Arc Arsenal - At The Drive-In
The Ring In Return - Coheed And Cambria
Crater - Meshuggah
Everything In It's Right Place - Radiohead

move with you - greetings from LA (tim buckley)
i will dare - let it be

Angel of Death

"Purple Haze" - Are You Experienced album by The Jimi Hendrix Experience -- (what an opening track from Hendrix first album,,, I was too young to remember it, but it must have just blown everybody away the first time they heard it.. I know it blew me away the first time I heard it when I was about 14 years old)...


"Alone Again Or" - Forever Changes album by Love -- (dprussky and I totally agree on that one,, see Love/Arthur Lee thread for more insight into that tune)...


"Good Times Bad Times" - Zeppelin I album by Led Zeppelin -- (few songs before it sounded like this tune, it really was a "scream" for what was about to come with the hard rock revolution that Zeppelin was helping to usher in)...


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Whoa. Totally. Amazing.

K.

Around the World - Red Hot Chili Peppers - Californication

Love the intro.

noway, itotally dig that track and its a great long lead in to 13. sets the mood perfect and then bugman tears the roof off.

I remember. I was 10 years old in the middle of the Summer of Love when my older brother brought in this wild new album by these freaky looking dudes (NOBODY looked freakier than the Experience in '67). From the first note, you knew this was going to be a really bizzare record. I mean, he starts from the tritone and just gets wilder! There had never, ever been music like this.

Here are some of my favorite kick-offs:

You gotta hand it to the Beatles...bringing the opening song of an album down on a jet plane was pretty cool ("Back In The U.S.S.R." from the White Album).

What about that backwards faded guitar chord that starts the "Fragile" album by Yes (the song is "Roundabout" of course)...

Yes also gave us a classic opener with "Close To The Edge" and all those amazing nature and water sounds mixed with flying synthesizer sequences, and then, an upward glissando on Wakeman's organ, and...CRASH!!!!! If you've heard the record, you know what I mean.

Another great "CRASH"...The Moody Blues' "Higher" from "To Our Children's Children's Children"...

And my award for the most bizzare album intro in history goes, again, to the Beatles...and here it is:

"I DIG A PIGMY" BY CHARLES HORLTRY AND THE DEFFAIDS; PHASE ONE, IN WHICH DORIS GETS HER OATS...

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Great call on that one... That is one of the first albums I ever owned... I actually only liked Roundabout for months, and then finally came around to the rest of the album (I was quite young at the time)...


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Never really liked that one, in fact a lot of the Moody Blues intro's bug me at times... Even though I am a huge fan of theirs... Sometimes I think they went a bit overboard with the instrumental and spoken word intro's...


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