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Top 10 Album Openers
The first track is a promise. These ten keep it before the second song even starts.
by top10top10
- 1
Smells Like Teen Spirit — Nirvana
Nevermind opens by ending the eighties.
- 2
OK Computer boots up like a machine dreaming.
- 3
Thunder Road — Bruce Springsteen
A screen door slams, and an entire world arrives.
- 4
Speak to Me / Breathe — Pink Floyd
A heartbeat as an overture.
- 5
Welcome to the Jungle — Guns N' Roses
Truth in advertising.
- 6
Wouldn't It Be Nice — The Beach Boys
Pet Sounds opens with pure longing in major key.
- 7
Everything in Its Right Place — Radiohead
Yes, twice. They earned it.
- 8
Doolittle kicks the door off its hinges.
- 9
Ziggy starts with the end of the world.
- 10
A vocoder transmission from planet fun.