Album intros that have hooked you on your first listen and that you crank your stereo up for every listen since.
Here are a few obvious ones I can think of that get me every time and that seamlessly introduce the following track/melody:
Best intro to a whole album for me is the squall of noise at the start of "Seagull" on "Nowhere".
That album also has one of the best outros in the cello melody at the end of " Vapour Trail".
+ 1 for [i]Songs for the Deaf [/i] - first one I thought of when I read the thread title. Weird how it works, seems like something that would date really badly, but the radio stuff still sounds right all through the album.
Paul's Boutique
Songs For The Deaf is a superb album with a superb intro.
Trumped by this - 'Battery' off Master of Puppets by Metallica.
Brutal, pounding shards - sets out the tone for the rest of the album beautifully.
Good call with Daydream nation....brilliant track to start a brilliant album.
Before I opened the topic my immediate thought was QOTSA, Songs for the Deaf. Brilliant.
Mind you the beginning of Das Rheingold is pretty good too.
Stone Roses - Breaking Into Heaven:
One from my youth that I still love today..
Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream - Cherub Rock
Also really like this as an album opener...
REM - Out of Time - Radio Song
I always liked Music For The Jilted Generation despite it's cheesyness
When you're young you can eat what you like, drink what you and still fit into those 28 inch waist trousers and zip them closed. Then you reach that age 24, 25, your muscles give up, wave a little white flag and without any warning at all you're suddenly a fat bastard. YOU FAT BASTARD (repeat)
Ooh - Grinderman. "Kick those white mice and baboons out".
Bjork's album Post starts with this corker:
Turn it up.
deee-lite theme was the intro to the cassette version of the their album, but wasn't on the vinyl release. Weird really as its the best thing they ever did
I quite like this too
My ring tone as well 8)
DOH song not album but it's first track on the second side in old money 😀
Paul's Boutique
I don't know what it is about that but I just can't get into it. I accept that it's a good album but something about it just doesn't excite me.
Some good suggestions so far, but this is the definitive answer -
@maccruiskeen that intros and outros is genius....."big hello to big john wayne on xylophone" 😀
not really an intro as such, but ive always got goosebumps when safe european war kicks in on give em enough rope. first 3 songs have been my favourite start to any album since it first came out.
The car is on fire, and there's no driver at the wheel. And the sewers are all muddied with a thousand lonely suicides. And a dark wind blows...
How about Pleasure Dome?
This intro sets the tone nicely.....
I once bought an Afghan Whigs album on the basis of hearing the intro and first couple of tracks in a record shop. It was a mistake. 🙁
Chuchills speech that leads into Aces High on Iron Maidens Live After Death - sets the album up great
Debaser - The Pixies (Debaser)
Here's your future - The Thermals (The body, the blood, the machine)
Christ, there are 100s!
Gotta say, my fave album of last year has an intro called "Intro".
Sets the scene for one of the most original and exiting rap albums I've ever heard..
And from the past, the voice that introduces a classic album...
Zoo Station - brilliantly leads you into the awesomeness that is for me still U2's finest album, Achtung Baby. It was a great show opener is well on the whole Zoo TV circus.
Herbie Hancock - Hang up your hang ups
Azymuth - Jazz Carnival
themightymowgli - MemberWhen you're young you can eat what you like, drink what you and still fit into those 28 inch waist trousers and zip them closed. Then you reach that age 24, 25, your muscles give up, wave a little white flag and without any warning at all you're suddenly a fat bastard. YOU FAT BASTARD (repeat)
Surfin' USM - sample from Red Dwarf
@ isto - you nailed it with DJ Shadow
Surely this has to be up there. Probably my all time favourite intro.
I hate album intros - they're like filler, at the start, where there's nothing to fill.
I hate album intros - they're like filler, at the start, where there's nothing to fill.
They don't have to start in a big build up....I just meant how the start of an album grabs your attention. For example this doesn't have a build up it just sets the tone nicely for the rest of the album.
For example this doesn't have a build up it just sets the tone nicely for the rest of the album.
likewise:
Here's my 2c.
The intro and outro to Iron Maidens Seventh Son of a Seventh Son.
If you'll allow an album that's actually the soundtrack to a film then the opening of Stop
Making Sense.