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Best Album Opener?

boyo79boyo79 Posts: 6,525
edited December 2009 in The Porch
What is your favorite/least favorite PJ album opener?
    Once Go Last Exit Sometimes Brain Of J Breakerfall Can't Keep Life Wasted Gonna See My Friends


Discuss!
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  • Niko80Niko80 Posts: 1,590
    Go is the best opener!

    Life Wasted takes the last spot... sorry avocado...
    I will swallow poison
  • doomponydoompony Posts: 4,497
    for me, brain of j. because yield is the true love of my life. and i remember hearing it for the first time and i remember explaining to someone else what the song was like and i could sing the chorus quite early on because it was just so damn catchy.

    though, once, i mean, cmon. it's the gateway drug.
  • prodacakeprodacake Posts: 319
    For me it has to be sometimes
  • gazgaz Posts: 233
    Last Exit!
    23/8/06.
    18/6/07.
    22/6/10.
    23/6/10.
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    21/6/12
  • theserialthrillatheserialthrilla Posts: 15,760
    brain of j...best first track

    not saying its a better song then once...but it kicks the album off and your yeahhhh lets go
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  • Thoughts_ArriveThoughts_Arrive Posts: 15,165
    Can't decide sorry.
    But I am thinking Go, Last Exit, Once ?
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  • JuddyBuddyJuddyBuddy Posts: 15
    Go. Should be used as a concert opener more often too!
    I'll ride the wave...where it takes me!!
  • Sleep.With.InnocenceSleep.With.Innocence Posts: 607
    Best: Brain of J

    Worst: Gonna See My Friends
  • The ChampThe Champ Posts: 4,063
    Best: Gonna See My Friends

    Worst: Can't Keep
    'I want to hurry home to you
    put on a slow, dumb show for you
    and crack you up
    so you can put a blue ribbon on my brain
    god I'm very, very frightening
    and I'll overdo it'
  • Johnny AbruzzoJohnny Abruzzo Posts: 11,410
    Go!!!

    Worst is Breakerfall.
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  • redmosquito10redmosquito10 Posts: 568
    tie between cant keep and brain of j. i probably like cant keep more as a stand-alone song, but i also love brain of j, and its the first song on the greatest album ever, so bonus points
    "Ah, life is a gate, a way, a path to Paradise anyway, why not live for fun and joy and love or some sort of girl by a fireside, why not go to your desire and LAUGH..."
  • Sleep.With.InnocenceSleep.With.Innocence Posts: 607
    redmosquito10 wrote:
    but i also love brain of j, and its the first song on the greatest album ever, so bonus points

    I like this guy.
  • i_lov_iti_lov_it Posts: 4,007
    It has to be " O N C E "
  • Stephen FlowStephen Flow Posts: 3,327
    Last Exit
    Go
    Sometimes
    Once
    Brain of J.
    Breakerfall
    Can't Keep
    Gonna See My Friend
    Life Wasted
  • boyo79boyo79 Posts: 6,525
    I was listening to Binaural on the way to work this morning so Breakerfall is rattling around my head. Love that song.

    Worst for me is between Life Wasted and Gonna See My Friends I think. GSMY probably tips it.
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    2006: Dublin; Leeds; Arnhem
    2007: London
    2009: Manchester
    2012: Manchester I & II : EV Manchester : Soundgarden Shepherds Bush
    2013: Brad Manchester : Soundgarden Manchester
    2014: Amsterdam I & II; Berlin; Leeds; Milton Keynes
    2018: Berlin; London II; Boston II

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  • veddertownveddertown Posts: 5,260
    Top 3: Sometimes, Once, Can't Keep. Don't really have a worst but Brain of J was tough to leave from the top 3. I think it would make such a good song 2 after a slow opener.
    Like a book among the many on a shelf...

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  • davidtriosdavidtrios Posts: 9,732
    Sometimes sets the table for the best album of all-time but at a live show, I prefer to rock out to Last Exit.
  • Some Die Just To LiveSome Die Just To Live Posts: 97
    GO!
  • pkh43pkh43 Posts: 253
    Best to worst:

    1. Breakerfall
    2. Can't Keep
    3. Sometimes
    4. Last Exit
    5. Brain of J
    6. Go
    7. Life Wasted
    8. Once
    9. Gonna See My Friend
  • pledgeagrievancepledgeagrievance Posts: 2,845
    Last Exit the best opener

    Breakerfall the Worst.

    Of a Girl should have opened Binaural
    Should have went track 1 Of a Girl track 2 Insignificance and put Breakerfall and gods dice tracks 7 and 8.
  • eeriepadaveeeriepadave Posts: 41,830
    1. Go
    2. Once
    3. Breakerfall
    4. Brain Of J
    5. Last Exit
    6. Life Wasted
    7. Gonna See My Friend
    8. Sometimes
    9. Can't Keep
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  • craigbcraigb Posts: 806
    1. Once
    2. Brain of J.
    3. Last Exit
    4. Go
    5. Life Wasted
    6. Sometimes
    7. Can't Keep
    8. Gonna See My Friend
    9. Breakerfall
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  • GmoneyGmoney Posts: 1,618
    CANT KEEP
    Further back and forth a wave will break on me, today...
  • drummerboy_73drummerboy_73 Posts: 2,011
    I'm going to have to GO with GO.
    :)

    I remember listening to Vs. for the first time the day it came out, and how it started with the instruments at a lower volume, with the bass and drums playing the main groove then...WHAM! Everything kicked in at full volume, then the vocals came in, and by the time I got to the chorus, I was like "FUCK YEAH...Pearl Jam is the SHIT!!!"
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  • Thoughts_ArriveThoughts_Arrive Posts: 15,165
    drummerboy_73 wrote:
    I'm going to have to GO with GO.
    :)

    I remember listening to Vs. for the first time the day it came out, and how it started with the instruments at a lower volume, with the bass and drums playing the main groove then...WHAM! Everything kicked in at full volume, then the vocals came in, and by the time I got to the chorus, I was like "FUCK YEAH...Pearl Jam is the SHIT!!!"

    I wish they'd play it like that live.
    Have they ever?
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  • FluffyslugFluffyslug Posts: 19
    Has to be Sometimes for me :mrgreen:
  • pjamaholicpjamaholic Posts: 1,225
    The Champ wrote:
    Best: Gonna See My Friends

    Worst: Can't Keep

    Worst: Can't Keep? You've got to be joking!

    My favourite!!
  • Bugs29Bugs29 Posts: 96
    'sometimes' is the most appropriate introduction...but all the other starters are, of course, great songs by themselves.
  • demetriosdemetrios Posts: 91,535
    Go is fucking mindblowing, baby! 8-)
  • CantKeepMeHereCantKeepMeHere Posts: 2,177
    If you are talking album opener then

    Can't Keep or Sometimes

    if you are talking show opener
    Gonna See My Friend or Go (Of album openers)
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