Motorhead - "Ace of Spades"
― snoball, Monday, 10 November 2008 21:59 (fifteen years ago) link
AC/DC-If You Want Blood You Got It
Amps buzzing leading into Riff Raff, crowd out of control
― Bill Magill, Monday, 10 November 2008 22:05 (fifteen years ago) link
Pretty sure I could easier think of albums that couldn't (and didn't) follow through after an initially exhilarating opening. Most of my long-term favourites required at least 3-5 playings to announce themselves as stunners. And as for albums that I rightly recognized as stunners on first playing, the realization generally takes 2 1/2 songs to kick in. I'm sure there's some kind of semi-conscious "rule-of-three"-awareness instinct involved.
― Myonga Vön Bontee, Monday, 10 November 2008 22:18 (fifteen years ago) link
The Low End Theory
― a hoy hoy, Monday, November 10, 2008 8:17 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark
oh fuck how did i not think of this
i have been known to just rewind to hear the bass and opening lines multiple times
― BIG HOOS' macaroni is off the motherfucking chain (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Monday, 10 November 2008 22:25 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.student.uib.no/~ane041/1%20-%20Fotoprosjekt/homegrown-dodgy.jpg
― Geir Hongro, Monday, 10 November 2008 22:33 (fifteen years ago) link
"Have mercy on me, sir/ allow me to impose on you"
among others
― Vision, Monday, 10 November 2008 23:12 (fifteen years ago) link
Tears for Fears, The Seeds of Love, is in this category for me, though I know I'm very much in the minority on that.
― Joseph McCombs, Monday, 10 November 2008 23:41 (fifteen years ago) link
Stretchheads, Five Fingers, Four Thingers, A Thumb, A Facelift and a New IdentityPere Ubu, The Modern Dance
Other stuff
― Ivan, Tuesday, 11 November 2008 00:13 (fifteen years ago) link
Curtis Mayfield, Curtis (the bass groove, the double-tracked vocals)Ornette Coleman, The Shape of Jazz to Come and Science Fiction (Charlie Haden bass / launching right into discordant theme)Fuck the Facts, Disgorge Mexico (wow wow wow)Gilberto Gil, Expresso 2222 (flute insanity with afro-brazilian percussion)Nina Simone, Forbidden Fruit (proto-industrial cymbal clank in 3/4 time, then she howls out "Rags! Old iron!")Thelonious Monk, Genius of Modern Music Vol. 1 ("Humph"!)Funkadelic, Maggot Brain (wins this category outright)
― Dimension 5ive, Tuesday, 11 November 2008 00:21 (fifteen years ago) link
dazzle shipsso
― donna rouge, Tuesday, 11 November 2008 00:29 (fifteen years ago) link
A Love Supreme
― Matos W.K., Tuesday, 11 November 2008 00:48 (fifteen years ago) link
^ yes, for sure
― Pantheism F. Mohair (res), Tuesday, 11 November 2008 00:55 (fifteen years ago) link
Along the lines of Maggot Brain, Locust Abortion Technician, though it might take a little more than 20 seconds to get to "yes son"
A Frames S/T: so jagged and precise and atonal, then it breaks into that big chorus with the amazing hostage crisis metaphor.
The US Version of the Clash debut was like this for me too: Clash City Rockers was everything I was looking for at 14, having just worn out the early Who.
― bendy, Tuesday, 11 November 2008 01:55 (fifteen years ago) link
*funky acoustic bass line*
Back in the days when I was a teenagerBefore I had status and before I had a pagerYou could find the Abstract listening to hiphopMy pops used to say it reminded him of bebop
― 2nd Black President (The Reverend), Tuesday, 11 November 2008 03:10 (fifteen years ago) link
Raw Power (especially the remixed version)
― Mr. Snrub, Tuesday, 11 November 2008 03:14 (fifteen years ago) link
*eerie synthesizer noises*
When I was young, my father was famous.....He was the greatest samurai in the empire....and he was the shogun's decapitator........He cut off the heads of a hundred and thirty-one lords......It was a bad time for the empire....
― 2nd Black President (The Reverend), Tuesday, 11 November 2008 03:18 (fifteen years ago) link
XTRMNTR, thought it has faded for me a bit over the years.
Most recently: Tha Carter III
― Sugar hiccup, Makes a pig soar and swoon (Pillbox), Tuesday, 11 November 2008 03:24 (fifteen years ago) link
Gang Of Four EntertainmentSlayer Reign In BloodNeil Young ZumaTelevision Marquee Moon
― Brooker Buckingham, Tuesday, 11 November 2008 03:28 (fifteen years ago) link
John Coltrane - Giant Steps.
― what U cry 4 (jim), Tuesday, 11 November 2008 03:36 (fifteen years ago) link
There are way too many albums where this seems true on first listen and turns out to be false. So I question the use of the word "know."
― Albert Jeans (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 11 November 2008 04:08 (fifteen years ago) link
another OTM for Low End Theory
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Tuesday, 11 November 2008 04:17 (fifteen years ago) link
esp because I actually had that thought the first time I listened to it.
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Tuesday, 11 November 2008 04:18 (fifteen years ago) link
"1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6!"
The Modern Lovers
― surfboard dudes get wiped out, totally, Tuesday, 11 November 2008 05:02 (fifteen years ago) link
Birthday Party The Bad Seed ep, duh
― T-PALIN (daria-g), Tuesday, 11 November 2008 05:31 (fifteen years ago) link
― surfboard dudes get wiped out, totally, Tuesday, November 11, 2008 5:02 AM (1 hour ago)
oh man...lock thread.
― Kevin Keller, Tuesday, 11 November 2008 06:11 (fifteen years ago) link
― Albert Jeans (Hurting 2)
My point exactly
― Myonga Vön Bontee, Tuesday, 11 November 2008 06:19 (fifteen years ago) link
Technique and Compton seconded, along with a little album called How To Operate With A Blown Mind
― you made my mum eat Pick Only One (sic), Tuesday, 11 November 2008 10:38 (fifteen years ago) link
http://i108.photobucket.com/albums/n19/dment3d/southernplayalistic.jpg
― 2nd Black President (The Reverend), Tuesday, 11 November 2008 11:21 (fifteen years ago) link
^^^probably more like first five seconds
"In 1984 I was hospitalized for approaching perfection..."
― Vaguely Threatening CAPTCHAs, Tuesday, 11 November 2008 17:56 (fifteen years ago) link
A Wizard A True StarFunkentelechy vs The Placebo SyndromeThe DreamingNew York TenderberryGrace
― sonnyboy, Tuesday, 11 November 2008 19:39 (fifteen years ago) link
I'm surprised no one has mentioned this yet...http://missskind.no.sapo.pt/dbimg/NewOrder-Power,Corruption11312_f.jpg
― leavethecapital, Tuesday, 11 November 2008 21:20 (fifteen years ago) link
How long is it 'til the 'YEEAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH' in Vision Creation Newsun?
― bidfurd, Tuesday, 11 November 2008 21:27 (fifteen years ago) link
MY FATHER WAS THE GREATEST SAMURAI IN THE EMPIRE...
― BODY PROP (nickalicious), Tuesday, 11 November 2008 21:50 (fifteen years ago) link
Man Man - Rabbit Habits
Billy Cobham - Spectrum
Squeeze - Argybargy
the first verse and bridge all in 20 seconds...
― henry s, Tuesday, 11 November 2008 22:19 (fifteen years ago) link
Neu! 75Here Come The Warm JetsOdessey & OracleMaster of Reality
― i fuck mathematics, Tuesday, 11 November 2008 22:49 (fifteen years ago) link
Loveless OTM as well, of course. Really, most albums where texture/arrangement/production is in the foreground would fit.
― i fuck mathematics, Tuesday, 11 November 2008 22:56 (fifteen years ago) link
― Myonga Vön Bontee, Tuesday, November 11, 2008 1:19 AM (16 hours ago) Bookmark
Yeah, didn't see your post.
In fact this used to happen to me all the time with record store listening stations.
All this thread really is = classic albums that also happen to have a really awesome opening 20 seconds.
― Albert Jeans (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 11 November 2008 23:12 (fifteen years ago) link
I gotta call this one out, I'm thinking your confusing this with your current nostalgia over hearing those words when you pop in the album now. There were so, so many hip-hop albums in the latter half of the 90s that kicked off with spoken word samples from old movies that I find it hard to believe you would have felt anything special hearing that particular one for the first time.
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Tuesday, 11 November 2008 23:14 (fifteen years ago) link
There's also great creepy music during that part stfu.
― BODY PROP (nickalicious), Wednesday, 12 November 2008 04:23 (fifteen years ago) link
And I'm counting the dropping of the beat as within the opening 20 seconds so keeping stfuing.
― BODY PROP (nickalicious), Wednesday, 12 November 2008 04:24 (fifteen years ago) link
You don't know me.
― BODY PROP (nickalicious), Wednesday, 12 November 2008 04:27 (fifteen years ago) link
that Sundays album is faceless except for one track though
Madness. I wonder what the sole non-'faceless' track could be though?
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Wednesday, 12 November 2008 05:20 (fifteen years ago) link
1984, borrowed Computer World from the library, only having vague idea what Kraftwerk were about. That.
Nag! otm about "faceless" claim = madness!. Opening track on Reading... probably the one that took me longest to get into though, so not that.
― anatol_merklich, Wednesday, 12 November 2008 12:09 (fifteen years ago) link
Yeah, second that about The Sundays.
― Mark G, Wednesday, 12 November 2008 12:11 (fifteen years ago) link
Guess: non-'faceless' = "Here's Where the Story Ends"? In which case the madness is double, as it's "Can't Be Sure" which is the greatest thing on there.
― anatol_merklich, Wednesday, 12 November 2008 12:16 (fifteen years ago) link
But that was a single well before, so "You Know-oh" that one already...
― Mark G, Wednesday, 12 November 2008 12:26 (fifteen years ago) link
"Souvlaki"
― peter james, Wednesday, 12 November 2008 19:13 (fifteen years ago) link