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

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)

Electro-Pura by Yo La Tengo was the quintessential example of this fer me.

Phil niblock - touch food

phill

State Of Grace - Taylor Swift (the Edge-style guitar comes in just under the 20 sec line)

Most recently, Hannah Peel's Awake but Always Dreaming did this to me.

The moment the beat and subsequently Hannah's glorious vocals kick in within the first 15 seconds of All That Matters I was hooked. And the record only got much much better after every track.

Second Toughest In The Infants

Dave Holland Quartet - Conference of the Birds

Oh and Alice Coltrane's Journey in Satchidananda.

More recently whilst on an ECM jag, Rainer Bruninghaus - Continuum

Genesis' Duke begins with the powerful, fanfare-like intro of 'Behind the Lines', which has such ferocious drumming from Phil Collins. I know there's people out there that prefer Collins' solo version, but the Genesis original is the one.

Also: Suede - The Blue Hour.

Alice Cooper, "Killer".

This Year's Model

― kornrulez6969, Wednesday, January 28, 2015 11:39 PM (three years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this was my first instinct too

Alice Cooper, "Killer".

― Zach Same (Tom D.), Thursday, October 11, 2018 6:24 PM (two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I 110% agree with this. Billion Dollar Babies has 'Hello Hooray' too, which also fits the bill.

Electro-Pura by Yo La Tengo was the quintessential example of this fer me.

good call