Openers:
- The Acorn - Hold Your Breath (from Glory Hope Mountain)
- And So I Watch You From Afar - Set Guitars To Kill (from And So I Watch You From Afar)
- Battles - Race: In (from Mirrored) and Africastle (from Gloss Drop)
- Dirty Projectors - Cannibal Resource (from Bitte Orca)
- Everything Everything - My KZ Ur BF (from Man Alive)
- Midlake - Roscoe (from The Trials Of Van Occupanther)
- The Mountain Goats - The Best Ever Death Metal Band In Denton (from All Hail West Texas) and Slow West Vultures (from We Shall All Be Healed)
- Oneohtrix Point Never - Nil Admirari (from Returnal)
- Shearwater - La Dame Et La Licorne (from Palo Santo)
- Snowmine - Beast In Air, Beast In Water (from Laminate Pet Animal)
- Sufjan Stevens - Concerning The UFO Sighting Near Highland, Illinois (from Illinois)
- Zu - Ostia (from Carboniferous)
Closers:
- And So I Watch You From Afar - Eat The City, Eat It Whole (from And So I Watch You From Afar)
- Animal Collective - Brother Sport (from Merriweather Post Pavillion)
- The Antlers - Putting The Dog To Sleep (from Burst Apart)
- Bon Iver - Re:Stacks (from For Emma, Forever Ago)
- Explosions In The Sky - Your Hand In Mine (from The Earth Is Not A Cold Dead Place)
- Fuck Buttons - Flight Of The Feathered Serpent (from Tarot Sport)
- Guillemots - Sao Paulo (from Through The Windowpane)
- Midlake - You Never Arrived (from The Trials Of Van Occupanther)
- The Mountain Goats - Ezekiel 7 And The Permanent Efficacy Of Grace (from The Life Of The World To Come)
- Owen Pallett - What Do You Think Will Happen Now? (from Heartland)
- Sigur Rós - Untitled 8 (Popplagið) (from ( ))
- Yeasayer - Red Cave (from All Hour Cymbals)
Openers:
- At the Drive-In - Arcarsenal (from Relationship of Command)
- Cloudkicker - Genesis Device/Dysphoria (from The Discovery)
- Mouse On The Keys - Spectres De Mouse (from An Anxious Object)
- The Mars Volta - Son et Lumiere/Inertiatic ESP (from Deloused in the Comatorium)
- And So I Watch You From Afar - Set Guitars to Kill (from And So I Watch You From Afar)
- King Crimson - 21st Century Schizoid Man (from In the Court of the Crimson King)
Closers:
- RX Bandits - Decrescendo (from The Resignation)
- SNOWMINE - Hologram (from Laminate Pet Animal)
- Portugal. The Man - Our Way (from Censored Colors)
- Cloudkicker - Ever Thus to Deadbeats (from The Map Is Not the Territory)
- You Slut! - MyBloodyJesusExplorerOnFire (from Critical Meat)
there are probably more but that's all I can think of right now
Being in a rather cloudy mental state right now—three cheers for sleep deprivation!—I feel that assembling a reasonable list for this topic is temporarily out of my range. Even so, speaking purely from impulse...
Personal Favourite Album Opener: The Decemberists, "Shanty for the Arethusa" (Her Majesty The Decemberists)
Personal Favourite Album Closer: Coil, "Batwings (A Limnal Hymn)" (Musick to Play in the Dark, Volume Two)
I'll hide your name inside a word and paint your eyes with false perception.Openers:
- Belt - Say Anything (from ...Is A Real Boy)
- Halfway Home - TV On The Radio (from Dear Science)
- March Into The Sea - Modest Mouse (from We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank)
- What We Talkin' About? - Jay Z (from The Blueprint 3)
- Razor (live) - Foo Fighters (from Skin and Bones)
Closers:
- Somedays - Regina Spektor (from Soviet Kitsch)
- Happiness - The Fray (from their Self-Titled Album)
- Too Long - Daft Punk (from Discovery)
- The Last Time - Gnarls Barkley (from St. Elsewhere)
- One Minute To Midnight - Justice (from Cross)
- Only In Dreams - Weezer (from The Blue Album)
- Hollywood Died - Yellowcard (from Lights and Sounds)
edited 26th Jul '11 1:03:00 PM by dmysta3000
GUNDAMU GUNDAMUFirst Favorite That Comes To Mind, Opener: This Heat - Sleep (Deceit)
First Favorite That Comes To Mind, Closer: Cardiacs - The Whole World Window (A Little Man and a House and the Whole World Window)
edited 26th Jul '11 1:05:46 PM by CinemaZebra
"My brain used to be a little bitch, so I mugged it's ass." -kegisakAt the top of my head...
Openers:
- "Morphogenesis" by Scar Symmetry on Holographic Universe ("The Anomaly" on The Unseen Empire also deserves mention)
- "House of Straw" by Bury Your Dead on Beauty and the Breakdown
- "Fractured Archetype" by Universum on Mortuus Machina
- "Dreamdecipher" by Miseration on The Mirroring Shadow (damn, three of the five openers I mentioned have Christian Alvestam in it)
Closers:
- "Sister Charlatan" by Bleeding Through on Declaration
- "Giant Man" by Code For Silence on D.Ecaying M.Atter / O.Rganic N.Emesis (wow I love this name)
- "Poltergeist" by Devin Townsend Project on Deconstruction
Both:
- Colors by Between the Buried and Me has pretty much perfect both opener and closer.
Openers:
- Ain Soph: “Crossfire
”
- Gentle Giant: “Just the Same”
- Happy the Man: “Service With a Smile
”
- Led Zeppelin: “Immigrant Song”
- Joni Mitchell: “In France They Kiss on Main Street”
- Todd Rundgren: “International Feel”
- Voyager: “Sing Out (Love Is Easy)
”
- Yes: “No Opportunity Necessary, No Experience Needed”
- Yes: “Yours Is No Disgrace”
- Yes: “Close to the Edge”
- Frank Zappa: “Peaches en Regalia”
Closers:
- Todd Rundgren: “Just One Victory”
- Todd Rundgren: “Sons of 1984”
- Yes: “Heart of the Sunrise”
um...I’ll think of more after I’ve posted this I’m sure...
Let me also mention a really interesting closer. It's not one of the best closers by far, but it deserves attention for how good it is in comparison with the rest of the album it's in.
Kill A Celebrity is an album by a certain band called Ramallah. The album itself is a generic nu metal with rapping complete with Public Enemy-worthy lyrics, and it's very very repetitive; not necessarily BAD, but repetitive and samey as hell.
And then, when you think they got nothing else to add, enter "Bye-Bye"
. At first I thought it was obviously a cover of an old song I never heard, since it's so catchy, fun and 80's flavored, but it's not! It's an original song after all! It's impressive how they pulled that off after showing nothing new in 15 GODDAMN TRACKS.
Man, if those guys make another album, it's better they figure out soon which song was really the best in that politically aware bore of an album.
No regret shall pass over the threshold!Openers:
- At Least That's What You Said by Wilco (A Ghost is Born)
- I'm Trying to Break Your Heart by Wilco (Yankee Hotel Foxtrot)
- Misunderstood by Wilco (Being There)
- Back in the USSR by The Beatles (White Album)
- Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Heart Club Band by The Beatles (Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Heart Club Band)
- I Am the Sea/The Real Me by The Who (Quadrinophenia)
- 15 Steps by Radiohead (In Rainbows)
- Hell's Bells by AC/DC (Back in Black)
- 3rd Planet by Modest Mouse (Moon and Antartica)
- March into the Sea by Modest Mouse (We Were Dead Before the Ship Arrived)
- Horn Intro/World at Large by Modest Mouse (Good News for People Who Love Bad News)
- Dog Days are Over by Florence and the Machine (Lungs)
- Prologue by The Antlers (Hospice)
- This Tornado Loves You by Neko Case (Middle Cyclone)
- Lloyd, I'm Ready to Be Heartbroken by Camera Obscura (Let's Get Out of this Country)
- Graveyard Shift by Uncle Tupelo (No Depression)
- 2+2=5 by Radiohead (Hail to the Thief)
Closers:
- Motion Picture Soundtrack by Radiohead (Kid A)
- The Good Times are Killing Me by Modest Mouse (Good News for People Who Love Bad News)
- Her Majesty by The Beatles (Abbey Road)
- Videotape by Radiohead (In Rainbows)
- Reservations by Wilco (Yankee Hotel Foxtrot)
- Love, Reign O'er Me by The Who (Quadrinophenia)
kdoen
edited 28th Jul '11 7:34:06 PM by CommanderObvious
This level of trolling is reasonable for Commander Obvious. What do you think of this, everyone?Awesome openings/closings I thought of off the top of my head
Openers:
Godspeed You! Black Emperor - The Dead Flag Blues (F#A#(Infinity))
Talk Talk - The Rainbow (Spirit of Eden)
Marillion - Bridge (Brave)
The Dillinger Escape Plan - Sugar Coated Sour (Calculating Infinity)
Tom Waits - New Coat of Paint (The Heart of Saturday Night)
Alice In Chains - Them Bones (Dirt)
Alice In Chains - Rotten Apple (Jar of Flies)
Dead Kennedys - Kill The Poor (Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables)
Between The Buried And Me - Lost Perfection A) Coulrophobia (The Silent Circus)
Bruce Dickinson - King In Crimson (The Chemical Wedding)
The Cure - Plainsong (Disintegration)
Endings
Genesis - Duke's End (Duke)
Genesis - Los Endos (Trick Of The Tail)
Tom Waits - Closing Time (Closing Time)
Gorillaz - Demon Days (Demon Days)
Radiohead - The Tourist (OK Computer)
Talking Heads - The Overload (Remain In Light)
Between The Buried And Me - Swim To The Moon (The Great Misdirect)
Between The Buried And Me - White Walls (Colors)
Yes - Awaken (Going For The One)
Yes - Perpetual Change (The Yes Album)
The Cure - Homesick (Disintegration)
Beastie Boys - Transitions (Ill Communication)
edited 28th Jul '11 1:53:56 AM by iamathousandapples
"I could eat a knob at night" - Karl PilkingtonOpener
- In One Ear - Cage The Elephant [Cage The Elephant]
- Diamond Eyes - Deftones [Diamond Eyes]
- Awoken/Endzeit - Heaven Shall Burn [Iconoclast: The Final Resistance]
- Search And Destroy - Iggy And The Stooges [Raw Power]
- Separate Ways (Worlds Apart) - Journey [Frontiers]
- 21st Century Schizoid Man - King Crimson [In The Court Of The Crimson King]
- Satellite Skin - Modest Mouse [No One's First, And You're Next]
- Hope Rides Alone - The Protomen [The Protomen]
- Intermission/The Good Doctor - The Protomen [Act II: The Father Of Death]
- Rolling - Soul Coughing [El Oso]
- Icky Thump - The White Stripes [Icky Thump]
Closer
- Pink Maggit - Deftones [White Pony]
- Static In The Cities'' - Hope Of The States [Driv3r: The Soundtrack]
- Aspire, Inspire - Five Pointe O [Untitled]
- Global Warming - Gojira [From Mars To Sirius]
- Voodoo Child (Slight Return) - The Jimi Hendrix Experience [Electric Ladyland]
- The Court of the Crimson King/The Return of the Fire Witch/The Dance of the Puppets - King Crimson [In the Court of the Crimson King]
- Free Bird - Lynyrd Skynyrd [(pronounced 'lĕh-'nérd 'skin-'nérd)]
- The Last Baron - Mastodon [Crack The Skye]
- EPILOGUE: Due Vendetta - The Protomen [The Protomen]
- Here Comes The Arm - The Protomen [Act II: The Father of Death]
- La Villa Strangiato - Rush [Hemispheres]
edited 28th Jul '11 7:49:29 PM by NULLcHiLD27
Very yes. Saddest album ever. Have you listened to Burst Apart yet?
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Openers are the first track on a album/EP/mixtape.
Closers are the last track on a album/EP/mixtape.
edited 24th Jul '11 3:59:43 PM by chreen
It's metafiction about metafiction about metafiction. More serious message: Don't you wish you watch everything that happens in the wo