#110

Got to be The Dead Flag Blues. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9thvHDskYvA

The car is on fire, and there’s no driver at the wheel

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#111

massive question, but this has to be up there, at least from the last few years:

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#112

Yep, I think it has to be this really. Hits like a tonne of very melancholy bricks.

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#113

First one that came to mind for me was Age of Consent by New Order

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#114

Ash - Lose Control


Tie fighter sound, then those guitars come in.

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#115

Xtal

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#116

Slowdive - Alison (although Machine Gun is even better - that’s easily one of the best 2nd album tracks ever)
Mazzy Star - Fade Into You
Cocteau Twins - Lazy Calm
The Jesus and Mary Chain - Just Like Honey
New Order - Age of Consent

#117

Three off the top of my head…

Yes - Manic Street Preachers (The Holy Bible)
Smells Like Teen Spirit - Nirvana (Nevermind)
He’s Simple, He’s Dumb, He’s The Pilot - Grandaddy (The Sophtware Slump)

#118

I’ve always thought Jimmy the Exploder on the first The White Stripes album is a great opener, not sure if they ever opened with it (they didn’t the one time I saw them) but it would be a killer way to start a show too. Aside from that I would add:

Odessa - Caribou (Swim)
Tupelo - NC&TBS (Firstborn is Dead)
Out At The Pictures & Motion Sickness - Hot Chip (Made In The Dark & In Our Heads)
Devils Haircut - Beck (Odelay)

#120

Kanye’s got a knack for giving you goosebumps on the first track. In particular remember hearing Good Morning and Dark Fantasy for the first time and the hairs standing up on my neck. But also We Don’t Care, No Church in the Wild, On Sight, Ultralight Beam…

#121

Depeche Mode - World in My Eyes

#122

surprised no one said Like a Rolling Stone yet

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#123

Lightsabre cocksucking Blues off Mclusky do Dallas, perhaps?

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#124

Dunno about best, but Alison (slowdive) Distorted Prose (dalek) or Am I Wry? No are probably my favourites.

#125

V big fan of:

In Medias Res from Romance Is Boring by Los Campesinos!
Dance Yrself Clean from This Is Happening by LCD Soundsystem
Emily from Ys by Joanna Newsom
Tunnels from Funeral by Arcade Fire
Tonight Tonight from Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness by The Smashing Pumpkins
Cold Days From The Birdhouse by The Twilight Sad
Let’s Go Crazy from Purple Rain by Prince
One Hundred Years from Pornography by The Cure

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#126

Velvet Underground - Sunday Morning
Strokes - You Only Live Once
Nick Cave &TBS - Into My Arms

#127

So many, lots of good ones already.

An Introduction to the Album - HLNPIT by The Hotelier.
Untitled - Interpol
The Black Amnesias - from The Lost Riots by Hope of the States
Eat Junk Become Junk - from The Closer You Get by Six by Seven

I Wanna Be Adored, Smells Like Teen Spirit, The Kiss are all hard to beat though

From this year - If This Tour Doesn’t Kill You, I Will (PUP’s The Dream is Over)

#128

Sunday Morning is a great choice. I love how ridiculously unrepresentative of the album it is

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#129

Tim Hecker - Prism - Virgins

Transfixes me instantly every time.

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#130

outstanding misnomer. but that break into Waiting… is absolutely iconic. for want of a better word.