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* Music/FrankieGoesToHollywood's "Welcome To The Pleasuredome'' opens with three 1-minute introductory tracks; "Well", "The World Is My Oyster", and "Snatch of Fury (Stay)"; which lead into the 12 1/2-minute TitleTrack.
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* Music/{{Styx}}'s 1972 SelfTitled debut album begins with "Movement for the Common Man" (13:11).
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*Music/DonnaSummer:
**''Love To Love You Baby'' opens with the title track, which takes up all of side one (16:50).
**Similarly the follow-up ''A Love Trilogy'' fills its first side with "Try Me, I Know, We Can Make It" (17:57).
**Although it doesn't get into quite the same EpicRocking territory (and it's only the longest by a matter of seconds), her next album '' Four Seasons of Love'' opens with "Spring Affair" (8:29).
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* "Smells Like Teen Spirit", the opening track of Music/{{Nirvana}}'s ''Music/{{Nevermind}}'', is the longest one on the album overall at 5:01, not counting the 6:44 HiddenTrack "Endless, Nameless" (which is only available in the album's CD version, and even then it was omitted from the initial release due to a mastering error).

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* "Smells Like Teen Spirit", the opening track of Music/{{Nirvana}}'s ''Music/{{Nevermind}}'', ''Music/{{Nevermind|Album}}'', is the longest one on the album overall at 5:01, not counting the 6:44 HiddenTrack "Endless, Nameless" (which is only available in the album's CD version, and even then it was omitted from the initial release due to a mastering error).
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* Music/EltonJohn: ''Empty Sky'' starts off with the 8:29 TitleTrack.
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* Music/SilversunPickups:
** ''Widow's Weeds'' starts with "Neon Wound" (5:38).
** ''Physical Thrills'' opens with "Stillness (Way Beyond)" (5:15), which barely edges out the 5:14 "Quicksand" as the album's longest track.
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* Music/{{Babymetal}}'s fourth album ''The Other One'' opens with "Metal Kingdom" (5:51). None of the other tracks last five minutes.


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* Music/BandMaid's third album ''Brand New Maid'' starts with "the non-fiction days" (4:44); the second longest track, "[=YURAGU=]," only lasts to 4:05.

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* Box Car Racer's SelfTitledAlbum and only release so far opens with the 4:30 "I Feel So", which is only ten seconds longer than the second-longest track, "Cat Like Thief" (4:20).


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* Box Car Racer's SelfTitledAlbum and only release so far opens with the 4:30 "I Feel So", which is only ten seconds longer than the second-longest track, "Cat Like Thief" (4:20).
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* Box Car Racer's SelfTitledAlbum and only release so far opens with the 4:30 "I Feel So", which is only ten seconds longer than the second-longest track, "Cat Like Thief" (4:20).

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* Music/OzzyOsbourne's 2010 album ''Scream'' opens on the 6:06 "Let It Die", beating out the next in line by only three seconds.

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** ''Patient Number 9'' opens with the titular track, running at 7:21.
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* Inverted with Music/CannibalCorpse's ''Kill'', which opens with its shortest song, "The Time to Kill Is Now" (2:03).
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* Music/TheWho's ninth studio album ''Face Dances'' begins with "You Better You Bet," at 5:36.
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* Music/LilYachty's 2023 album ''Let's Start Here'' begins with "The Black Seminole", at 6:51.
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* Music/ScorpionsBand has the 2004 album ''Unbreakable'', which starts with the 5:51 "New Generation."
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** ''Islands'' begins with the 10-minute "Formentera Lady"[[note]]"Islands", the final track, is nearly twelve minutes long. However, the song itself is only nine minutes. The rest of the time is taken up by a HiddenTrack of an orchestral tune-up, preceded by a minute of silence.[[/note]]

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** Discounting the HiddenTrack at the end of the TitleTrack, ''Islands'' begins with the 10-minute "Formentera Lady"[[note]]"Islands", the final track, is nearly twelve minutes long. However, the song itself is only nine minutes. The rest of the time is taken up by a HiddenTrack of an orchestral tune-up, preceded by a minute of silence.[[/note]]Lady".
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* Music/{{Gojira|Band}}'s ''L'Enfant Sauvage'' opens with the 6:39 "Explosia", the only song on the album to surpass the 6-minute mark.
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* Music/{{Zytokine}}: The album ''To You, Who Couldn't Become Neither White or Black'' is comprised of 2 discs, but disc 1 begins with the longest song in the entire package: "No Longer Human", a 5:06 long remix of "Border Between Dreams and Reality" from Music/TouhouZUNsMusicCollection with vocals provided by itori. For comparison, the next song after that, "Soft Rain Fell on My Cheek", is only 3:39 long, while the second-longest song in the package, "Path of the Last Goodbye" on disc 2, barely cracks the 5-minute mark with a length of 4:58.

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* Music/{{Zytokine}}: The album ''To You, Who Couldn't Become Neither White or Black'' is comprised of 2 discs, but disc 1 begins with the longest song in the entire package: "No Longer Human", a 5:06 long remix of "Border Between Dreams and Reality" from Music/TouhouZUNsMusicCollection ''Music/TouhouZUNsMusicCollection'' with vocals provided by itori. For comparison, the next song after that, "Soft Rain Fell on My Cheek", is only 3:39 long, while the second-longest song in the package, "Path of the Last Goodbye" on disc 2, barely cracks the 5-minute mark with a length of 4:58.
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* Music/PrettyPoison's ''Euphoria'' opens with the 11:53 {{medley}} "Euphoric Reality/Make The World/Catch Me I'm Falling".
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* Music/TheBand: ''Music from Big Pink'' starts with the 5:23 "Tears of Rage." The next longest song on the album, "Chest Fever," only goes to 5:18.
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* Music/TheTubes' 1983 album ''Outside Inside'' starts with "She's a Beauty," at 4:01; none of the other songs cross the 4-minute mark.

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* Music/KingCrimson's ''Music/LarksTonguesInAspic'' began with the 13-and-a-half minute instrumental epic "Larks' Tongues in Aspic, Part One".

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** ''Islands'' begins with the 10-minute "Formentera Lady"[[note]]"Islands", the final track, is nearly twelve minutes long. However, the song itself is only nine minutes. The rest of the time is taken up by a HiddenTrack of an orchestral tune-up, preceded by a minute of silence.[[/note]]
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''Music/LarksTonguesInAspic'' began with the 13-and-a-half minute instrumental epic "Larks' Tongues in Aspic, Part One".
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* Music/LedZeppelin's ''Presence'' kicks off with the ten-and-a-half-minute "Achilles Last Stand" [-[''sic'']-], one of their longest songs, beaten out only by "Carouselambra" from their final (official) album ''In Through the Out Door'', which is just a few seconds longer, and "In My Time of Dying", which is just over eleven minutes long.

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** ''[=QE2=]'' opens with the ten-minute "Taurus I".
** Both ''Music/FiveMilesOut'' and ''Music/{{Crises}}'' open with side-length suites, "Taurus II" and the TitleTrack, respectively; on the initial US release of ''Crises'', this is altered to have the title track [[LongestSongGoesLast close out the album instead]].


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** Both ''Music/FiveMilesOut'' and ''Music/{{Crises}}'' open with side-length suites, "Taurus II" and the TitleTrack, respectively; on the initial US release of ''Crises'', this is altered to have the title track [[LongestSongGoesLast close out the album instead]].

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** Their 2013 album ''Float Along - Fill Your Lungs'' opens with the 16-minute "HeadOn/Pill", almost 10 minutes longer than the next longest song.

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** Their 2013 album ''Float Along - Fill Your Lungs'' opens with the 16-minute "HeadOn/Pill", "[=HeadOn/Pill=]", almost 10 minutes longer than the next longest song.


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** ''[=QE2=]'' opens with the 10:16 "Taurus I"; no other song on the album surpasses eight minutes.
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* Music/{{Japan}}:
** ''Gentlemen Take Polaroids'' opens with the seven-minute TitleTrack. The next-longest song, "Nightporter", just barely falls under that mark. This marks a significant contrast from the band's previous albums, which invariably fell under LongestSongGoesLast.
** ''Rain Tree Crow'' opens with the seven-minute "Big Wheels in Shanty Town". The next-longest song on the album, "Pocket Full of Change", is exactly one minute shorter.
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** ''Black Sabbath Vol. 4'' opens with the 8:02 "Wheels of Confusion", though technically this is two songs in one, the last two-and-a-half minutes being a separate instrumental outro dubbed "The Straightener" on some versions of the album.

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** ''Black Sabbath Vol. 4'' opens with the 8:02 "Wheels of Confusion", though technically this is two songs in one, the one--the last two-and-a-half minutes being a separate separately-recorded instrumental outro dubbed "The Straightener" on some versions of the album.

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