• Your favorite/most awesome openings to albums?
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Post your favorite opening tracks to albums. Which ones set the stage perfectly or provide an epic opening for the road ahead? To begin, I'm gonna go with a recent release (about 4 months ago): [B]Crown the Empire's[/B] [I]The Resistance: Rise of the Runaway's[/I] begins with a haunting narration in a dystopian future where individual freedom is going to be removed from society. You can almost see the fog rolling across the landscape as that sinister voice echos out of a loudspeaker to the citizens of this world. Then the main vocals slowly float in and you just know that a struggle for that freedom is about to begin. Take a listen: [video=youtube;cD4bdTYp63o]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cD4bdTYp63o[/video]
[b]No one was left who could remember how it had happened How the world had fallen under darkness. At least no one who would do anything. No one who would oppose the robots. No one who would challenge their power or so Dr. Wily believed...[/b] [video=youtube;TZsUAqaOiHU]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZsUAqaOiHU[/video] It's short and to the point. It gives you a setting, an antagonist, and the role of the protagonist, in just six lines. Then there was rock. And then there was plot. A hero rises and falls in the next four minutes. [i]And as the smoke cleared! Wily rose above the countless robots remaining. Protoman was wounded, low on energy, struggling to remain standing as Wily ordered the final attack. The death of Protoman[/i] There's an energy, not just to the music, but to the story. Most concept albums tell the story between songs - the songs capture a single moment, like the frame of a comic. The Protomen don't play that way - every song captures the transition between two states, sometimes with intermediate stages, as in this song. It really acts as sort of a preview for the entire rest of the album. It's even better in concert, because the role of the crowd of bystanders is played by the audience. So you're down there in the pits, singing "WE ARE THE DEAD" with hundreds of others. It's eerie. [i]The Father of Death[/i] had better production and some better songs than [i]Hope Rides Alone[/i], but it didn't come at all close to matching this perfect opening. And I don't think Act III will be able to match it either. It's just too good.
I believe this belongs here: [url]http://facepunch.com/forumdisplay.php?f=262[/url] Musicians' Gig Room is for producers, bands and shit to post their music and discuss the production aspect of it.
[video=youtube;cQUKfjKc0hY]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQUKfjKc0hY[/video]
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