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* Music/StoneTemplePilots' ''Tiny Music... Songs From The Vatican Gift Shop'' opens with "Press Play", a minute and 21 seconds of funky, organ-based instrumental jamming that fades into the next song. Interestingly, the track is three minutes longer on LP copies, which is how long it was on the original master tapes - it starts repeating itself after the first minute and a half, so they may have just recorded a longer-than-neccesary version so they could decide when to start fading it out later.

* ''Music/TheHamiltonMixtape'' has the song "No John Trumbull" which asserts that the following album would be nothing like Trumbull's famous painting of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. It was originally supposed to be used in the [[Theatre/{{Hamilton}} play proper]] but was quickly dropped in favor of the now-iconic song "Alexander Hamilton", and found a home on the Mixtape.

* ''Music/TheAquabats'' album "Charge!!" opens with a brief clip of a sci-fi narrator type warning listeners "Now stand back, for your own safety!"

* ''Ixnay on the Hombre'' by Music/TheOffspring begins with "Disclaimer", and exceedingly sarcastic disclaimer about its objectionable content.

* ''All Hail Bright Futures'' by And So I Watch You From Afar begins with a track called "Eunoia" which leads in to the first proper track.

* {{Music/Mudhoney}}'s ''Piece Of Cake'' starts with an [[NoTitle untitled]] 40 second parody of OrchestraHitTechnoBattle-style rave music. This is definitely in the "different genre from the rest of the album" category, because the other songs are primarily {{Grunge}}.

* "Theme from ''Flood''" from TheyMightBeGiants' ''Music/{{Flood}}''. A 27 second choral piece introducing the album.
-->It's a brand new record for 1990: They Might Be Giants' brand new album... [[TitleDrop Flooooood]]

* Several albums by Music/TheAlanParsonsProject begin with an instrumental piece that segues into the first song. The remix version of their first, ''Tales of Mystery and Imagination'' features spoken intros to the first and second halves, read by OrsonWelles as EdgarAllanPoe.

* ''Music/SgtPeppersLonelyHeartsClubBand'' is presented as a concert by the eponymous band, with the first song an intro track. (2:02 per TheOtherWiki, with a reprise at the end of the record @ 1:08, followed by an {{Encore}} song.)
* The {{Jimi Hendrix}} album ''Axis: Bold as Love'' begins with a track depicting a British-accented talk show host, with a slightly sped-up "chipmunk" voice, talking skeptically about U.F.O.s and aliens, with his guest revealing himself to be an alien (with guitar noises depicting his ship picking him up)--the track is called "EXP", and segues into "Up From the Skies", a song from the point of view of an [[AncientAstronauts Ancient Astronaut]] returning to Earth.
* "Son et lumiere", the first track of TheMarsVolta's ''Deloused in the Comatorium'', provides an ambient rise to the first song.

* ''Channel Orange'' by Frank Ocean starts with the track "Start", which samples a sound of a PlayStation starting up, along with other electronic sounds.

* Music/Slipknot are quite fond of this.

* Music/{{Cormorant}}'s album ''Earth Diver'' opens with "Eris", a short instrumental piece that contains sampling from later tracks on the album, opening to the song "Daughter of Void".

* "Mezmerize" by SystemOfADown begins with an intro version of the song "Soldier Side", the full version of which isn't heard until the last track of the sister album "Hypnotize".

* All of VNVNation's albums have one of these. ''Transnational'' opens with "Generator", which is a SiameseTwinSong and EpicInstrumentalOpener to "Everything".
* The {{title track}}s of {{Covenant}}'s ''Modern Ruin'' and ''Leaving Babylon''.

* The appropriately titled ''Intro'' in ''{{Outkast}}'s'' ''Stankonia''.

* TypeONegative's ''October Rust'' has the joke track "Bad Ground", which is just an amplifier hum, followed by introductory dialogue from the band members.
** They pulled a similar trick with the first track of their next album, ''World Coming Down'': "Skip It" is an 11 second track of what sounds like a skipping cd, followed by a member of the band shouting "Sucker!". There was even a format-specific version of this intro for the cassette edition, which sounded like a tape being eaten instead.

* "Ascendancy" by {{Trivium}} begins with an instrumental track titled "The End of Everything."

* Morphine's ''Cure For Pain'' starts with "Dawna", a 44 second ambient instrumental mostly centered on Dana Colley's saxophone playing. ''Like Swimming'' starts with the minute-long "Lilah", which is similar, but based around Mark Sandman's bass instead.

* {{The Beach Boys}}' SMiLE begins with 'Our Prayer,' a church-like hymn with huge echo that provides just a taste of the amazing music to follow it.

* ''V'' from Music/BulletForMyVakentine album Venom.

* Fun Boy Three's self-titled debut has the intro track "Sanctuary", 1:22 of OminousLatinChanting.