If we are riding the Trane, train, I humbly submit the following
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqpriUFsMQQ
Also, check out the 57 (!) minute version from Live in Japan with Alice Coltrane on Piano Pharoah Sanders on Soprano and an incredible opening bass solo by Jimmy Garrison
It’s always better on holiday
Best album openers I could think of off the top of my head:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_c1YM53Wwo
(R.I.P. Ryan Adams)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZktNItwexo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0E1XTqUlCc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uoYCPxuFHQ
(cc: @anon3021505)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MBZe5FH_yg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=glEiPXAYE-U
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIiu0JI3I5g
Honorable mentions:
#1 Crush by Garbage on the Romeo + Juliet Soundtrack
New York, New York on Ryan Adams’s Gold
Mansard Roof is a great opener
Oh man great call. LOVE this song.
This one takes me back to my youth attending Ozzfest at the Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre (originally World Music Theatre and formerly New World Music Theatre, Tweeter Center and First Midwest Bank Amphitheatre)
Cheating, because the song takes up like half the album, but I’ll stand by it.
The Romeo + Juliet soundtrack was solid.
Another strong ass album opener
https://youtu.be/8ahU-x-4Gxw
You’re on fire my dude
More openers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBsjggc5jHM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAxccK-KgBI
What about best one hit wonder that was the opener of a debut album?
That maiden album shreads!!!
Joe, Nandy told me we would be good friends and today is leading us down that road.
Fucking love that album so much.
Hahaha. He’s probably right.
This song introduces this album well. Although there are better songs on the album imho.
lmao, referenced mutemath in a text convo with @anon3021505 just last night. That’s wild man
You are over thinking it, Rob covers it well here…