Favorite Album Openers

To start off I have finally done away with that old generic and boring looking header. I used my extremely small knowledge of Photoshop to come up with that new one and I bet that my lack of Photoshop skills shows, anyway that is my new header, and until I can improve my Photoshop skills you will be looking at that.

Now, today I came across a fantastic post which can be seen on Welcome to the Pond, a great blog which really engages the reader with fun questions. Today the question was what are your favorite album openers, this immediately struck a chord with me because I feel the flow of an album is so extremely crucial to a listening experience. I am going to go on and list some of my favorites.

1) Pink Floyd - Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Wish You Were Here)

2) King Crimson - 21st Century Schizoid Man (In The Court of the Crimson King)

3) U2 - Where the Streets Have No Name (The Joshua Tree)

4) Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit (Nevermind)

5) John Lennon - Imagine (Imagine)

6) Metallica - Enter Sandman (The Black Album)

7) The Doors - Break On Through (The Doors)

8) Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness (Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness)

9) The Who - Baba O'Riley (Who's Next)

10) Black Sabbath - War Pigs (Paranoid)


I would love to give explanations for each song but I am waking up early tomorrow morning to catch low tide for surfing.