great album opener need according to you? Comming up with a list of great songs that happen to be the first track on an album isn't too hard.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Yes. :)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Yes what? I ask you a question why you put those songs up, and all you come up with this? You're not stupid, right? Or are you just empty but to try to give yourself some content you come up with good songs, in that case you're just as bad as the community you despise in other topics.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

community i despise in other topics? i don't get it. :)

Bullet For My Valentine - The Poison :)

 

 

 

Orchestral parts by Apocolyptica, thunder and rain fx, and dark as hell :)

community i despise in other topics? i don't get it. :)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Never mind about that part. I took you for somebody else. My bad, sorry. Question still stands though.

 

community i despise in other topics? i don't get it. :)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Never mind about that part. I took you for somebody else. My bad, sorry. Question still stands though.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

i just thought album opener was a the first song to lead onto a great album.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

if you want me to take some off i will. :)

Pantera - The Great Southern Trendkill;

 

 

 

Strapping Young Lad - Dire.

Therion - Typhon (From the Lemuria album). The musical equivalent of a swift kick in the pants that sets the mood for the entire album.

I think the cannon studded song, For Those About to Rock (we salute you), is nice intro to the album of the same name by AC/DC.

Hmmm, I like In The Flesh of the Wall by Pink Floyd (first disc)