and don't say 'smells like teen spirit'
2006-08-30 23:36:36 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous in Entertainment & Music ➔ Music
this is the best opening track on an album ..ever
2006-08-30 23:39:37 · answer #1 · answered by just me 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Interesting question!
My choice:
'Future Legend', the opening track of 'Diamond Dogs', David Bowie's concept album based on George Orwell's '1984', a nightmarish novel of a future gone wrong.
It's a bizarre song, not even sung but rather spoken by Bowie's eerie, distorted voice over an ominous synth hum and strange sound effects. The lyrics:
And in the death
As the last few corpses lay rotting in the slimy thoroughfare
The shutters lifted an inch in Temperance Building
High on Poacher's Hill
And red, mutant eyes gazed down on Hunger City
No more big wheels
Fleas the size of rats
sucked on rats the size of cats
And ten thousand peoploids, split into small tribes
Coveted the highest of the sterile skyscrapers...
family badges of sapphire
and cracked emerald
Any day now
The year of the diamond dogs
Then Bowie screams over crowd noise:
"This ain't rock 'n' roll...This is genocide!"
And it crashes straight into the famous opening chords of 'Diamond Dogs'.
Why is this my choice?
It's totally gripping, it's surreal, it sets the tone for the whole album, and the segue into 'Diamond Dogs' is extremely clever - you don't notice the 'crowd' device building up, and about 15 seconds into DD, you don't notice it's gone.
Pretty cool stuff, which is why I'd choose it over all the great riff-based / wham-bang-here-I-am / slow build intros on other rock albums.
2006-08-31 08:07:48 · answer #2 · answered by Bowzer 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Queen`s `News of the World` album opens with `We Will Rock You` and We are the Champions` maybe not the best tracks but must be the most popular.
2006-08-31 07:48:35 · answer #3 · answered by musicman 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
As in proper songs?
American Idiot - Green Day (American Idiot)
Shinobi Vs Dragon Ninja - Lost Prophets (The Fake Sound Of Progress)
Nothing - A (Hi-Fi Serious)
UnderDose - InMe (Overgrown Eden)
Faster The Chase - InMe (White Butterfly)
Others
Prelude 12/21 - A.F.I (Decemberunderground)
Prelude 3.0 - Slipknot (Vol 3: The Subliminal Verses)
2006-08-31 16:35:19 · answer #4 · answered by Andrew C 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Evanescence - Going Under...or Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit :P
2006-08-31 06:39:40 · answer #5 · answered by dark_vampire_irry 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
God theres a few here
Bombtrack, Rage against the machine
Electric head pt 1 - White Zombie Astro Creep 2000
Them Bones - Alice In Chains
Battery - Metallica Ride the Lightening
2006-08-31 07:01:52 · answer #6 · answered by poli_b2001 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The first song on the "Gratitude" album by Earth, Wind, and Fire is my favorite. I know it's an old album, but the song was recorded at a concert and the energy level coming from the band and the audience is awesome.
2006-08-31 06:42:51 · answer #7 · answered by Coltrane 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Debaser, off Doolittle by Pixies
Disorder, off Unknown Pleasures by Joy Division
Sunday Morning, off The Velvet Underground & Nico
2006-08-31 12:20:24 · answer #8 · answered by Darren C 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Heart's Club Band. For years after the album came out, any artist's defining album was always dubbed by reviewers as their "Sgt. Pepper". Anyway, The Beatles? c,mon!
2006-08-31 08:51:15 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Visitors on the ABBA Visitors Album
2006-08-31 06:43:09 · answer #10 · answered by Thasc 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋