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| 21st Century's Most Mind-bendingly Awesome Album Openers
"Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buend?a was to remember rthat distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice." The first time I read this (in rspanish), I had to hit a full stop. I'd barely opened the book and already Garc?a Marquez had in rone sentence flat vanquished 80% of anything I had ever read at that point in my life; that line ralone is a more complete, profound, and moving story than anything students are asked to write ran essay for in high school. One can hardly overestimate the importance of the first rstatement(s): they suck us right into the world we've just chosen to immerse ourselves into, rdeconstructing (or better yet: transforming) out of the cold the reality around us. They are the rbeginning of our drowns in the beauty of "art". SO! without further due, I present some of the r21st century albums with the most perfect, delicious and fitting openings for their lush rexperiences, be it the first five notes of how the first track segues--or explodes--into the second rlike some divine act. A list, quite obviously, to be expanded through time. This isn't just a rrecommendation: this is an applause from the bottom of my mind, and my imagination. Order is rinconsequential. "The train exited the long border tunnel, and it was Snow Country." | | 1 |  | Radiohead
Kid A | | 2 |  | Radiohead
Hail to the Thief | | 3 |  | The Mars Volta
De-loused in the Comatorium | | 4 |  | The Mars Volta
Frances the Mute | | 5 |  | Deerhunter
Cryptograms | | 6 |  | Deerhunter
Microcastle | | 7 |  | Jaga Jazzist
What We Must | | 8 | | Kings of Convenience
Riot on an Empty Streets | | 9 |  | Gorillaz
Demon Days | | 10 |  | Shpongle
Tales of the Inexpressible | | 11 |  | Younger Brother
A Flock of Bleeps | | 12 |  | Converge
Jane Doe | | 13 |  | Porcupine Tree
In Absentia | | 14 |  | Porcupine Tree
Fear of a Blank Planet | | 15 |  | Steven Wilson
Insurgentes | | 16 |  | No-man
Schoolyard Ghosts | | 17 | | M83
Hurry Up, We're Dreaming | | 18 | | Air
10000 Hz Legends | | 19 |  | Tera Melos
Tera Melos | | 20 |  | maudlin of the Well
Bath | | 21 |  | 65DaysofStatic
The Fall of Math | | 22 |  | Opeth
Watershed | | 23 |  | Mono
Hymn to the Immortal Wind | | 24 |  | Cafe Tacuba
SiNo | | 25 | | Diablo Swing Orchestra
Pandora's Pinata | | 26 |  | John Frusciante
Shadows Collide with People | | 27 |  | Red Hot Chili Peppers
By the Way | | 28 |  | Cynic
Traced in Air | | 29 |  | At the Drive-In
Relationship of Command | | 30 |  | Blockhead
Music by Cavelight | | 31 | | Blockhead
Uncle Tony's Colouring Book | | 32 | | Sigur Ros
( ) | | 33 |  | The Whitest Boy Alive
Dreams | | 34 |  | Grizzly Bear
Veckatimest | | 35 |  | Grizzly Bear
Shields | | 36 | | Band
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Hep Kat
01.15.13 | Many years later, a man came to me. And he also came on me, but that's a story for another day. The point of this story is that there were people and it was quiet on that day, the day I would never forget it. It was then at that moment as the snow was falling like a mother's tears upon her baby's breast that I knew all would be good and right with the world. It was then at that moment in time (because you see this is important) giant block of text with some thesaurus spamming (lots of this [and more of that]) and then in that time I knew that the world of 3030 was the one for me: the automater. It was then at peak of anger and strife that I posed, on one knee and said- thank you god. we shall be rich forever
thank you richmond | VermicideReloadead
01.15.13 | Band is so prolific, fuck | puertasmagicas
01.15.13 | Yeah, I love their album "album", even if everyone says "album" is their masterpiece.
Oh, and the Richmond thing made me lol hard. Though I will begin studying physics this year, in part due to that: I think literary/writing majors are Bullshit (especially philosophy, which is an abomination at every school I know). |
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