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Post by Archie on Dec 24, 2019 22:46:56 GMT
Let's hear em!
1. Let It Be - I Will Dare
2. The Queen is Dead - The Queen is Dead
3. Doolittle - Debaser
4. Murmur - Radio Free Europe
5. New York Dolls - Personality Crisis
6. Exile on Main St. - Rocks Off
7. The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars - Five Years
8. This Year's Model - No Action
9. Zen Arcade - Something I Learned Today
10. Darkness on the Edge of Town - Badlands
11. Fun House - Down on the Street
12. Hail to the Thief - 2 + 2 = 5
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Post by Deleted on Dec 24, 2019 23:03:02 GMT
My #1 is easily "Whatever Happened?" from Room on Fire.
A few random others off the top of my head - Tap Out from Comedown Machine, Frownland from Trout Mask Replica, Dropout from Youngboy's 4Respect, Dark Fantasy from MBDTF, Tangled Up in Blue from Blood on the Tracks, Fear Inoculum from Tool's newest album.
Rocks Off is a great call.
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Post by pacinoyes on Dec 24, 2019 23:17:37 GMT
Let's hear em! 1. Let It Be - I Will Dare 2. The Queen is Dead - The Queen is Dead 3. Doolittle - Debaser 4. Murmur - Radio Free Europe 5. New York Dolls - Personality Crisis 6. Exile on Main St. - Rocks Off 7. The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars - Five Years 8. This Year's Model - No Action 9. Zen Arcade - Something I Learned Today 10. Darkness on the Edge of Town - Badlands 11. Fun House - Down on the Street 12. Hail to the Thief - 2 + 2 = 5 A lot of my faves here on your list - but I'll pick 10 great ones from great albums too: Never Mind The Bollocks - Holidays In The Sun Highway 61 Revisited - Like A Rolling Stone Let It Bleed - Gimme Shelter L.A.M.F. - Born To Lose Leave Home - Glad To See You Go Armed Forces - Accidents Will Happen (which is exceedingly clever and starts with "I just don't know where to begin" - a great way to start an album) Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga - Don't Make Me A Target London Calling - London Calling Guitar Romantic - Modern Kicks Squeezing Out Sparks - Discovering Japan |
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Post by Joaquim on Dec 24, 2019 23:20:24 GMT
Not even a Top 5 song on the album but In the Flesh? is a great opener for The Wall. A great introduction to our main character and how if we want to get to know the real him we have to see through his facade or “claw your way through this disguise” while also setting up the first brick in his wall: the death of his father.
Hell you could really put any opener from the Roger Waters era on here.
I’ll just list a few more without any additional comments for now:
War Pigs - Paranoid (Black Sabbath)
Like a Rolling Stone - Highway 61 Revisited (Dylan)
London Calling (The Clash)
Space Oddity (Bowie)
Roadrunner (The Modern Lovers)
Smells Like Teen Spirit - Nevermind (Nirvana)
Sympathy for the Devil - Beggars Banquet (Rolling Stones)
Gimme Shelter - Let It Bleed (Rolling Stones)
Teen Age Riot - Daydream Nation (Sonic Youth)
Rusty Cage - Badmotorfinger (Soundgarden)
White Light/White Heat (The Velvet Underground)
Baba O’Reilly - Who’s Next (The Who)
Kizza Me - Third (Big Star)
Atrocity Exhibition - Closer (Joy Division)
Ok I lied. Quick comment about London Calling. The Clash open not just the best punk album ever but one of the best albums ever with their very best song and there’s probably like two dozen songs that you can say are among the best by The Clash. How many artists can you say that about?
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Post by DeepArcher on Dec 25, 2019 0:18:20 GMT
Great topic.
"Five Years" ~ Ziggy Stardust.
"Fake Empire" ~ Boxer and "Terrible Love" ~ High Violet.
"Disorder" ~ Unknown Pleasures.
Title track ~ Is This It and "What Ever Happened" ~ Room on Fire.
"2+2=5" ~ Hail to the Thief.
"One Hundred Years" ~ Pornography.
Will add more as I (surely) think of them.
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Post by Viced on Dec 25, 2019 0:25:40 GMT
Knockin on Mine (14 Songs)
You Only Live Once (First Impressions of Earth)
Is This It (Is This It)
Can't Stand Me Now (The Libertines)
Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground (White Blood Cells)
Summer Babe [Winter Version] (Slanted & Enchanted)
Silence Kid (Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain)
Tell Me Why (After the Gold Rush)
Vicious (Transformer)
Badlands (Darkness on the Edge of Town)
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Post by Deleted on Dec 25, 2019 0:54:16 GMT
Badlands (Darkness on the Edge of Town) Another really great call, actually ashamed this didn't spring to mind quicker for me  And it's the 2nd best album he's put out overall, for my money. |
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Post by pacinoyes on Dec 25, 2019 8:37:44 GMT
The two best bands of their time: I Wanna Be Adored - Stone Roses and Son of a Gun - The La's - Son of a Gun is particularly amazing in how it describes/predicts what would happen to La's leader Lee Mavers he became what he sang about here - he never made another record and he was never again of "the right mind":
If you want I'll sell you a life story
About a man who's at loggerheads
With his past all the time
He's alive and living in purgatory
All he's doing is rooming in hotels
And scooping up lots of wine
There was once a boy of life
Who lived upon a knife
He took his share of everywhere
But he never took a wife...
He was born to live like a mercenary
Well personally I think that's fine
If you're in the right mind
He was burned by the twentieth century
Now he's doing time
In the back of his mind
He can hear them outside
Better run, rabbit run
Run into the sun
Kick your heels in the killing fields
Run rabbit run
You're a son of a gun
He was born to live like a mercenary
Well personally I think that's fine
If you're in the right mind
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Post by thelistenercanon on Dec 25, 2019 13:22:53 GMT
Black Dog- Led Zeppelin IV
Death on Two Legs- A Night at the Opera by Queen
Smells Like Teen Spirit- Nevermind by Nirvana
War Pigs- Paranoid by Black Sabbath
Baba O'Riley- Who's Next by The Who
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Post by dazed on Dec 25, 2019 15:12:23 GMT
1. Let It Happen on Currents (Tame Impala)
2. Time to Pretend on Oracular Spectacular (MGMT)
3. Intro on Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming (M83)
4. Good Morning on Graduation (Kanye West)
5. Feel the Love on Kids See Ghosts (Kids See Ghosts)
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Post by eyebrowmorroco on Dec 29, 2019 11:03:54 GMT
HM: The Replacements, I Will Dare; Kate Bush, Moving
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Post by pacinoyes on Jan 8, 2020 19:48:05 GMT
The best Bowie song Bowie never wrote - this classic opener previews the titles of the songs that follow it on the album and it has an ace Britt Daniel one liner lyric too "Great dominions, they don't come cheap" - damn right.
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Post by Archie on Jan 9, 2020 0:02:14 GMT
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Post by pacinoyes on Jan 10, 2020 11:50:45 GMT
Nothing on the first Roxy Music album can prepare the audience for the opening song on their 2nd and very best album - For Your Pleasure. "Do The Strand" is a parody/mockery of dancing through the years - delivered by a singer, Bryan Ferry who was every bit the actor (on stage at least) that his peer David Bowie was (shout out to @tyler ) but far more overtly humorous.
Here the band performs it, with Ferry in a 3-piece suit (!), acting like no one as much as the Master of Ceremonies from Cabaret and more than vaguely suggesting Eurotrash run wild. The song is crass yet musically complex (with Brian Eno as the mad chemist here) - as a Pop song it's High Art that is not merely a song - it encapsulates literally decades of Art and reaction to it - all in less than 4 minutes.
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Post by mhynson27 on Jan 10, 2020 16:05:01 GMT
"This is a Public Service Announcent brought to you in part by Slim Shady"
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Post by pacinoyes on Jan 10, 2020 20:11:47 GMT
The most eagerly awaited Punk album - ever arguably, Richard Hell's debut arrived basically 4 years late after stints in other bands and just hanging around. When it did arrive well he had swiped the tune to his own/The Heartbreakers "One Track Mind" and set it to this funny, frantic rave up.
Hell didn't write that many great songs but the ones he did always have at least one fantastically memorable line -this one too "They didn't tell you that part, baby"
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Post by pacinoyes on Jan 11, 2020 19:57:57 GMT
The Replacements start their first post-Bob Stinson album with their hardest rocking song since Let it Be.....that's no coincidence and it's no coincidence in intent either - "IOU nothing" - the closest they ever came to a mission statement.
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Post by chris3 on Jan 12, 2020 2:26:20 GMT
"The Magnificent Seven", Sandinista! by The Clash
"Beyond Belief", Imperial Bedroom by Elvis Costello & the Attractions
"Everything in Its Right Place", Kid A by Radiohead
"Kill the Poor", Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables by Dead Kennedys
"Star Treatment", Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino by Arctic Monkeys
"Black Mirror", Neon Bible by Arcade Fire
"The Headmaster Ritual", Meat is Murder by The Smiths (also love "The Queen is Dead" and "Rush and a Push")
"Cecilia Ann", Bossanova by Pixies
"Dark Fantasy", My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy by Kanye West
"Back in the USSR", The Beatles by The Beatles
"Now My Heart is Full", Vauxhall and I by Morrissey
"Thank You for Sending Me an Angel", More Songs About Buildings and Food by Talking Heads
"Sackcloth and Ashes", Love is Dead by The Mr. T Experience
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Post by pacinoyes on Jan 12, 2020 18:56:41 GMT
The Ramones had already changed Rock forever by 1978 - 3 great, short albums in 16 months (!) - some cynics would say the same exact short album - they then took 10 months for album 4. Road To Ruin is either their 4th great one or at worst a slight step down with some really fantastic high points.
Whichever way you felt - it's opening track was a muscular, big sounding song with a smart contradiction at its center too: "Wait.....Now!"
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Post by pacinoyes on Jan 13, 2020 16:43:07 GMT
Continuing the list of obvious punk albums that open exceptionally.........this stupendous song opens my personal fave UK punk album before London Calling came out anyway....and it was wryly funny too "I'll be the rubbish, you'll be the bin"
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Post by pacinoyes on Jan 14, 2020 20:33:54 GMT
Patti Smith - Gloria - Horses
Patti Smith's brand of feminism was particularly masculine - not that she saw herself as a man, it was more complicated - but she dressed like one and crucially she understood the way men she liked artistically saw the world and she liked it - Rimbaud, Morrison, Keith Richards.
In what she wrote she played with words and their gender meanings a lot - "heroin(e)" for example and in what she started her career with - Van Morrison's "Gloria" mixed with an original composition of her own she contrasts and mixes the conquest of the "other" with "sin".
There had never been anything in Rock like it .....
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Post by Johnny_Hellzapoppin on Jan 15, 2020 13:46:43 GMT
The opening track from the debut album, from probably my favourite band; and it still makes a case for my favourite song from them, Top 3 at least.
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Post by pacinoyes on Jan 15, 2020 20:51:30 GMT
Wolves, Lower - REM - Chronic Town EPREM mastered the trick of the fascinating opener and the trick of mystery right from the start. The singing is opaque and layered, the lyrics hard to decipher though you can make out occasional words which makes the rest more elusive, the title is itself an enigma - as is the breakdown in the middle.........so is the cover of Chronic Town too. Everyone loves to talk about Murmur/Reckoning genius (certainly that bore pacinoyes does  ), but Chronic Town is a crucial piece too - these 3 releases gave a whole pattern/template for American bands to copy and many did with a passionate obsession. |
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Post by pacinoyes on Jan 16, 2020 15:54:46 GMT
Tell Me When It's Over - The Dream Syndicate - Days of Wine And Roses
There's not many American albums better than this one in the 1981-82 era and this song is like a lot of the great openers signaled by its very first sounds - crack of a drum and a huge, iconic riff. The band was imitating The Velvet Underground but if you never heard them, it was a thrill and if you had, you admired their good taste.
The joyous cynicism in this song points the way for all of Indie Rock ...... when Indie Rock mattered....
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Post by pacinoyes on Jan 17, 2020 6:07:40 GMT
Iggy and The Stooges - Search and Destroy - Raw Power
More of a life statement than a mere opening track really......
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And it's the 2nd best album he's put out overall, for my money. 
), but Chronic Town is a crucial piece too - these 3 releases gave a whole pattern/template for American bands to copy and many did with a passionate obsession.