Best LP/8-Track/Cassette/CD/ Digital/Opening Song

[R_J_K75]

Well, the music is continuous, so it's a medley.

I wont disagree, it is continuous but going by the liner notes its listed as 2 different songs. But who cares?

 

[Parmandur]

I wont disagree, it is continuous but going by the liner notes its listed as 2 different songs. But who cares?

It is literally one track, though.

 

[R_J_K75]

It is literally one track, though.

Im not disagreeing with either as more than Im saying its listed as its own song as far as Lennon/McCartney is concerned.

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band - Wikipedia

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[Riley]

Which reminds me….

Today I want to endorse Madonna + William Orbit’s Drowned World/Substitute for Love (and it is absolutely a single ‘song’) as one of the very best album openers.

I listened to (at least the start of) it nearly every morning for many years - as my wake up alarm - yet somehow I still love it unreservedly.

(I still viscerally recoil at the first notes of several other great songs that failed badly as wake up calls.)

It’s a really slow build, yet it remained certain that by the end of its 5 minutes, I would be ready to face the day. And/or the rest of the album.

 

[Eyes of Nine]

GnR AppforD I remember picking up at a record store in Kenmore Square in Boston. I got one of those radio station promo copies that has the corner cut off. IIRC, it was before the album got big - but must have been after it released because I'm pretty certain it was in 1988. Either way, it had that Robt. Williams cover that eventually got banned. Sadly, I no longer have any of my vinyl

What I do remember is loving that opening lick in WttJ and of course the hook for Sweet Child o Mine. I think though my favorite song was Paradise City... That summer I moved from Boston to southern California - and I never came back. Maybe it was all Axl's fault?...

 

[Eyes of Nine]

Which reminds me….

Today I want to endorse Madonna + William Orbit’s Drowned World/Substitute for Love (and it is absolutely a single ‘song’) as one of the very best album openers.

I listened to (at least the start of) it nearly every morning for many years - as my wake up alarm - yet somehow I still love it unreservedly.

(I still viscerally recoil at the first notes of several other great songs that failed as wake up calls.)

It’s a really slow build, yet it remained certain that by the end of its 5 minutes, I would be ready to face the day.

(my favorite Madonna album - maybe because I'm a big fan of William Orbit)

 

[Riley]

(my favorite Madonna album - maybe because I'm a big fan of William Orbit)

Same!
It’s the only Madonna album I’d ever play from start to finish.

 

[R_J_K75]

'm pretty certain it was in 1988. Either way, it had that Robt. Williams cover that eventually got banned. Sadly, I no longer have any of my vinyl

If that was 1988, and Im not doubting you, that was late. Im pretty sure that not many of those covers got out, then alot were "destroyed", no pun intended, when the record was released in 1987. But getting it from a radio station would make sense as they probably got a ton of copies when it was released and probably only promoted it when Sweet Child O Mine got big. I was 12 in 1987 when I got a GNR AFD shirt for Christmas. It had that cover on the back; how the hell I got away with wearing that in grammar school is beyond me.

 

[R_J_K75]

So today its...

The Mars Volta - Aberinkula - The Bedlam In Goliath

The Great Southern Trend Kill - Pantera. Tim Horton, his general manager said to him when they gave it to him as a signing bonus, this car will be the death of you, a Pantera., and it was Tim Horton - Wikipedia

Sting Me - Black Crowes, Southern Harmony and Musical Companion