Albums that you know are going to be brilliant within the opening 20 seconds of the first track

that Sundays album is faceless except for one track though

Madness. I wonder what the sole non-'faceless' track could be though?

1984, borrowed Computer World from the library, only having vague idea what Kraftwerk were about. That.

Nag! otm about "faceless" claim = madness!. Opening track on Reading... probably the one that took me longest to get into though, so not that.

Yeah, second that about The Sundays.

Guess: non-'faceless' = "Here's Where the Story Ends"? In which case the madness is double, as it's "Can't Be Sure" which is the greatest thing on there.

But that was a single well before, so "You Know-oh" that one already...

"Souvlaki"

black celebration

New album from Nahvalr, a kind of mail-art BM project, opens with a segment from radio host Art Bell talking about underground recordings of the damned. His voice is wonderful, halfway between Tom Waits and Ken Nordine. The music that follows shouldn't be able to live up to it, but does . . just.

i'm gonna go with:

The Wonderful & Frightening World of The Fall (that actually might be 30 seconds tho...nevermind)
Y
Talk Talk Talk
the first Remy Zero album
E.V.O.L.
Blackboard Jungle Dub (not the real name I know...)

ON THE CORNER

Innervisions

sun city girls - torch of the mystics

Portishead's Third

Funkadlic's s/t

Plenty of albums I thought were going to be brilliant within the opening 20 seconds of the first track turned out to be, in fact, less than brilliant.

no one said daydream nation?

Usually when I have this reaction, there's an accompanying sugar hangover a few days or weeks later.

Plenty of albums I thought were going to be brilliant within the opening 20 seconds of the first track turned out to be, in fact, less than brilliant.

― M.V., Monday, March 23, 2009 9:33 PM (27 minutes ago)

pretty sure there's a thread 4 this

Albums that you THOUGHT were going to be brilliant within the opening 20 seconds of the first track, but actually....

OK maybe longer than 20 sec but: Paul's Boutique

― sexyDancer, Monday, November 10, 2008 2:03 PM (4 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

this is insane.

Kid A
White Light/White Heat

Can - Tago Mago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRur9D354W0

If you don't count the prelude track that's before it, and the the intro on the track itself, the first 20 of Andre's verse on this is just like, oh shit...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ruA4efaRpKg

"I don't wanna kiss you, I don't wanna touch..."

Rory Gallagher- Irish Tour

he's tuning up and you know this is going to be a fucking killer show.

cluster - zuckerzeit

The Congos- Heart of the Congos, for the exact same reason as Loveless, weirdly enough.

fuckin' FUN HOUSE!!!!

Patti Smith - Horses

Stone Roses

Live Evil

Fun House cosign

also Hounds of Love

hi mom!

This Year's Model

I've heard less than a minute of Current 93's Sleep Has His House and I know this is going to be the best album of all time

Maybe Raw Power?

pirates

i just knew

Unknown Pleasures anyone? The slightly sluggish drums, the characteristic bass lead line with the oomph and the guitar motiv are all present in the first 20 seconds. Plus some synthesizer effects. It's all there, one of the greatest albums of all-time has just begun and you know it immediately.

Richard D. James LP probably another one.

Owen Pallett's 'Heartland' comes to mind: you hear those strings rising and you're just knocked for six.

LJ you're in for a treat, Sleep Has His House is a stone cold classic.

I've heard less than a minute of Current 93's Sleep Has His House and I know this is going to be the best album of all time

I just checked this out, and uhhh.... what are you hearing, exactly(?)

Mournful perfect bassline interjected by frolic-sad-soft folk guitar shimmer. It's a mood idk

Title track BTW - now THAT is how you construct a long ambient piece that I can get with. Just needs magick

Yeezus

The Young Gods - L'eau Rouge
Swans - Holy Money

xxp I guess the bassline isn't coming thru via my computer speakers; the first minute sounds mostly silent!

Where’s the thread for albums that give you anticipatory goosebumps in the first two minutes and then turn into a total slog

HELLO LATE NINETIES TECHNO

How about albums whose opening track initially sounded limp/underwhelming -- especially given the hype around the album -- but you quickly came around after a few spins:

SLANTED & ENCHANTED

IS THIS IT

Where’s the thread for albums that give you anticipatory goosebumps in the first two minutes and then turn into a total slog

HELLO LATE NINETIES TECHNO

― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 10 October 2018 21:44 (twenty-three minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Plaid - Double Figure being a lovely example

d'angelo - black messiah

Miles Davis - Nefertiti
(probably other Miles albums too)