username Posted March 29, 2007 Share Posted March 29, 2007 (edited) Like the title said. And I don't mean fictional. Just songs that really ARE album openers. And also, why?Guns n' Roses - Appetite For Destruction - Welcome To The JungleDo I need to explain? this song grabs your nutsack, twists it around and makes you squeal. Pink Floyd - The Wall - In The FleshBecause it's like an intro to the story and a good one at that. "If you wanna find out what's behind these cold eyes, you'll just have to blow your way through this disguise." It puts the story of the album right there and has this very theatrical tone. Love it! Perfect for the album. Metallica - Master Of Puppets - Battery Kinda like Jungle, but this time it beats your head in with a sledgehammer. So powerful and heavy it just grabs you. AC/DC - The Razors Edge - ThunderstruckThe intro, 'nuff said. Flogging Molly - Drunken Lullabies - Drunken LullabiesBecause this track more than anything shows what Flogging Molly is all about. It's catchy, it's traditional but it has the typical Molly twist. It makes you want to hear more of them. It's the track that got me into Flogging Molly. ok...I didn't want to put Floyd in twice, but... Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here - Shine On You Crazy Diamond (part I - V)For all the obvious reasons. The slooooow intro that takes you further and further and just when you're waiting for the song to "explode" you realize you're already in the middle of the explosion. Who is to add...? Edited March 29, 2007 by username Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JONEZY Posted March 29, 2007 Share Posted March 29, 2007 Van Halen - Runnin' with the devilLove the car horns going into Mike's bass. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrslash Posted March 29, 2007 Share Posted March 29, 2007 Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit and Pantera - Cowboys From Hell. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Third Man Posted March 29, 2007 Share Posted March 29, 2007 Bruce Springsteen - Thunder Road (Born To Run/HammerSmith 75)One of the most beautiful songs of all time, and a fantastic opener to a fantastic albumIron Maiden - Aces HighWhat can I say? Pure arse-kicking metal Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrslash Posted March 29, 2007 Share Posted March 29, 2007 Iron Maiden - Aces HighWhat can I say? Pure arse-kicking metalFuck yeah, forgot that one!Also Holy Wars by Megadeth. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
damian 1200 Posted March 29, 2007 Share Posted March 29, 2007 Opeth - Still Life [1999]The Moor Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rQueen Posted March 29, 2007 Share Posted March 29, 2007 Pull me under- Images.., Dream TheaterAces high as TTM saidBe quick or be dead (Fear of the Dark -Maiden) Actually most Maiden albumsEnter Sandman - Black Album,MetallicaJungle - AFD, GNRAll I can think about now Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bass71player Posted March 29, 2007 Share Posted March 29, 2007 song remains the same anyone? perfect opener for Houses of the Holymy favorite zep album Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
worldwideboss Posted March 29, 2007 Share Posted March 29, 2007 Aerosmith - Rocks - Back In The SaddleThe intro just sets you up for the album, and that scream of Tyler "I'm baaaaack!" is incredible.Bob Dylan - Bringing It All Back Home - Subterranean Homesick BluesAs soon as you hear the electric guitar and Dylan starts rushing those words, you know you're in for a classic.Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited - Like A Rolling StoneNeed I say anything?Bob Dylan - Planet Waves - On A Night Like ThisI love this album, and especially this song. It's a different Dylan, but still interesting. His vocals also made me fall in love with the song. I absolutely love his voice.Bob Dylan - Blood On The Tracks - Tangled Up In BlueTangled Up In Blue is crucial to get what Blood On The Tracks is about. The heartbreak present in the song (and the album, for that matter) is instantly revealed by Dylan's vocal tone and the slower atmosphere. Brilliant.Bruce Springsteen - Greetings From Asbury Park, N.J. - Blinded By The LightBlinded By The Light is a song that just gets you hooked and doesn't let you stop singing along, even though you probably won't be able to pronounce half of the words, and most that you do pronounce are wrong. The rhythm is contageous. Also sets up nicely a great album.Bruce Springsteen - Born To Run - Thunder RoadAs Bruce himself said on VH1 Storytellers, Thunder Road is the invitation to Born To Run. The invitation to run away from the life you have and search for something more, something better. One of the best songs ever written.Bruce Springsteen - Darkness On The Edge Of Town - BadlandsBadlands is different from everything Bruce had written before Darkness, yet it has that Springsteen touch that is impossible to copy. A nice start for a great album.Deep Purple - Stormbringer - StormbringerStormbringer may not be the best Purple album - probably not even close -, but the title track is just a pure rocker that I like very much.Dire Straits - Making Movies - Tunnel Of LoveThe Carousel Waltz, the solos, the lyrics, everything about Tunnel Of Love is magic. Knopfler's best composition, hands down.Don McLean - American Pie - American PieEven though Don McLean is not just American Pie, it certainly is a masterpiece and one of his best songs. The album is very good and underrated, but this is one of the highlights.Guns N' Roses - Appetite For Destruction - Welcome To The JungleWhat Ron said.Guns N' Roses - Use Your Illusion I - Right Next Door To HellJust a kick in the balls, blasted at full-speed, with an amazing intro.Guns N' Roses - Use Your Illusion II - Civil WarA great long song, and one of the highlights on UYI II. Slash's solos and Axl's screams are top notch in here.Pink Floyd - Dark Side Of The Moon - Speak To Me/BreatheThis inseparable duo does a great job of introducing DSOTM. Breathe is one of the best songs in Floyd's entire catalogue.Queen - A Night At The Opera - Death On Two Legs (Dedicated To...)Not one of Queen's best songs, but a damn fine opener that does its job very well.Roger Waters - The Pros & Cons Of Hitch Hiking - 4:30 AM (Apparently They Were Travelling Abroad)A high point in this album. There's a point where you think the song's gonna explode, but it keeps building towards the next song (Running Shoes), which is when it does explode. Waters did a brilliant job on this one.The Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers - Brown SugarBrown Sugar has to be one of the best rockers of all time, and certainly a good way to start things off on Sticky Fingers.The Rolling Stones - Exile On Main Street - Rocks OffBrown Sugar, however, doesn't beat Rocks Off. This songs is just pure awesomeness. It has everything and really gets you pumped up for the rest of the album (which definitely delivers). The saxophone on it is gorgeous.Stone Temple Pilots - Core - Dead And BloatedBefore the instrumental section starts, Weiland's maniac voice makes the song. Great way to open Core.Thin Lizzy - Jailbreak - JailbreakThe riff is awesome and the whole song is fantastic. Probably the best on the album.Tom Waits - Closing Time - Ol' 55My favourite Tom Waits album and one of my favourite songs by him. Breathtakingly beautiful.Velvet Revolver - Contraband - Sucker Train BluesAs soon as the riff kicks in, you know what kind of rock 'n' roll odissey you're in for. A very agressive song that really sold me onto Velvet Revolver.The Velvet Underground - Loaded - Who Loves The SunThis was the first song I heard by The Velvet Underground and I loved it ever since I heard the vocals. A very good song from a very good album.Okay... Maybe I exaggerated a little bit... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Third Man Posted March 29, 2007 Share Posted March 29, 2007 What about Refuse/Resist on Sepultura's Chaos A.D. album! Also the kind of song that grabs you with all it's power. Just hearing that song pisses me off like crazy in the best kind of way. Love it!Heck yeah! That's an amazing album!Shame they had to go and do pieces of shit like 'Roots' though Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maximo Posted March 29, 2007 Share Posted March 29, 2007 Megadeth - Holy Wars - Rust In PeaceIron Maiden - Aces Highand Jungle Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
damian 1200 Posted March 29, 2007 Share Posted March 29, 2007 What about Refuse/Resist on Sepultura's Chaos A.D. album! Also the kind of song that grabs you with all it's power. Just hearing that song pisses me off like crazy in the best kind of way. Love it!Two slayer albums with great openers which grab you with all their mighty powerful might!!Reign in Blood - Angel Of DeathSeasons in The Abyss - War Ensemble Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
axlslash Posted March 29, 2007 Share Posted March 29, 2007 Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited (Like a Rolling Stone)Simply the greatest rock song ever recorded. The drum beat is the Shot Heard 'Round The World to usher in the new era of Bob's career and of rock music in general.Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band - Born to Run (Thunder Road)Thunder Road is a song that encapsulates all of the complexities of the story to come in the rest of the record. It is very much the overture to the drama to come in the rest of the album.Bob Dylan - Modern Times (Thunder On The Mountain)The blues intro to the song grabs you and pulls you into the shuffle of genius that is TOTM. The song then shows you that Dylan can still write about everything from love to politics - all recurring themes on the rest of the most excellent record.Bruce Springsteen - Born in the USA (Born In The USA)Need I say more? One of the most misunderstood songs in rock history, Springsteen but a definedly 80s pop sound to a Dylan-esque protest song and showed the world that it's possible to be intelligent and provacative within a very modern sound Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
worldwideboss Posted March 29, 2007 Share Posted March 29, 2007 Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited - Like A Rolling StoneNeed I say anything?This is probably my favorite Dylan song of all time. It's beyond amazing in every possible way. But as an album opener? You kind of ensure nothing else on the album will be as good as this. And that's a bit weird.Highway 61 Revisited is one hell of an album. Sure, probably nothing else is as good as it, but the album doesn't go downhill from there. Like A Rolling Stone isn't much better than the rest of the record, which says something about it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
worldwideboss Posted March 29, 2007 Share Posted March 29, 2007 (edited) Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited - Like A Rolling StoneNeed I say anything?This is probably my favorite Dylan song of all time. It's beyond amazing in every possible way. But as an album opener? You kind of ensure nothing else on the album will be as good as this. And that's a bit weird.Highway 61 Revisited is one hell of an album. Sure, probably nothing else is as good as it, but the album doesn't go downhill from there. Like A Rolling Stone isn't much better than the rest of the record, which says something about it.Given, but it's still a climax at the beginning.Well, it kinda is, but the fact that the album maintains its quality, leading up to the grand finale (Desolation Row) doesn't make it a bad opener. I think the best songs on the record are the first and the last, so it makes Like A Rolling Stone a good opener - at least from my point of view. Edited March 29, 2007 by worldwideboss Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
axlslash Posted March 29, 2007 Share Posted March 29, 2007 Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited - Like A Rolling StoneNeed I say anything?This is probably my favorite Dylan song of all time. It's beyond amazing in every possible way. But as an album opener? You kind of ensure nothing else on the album will be as good as this. And that's a bit weird.Highway 61 Revisited is one hell of an album. Sure, probably nothing else is as good as it, but the album doesn't go downhill from there. Like A Rolling Stone isn't much better than the rest of the record, which says something about it.Highway 61 doesn't go downhill at all! The whole album is a pure work of musical genius (after all, it is Bob Dylan!). The rest of the record is, while not nearly musically as good as LARS, perfect. Fillers are songs like Tombstone Blues and From a Buic 6 - songs that are radio singles on any record by any other band. The record also contains arguably Dylan's greatest experimental song (Ballad of a Thin Man) as well as possibly his greatest lyrical work (Desolation Row). It doesn't go downhill, it's simply different as it goes on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zeppelin Posted March 29, 2007 Share Posted March 29, 2007 Megadeth - Last Rites/Loved to Deth - Album: Killing is my BusinessQueensrÿche - Walk in the Shadows - Album: Rage For OrderLed Zeppelin - Achilles Last Stand - Album: PresencePaul McCartney & Wings - Band on the Run - Album: Band on the RunBruce Dickinson - King in Crimson - Album: The Chemical WeddingBilly Joel - Big Shot - Album: 52nd StreetThe Who - Baba O' Riley - Album: Who's NextMotörhead - Ace of Spades - Album: Ace of SpadesSavatage - 24 Hours Ago - Album: Hall of the Mountain KingSkid Row - Monkey Business - Album: Slave to the GrindJohnny Cash - The Man Comes Around - Album: American IV: The Man Comes AroundVan Halen - Mean Street - Album: Fair WarningBlack Sabbath - Neon Knights - Album: Heaven and HellThe Beatles - Come Together - Album: Abbey RoadRush - Subdivisions - Album: SignalsRush - 2112 - Album: 2112Rush - Anthem - Album: Fly By NightThe Offspring - Time to Relax/Nitro (Youth Energy) - Album: SmashThe Offspring - Disclaimer/The Meaning of Life - Album: Ixnay on the HombreI love good album openers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Third Man Posted March 29, 2007 Share Posted March 29, 2007 Forgot to mention:Deep Purple - Highway Star (Machine Head)One of the hardest rocking songs of all time, straight up energy! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-Sephiroth- Posted March 29, 2007 Share Posted March 29, 2007 My Dying Bride - cry of mankind (Angel and the dark river) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maximo Posted March 29, 2007 Share Posted March 29, 2007 Megadeth- Wake up DeadMost megadeth albums have amazing openers, Holy Wars, Blackmail The Universe, Skin O' My Teeth, Wake Up Dead, Last Rites/Loved to Deth. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rQueen Posted March 29, 2007 Share Posted March 29, 2007 Forgot to mention:Deep Purple - Highway Star (Machine Head)One of the hardest rocking songs of all time, straight up energy!Yay too right! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
worldwideboss Posted March 29, 2007 Share Posted March 29, 2007 Forgot to mention:Deep Purple - Highway Star (Machine Head)One of the hardest rocking songs of all time, straight up energy!I completely forgot that one. Great opener. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
axlslash Posted March 29, 2007 Share Posted March 29, 2007 Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited - Like A Rolling StoneNeed I say anything?This is probably my favorite Dylan song of all time. It's beyond amazing in every possible way. But as an album opener? You kind of ensure nothing else on the album will be as good as this. And that's a bit weird.Highway 61 Revisited is one hell of an album. Sure, probably nothing else is as good as it, but the album doesn't go downhill from there. Like A Rolling Stone isn't much better than the rest of the record, which says something about it.Given, but it's still a climax at the beginning.It's the foreplay to the sex that is Highway 61 Revisited. It's the quick climax to get you ready for the wonderful sex (the body of the album) that leads to the ultimate orgasm/climax (Desolation Row) at the end. That a better analogy for you? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Sandman Posted March 29, 2007 Share Posted March 29, 2007 Through The Fire And Flames - DragonForce - Inhuman Rampage.Benzin - Rammstein - Rosenrot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dead Flower Posted March 30, 2007 Share Posted March 30, 2007 (edited) Hmm, just off the top of my head...You Think I Ain't Worth a Dollar, But I Feel Like a Millionaire - Songs For The DeafWelcome To The Jungle - AFDRusty Cage - BadmotorfingerEverything in its Right Place - Kid AFolsom Prison Blues - At Folsom Prison (live)The Queen Is Dead - The Queen Is DeadSucker Train Blues - ContrabandPrelude 3.0 - Vol. 3: (The Subliminal Verses)Cochise - AudioslaveThe Mercy Seat - Tender PreyDo You Love Me? - Let Love InOl' 55 - Closing TimeI Am One - GishBittersweet Symphony - Urban HymnsHells Bells - Back In BlackThe Grudge - Lateralus Edited March 30, 2007 by Dead Flower Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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