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uninnocent-uninnocent- Posts: 5,959
edited May 2009 in Other Music
are there any albums which upon hearing the lead-off track, you must listen to in its entirety?

for me, bowie's five years came up on shuffle today, and i've been looking forward to listening to ziggy stardust ever since. craving it actually, but i haven't had the time until now to sit down and enjoy it.
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  • DewieCoxDewieCox Posts: 11,430
    DSOTM, obviously
    Yield
    Vs
    Abbey Road
    Revolver
    Wish You Were Here
    all Zep albums
  • evenflowevenflow Posts: 401
    PJ - Ten: After the first few beats of "Master\Slave", I'm hooked. And once (ironically on the song "Once") the guitars come in there's no turning back.

    Sigur Ros - ( ): That distorted clunk followed by the beautiful piano intro for "Vaka" is just a magical prelude for things to come.

    Steve Jabolonsky - Transformers Original Motion Picture Score: The heroic sounding horns that lead off "Autobots" raises the hair on the back of my neck. Bonus reason to keep listening: Knowing that the hope-filled grand melodic opening track is directly followed by the hauntingly dark rhythm driven "Decepticons".

    Due to time constraints and the fact that I'm dead tired, that's all that I could come up with off the topof my head :mrgreen: .
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  • uninnocent-uninnocent- Posts: 5,959
    evenflow wrote:
    PJ - Ten: After the first few beats of "Master\Slave", I'm hooked. And once (ironically on the song "Once") the guitars come in there's no turning back.

    i don't know why this wasn't more obvious. i don't think i've ever made it 30 seconds in without listening to the entire album.

    blind melon's hello goodbye/galaxie just now hooked me into listening to all of soup. not that i'm complaining.
  • Stu42Stu42 Posts: 178
    definately z by my morning jacket, once i hear the first pulse of the keys i need to hear it all (except for into the woods)
  • dasvidanadasvidana Grand Junction CO Posts: 1,349
    Van Morrison-Astral Weeks.....an oldie but a goodie.
    It's nice to be nice to the nice.
  • rcsrcs Posts: 711
    uninnocent- wrote:
    are there any albums which upon hearing the lead-off track, you must listen to in its entirety?

    for me, bowie's five years came up on shuffle today, and i've been looking forward to listening to ziggy stardust ever since. craving it actually, but i haven't had the time until now to sit down and enjoy it.

    That's wild! I woke up this morning with Five Years in my head so first thing I did was put the album on and listen to the whole thing.

    For me every time I hear the opening of Bruce Springsteen's Nebraska I know I just have to listen to the complete album. It's like a book I can't put down.
    E agora? Faz xixi na mão e deita fora!
  • DocChicagoDocChicago Posts: 653
    edited May 2009
    evenflow wrote:
    Steve Jabolonsky - Transformers Original Motion Picture Score: The heroic sounding horns that lead off "Autobots" raises the hair on the back of my neck. Bonus reason to keep listening: Knowing that the hope-filled grand melodic opening track is directly followed by the hauntingly dark rhythm driven "Decepticons".
    I'm dumbstruck by this entry. I can't tell if you're a genius or you're completely insane.

    edit: I now realize you're commenting on the live-action movie sountrack, not the animated movie soundtrack from the 80s. I listened to snippets of each piece and I think you may be on to something. Those are much better than "The Touch" from the animated movie, cheesiness aside.
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    - C. Klosterman
  • rriversrrivers Posts: 3,698
    evenflow wrote:
    PJ - Ten: After the first few beats of "Master\Slave", I'm hooked. And once (ironically on the song "Once") the guitars come in there's no turning back.

    Sigur Ros - ( ): That distorted clunk followed by the beautiful piano intro for "Vaka" is just a magical prelude for things to come.

    Steve Jabolonsky - Transformers Original Motion Picture Score: The heroic sounding horns that lead off "Autobots" raises the hair on the back of my neck. Bonus reason to keep listening: Knowing that the hope-filled grand melodic opening track is directly followed by the hauntingly dark rhythm driven "Decepticons".

    Due to time constraints and the fact that I'm dead tired, that's all that I could come up with off the topof my head :mrgreen: .

    Is the first song called Vaka? I bought this album off itunes and all the tracks are called track -1, track -2, etc.

    You live in Baton Rouge? I grew up in Gretna!
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  • evenflowevenflow Posts: 401
    DocChicago wrote:
    I'm dumbstruck by this entry. I can't tell if you're a genius or you're completely insane.

    I think a touch of both, depends upon the day. :D
    DocChicago wrote:
    edit: I now realize you're commenting on the live-action movie sountrack, not the animated movie soundtrack from the 80s. I listened to snippets of each piece and I think you may be on to something. Those are much better than "The Touch" from the animated movie, cheesiness aside.

    Yeah, I meant the live action one, although no offense to the original one. Honestly though there are a couple of more movie scores I could fit in there, like Hans Zimmer's "The Thin Red Line", and Johnny Greenwood's "There Will Be Blood". My job requires me to be in my car a lot, on average 3 to 4 hours a day, and movie scores are what I like to listen to most. I'm always looking for new ones, so any ideas would be appreciated.
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  • ledveddermanledvedderman Posts: 7,761
    Pretty much every first track on any Radiohead album...they're all standout
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  • evenflowevenflow Posts: 401
    rrivers wrote:

    Is the first song called Vaka? I bought this album off itunes and all the tracks are called track -1, track -2, etc.

    You live in Baton Rouge? I grew up in Gretna!

    Yep, that's the one. Technically the songs don't have titles, so they are called "Track 1", "Track 2", and so on, but the band came up with working titles for them when they were recording the album, and they use them when writing their set lists. The alternate titles are (with translations):

    Track #1 - Vaka (Orri's [bass player] daughter's name)
    Track #2 - Fyrsta (The first song)
    Track #3 - Samakeyti (Attachment)
    Track #4 - Njosnavelin (The spy machine)
    Track #5 - Alafoss (Name of their studio - Swimming Pool Studios)
    Track #6 - E-Bow (Effect used on the bass guitar on this song. PJ uses an E-Bow a lot, Wishlist is a good example)
    Track #7 - Dav'dalagid (The death song)
    Track #8 - Popplag'id (The pop song, my favorite SR song, and in my top 5 songs of all time, a masterpiece)

    As I stated in my post above, my job has me on the road a lot, and I go through Gretna probably once a week. Where are you at now (my question mark button is broken, so I have to end my questions with a period).
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  • rriversrrivers Posts: 3,698
    Thanks for that info. () is the only Sigur Ros album I have and I don't know a lot about them. I over bought on my ipod. I have a 160GB and still have 128GB free (even after raiding friend's cd collections) so I've been trying to find new music to fit on it! Sigur Ros was a band I have always wanted to check out. I really enjoy ().

    That's cool that you go through Gretna so much. I live in Northern California now, just outside of Sacramento. My parents still live in Gretna. I miss living there, especially the food!

    Have you seen a lot of Pearl Jam shows in New Orleans?
    "We're fixed good, lamp-wise."
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