Parallels
02.12.22 | Good choice on In The Flesh.
Would include Elton's Love Lies Bleeding/Funeral for a Friend, Anathema's Untouchable Part 1, Iron Maiden's Moonchild, Coldplay's Politik, Bob Dylan's Hurricane, Porcupine Tree's Blackest Eyes |
Emim
02.12.22 | In Regards to Myself - Underoath
If I'm being more objective Good Times Bad Times or Immigrant Song by Zep both come to mind. |
Purpl3Spartan
02.12.22 | AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH AAAAA |
zakalwe
02.12.22 | The Who - Baba O’Riley
Massive Attack - Safe From Harm
The Doors - Break On Through
Stooges - Down on the Street
Beastie Boys - Sure Shot
Air - La Femme D’Argent
Rolling Stones - Gimme Shelter
The Clash - Safe European Home
Dinosaur Jr - Freak Scene
Nirvana - Serve the Servants
The Smiths - The Headmaster Ritual
Smashing Pumpkins - Cherub Rock
Dr John - Gris Gris Gumbo Ya Ya
Black Sabbath - War Pigs
Iron Maiden - Aces High
Depeche Mode - I Feel You
Spiritualized - Ladies and Gentleman We Are Floating In Space
King Crimson - 21st Century Schizoid Man
Genesis - The Musical Box
Robert Wyatt - Heaps of Sheeps
New Order - Age of Consent
The Cure - Inbetween Days
Mogwai - Hunted By A Freak
Nina Simone - I Put A Spell On You
Sunhouse - Crazy On The Weekend
Pearl Jam - Once
Bob Dylan - Subterranean Homesick Blues
Queens of The Stoneage - You Think I Ain’t Worth A Dollar But I Feel Like A Millionaire
Nick Cave - Into My Arms
Oasis - Rock N Roll Star
The Prodigy - Smack My Bitch Up
Metallica - Blackened
The Beta Band - Assessment
The Verve - A New Decade
My All Time Fave:
R.E.M - Drive
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rockarollacola
02.12.22 | You'd be hard pressed to find a better metal opener than Painkiller. |
zakalwe
02.12.22 | For metal it’s got to be Angel of Death |
DoofDoof
02.12.22 | Classic choices zak
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ghostalgeist
02.12.22 | DEARLY BELOVED
WE ARE GATHERED HERE 2DAY |
Cimnele
02.12.22 | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GohtV7PV4cc |
claygurnz
02.12.22 | Smells Like Teen Spirit, don't need to say much more
I've always loved Meatplow by Stone Temple Pilots off the album Purple |
ArsMoriendi
02.12.22 | Inca Roads by Frank Zappa & The Mothers is my favorite song of all time, so I vote for that |
Senetrix666
02.12.22 | michael jackson - thriller |
Sunnyvale
02.12.22 | Probably the top three I can think of (all old school, Zak already mentioned one of these):
The Who: Baba O'Riley
Bob Dylan: Like A Rolling Stone
Bruce Springsteen: Thunder Road |
Evenoss
02.12.22 | https://www.sputnikmusic.com/list.php?memberid=441534&listid=179480 |
Ishysez
02.12.22 | Iron & Wine - Pagan Angel and a Borrowed Car |
JohnnyoftheWell
02.12.22 | baba o'riley is probably *the* album opener agreed
SY - schizophrenia
t. rex - metal guru
talking talk talk talks - born under punches
shiina ringo - shuukyou
also huge ones |
CycleMotion
02.12.22 | Massive Attack - Angel
Genesis - Selling England by the Pound
Rush - Tom Sawyer
David Bowie - Station to Station
Megadeth - Holy Wars
Arch Enemy - Enemy Within
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protokute
02.12.22 | My Bloody Valentine - Only Shallow
The Byrds - Mr. Tambourine Man
Pink Floyd - Speak To Me/Breathe
XTC - Summer's Cauldron
Animal Collective - Graze
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Cygnatti
02.12.22 | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afrdo2qneoI |
DocSportello
02.12.22 | STORM |
tectactoe
02.12.22 | Guitar 1
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Trifolium
02.12.22 | Frail (You Might As Well Be Me) by The Gathering on How To Measure A Planet? (of course!) |
evilford
02.12.22 | Voivod - experiment |
tectactoe
02.12.22 | Some of my favorites.
American Football - "Never Meant"
Animal Collective - “Peacebone”
The Beach Boys - “Wouldn’t It Be Nice”
Beach House - "Myth"
Burzum - “Dunkelheit”
Captain Beefheart - “Frownland”
David Bowie - “Station to Station”
Drive Like Jehu - "Here Come the Rome Plows"
Exuma - “Exuma, the Obeah Man”
Joanna Newsom - “Emily”
Joy Division - "Atrocity Exhibition"
King Crimson - “Larks’ Tongues in Aspic Part One”
The Kinks - “The Village Green Preservation Society”
The Magnolia Electric Co. - “Farewell Transmission”
The National - "Trouble Will Find Me"
Modest Mouse - “Dramamine”
Neil Young - “Cinnamon Girl”
New Order - “Age of Consent”
Nick Drake - “Pink Moon”
Sonic Youth - “Schizophrenia”
Sun Kil Moon - "Glenn Tipton"
Swans - "Stay Here"
Talking Heads - “Born Under Punches”
This Heat - "Sleep"
Van Morrison - “Astral Weeks”
Ved Buens Ende - "I Sang for the Swans"
The Zombies - "Care of Cell 44" |
AnimalsAsSummit
02.12.22 | Ed Rush and Optical - Mystery Machine
Unbeatable intensity |
Trifolium
02.12.22 | Also
Underworld - Cups |
ReturnToRock
02.12.22 | AC/DC - Many of their openers are great, but I'm partial to It's A Long Way to the Top..., Highway to Hell and Thunderstruck
Black Sabbath - War Pigs / Sweet Leaf / Neon Knights
Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit (this one is probably THE greatest ever, imho)
Judas Priest - Breaking the Law / The Hellion/Electric Eye / Painkiller
Iron Maiden - Where Eagles Dare
Billy Talent - Devil In a Midnight Mass
Sex Pistols - Holidays In the Sun
Green Day - Burnout / Nice Guys Finish Last
The Who - Baba O'Riley [2]
The Clash - Clash City Rockers / London Calling
RDGLDGRN - I Love Lamp
Enforcer - Diamonds
Korn - Blind
Helloween - Eagle Fly Free
Metallica - Enter Sandman
Ramones - Blitzkrieg Bop
Skinny Lister - If The Gaff Don't Let Us Down
KISS - Detroit Rock City / Crazy Crazy Nights
Manu Chao - Clandestino
Os Tubarões - Djonsinho Cabral
Sepultura - Chaos AD
Slipknot - (sic) (shut up, it counts)
Deep Purple - Highway Star / Burn
The Offspring - Staring At The Sun
Beach Boys - Surfin' Safari
The Beatles - Help!
Jethro Tull - Aqualung
The Prodigy - Smack My Bitch Up
Apollo Four Forty - Stop The Rock
Backstreet Boys - Backstreet's Back (it does what it's supposed to really well, great pop song)
Dragonforce - Through the Fire and Flames
NWA - Straight Outta Compton
Angra - Unfinished Allegro/Carry On / Nova Era
Queen - We Will Rock You
Europe - The Final Countdown
Survivor - Eye of the Tiger
Cockpit - Mission to Rock
The Doors - Break On Through (To The Other Side) / Hello, I Love You
Motorhead - Ace of Spades / Overkill
The Hallingtons - Alien Girl
Pixies - Debaser
Guns'n'Roses - Welcome to the Jungle
Manowar - Fighting the World
Not necessarily 'the best ever', just some of my personal favourites. |
JKing92
02.13.22 | Some of my personal favorites:
The Beatles - "Come Together"
Black Sabbath - "Black Sabbath"
Cream - "I Feel Free"
David Bowie - "Station to Station"
The Doors - "Break on Through (To the Other Side)"
Metallica - "Battery"
Nine Inch Nails - "Mr. Self Destruct"
Nirvana - "Serve the Servants"
Pink Floyd - "One of These Days"
The Rolling Stones - "Gimme Shelter"
Rush - "The Spirit of Radio"
The Velvet Underground - "Sunday Morning" |
Trifolium
02.13.22 | 25 and 27 aren't mine! 🤭✨ |
ReturnToRock
02.13.22 | Oh, how could I forget
Death - Leprosy
Also The Haunted - Hate Song |
insomniac15
02.13.22 | Amplifier - Motorhead |
zakalwe
02.13.22 | As a result of this list I stuck Smells Like Teen Spirit on earlier.
Earth Shattering. |
patrickbuit
02.13.22 | Scornful Of The Motives And Virtue Of Others by Shai Hulud |
Slex
02.13.22 | Shoutout to Doof having the best pick so far, weird but I love to see it |
Slex
02.13.22 | Also since most of these are skewing older, I'll pick my first favorite opener: Battery-Metallica |
ReturnToRock
02.13.22 | @zak strong contender for strongest opener of all time. |
porcupinetheater
02.13.22 | The Drones have got some consistently stellar openers:
Cockeyed Lowlife of the Highlands, Shark Fin Blues, Someone on Your Bond, Jezebel, I See Seaweed |
DoofDoof
02.13.22 | Some I don’t think I’ve seen yet…
Manics - Yes
AIC - Rotten Apple
Kyuss - Gardenia
Lambchop - Paperback Bible
Destroyer - Chinatown
Tindersticks - Another Night In
Paddy McAloon - I Trawl the MegaHz
Perry Blake - This Life
Talking Heads - Born Under Punches
Elliott Smith - Needle in the Hay
Red House Painters - Have You Forgotten
The Apartments - The Goodbye Train
40 Watt Sun - Stages
The Waterboys - Fisherman’s Blues
Ministry - N.W.O
The The - Infected
Tom Petty - Free Fallin
Bill Callahan - Jim Cain
Cass McCombs - County Line
The Blue Nile - Happiness
All time fave can be Mercury Rev - Holes
Fishmans is all one song really so yeah, N/A selectionez |
protokute
02.14.22 | How could we forget about Gardenia. |
NorthernSkylark
02.14.22 | Pet sounds - wouldn’t it be nice |
Trifolium
02.14.22 | Gardenia YES!! |
DoofDoof
02.14.22 | 'Hurricane' isn't bad either
Or indeed 'Regular John' and 'Feel Good Hit' |
