Your Fave First Seconds Of An Album Thread

[Blagsta]

GYBE! - f#a#Oo

Low bass drone and gravelly voice - "the car's on fire and there's no driver at the wheel"

 

[BadlyDrawnGirl]

Sore Throat - 'Never Mind The Napalm'. Commences with a sample of the film 'Cannibal Ferox': "they tied him to a tree, and then they cut off his genitals...and then, they ate them!"

Has to be a contender at least.

 

[fishfingerer]

Husker Du - New Day Rising. Thumping drums and what music hacks probably call skin flaying guitar.

 

[loud 1]

skunk anansie:charly big potato

 

[i_hate_beckham]

No.

I was just making a joke.

Nevermind.

Yep the opening seconds of Nevermind is fantastic.

 

[i_hate_beckham]

RATM, self titled album. You know it's going to be a fun ride as soon as it all kicks off

This is very true.

 

[fishfingerer]

Never Mind The Bollocks. But it would have been so much mightier if it had opened with god save the queen.

 

[i_hate_beckham]

Never Mind The Bollocks. But it would have been so much mightier if it had opened with god save the queen.

Great album crap intro.

 

[isvicthere?]

The one drum beat with a slight echo, which begins "Like a rolling stone", the opening track on "Highway 61 Revisited", still does it for me.

 

[AverageJoe]

The beginning of 'From Out of Nowhere' by Faith no more. The first three songs on that blew me away at the time

The intro of Hit The City by Mark Lanegan

The Intro of The Spy Who Loved Me by Carly Simon

 

[oneflewover]

And in the death, As the last few corpses lay rotting on the slimy thoroughfare.

Quite a shock as a 15year old and the pop of the time, to hear the whines and howls and then these lyrics.

Or maybe sheltered upbringing?

 

[Artie Fufkin]

I'll second The Smiths 'The Queen Is Dead'.

Off the top of my head, the opening bass on 'I Wanna Be Adored' from the first Stones Roses album. makes me tingle

 

[milesy]

the intro to "can't punish me" on dom & roland's "back for the future" CD is very very cool indeed. it starts off sounding a bit like an angry moth fluttering around in a lampshade trying to escape. and then those stabs come in and it slowly builds up to the tune proper with it's fuck off bass and brilliantly used reeses...

 

[Dask]

"You are now about to witness the strength of street knowledge"

 

[Dubversion]

I'll second The Smiths 'The Queen Is Dead'.

Off the top of my head, the opening bass on 'I Wanna Be Adored' from the first Stones Roses album. makes me tingle

especially the version on the live video, eh?

 

[Orang Utan]

Drexciya - Neptune's Layer

 

[sam/phallocrat]

smash - the offspring

'aaaaah, it's time to relax . . .'

 

[Artie Fufkin]

especially the version on the live video, eh?

well, until the vocals kick-in. natch

 

[Reg in slippers]

a somewhat traditionalist viewpoint, but the opening of gimme shelter on let it bleed always hits the spot

 

[g force]

Three Feet high and Rising - okay the intro is as long as some songs, but first time I got the album I thought WTF. The first listne of that album has always stuck with me...track after track of sampling genius.

 

[isvicthere?]

Edited until I can spell!

 

[AverageJoe]

Ooh Ooh Ooh!

*waves hand in the air*


The intro to Back In Black - ACDC

 

[legwarmer]

What about the opening smashing of glass sound on The Prodigy's 'Music for the jilted generation' - wicked.