Albums with excellent openers/closers...

[marrost]

I just got through Unfortunately We're Not Robots, and was thinking how good both the intro and outro were. What albums do you guys think begin and end with a bang?

[MakeshiftWings]

Who is the album by?

[marrost]

www.google.com

http://www.curlupanddie.net/

[Ratherbedead22]

Are these our lives.

[Crocodile Logic]

Are these our lives.
i was about to say the same thing.

but i'll go with That Within Blood Ill-Tempered.

[MakeshiftWings]

www.google.com (http://www.google.com)

http://www.curlupanddie.net/
Thanks alot! Do you reccomend the album?

I was about to call you a cunt for telling me to curl up and die, and then realised it was the band!

[Crocodile Logic]

Thanks alot! Do you reccomend the album?

I was about to call you a cunt for telling me to curl up and die, and then realised it was the band!
yeah, CUAD were quality.

[marrost]

Thanks alot! Do you reccomend the album?

I was about to call you a cunt for telling me to curl up and die, and then realised it was the band!Ha. Hell yes I reccommend it.

[wesgemm08]

Converge- Petitioning the Empty Sky

Start- Saddest Day End- Home Song


and the re-issue/remaster is even better closing the cd with Love As Arson

[Blueskyburning]

champion - promises kept, i fucking love it, its simple as fuck to play but it sounds so good

[alcoholandirony]

lifetime- hello bastards

[mikeford]

age of quarrel

we gotta know intro... nuff said.


also leeway - born to expire.... fuckin rise and fall and ending with unexpected... jesus christ.

[onelastdisaster]

champion - promises kept, i fucking love it, its simple as fuck to play but it sounds so good
agreed.

[Criesofthepast7]

Converge- Petitioning the Empty Sky

Start- Saddest Day End- Home Song


and the re-issue/remaster is even better closing the cd with Love As Arson

i need to re-listen to this cd.

[xglassjawx]

yeah, CUAD were quality.

I agree.

[IAmNietzche]

None of those albums compare opening and closing wise with...

Circle Takes the Square - As the Roots Undo

Intro - A Crater to Cough In

The whistling tune in Intro shows back up in A Crater to Cough In played by the guitars and then things just explode at the end. Awesome stuff.

[Crocodile Logic]

None of those albums compare opening and closing wise with...

Circle Takes the Square - As the Roots Undo

Intro - A Crater to Cough In

The whistling tune in Intro shows back up in A Crater to Cough In played by the guitars and then things just explode at the end. Awesome stuff.
damn, you're right. whenever i put "Same Shade As Concrete" on a cd, i make sure to put "Intro" right before it no matter what.

[Brokenhill]

Definitely Pink Floyd's Meddle album...

Opening with One of these Days with the double tracking bases and haunting distorted vocals by Nick Mason...and then ending with one of the most epic songs in history, Echoes...23 minutes of pure musical genius.

[MyDenverMax]

Darkest Hour - Undoing Ruin

The Decemberists - The Crane Wife

Amon Amarth - With Oden on Our Side

Lil Wayne - Tha Carter II



Maybe Between the Buried and Me's latest, but it seems a little overdone.

[Kid B]

pink moon

[allhourcymbals]

death cab for cutie - transatlantacism
yeasayer - all hour cymbals
rx bandits - the resignation

[ShimmerAndSpill]

Beloved - Failure On
Between The Buried And Me - The Silent Circus
The Early November - The Room's Too Cold
Four Year Strong - Rise or Die Trying
Set Your Goals - Mutiny!

[gloriousmuse]

See avatar please.

Muse - Absolution

You have that nice little 20 second Intro of soldier's marching with the German chant being said faintly in the background. Then straight into more stomping and a awesome piano bit. Then it ends with a beautifully played piano which leads to a very climatic finish.

[IWasaCamera]

Boxer

[ThemChains]

Converge-Jane Doe

The closer Jane Doe is one of the greatest songs ever written.

[hailthewarrior]

He Is Legend - I Am Hollywood

Opener: The Seduction
Closer: I Am Hollywood

Unless in the mood, you can pretty much just go back and forth between those two songs for hours, haha.

[downtotheriver]

He Is Legend - I Am Hollywood

Opener: The Seduction
Closer: I Am Hollywood

Unless in the mood, you can pretty much just go back and forth between those two songs for hours, haha.


Truth.

[fly_guy]

50 cent - that one cd he made about partying because its shortys birthday

[Bob Payne]

Forty Hour Train Back to Penn

Opener - Face Or Kneecaps (one of the most in-your-face rock songs ever).
Closer - Ship to Shore (Such desperation... "Lonely highway, my old friend, I'm here to keep you warm again." After the song ends, its like being punched in the gut).

[chipdip18]

Bright Eyes - I'm Wide Wake It's Morning

opener: At the Bottom of Everything
closer: Road to Joy

Motion City Soundtrack - Commit This To Memory

opener: Attractive Today
closer: Hold Me Down

Gatsbys American Dream - And the Volcano

opener: Theatre
closer: The Loosing of the Shadow

[idesofdiamonds]

Stars - In Our Bedroom After the War
Opener: "The Beginning After the End"
Closer: "In Our Bedroom After the War"

Cursive - Happy Hollow
Opener: "Opening Hymnal/Babies"
Closer: "Hymns For the Heathen"

There are probably more, but those two are the ones that come to mind.

[Chris Fallon]

Forget What You Know sticks out to me ... and any of Metallica's early material, especially ...And Justice For All which opens with "Blackened" and closes with "Dyer's Eve". Awesome and epic.

[hf57]

frou frou - details
opener: let go
closer: dumbing down of love

[Brokenhill]

The Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness

Opening with: Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
-A great instrumental intro. I love Billy's piano playing, and it's just the right mood for the album.

Closing with: Farewell and Goodnight
-One of my favorite TSP songs...a particularly great closer. Very soft and easy going, perfect to fall asleep to (ironically, and positivly).

[positive hearts]

Pink Floyd was the best at this

Wish You Were Here
"Shine On You Crazy Diamond Pt. 1" and "Shine On You Crazy Diamond Pt. 2"

Animals
"Pigs on the Wing Pt. 1" and "Pigs on the Wing Pt. 2"

The Wall
"In the Flesh" and "Outside the Wall"

[canvasofwinter]

Glassjaw - Tip Your Bartender
Hopesfall - RX

[Brokenhill]

Pink Floyd was the best at this

Wish You Were Here
"Shine On You Crazy Diamond Pt. 1" and "Shine On You Crazy Diamond Pt. 2"

Animals
"Pigs on the Wing Pt. 1" and "Pigs on the Wing Pt. 2"

The Wall
"In the Flesh" and "Outside the Wall"

Yes.

In the Flesh? is probably one of the best openers of all time...but, while Outside the Wall is great, it's not amazing.

[Gumbyjag]

Fear Before The March Of Flames- The Always Open Mouth

Opener: Absolute Future
Closer: Absolute Past

The Blood Brothers- Crimes
Opener: Feed Me To The Forest
Closer: Devastator

Coheed and Cambria- In Keeping Secrets Of Silent Earth: 3

Opener(s): Intro/In Keeping Secrets Of Silent Earth: 3
Closer(s): The Light & The Glass/21:13

The Dillinger Escape Plan- Ire Works

Opener- Fix Your Face
Closer- Mouth Of Ghosts

Jimmy Eat World- Futures

Opener- Futures
Closer- 23

Neutral Milk Hotel- In The Aeroplane Over The Sea

Opener- The King Of Carrot Flowers Pt. One
Closer- Two Headed Boy Pt. Two

Thrice- Vheissu

Opener- Image Of The Invisible
Closer- Red Sky

[lawofaverages]

On The Might of Princes "Where You Are And Where You Want To Be"
The Jesus Lizard "Goat"
Torche "In Return"
Mouth of the Architect "The Ties That Blind"
Pg. 99 "Document 8"
The Melvins "Bullhead"
Mind Eraser "Glacial Reign"
Neurosis "Through Silver In Blood"
No Warning "Ill Blood"
Old Man Gloom "Christmas"
One AM Radio "A Name Writ In Water"

[Angylion Gefell]

Sing the Sorrow.

[positive hearts]

Sing the Sorrow.

Word.

Now that I think of it, AFI is pretty good at this too.

Black Sails in the Sunset
"Strength Through Wounding" and "God Called in Sick Today (one of my favorites)/Midnight Sun"

[theguy77]

relient k's mmhmm has a sick opener and closer.

1. "the one i'm waiting for" - ultra fun, fast paced, raspy-ish vocals, written in a sort of ADD fashion, just basically pop-punk the way it is supposed to be done.

2. "when i go down" - like 5 key changes throughout. goes from an acoustic opening to adding some electric guitars which blend and empower the mood a lot in the second verse/second chorus. and then they totally turn the tables on you and have this long bridge with a lot of backing vocals and acoustic pinch harmonics and xylophone, and emotional singing, and the atmosphere is just so great and mellow/soft. and then they kick electric guitars back in, and then have just piano/vocals, and then they form one of the most SEAMLESS transitions back into the original theme of the song, and then they end the song on a totally different key than they even used in the rest of the song. like wtf how do you do so much in one song haha. definitely a really sick closer.