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Poll Question: which is your favorite song here?
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    Posted: January 18 2022 at 20:09
Going all the way to 25 this time, it was hard to choose what not to include!
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"The Song Remains the Same" is a fine song, but the real eye opener from Led Zeppelin is "Black Dog". I still remember the first time I heard that album, and "Black Dog" cranked to high heaven....holy sh*t!
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Hmm, from the list I'll take the Gabriel.   But for me it's probably the first chord(s) of 'Good Times,Bad Times'.
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Originally posted by The Dark Elf The Dark Elf wrote:

"The Song Remains the Same" is a fine song, but the real eye opener from Led Zeppelin is "Black Dog". I still remember the first time I heard that album, and "Black Dog" cranked to high heaven....holy sh*t!





That was my next thought, but I thought for the sake of the hardcore proggers I'd go with the slightly proggier sounding tune. 
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ELP - Barbarian . Quite a way to announce yourself to the world!
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There are really great opening tracks here. But I must go with the legendary 21st Century Schizoid Man of King Crimson.
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Both King Crimson - 21st Century Schizoid Man and Van Der Graaf Generator - Lemmings (Including COG) are very special to me, beyond anything else on the list even though there are great tracks there. 21st Century Schizoid Man was a "must have" track from my teenage years, and Lemmings opens my favourite album in a way that told me the album is going to be very special. It was a tough decision but it is: [drum roll]
 
Van Der Graaf Generator - Lemmings (Including COG) ahead of King Crimson - 21st Century Schizoid Man
 
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Tough choice, needs some consideration

May I ask why Dream Theater - On The Backs Of Angels? DT has much better openings than this one. 


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This one is hard for me, sine these are all great songs ande deserve at leas a vote. Voted for Songs from the Wood, but all are worth a vote.
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Let me bring you... Songs From The Wood!
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An odd listing since the songs come from across the release spectrum and not just from a first album perspective. I would be confident to say that most bands listed have better openers on other albums, but, OP'er gets to make their own list so...

I'll go with ELP - The Barbarian with Yes, KC, Genesis, Supertramp and Peter Gabriel a close second


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Odd choice for Dream Theater. I'll vote for Elton.
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Originally posted by I prophesy disaster I prophesy disaster wrote:

Both King Crimson - 21st Century Schizoid Man and Van Der Graaf Generator - Lemmings (Including COG) are very special to me, beyond anything else on the list even though there are great tracks there.
Indeed. The former song pretty much (and stunningly so) kickstarted a whole genre while they were at it, so my vote might just go to KC (although Pawn Hearts means more to me than In the Court)

Btw: Funny that out of three Led Zeppelin-openers mentioned, none of them are Immigrant Song (but they are all stunning). 
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School is a phantastic album opener. There are many songs I like here and other great openers, but for this theme the vote goes to Supertramp.
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Genesis, with The Tulls close behind.
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Originally posted by Cristi Cristi wrote:

Tough choice, needs some consideration

May I ask why Dream Theater - On The Backs Of Angels? DT has much better openings than this one. 

I thought I'd mix it up a bit. Scenes starts with a narration track, Images' opening seemed really obvious, Awake's opening isn't really my favorite thing about it, Six Degrees and Octavarium people tend to forget about anything that's not the epic... I really like On The Backs Of Angels. Great song for me, and part of my intro to the band.
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