Your favourite beginnings.

[pErvinalia]

Something different:



I love the drums that start this one off.

[Seabass]

How could I forget Wagner's Ring... That motherfucker new how to write a prelude.

[Seabass]

I misspelled "knew", and can't edit my post.

[Xamonas Chegwé]

I misspelled "knew", and can't edit my post.

That is our patented "Your shame shall haunt you down through eternity" feature. We're rather proud of it.

[Sean Hayden]

I new it, bastids.

[Xamonas Chegwé]

I new it, bastids.

It's for your own good.*






*And everyone else's amusement!

[Hermit]

How could I forget Wagner's Ring... That motherfucker knew how to write a prelude.

Ergh. Wagner. Overtures and all, he is to musical composition what the authors of Marvel Comics are to literature.

One of my favourite beginnings is the first 480 seconds of this:

[Xamonas Chegwé]

On the OP. The beginning of this is simply sublime. Particularly when the bass comes in. THAT BASS!!1!1!!! To be honest, the rest of the song is not that great. but THAT FUCKING BASS!!1!!




And then, getting classical, there's this. I fucking LOVE this. Nothing begins as well as this does. NOTHING!

[Hermit]

...getting classical, there's this. I fucking LOVE this. Nothing begins as well as this does. NOTHING!

Perhaps, but why did you have to pick a rendition that resembles poltering down a flight of stairs when you can have Vladimir Ashkenazy make you feel like your toes are barely touching the ground as you glide into musical nirvana?

[trdsf]

I give you, without fanfare:
('2001: A Space Odyssey' opening)

My dad took me to see this in its original release. In Cinerama. When I was *four*. It's not often you can look back on a single event and say, "Yeah, that's the one event that f**ked up my head for the rest of my life."

I can't watch and hear this without crying at least a little, and not least because it showed me a future I really believed was going to happen -- not necessarily the Jupiter stuff, but giant rotating space stations and permanent moon bases and easy travel into orbit -- and it's twelve years past the due date and it Hasn't. Bloody. Happened. Yet.

I tell ya, the future ain't what it used to be.

Anyway, favorite openings? Hard to say. Being a Deadhead, I'm used to the rules being different every time a song gets played in concert. I have more fun trying to figure out where the boys are going before everyone else does.

[Jack Rawlinson]

The opening notes... like an injection, as my missus once observed. Perfect start to a near-perfect album.

[Jack Rawlinson]

Grandiose yet sparse. Drags you right in, which is what an opener should do.

[Jack Rawlinson]

Go on then, one more.

[Tero]

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