Your Personal Favourite Album Openers...

...love all of those, The Mars Volta one and The Cure the most.

How about this one, good 'ol Porcupine Tree, it's short and simple and carries into Synesthesia so well:
Porcupine Tree - 'What You Are Listening To / Synesthesia' (ALBUM: Up The Downstair)

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(Unfortunately I couldn't find a vid where they've been corabined so you can't really get the feel of how it flows straight after the spoken intro. Plus Youtubes quality is crap)
 
I feel these are excellent openers.

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Death From Above 1979 - Turn it Out

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Fugazi - Turnover

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The Locust - Aotkpta
 
Can't find a vid for it, but the 2 minute intro to Dieselboy's Project Human mix-cd is probably my favorite. It's got the dude that does movie preview voice-overs talking about how you've entered the future, robots are taking over, rogue-scientists are trying to save us from annihilation, etc. Sick intro, and totally gets you in the mood for the dark/techy DnB that is to follow. :)


If it has to be an actual song then I would have to pick Zao - The Buzzing on their Parade of Chaos album. Back in '02, this shocked me when I first heard it, and I loved how this disc just tore your face off from the very get go. Still can get pretty hyper when this is on.

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When I think of getting an album kicked off I think of this nifty little guitar riff with the screams in the background:

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Also, this probably won't be a popular sentiment 'round these parts but I liked the way KoRn's catalog starts with Jonathan Davis screaming "Arrrrreeeee Yooooouuuuu Readyyyyy?" on this song:

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Lastly, I love the ten seconRAB of horns that opens Good News:

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And :beer: to whomever said 'Teen Age Riot'...
 
Speaking of David Bowie...

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^ I love this one. A really loud, abrasive and experimental way to kick-start a hell of an album.

One more from moi...

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^ Might be my favourite Pogues tune as well. Great lyrics, wonderful melody, fun as fuck and sets up the rest of Red Roses For Me so well.
 
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.
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In Rainbows is my favorite from Radiohead. The opening "15 Steps" was a great album opener. They've progressed so much through there music and this just gives a taste to what is to be expected from them.

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Once again this song gives the impression on what to expect from modern guilt with the whole 60's psychedelia vibe. This is my favorite opening on all of his album. Very spacey lyrics and trippy song.
 
The mood for Skinny Puppy's Rabies is set very well by the first track 'Rodent'. In fact many of their opening tracks are very well selected or created as such. This album makes my brain melt, probably because it actually did many times while listening to it on LSD. :p: Quality is pretty shite unfortunately.

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Here is 'Love in Vein' from Last Rights (fan video):

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I remeraber vividly the first time I heard this. I was already a big Pantera fan, and anxiously awaiting this album. That BRUTAL scream right off the bat let me know straight away that this album was gonna be balls-to-the-wall heavy!
 
I agree, good opener and it was also my first AFI album. I loved it at the time, but my taste for it has faded a bit since, unfortunately.
 
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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.
 
A couple that came to mind when I saw the title of the thread:

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The Clash - London Calling (London Calling)
The Smiths - The Headmaster Ritual (Meat Is Murder)
The Kinks - Victoria (Arthur Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire)
New Order - Dreams Never End (Movement)
The Stone Roses - I Wanna Be Adored (The Stone Roses)
Blur - Stereotypes (The Great Escape)
Led Zeppelin - Custard Pie (Physical Graffiti)
 
Love the song to bits but it's always sounded like it would be more appropriate on their earlier "we're going to be a Stones lookalike band" albums, not the dub symphony Screamadelica turned out to be.

In a similar vein:
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Ignore the non-Roky Erickson poser in the beginning. :)
 
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