What’s the Perfect Way to Start an Album?
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Hey everybody! Hope you liked this video. I’ve wanted to make something about intros for a while, but I wasn’t sure how to do it. This topic is really interesting to me and I wanna hear your thoughts on it too!
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@AlfoMedia
August 18, 2025 at 8:43 pm
Everybody's giving such great answers :') MCR's "The End" seems to be the front-runner rn
@domcii9558
August 18, 2025 at 8:43 pm
"In 2019" snapped me back the fuck to reality
@ryanbarge2874
August 18, 2025 at 8:43 pm
The 1975's "The 1975" on their first album…The 1975. LOL
@weeb2361
August 18, 2025 at 8:43 pm
big 25
@TheGallery534
August 18, 2025 at 8:43 pm
Some of mine include Wesley’s Theory by Kendrick Lamar and Take a Bow by Muse. The way Wesley’s theory just brings the sound of the album and the themes of the album all at once is amazing. The swelling strings of Take A Bow really emphasise that your about to listen to something grand.
@ntdms1139
August 18, 2025 at 8:43 pm
a bunch of my favourite album openers in no particular order (will include the second track if the first track is an intro):
– block rockin' beats – the chemical brothers
– since i left you – the avalanches
– only shallow – my bloody valentine
– iron galaxy – cannibal ox
– cowboys from hell – pantera
– stinkfist – tool
– wildlife analysis – boards of canada
– fantastic damage – el-p
– timeless – goldie
– the girl with the sun in her head – orbital
– fear not of man – mos def
– intro – dmx
– you know my steez – gang starr
– right here right now – fatboy slim
– you think i ain't worth a dollar but i feel like a millionaire – queens of the stone age
– bitter sweet symphony – the verve
– pinion/wish – nine inch nails
– smack my bitch up – the prodigy
– state of the nation/3030 – deltron 3030
– best foot forward/building steam with a grain of salt – dj shadow
– 742617000027/(sic) – slipknot
– concatenation – meshuggah
– overcome – tricky
– angel – massive attack
– guns blazing (drums of death pt. 1) – unkle
@gold4668
August 18, 2025 at 8:43 pm
Chicago’s debut album first track
@natnat-xc8n
August 18, 2025 at 8:43 pm
Implicit Demand for Proof by Twenty One Pilots is the perfect opener imo, not just to the album but to their whole discography. Starting with just the piano, moving into the long orchestral intro, and then exploding with emotion at the end before returning to the piano theme to wrap things up and move into the rest of the album
@Catinagalaxy
August 18, 2025 at 8:43 pm
My name is Jonas is a good album opener, Tired of sex isn't
@trubluu9
August 18, 2025 at 8:43 pm
fav opening tracks
WOLF – tyler the creator
SIR BAUDELAIRE – tyler the creator
Wacced out murals – kendrick lamar
get you – daniel ceasar
bastard – tyler, the creator
dark fantasy – kanye west
ultralight beam – kanye west
basically every tyler or kali opening tracks WOLF but especially these ones. igors theme and st chroma, too.
@piezoIuminescence
August 18, 2025 at 8:43 pm
My Own Summer (Shove it) is a great opener.
@ajk_night6581
August 18, 2025 at 8:43 pm
igor's theme is the absolute peak of album openers
@adammarcotte4803
August 18, 2025 at 8:43 pm
GHOST on Jack Harlows Confetti mixtape is a great way to kick it off
@JustaNormalGuyyyy
August 18, 2025 at 8:43 pm
We don’t care
@HistoryNerdVR
August 18, 2025 at 8:43 pm
intro from 2014 FHD
@slimapio
August 18, 2025 at 8:43 pm
Tired of sex is my favourite album opener ever
@Eye.Am.Hallis
August 18, 2025 at 8:43 pm
the ironman theme as the intro for supreme clientele
@worldsnotfound
August 18, 2025 at 8:43 pm
i was like "from the beginning?" but then i realized what you meant
@jjthemusicman
August 18, 2025 at 8:43 pm
I've always loved "Introduction to the Snow" in Hawaii: Part II, it effortlessly sets the mood for the whole album, and loops to the final track. I LOVE albums that fully loop back on themselves, I think IGOR does that as well, thematically and through the music itself
@dylanxitton
August 18, 2025 at 8:43 pm
short answer: not like the latest carti album 💀
@tbrown5836
August 18, 2025 at 8:43 pm
Think Nikes is a great start to blonde
@Manuel_Chinaski
August 18, 2025 at 8:43 pm
The black parade with The End going straight into Dead! Comes to mind .
@divelostmind
August 18, 2025 at 8:43 pm
wouldn't it be nice had no business being that much of a banger
@Dasubun
August 18, 2025 at 8:43 pm
I'm making a 2000s album bro I'm getting burnt out from this but its worth it, I just started and have one song, I'm adding 2000s hiphop/pop elements that's the album genre with bits of rnb, im preparing for another year long mission lol
@KamilTheCamel-j1m
August 18, 2025 at 8:43 pm
I started my album with a Free Style
@t_albino
August 18, 2025 at 8:43 pm
Herbie Hancock, Head Hunters, Chameleon. Enough said 👍
@SoluchistylesShorts
August 18, 2025 at 8:43 pm
Kendrick’s good kid mad city intro is fire 🔥
@EdCobain
August 18, 2025 at 8:43 pm
Genesis by Justice
@_shr.2005
August 18, 2025 at 8:43 pm
keep the family close is a good opening track imo
@idk-_-6932
August 18, 2025 at 8:43 pm
bro everyone talking about wesleys theory but imo i think sherane is better both amazing
@vapornoise
August 18, 2025 at 8:43 pm
The intro track Linden Dollars by James Ferraro off of his album Far Side Virtual is probably my favorite album opener by far.
@PrincePuppy611
August 18, 2025 at 8:43 pm
Very recent but St. Chroma is my favorite intro. St. Chroma is just actually so inspirational and overall an amazing song but at the same time it introduces all the themes of chromakopia and connects to the rest of the tracks and mainly the end track I hope you find your way home so well
@HealingAlbumsArchive
August 18, 2025 at 8:43 pm
Intro and water deep by m83 are some bangers. Anthony definelly knows how to make intros and outros for an album
@JubaDeMetalAlumínio
August 18, 2025 at 8:43 pm
I like albums with a good instrumental intro. Not necessarily a sole instrumental "Intro" track, but a couple minutes without vocals. Blind Guardian's Somewhere Far Beyond has an album structure that I really like, starting with an acoustic part on "Time What's Time", and then enter the distored guitars with riffs and melodies, drums and bass; shortly after Hansi begins to sing.
Also, not only instrumental intros, but more cinematic stuff works well, too. Like in Rhapsody of Fire albums. Another great example is Dream Theater's Metropolis Part 2, which is a concept album, and, after a little non-music speech introduction, then comes an acoustic guitar and vocals, and right after a little instrumetal piece called "Overture 1928", pretty epic beginning (and album, front to back).
I think I prefer a well made intro rather than a full power punch, even in metal albums. Necrophagist's Onset of Putrefaction starts with a pretty bad track, "Foul Body's Autopsy"; at least Epitaph has the great "Stabwound" as a good opening, again, with cool riffs and soloing before the vocals get on track. And I really hate acapella intros, like Fuel by Metallica, and You Give Love A Bad Name by Bon Jovi.
@fripp3940
August 18, 2025 at 8:43 pm
my boy…. we dont see each other much….
@musicman2704
August 18, 2025 at 8:43 pm
Igor’s theme. The way it leads into earfquake and how the album is able to loop musically through the sustained notes on the first and last tracks of the album are perfect
@Bluefavcolor
August 18, 2025 at 8:43 pm
Nikes by Frank Ocean comes to mind first. It kinda sounds nothing like the rest of the album but grabs your attention like no other
@nc4429
August 18, 2025 at 8:43 pm
Angel by Massive Attack
It feels like an intro track to an eerie noir film, and is a perfect representarion of Mezzanines (the album) sound And concept as a whole, it paints a beautiful and mysterious picture of what this album is gonna be sound And content wise
@TJRondatrack
August 18, 2025 at 8:43 pm
I like how goodbye and good riddance intro is a girl screaming and trash talking juice and she says „who had ur back, me, i did” and than all girls are the same starts playing
@Loopdah
August 18, 2025 at 8:43 pm
Say you will on 808s is such a beautiful awakening to the cold feeling of the album
@Vaxmas
August 18, 2025 at 8:43 pm
Starboy album all the singles are un skiable
@lilspezmoid
August 18, 2025 at 8:43 pm
I haven't watched fully yet but i believe Roundabout is a perfect starting track.
@therealowenmcbride
August 18, 2025 at 8:43 pm
Madvillainy does something I’ve never seen any other album do. The entire intro track is a collage of old radio announcements about two supervillains that are causing chaos. It fits the theme of the album perfectly
@MaxUpGearUp
August 18, 2025 at 8:43 pm
Death Cab For Cuties ‘The New Year’ is a great anthemic opener to a great indie rock album. It also ironically foreshadows the albums themes with the lyric ‘there’d be no distance that could hold us back’ and also transitions really well into ‘Lightness’.
@FireChip
August 18, 2025 at 8:43 pm
heres some i think are great
Doll – The Foo fighters
Whats Going On – Marvin Gaye
Igors Theme – Tyler the creator
Good Morning – Kanye West
@ChaseIsAwesome91
August 18, 2025 at 8:43 pm
United in grief is my favourite intro
@ShyDethKittenOfficial
August 18, 2025 at 8:43 pm
My favorite intro is "Millionaire" from QOSTA such a great way to set up the whole "road trip" story that the album tells
@prod_richvr
August 18, 2025 at 8:43 pm
IGOR'S THEME
@ovadoseooo947
August 18, 2025 at 8:43 pm
Making a album is like making a movie. A album is deeper than a (song). It's your latest movie….
@ZaTheLean
August 18, 2025 at 8:43 pm
Pink Floyd’s “Speak to Me” and Gorillaz “Intro” are some mysterious sound collage openers and Tame Impala’s “Let it Happen” and Stevie Wonder’s “Love’s In Need of Today” are some good epic long openers
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