Best album intros

[Finlandese]

Sorry if this is an old topic.. I did a cursory search, and didn´t find any.

Wife and I were talking about the best album intros ever. Suprisingly we were having a very hard time trying to match the immediacy of the Hole´s Celebrity skin http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3dWBLoU--E . It has an intro that certainly hooks you in very fast.

On our quest we came up with a bunch of great intro´s but none that told the strory as fast.

Here´s a list of some that came up:

Guns and Roses: Appetite for destruction (Welcome to the Jungle) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1tj2zJ2Wvg
Queen: Night at the opera (Death on two legs) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffiZPD6Quos
Bowie: "Heroes" (Beauty and the beast) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmqcMwD9NSo
Foo Fighters: "One by one" All my life http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnVEG_waiqg
Metallica: Black album (Enter Sandman) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPJKuygePHk
Iggy Pop: Lust for life http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQvUBf5l7Vw

What do you guys think?

Edited by Finlandese on Monday 4th February 08:10

[GHOST KATA]

Black Sabbath - (Heaven and Hell) Neon Knights

[kiteless]

Album: Black Sabbath
Track #1: Black Sabbath

[GHOST KATA]

AC/DC -Back in black

[DrTre]

Jane's Addiction Nothing's Shocking - Up The Beach

[TheHeretic]

War of the Worlds... Burton

[SAB888]

BLACK SABBATH - Black Sabbath. Brilliant! Still falls the rain . . . .

[mike80]

Great suggestions already.

Machine Head - Burn my Eyes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mWPPBW4DU8. Still sounds fresh!

[Halmyre]

Roxy Music - Stranded; kicks off with 'Street Life'.
Doors 1st album - 'Break on Through'.

[Finlandese]

Good ones!

How could I have forgotten;

Alice Cooper "Billion Dollar Babies" Hello hurray! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQCPvCyIPN4

It was our wedding march..

Edited by Finlandese on Monday 4th February 08:16

[andySC]

Introducing The Band - Suede (gotta be cranked right up)

[suthol]

King Crimson - The Court Of The Crimson King

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Ubc5_owhl0

[Markh]

suthol said:

King Crimson - The Court Of The Crimson King

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Ubc5_owhl0

so right, I love that album

[gbbird]

Metallica, Master of Puppets. Kicks off with the acoustic intro to Battery.

[Marvindodgers]

Peter Gabriel - Red Rain from So

Great call on Celebrity Skin by Hole!

[6th Gear]

Rusty Cage
Soundgarden, Badmotorfinger.

Blackened
Metallica, ...and Justice for All

Aces High
Maiden, Powerslave.

[Johnnytheboy]

Great suggestions so far, especially Celebrity Skin:

Mine would be Led Zeppelin IV, Black Dog:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nFeQVtwBVE

AC/DC - Let There be Rock, starting with Go Down, not a brilliant track, but a great first riff:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_F5MdP9kMN4

Also, Pantera - may not be to everyone's taste - but they always started albums with a minimum of fanfare! These three are the opening tracks from three consecutive albums:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvzVpw9hWbs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ss-SUz3163U

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4pOIndfTzI

[6th Gear]

Cult of Personality
Living Colour, Vivid.

[Evangelion]

TheHeretic said:

War of the Worlds... Burton

+1

[motorizer]

Ace of spades