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
black celebration
― rio (r1o natsume), Wednesday, 12 November 2008 21:09 (fifteen years ago) link
New album from Nahvalr, a kind of mail-art BM project, opens with a segment from radio host Art Bell talking about underground recordings of the damned. His voice is wonderful, halfway between Tom Waits and Ken Nordine. The music that follows shouldn't be able to live up to it, but does . . just.
― Soukesian, Wednesday, 12 November 2008 23:17 (fifteen years ago) link
i'm gonna go with:
The Wonderful & Frightening World of The Fall (that actually might be 30 seconds tho...nevermind)YTalk Talk Talkthe first Remy Zero albumE.V.O.L.Blackboard Jungle Dub (not the real name I know...)
― goofus vs. gallant (Drugs A. Money), Thursday, 13 November 2008 03:43 (fifteen years ago) link
ON THE CORNER
― mr. mayan end times guy (The Reverend), Thursday, 13 November 2008 08:22 (fifteen years ago) link
Innervisions
― goodbye pork pie scarf (The Reverend), Monday, 23 March 2009 23:41 (fifteen years ago) link
sun city girls - torch of the mystics
― oscar, Monday, 23 March 2009 23:49 (fifteen years ago) link
Portishead's Third
Funkadlic's s/t
― bakerstreetsaxsolo, Tuesday, 24 March 2009 00:39 (fifteen years ago) link
Plenty of albums I thought were going to be brilliant within the opening 20 seconds of the first track turned out to be, in fact, less than brilliant.
― M.V., Tuesday, 24 March 2009 01:33 (fifteen years ago) link
no one said daydream nation?
― cutty, Tuesday, 24 March 2009 01:56 (fifteen years ago) link
Usually when I have this reaction, there's an accompanying sugar hangover a few days or weeks later.
― plenty chong (libcrypt), Tuesday, 24 March 2009 01:57 (fifteen years ago) link