Best ones I can think of off my head:
Godflesh: ‘Like Rats’
Ministry: ‘Supermanic Soul’
Alice In Chains: ‘Grind’
Faith No More: ‘Land of Sunshine’
Tool: ‘Stinkfist’
Soundgarden: ‘Rusty Cage’
The Clash: ‘London Calling’
RATM: ‘Bombtrack’
Joy Division: ‘Disorder’
Stone Temple Pilots: ‘Dead & Bloated’
Mr. Bungle: ‘Travolta’
Alice In Chains - We Die Young
The Cure - Plainsong
Skinny Puppy - Dogshit
Ministry - Just Like You
U2 - Where The Streets Have No Name
Depeche Mode - Black Celebration
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dead voices on air- dream catcher
meat beat manifesto- now
t.rex- dandy in the underworld
outkast- myintrotoletyouknow (I’d also have to say that “you may die” leading into “two dope boys in a cadillac” is good as well as “hold on, be strong” leading into “return of the g” are great intros as well)
so many…battery -Metallica
Great Big White World - Manson
Just Like You - Ministry
Mercy Seat - Nick Cave
Mr. Self-Destruct - NIN
The Kiss - The Cure (imo, their openers are usually all good though to me).
Night Time - Killing Joke
Ultra - KMFDM
Barrel of a Gun - Depeche Mode
World in my Eyes - Depeche Mode
Burning Down The House - Talking Heads
Warped - RHCP
Takk/Glosol - Sigur Ros
That’s everything I can think of off the top of my head.
"Mercy Seat - Nick Cave "
Second that! and add:
Neubauten - Prologue
how could I forget?
final- arise
lull- slow fall inwards
Xnoybis - Godflesh (Selfless)
Wilma’s Rainbow - Helmet (Betty)
Hearts and Minds - Nitzer Ebb (Belief)
Water - Ohgr (welt)
Smack My Bitch Up - The Prodigy (Fat of the Land)
Up On The Sun - The Meat Puppets (Up On The Sun)
I Am one - The Smashing Pumpkins (Gish)
The Man Comes Around - Johnny Cash (The Man Comes Around)
The Future - Leonard Cohen (The Future)
Coming to think of it “Lets Go” was a pretty cool opener on the Last Sucker… Probably the best song on the album at that…
No one else with me on that AIC opener on Facelift? Shame the song is so short (2:32), and they waste no time kicking that album off. Kick-ass rocker of a song. I’m not even the biggest AIC fan, and that’s probably my favorite opener from the list.
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t’was the first AIC song I heard. Had the promo 12"/cassette (can’t find the cassette anymore) that had ‘we die young’ ‘it ain’t like that’ and ‘killing yourself’ on it.
so yeah, I’m with you on that one.
Bauhaus - Double Dare
Although strangely enough, the CD version adds Dark Entries as the album opener, and that works really well too.
Pantera - Strength Beyond Strength
KMFDM - Megalomaniac
Killing Joke - Savage Freedom
Tool - The Grudge
Built to Spill - Goin’ Against Your Mind
TV on the Radio - Halfway Home
GZA - Liquid Swords
RevCo - Gilacopter
jesu - Silver
Autolux - Turnstile Blues
Slightly Stoopid - Castles of Sand
Flaming Lips - Fight Test
Interpol - Pioneer to the Falls
Wu Tang - In the Hood
Deftones - Bored
Nirvana - Blew
Filter - Hey Man, Nice Shot
Chemlab - Exile On Mainline
Sister Machine Gun - Red
the Cure - Want
Down - Temptation’s Wings
CoC - Heaven’s Not Overflowing
QotsA - Turnin’ on the Screw
The Fixx - One Thing Leads To Another
and I agree with:
Ministry - Just Like You, Supermanic Soul
NIN - Mr Self Destruct
Godflesh - Like Rats, Xynoybis
Soundgarden - Rusty Cage
RATM: Bombtrack
Outkast - 2 Dope Boys in a cadillac
That’s a lot and I would probably think of and list more if I could get to my hard drive on my pc which has all of my music which is crashed.
Some of the top of my head:
Napalm Death - Multinational Corporations
Godflesh - Like Rats
Therapy? - Knives
New Model Army - The Hunt, I Love The World
Foetus - Don’t Hide It, Provide It
Fear Factory - Demanufacture
Alec Empire - Path Of Destruction
Big Black - Jordan Minnesota
Converge - Concubine
Entombed - Eyemaster
Korn - Blind (and Twist is also a fun album opener)
TAD - Greasebox
Voivod - Fix My Heart
oh hell yea for liquid swords!!
Oh, and:
Shellac - Prayer to God
Fear Factory - Demanufacture
Entombed - Eyemaster
Agreed
width of a circle. bowie.
En Esch: “Go Insane”
Scanning through what I have available here at work…
Aphex Twin - Acrid Avid Jam Shred
Butthole Surfers - Sweat Loaf
Circle Jerks - Deny Everything
The Damned - Neat Neat Neat
Dead Kennedys - Kill the Poor
Lead Into Gold - Faster Than Light
Marilyn Manson - The Hands of Small Children
Ministry - Stigmata; Thieves
My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult - A Daisy Chain 4 Satan (Acid and Flowers Mix)
Nine Inch Nails - Head Like a Hole
ohGr - Water
Reverend Horton Heat - Bullet; Big Sky
Skinny Puppy - Assimilate; Love In Vein; One Time One Place; Rodent; Magnifishit; Convulsion; Dogshit
Snog - Late Twentieth Century Boy; Light, Yet Refreshing
Terminal Sect - Bread and Wine for the Dirt
A Tribe Called Quest - Excursions
Ween - Take Me Away; Little Birdy
Wumpscut - Soylent Green
Lots of Puppy…heavy drug usage during the early 90s and repeated listenings of those albums during that time have them stuck forever as some of the best openers for me.
Some not said yet:
Black Sabbath: Black Sabbath, War Pigs, Wheels Of Confusion, Sabbath Bloody Sabbath.
Ramones: Blitzkreig Bop