Greatest Opening Songs of Albums

This doesn't exactly have to do with how good the song is but mostly how it starts off the album, you know what I mean.

Here's my list:

Radiohead- Everything in its Right Place (Kid A)

Radiohead- 2+2=5 (Hail to the Thief)

Radiohead- Airbag (OK Computer)

Radiohead- Pact Like Sardines In a Crushd Tin Box (Amnesiac)

Animal Collective- In the Flowers (Merriweather Post Pavillion

Animal Collective- Leaf House (Sung Tongs)

Pavement- Stereo (Brighten The Corners)

Modest Mouse- Teeth Like God's Shoeshine (The Lonesome Crowded West)

Modest Mouse- 3rd Planet (The Moon & Antarctica)

...And You Wil Know Us By The Trail of Dead- It Was There That I Saw You (Source Tags and Codes)

The Arcade Fire- Neighborhood #1 [Tunnels] (Funeral

Panda bear- Comfy in Nautica (Person Pitch)

Wilco- I Am Trying To Break Your Heart (Yankee Hotel Foxtrot)

The Avalanches- Since I Left You (Since I Left You

The Beatles- Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band)

The Beatles- The Magical Mystery Tour (The Magical Mystery Tour)

The Dismemberment Plan- A Life of Possibilities (Emergency & I)

The Who- Baba O' Riley (Who's Next)

The Clash- London Calling (London Calling)

Wish You Were Here- Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Parts I-V)

Powerslave- Aces High

Green River- Green River

Paranoid- War Pigs/Luke's Wall

Carry On Wayward Son by Kansas off of Leftoverture. Pretty much the only song you ever need to hear from them, but damn it is an awesome way to start an album.

Achilles' Last Stand of Led Zeppelin's album Presence.

Best track on the album and one of my favorite Zep songs.

Hot Fuss(The Killers)- Jenny was a friend of mine

Ok Computer(Radiohead) - Airbag

Disintegration(The Cure)- Plainsong

I've always liked the intros done on albums by Jay-Z and Kanye West.

Song of the Century..... BY FAR.

Man, when the lights when out, and this came blasting through the speakers, I got shivers. Everyone in the room got empowered with emotion and energy.

It also creates a great vibe just before you listen to the 17 track opera.

Edit: Thought the thread meant openings, not openers.

You stole a bunch of my picks TC. :evil:

The Hold Steady- Stuck Between Stations (Boys and Girls in America)

Joy Division- Disorder (Unknown Pleasures)

The National- Fake Empire (Boxer)

Serge Gainsbourg- Melody [Extrait de Melody Nelson] (Histoire de Melody Nelson)

MGMT- Time to Pretend (Oracular Spectacular)

Okkervil River- Our Life is not a Movie or Maybe (The Stage Names)

The White Stripes- Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground (White Blood Cells)

Song of the Century..... BY FAR.

Man, when the lights when out, and this came blasting through the speakers, I got shivers. Everyone in the room got empowered with emotion and energy.

It also creates a great vibe just before you listen to the 17 track opera.

Edit: Thought the thread meant openings, not openers.

With A Thousand Words To Say But One - Darkest Hour (Undoing Ruin)

Great song, great kick off to a great album.

TC, I agree with a lot of those songs if not all of them. Good choices.

For me...

The Smashing Pumpkins-Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness

The Smashing Pumpkins-To Shiela

Bjork- Earth Intruders

Pearl Jam-Once

Silversun Pickups- Melatonin

Those are the ones off the top of my head, to lazy to think of more.

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I think the best one in my opinion and my personal favorite is "Funeral for a Friend (Love Lies Bleeding)" by Elton John from the Goodbye Yellow Brick Road album. It just builds up the tention in the beginning and it starts to rock.

Wow, I cannot believe no one mentioned Muse yet. They have two of the best openers ever!

Anyways, heres some great openers:

Muse-Take a Bow (Black Holes and Revelations)

Muse-New Born (Origin of Symmetry)

Machine Head-Clenching the Fists of Dissent (The Blackening)

Nine Inch Nails-Mister Self Destruct (The Downward Spiral)

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

Metallica-Battery (Master of Puppets)

Metallica-Fight Fire with Fire (Ride the Lightning)

Megadeth-Holy Wars...Punishment is Due (Rust in Piece)

Opeth-Ghost of Perdition (Ghost Reveries)

Avenged Sevenfold-The Beast and the Harlot (City of Evil)

I'll go with the obvious

Smells Like teen Spirit - Nevermind

Welcome To the Jungle- Appetite for Destruction

Just bombastic ways of starting an album.

some others:

New Day Rising- New Day Rising (Husker Du)

New Born- Origin of Symmetry

EDIT: and also In Between Days- Head On the Door (The Cure)