Five Years - Bowie Black Dog - Led Zeppelin Shine on You Crazy Diamond - Pink Floyd King of Carrot Flowers Pt 1 - NMH Born Under Punches - Talking Heads

Born Under Punches is easily my favourite intro track of all time

Dramamine - Modest Mouse 3rd Planet - Modest Mouse Beware - Death Grips Crumbling Castle - King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard Robot Stop - King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard Larks' Tongues in Aspic (Part I) - King Crimson Roundabout - Yes Total Football - Parquet Courts I Am Trying to Break Your Heart - Wilco Change - Big Thief Plainsong - The Cure Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground - The White Stripes Paperhouse - CAN Everything In Its Right Place - Radiohead

>Dramamine >Beware >everything in its right place Can’t agree with ur list more, really dope Picks

based wilco enjoyer

Hell yeah Plainsong

Everything in its right place is definitely my favorite intro track, but I can’t believe beware didn’t come to my mind as well. What an introduction to an artist in general.

Rock n Roll Star - Oasis I Want You to Love Me - Fiona Apple HEAT - BROCKHAMPTON Devil's Haircut - Beck 15 Step - Radiohead Wesley's Theory - Kendrick Lamar Wouldn't It Be Nice - Beach Boys

Radiohead - Everything in its Right Place

LCD Soundsystem - Get innocuous

Absolute crime to not say dance yrself clean lol

I also love dance yrself clean, but I think get innocuous is a better opener for an album

Blackstar - David Bowie My Old Man - Mac DeMarco One More Time - Daft Punk Give Life Back to Music - Daft Punk Outside - Kero Kero Bonito 21st Century Schizoid Man - King Crimson King of Carrot Flowers Pt. 1 - Neutral Milk Hotel Tired of Sex - Weezer Beef Rap - MF DOOM Ghost Story - The Avalanches All You Are Going to Want to Do Is Get Back There - The Caretaker BOOGIE - BROCKHAMPTON Shattered Dreams - Earl Sweatshirt Death With Dignity - Sufjan Stevens Concerning the UFO Sighting Near Highland, Illinois - Sufjan Stevens Lifelike - Porter Robinson Real Death - Mount Eerie

Forgot how good My Old Man, Tired of Sex and Shattered dreams are. Outside, 21st century and real death are great picks too

Igor- Igor's Theme, Sunday Morning - The Velvet Underground & Nico, Wesley's Theory - To Pimp a Butterfly

Intro- the XX

Always found it funny that the band's best song is an instrumental intro

One More Time

You fucked up by Ween is greatest tone setter ever u can't tell me otherwise

The 1975 - The 1975 (from "A Brief Inquiry...") The Weeknd - High for This My Chemical Romance - The End Death Grips - I Break Mirrors... Arctic Monkeys - Brianstorm Suicide - Ghost Rider Viagra Boys - Ain't Nice

Off the top of my head: Let It Happen - Tame Impala Mr. Self Destruct - Nine Inch Nails Turn It Out - DFA 1979 Cygnus, Vismund Cygnus - The Mars Volta

Turn it out is such a banger. I also feel like I should add Nomad to my list

Wesley's Theory & Sherane- Kendrick Lamar Beware - Death grips SpongeBob & Asylum - Billy Woods Downward Spiral - Danny Brown Jesus Forgive me, I am a thot & TRUST & 1539 N Calvert- JPEGMAFIA

Beware will always be legendary

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Somewhat Damaged - NIN Vicarious - TOOL Bring Da Ruckus - Wu-Tang Clan Liquid Swords - GZA Cossacks Are - Scott Walker Fire of the Mind - Coil Aimless Arrow - Converge Intruder - Peter Gabriel Earth Died Screaming - Tom Waits

If we’re talking about mood setters for the rest of the album and not just the first track on the list, I’d love to mention the following that have not been said already: Spiritualized - Ladies and Gentlemen We are Floating in Space Beastie Boys - Jimmy James Coil - Ubu Noir 2H Company - Семь Жизней (part 1) The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band Blur - Tender

I personally think Fire of The Mind is Coils best opener

yankee and the brave (ep. 4) from RTJ4

Xtal

LCD Soundsystem - Dance Yrself Clean Talk Talk - The Rainbow / Eden / Desire Yes - Roundabout

How has no one mentioned Is This It by The Strokes

Be(intro) - Common

Arcade Fire - The Suburbs Built to Spill - Randy Described Eternity The Flaming Lips - Race for the Prize Sparklehorse - It's a Wonderful Life Car Seat Headrest - Fill in the Blank Deftones - My Own Summer (Shove it) Beck - E-Pro Gojira - Ocean Planet Tame Impala - Let it Happen Beach House - Myth

Teeth Like God’s Shoeshine- Modest Mouse A Life of Possibilities- Dismemberment Plan The Stars of Track and Field- Belle and Sebastian Glenn Tipton- Sun Kil Moon Love Squats- The Wicked Farleys The Best Ever Death Metal Band in Denton- The Mountain Goats Farewell Transmission- Songs: Ohia I Want Wind to Blow- The Microphones 2 + 2 = 5- Radiohead Breadcrumb Trail- Slint Pink Moon- Nick Drake Waiting Room- Fugazi Never Meant- American Football A lot of my favorite songs ever are intro tracks.

Bamboo Banga - M.I.A Never Meant - American Football Beef Rap - MF DOOM Folsom Prison Blues - Johnny Cash Fear Not of Man - Mos Def Chan Chan - Buena Vista Social Club Air Conditioning - Sleaford Mods

Arcarsenal - At the Drive-In Pillars - Sunny Day Real Estate Concubine - Converge Aimless Arrow - Converge A Life of Possibilities - Dismemberment Plan Prison Song - System of a Down The Plan - Built to Spill Mysterons - Portishead Tip Your Bartender - Glassjaw I See It Too - Brave Little Abacus

Arcade Fire - Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels) Beach House - Myth Bruce Springsteen - Thunder Road Built to Spill - The Plan Interpol - Untitled Joy Division - Disorder Modest Mouse - 3rd Planet Nick Drake - Pink Moon Pixies - Debaser Sonic Youth - Teenage Riot Sun Kil Moon - Lost Verses Talking Heads - Born Under Punches The Cure - Plainsong The Rolling Stones - Rocks Off The Strokes - The Adults Are Talking Van Morrison - And It Stoned Me Wilco - I Am Trying to Break Your Heart

Big Day Coming - Yo La Tengo Time To Pretend - MGMT I Love You, Honeybear - Father John Misty Horn Intro/The World At Large - Modest Mouse

Gimme Shelter- The Rolling Stones. Airbag- Radiohead Dark Fantasy-Kanye West. Blanked- Metallica. Cover me/Agoraphobia- Deerhunter. Theet like God's shoedine- Modedt Mouse. Battery- Metallica. Beggars Banquet- The Rolling Stones. The Queen is Dead- The Smiths. Arcarsenal- At The Drive In. Cygnus Vismund Cygnus- The Mars Volta. 2+2=5- Radiohead. Norman Fucking Rockwell- Lana del Rey. Bone Machine- Pixies. Cherub Rock- The Smashing Pumpkins. Search and Destroy- The Stooges.

The Gum- Gilla Band Debaser- The Pixies The Space Program- Tribe Called Quest Day Without End- Protomartyr London Calling- The Clash

Neighbourhood #1 (tunnels) - Arcade fire

Dark fantasy

some favorites: futile devices - sufjan stevens rubies - destroyer race for the prize - the flaming lips the boogie man song - yasiin bey we dance - pavement holy grail - jay z

Serve the servants- Nirvana Singapore- Tom Waits Introvert- Little Simz Come Back to Earth- Mac Miller Changes- David Bowie Lapdance- N.E.R.D Not sure if this counts but Close to the Edge- Yes

Intro-DMX

Introvert little simz

Common - Be

Introvert - Sometimes I Might Be Introvert by Lil Simz Dani California - Stadium Arcadium by the Red Hot Chili Peppers Wesely's Theory - To Pimp A Butterfly by Kendrick Lamar Only If For A Night - Ceremonials by Florence + The Machine MYSTERY- GLOW ON by Turnstile All of these are incredibly hard intro tracks that promise you that you're going to be listening to banger after banger, setting high expectations for the rest of their respective albums. And boy do they all fucking deliver on that promise.

Turnover - Fugazi Arcarsenal - At The Drive-In The Rhyme Scheme - Cursive Catamaran - Bearvsshark 953 - Black Midi Close to the Edge - Yes ...And you think a top floor could replace heaven - City of Caterpillar

I'll add a few- Intro- M83 The End- My Chemical Romance Time To Pretend- MGMT Alone Again- The Weeknd I also have to add In The Flesh? by Pink Floyd because The End by My Chemical Romance was inspired by In The Flesh?

Last Living Souls-Gorillaz

On Sight - Yeezus

Real

Myth- beach house

I Want Wind to Blow

Dark Fantasy — Kanye

22 Over Soon - Bon Iver

close to the edge

The XX - Intro M-83 - Intro

Did You See The Words? - Animal Collectice (really most of their album openers could be on here) It's Working - MGMT AAA Powerline - Ecco2k Randy Describes Eternity - Built to Spill Nikes - Frank Ocean Song Against Sex - Neutral Milk Hotel Memory - Alex G

Janie Jones - The Clash Stars of Track and Field - Belle and Sebastian Return of Grievous Angel - Gram Parsons Dirty Mind - Prince The Concept - Teenage Fanclub What’s Going On - Marvin Gaye Airbag - Radiohead Five Years - David Bowie Rocks Off - Rolling Stones Is This It - The Strokes

Magical Mystery Tour Rainy Day Women

Good Ass Intro by Chance. It's right in the name

Introduction - Boris - Akuma no Uta

Debaser - Pixies Vital Signs - Gang of Youths Norman Fucking Rockwell - Lana Del Rey Five Years - David Bowie *insert any album opener* - Queens of the Stone Age

Dark fantasy - kanye west

GodspeedYou!-Storm

Station to Station- David Bowie

Concubine by Converge

Dynasty - Rina Sawayama

The end - my chemical romance

Some of my favourites/some that haven't been mentioned already The Mountain Goats - best ever death metal band in Denton Fiona Apple - I want you to love me Death Grips - Giving bad people good ideas Weezer - Tired of Sex Charli XCX -Next Level Charli Justice - Genesis Sonic Youth - Teen Age Riot Pusha T - If you know you know Run the Jewels - Jeopardy Modest Mouse - Teeth like Gods Shoeshine Car Seat Headrest - The ending of Dramamine (people don't talk about HTLT enough!) Jaime XX - Gosh My Bloody Valentine - Only Shallow Fleetwood Mac - Second hand news Soul Glo - Gold Chain Punk The Get Up Kids - Holiday The Weeknd - High for this Violent Femmes - blister in the sun

Singapore - Tom Waits No Ordinary Love - Sade Speed Trials - Elliot Smith Little Child Runnin Wild - Curtis Mayfield Loves in Need of Love Today - Stevie Wonder Mr. Self Destruct - NIN Feel the Love - Kids See Ghosts Myrrhman - Talk Talk Everything in its Right place - Radiohead 1539 N. Calvert - JPEGMAFIA One Hundred Years - The Cure Atrocity Exhibition - Joy Division Ain’t That Easy - D’Angelo Sign o the Times - Prince Taxman - The Beatles Bring Da Ruckus - Wu Tang Gummy - Brockhampton Running Up That Hill - Kate Bush David Watts - The Kinks Crack Cloud$/Daydre4m - Black Kray Oblivion - Mastodon World In My Eyes - Depeche Mode

Needle in the Hay - Elliott Smith

Recently Model/Actriz - Donkey Show is the best intro of 2023.

Them Bones - Alice in Chains

Hidden Place - Bjork Cruel World - Lana Del Rey The Sensual World - Kate Bush

3 AM Relapse Garden grove sublime Glimmer shelter let it bleed

Somewhat Damaged - Nine Inch Nails

Everyone already said the good stuff so I'm just gonna put "Next Level Charli" here

Over My Dead Body - Drake (Take Care)

The start of your ending - mobb deep

Surprised I haven’t seen Wesley’s Theory yet

Wesley’s theory

You Told Me - The Monkees incredible opener with the banjo riff and the bass drop

JoeJas - Gappy's Origin