My openers list, year after year from 1955 to 2024, seven decades of musical evolution, was it for the better? Who knows "(We're Gonna) Rock Around The Clock" - Rock Around The Clock - Bill Haley & His Comets - 1955 "Blue Suede Shoes" - Elvis Presley - Elvis Presley -1956 "Tutti Frutti" -Here´s Little Richard - Little Richard -1957 "Sweet Little Sixteen" - One Dozen Berry´s - Chuck Berry - 1958 "What'd I Say, Pt. 1&2" - What'd I Say - Ray Charles - 1959 "(What A) Wonderful World - The Wonderful World Of Sam Cooke - Sam Cooke -1960 "Cross Road Blues" - King Of The Delta Blues Singers - Robert Johnson - 1961 "Green Onions" - Green Onions - Booker T. & the M.G.'s - 1962 "Surfin' U.S.A." - Surfin USA - Beach Boys - 1963 "I Want A Hold Your Hand" - Meet The Beatles! - The Beatles - 1964 "Like A Rolling Stone" - Highway 61 Revisited - Bob Dylan - 1965 "The Sound Of Silence" - Sounds Of Silence - Simon & Garfunkel - 1966 "Break On Through (To The Other Side)" - The Doors - The Doors -1967 "(Sittin' On) The Dock Of The Bay" - The Dock Of The Bay - Otis Redding - 1967 "Gimme Shelter" - Let it Bleed - The Rolling Stones -1969 "Immigrant Song" - Led Zeppelin III - Led Zeppelin - 1970 "Imagine" - Imagine - John Winston Lennon - 1971 "Highway Star" - Machine Head - Deep Purple - 1972 "Band On The Run" - Band On The Run - James Paul McCartney - 1973 "School" - Crime Of The Century - Supertramp - 1974 "Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Pts. 1-5)" - Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd - 1975 "Hotel California" - Hotel California - Eagles - 1976 "Cocaine" - Slowhand - Eric Clapton - 1977 "Thank You For Sending Me An Angel" - More Songs About Buildings And Food - Talking Heads - 1978 "London Calling" - London Calling - The Clash - 1979 "You May Be Right" - Glass Houses - Billy Joel - 1980 "Tonight I'm Yours (Don't Hurt Me)" - Tonight I'm Yours - Rod Stewart - 1981 "More Than This" - Avalon - Roxy Music - 1982 "Gimme All Your Lovin'" - Eliminator - ZZ Top - 1983 "Middle Of The Road" - Learning To Crawl - Pretenders - 1984 "So Far Away" - Brothers In Arms - Dire Straits - 1985 "Higher Love" - Back in the High Life - Steve Winwood - 1986 "Where The Streets Have No Name" - The Joshua Tree - U2 - 1987 "Left To My Own Devices" - Instrospective - Pet Shop Boys - 1988 "Debaser" - Doolittle - Pixies - 1989 "Thunderstruck" - The Razors Edge - AC/DC - 1990 "Smells Like Teen Spirit" - Nevermind - Nirvana -1991 "Drive" - Automatic For The People - R.E.M. -1992 "Fade Into You" - So Tonight That I Might See - Mazzy Star - 1993 "Streets Of Philadelphia" - Philadelphia Music From The Motion Picture - Bruce Springsteen - 1994 "Army Of Me" - Post - Björk - 1995 "Beetlebum" - Blur - Blur -1996 "Bitter Sweet Symphony" - Urban Hymns - The Verve - 1997 "Angel" - Mezzanine - Massive Attack - 1998 "Testify" - The Battle Of Los Angeles - Rage Against The Machine - 1999 "Everything In Its Right Place" - Kid A - Radiohead - 2000 "The Grudge" - Lateralus - Tool - 2001 "Blackest Eyes" - In Absentia - Porcupine Tree - 2002 "Farewell Transmission" - Magnolia Electric Co. - Songs: Ohia -2003 "Somewhere Only We Know" - Hopes And Fears - Keane - 2004 "Daft Punk Is Playing At My House" - LCD Soundsystem - LCD Soundsystem -2005 "Rehab" - Back To Black - Amy Winehouse - 2006 "Pioneer To The Falls" - Our Love To Admire - Interpol - 2007 "Life In Technicolor" - Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends - Coldplay - 2008 "Uprising" - The Resistance - Muse - 2009 "The Suburbs" - The Suburbs - Arcade Fire - 2010 "Rolling In The Deep" - 21 - Adele - 2011 "Myth" - Bloom - Beach House - 2012 "Tennis Court" - Pure Heroine - Lorde - 2013 "Under The Pressure" - Lost In The Dream - The War On Drugs - 2014 "Let It Happen" - Currents - Tame Impala - 2015 "Fill In The Blank" - Teens Of Denial - Car Seat Headrest - 2016 "Slomo" - Slowdive -Slowdive - 2017 "Slow Burn" - Golden Hour - Kacey Musgraves - 2018 "Death In Midsummer" - Why Hasn't Everything Already Disappeared? - Deerhunter - 2019 "I Want You To Love Me" - Fetch The Bolt Cutters - Fiona Apple - 2020 "Walking At A Downtown Pace" - Symphathy For Life - Parquet Courts - 2021 "The Same" - A Light For Attracting Attention - The Smile - 2022 "Bug Like An Angel" - The Land Is Inhospitable And So Are We - Mitski - 2023 "I Got Heaven" - I Got Heaven - Mannequin Pussy - 2024
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@@exileon-ec5152 Nice! Any way you could put this in order from most to least favorite?
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50 openers, 50 great albums, here's my list, John: 01. Gimme Shelter (The Rolling Stones - Let it Bleed, 1969) 02. A Whiter Shade of Pale (Procol Harum - s/t, US version, 1967) 03. Alone Again Or (Love - Forever Changes, 1967) 04. Astronomy Dominé (Pink Floyd - The Piper at the Gates of Dawn, 1967) 05. So What (Miles Davis - Kind of Blue, 1959) 06. 21st Century Schizoid Man (King Crimson - In the Court of the C.K. 1969) 07. Quadrant 4 (Billy Cobham - Spectrum, 1973) 08. Strange Days (The Doors - Strange Days, 1967) 09. Hurdy Gurdy Man (Donovan - The Hurdy Gurdy Man, 1968) 10. House of the Rising Son (The Animals s/t, 1964) 11. Baba O'Riley (The Who - Who's Next, 1971) 12. Reach Out (I'll be there) (Four Tops - Reach Out, 1967) 13. I Put a Spell on You (Creedence Clearwater Revival - s/t, 1968) 14. My My, Hey Hey (Out of the Blue) (Neil Young + Crazy Horse - Rust Never Sleeps, 1979) 15. Gris-Gris Gumbo Ya Ya (Dr. John - Gris-Gris, 1968) 16. A Play on Wordsworth (The Steppes - Drop of the Creature, 1986) 17. Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough (Michael Jackson - Off the Wall, 1979) 18. Bird of Prey (Uriah Heep - Salisbury, 1971) 19. For your Love (The Yardbirds - For your Love, 1965) 20. This Town Ain't Big Enough for Both of Us (Sparks - Kimono my House, 1974) 21. Hello Hooray (Alice Cooper - Billion Dollar Babies, 1973) 22. Turn! Turn! Turn! (The Byrds - Turn! Turn! Turn! 1965) 23. Crying Wolf (Peter Hammill - Over, 1977) 24. One Step Beyond (Madness - One Step Beyond..., 1979) 25. Drive (R.E.M. - Automatic for the People, 1992) 26. What's going on (Marvin Gaye - What's going on, 1971) 27. Smells like Teen Spirit (Nirvana - Nevermind, 1991) 28. Sweaty Fingers (Cave - Threace, 2013) 29. Leave them All Behind (Ride - Going Blank Again, 1992) 30. The Psychedelic Warlords (Hawkwind - Hall of the Mountain Grill, 1974) 31. Down on the Street (The Stooges - Fun House, 1970) 32. Cinderella (The Sonics - Boom, 1966) 33. River Song (Dennis Wilson - Pacific Ocean Blue, 1977) 34. Sex Beat (The Gun Club - Fire of Love, 1981) 35. Sunday Morning (The Velvet Underground & Nick, 1967) 36. Young Americans (David Bowie - Young Americans, 1975) 37. White Room (Cream - Wheels of Fire, 1968) 38. 100% (Sonic Youth - Dirty, 1992) 39. Monday, Monday (The Mama's and the Papa's - If You Can Believe Your Eyes and Ears, 1966) 40. I Wanna Be Adored (The Stone Roses s/t, 1989) 41. Shout (Tears for Fears - Songs from the Big Chair, 1985) 42. Fisherman's Blues (The Waterboys - Fisherman's Blues, 1988) 43. She's Not There (The Zombies s/t, US version, 1965) 44. Transmaniacon MC (Blue Öyster Cult s/t, 1972) 45. Sky Saw (Brian Eno - Another Green World, 1975) 46. Kings and Queens (Renaissance s/t, 1969) 47. Everlasting Light (The Black Keys - Brothers, 2010) 48. Sea Song (Robert Wyatt - Rock Bottom, 1974) 49. Hazard Profile Part 1. (Soft Machine - Bundles, 1975) 50. Jack Candy (The Walkabouts - New West Motel, 1993)