Best "Intro-ish song" -> "Big Song" segue to open an album

Okay, similar threads have been done, but this is a little different. The first song has to be an "intro"-type song, and then a big, normal second song. Think the new deerhunter record for an example.

my picks, and sorry to go all corny indie with this but:
Destroyer - City of Daughters ("comments on the world at will" -> "no cease fires")
Home - XIV ("aguirre (shelter)" -> "burden")

voivod 'the unknown knows'?

heh, the new Deerhunter record was one of the first things I thought of! probably because I've been listening to it nonstop. I wouldn't call "Agoraphobia" a 'big song', tho -- after the big dramatic intro, it comes across as just a pleasant little pop song.

Verve A Storm in Heaven - "Star Sail" to "Slide Away"

cpost: actually, on further reflection, I think Cryptograms fits this mold much better: 3 minutes of "Intro" droning away aimlessly, starting to fade out, and then suddenly it all comes rushing back and the beat kicks in and the vocals and oh shit, it's a song now! that one's in my all-time top 5 of this kind of thing, certainly.

"cpost", wtf

yeah "big" was a dumb word choice, i think i meant length-wise in relation to the intro (the intro's supposed to be kinda short)

Dog faced Hermans, Mental Blocks for All Ages fits I think

Jenny Lewis "Acid Tongue": intro "Black Sand" into bigger opener "Pretty Bird" into the epic "The Next Messiah"

St. Etienne - Foxbase Alpha: This Is Radio Etienne into Only Love Can Break Your Heart.

I was about to say Wowee Zowee but then I checked and apparently "We Dance" is over 3 minutes long?! I think my memory of it cuts off after "Check that expiration date, man / It's later than you think", cuz I've always thought of it as just this pointless little 90-second foot-shuffling intro before "Rattled by the Rush" kicks things off.

hah, wowee actually came to mind for me too (as it often does, being my favorite album). it would work very nicely here if "we dance" was about 50% shorter and a little less fully-realized. obv it's a perfect song so i wouldnt want to change it a bit.
but yeah, the idea is a shorter, more subdued opener

Archers Of Loaf, Vee Vee
Step Into the Light ----> Harnessed In Slums

What exactly qualifies as an "intro" type song? I'm instinctively thinking of albums where the first song is quiet and thoughtful and then they hit you with their biggest rocker (like No Code or The Colour and the Shape) - but is there something more to being an intro song? Like do you need a Parliament-esque spoken word part, or a guy proclaiming "Welcome to the carnival!"?

hm, spoken word definitely helps
and again it doesnt have to be the biggest song or anything
think "abstractish, shorter" song followed by a more straightforward type
if you're familiar with the three examples i gave those are pretty much archetypes

scraping foetus off the wheel - nail

"theme from pigdom come" -> "the throne of agony"

"S.H.R." into "Saga" on Will Haven's Carpe Diem.

alan parsons project

sirius into eye in the sky

The Who has a couple of these:
on The Who Sell Out, "Days of the Week" --> "Armenia City In The Sky"
and on Quadrophenia, "I Am The Sea" --> "The Real Me"

OMD: Radio Prague -> Genetic Engineering on Dazzle Ships.

Lush - "Spooky"
Stray -> Nothing Natural

Jane's Addiction - "Nothing's Shocking"
Up the Beach -> Ocean Size

I like the idea of starting a record this way, it's very theatrical.

The car jams that open each side of Double Nickels on the Dime kind of fit the bill, if you can call any Minutemen song a "big, normal second song."

Paul's Boutique
1984
Paradise Theatre

Arular

oh shit, it says "best", well I wouldn't go that far for Arular, but it's very good

Even though it's technically one song, the intro of Teen Age Riot on Daydream Nation fits here.

paul's boutique was the first one that came to mind, there's got to be a bunch of great rap ones

kornrulez is correct, but it doesnt count

'the house that guilt built' --> 'happy' The Wrens - the meadowlands

Big Chief - Mack Avenue Skullgame
High Llamas - Hawaii

Belly - Star: "Someone To Die For" > "Angel"

Young Gods - Only Heaven

"Outside" --> "Strangel"

speaking of SY: intro -> "brave men run (in my family)"

Paradise Theatre

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^^^^
winner by a mile. Transition from "A.D. 1928" to "Rockin' the Paradise" was, to, 12-year-old me, the definition of rock majesty (though to be fair I didn't strongly distinguish it from the transition between the quiet part of "Come Sail Away" to the loud part, equally majestic and later to be a plot point in the Freaks and Geeks pilot.)

TMBG, "Flood," another worthy example ("It's a brand new album / for 1990...") though crushed by Styx like everyone else.

Our Prayer------Heroes & Villains

Smile

xp
not big on the song itself, but thought it worked very nicely in freaks and geeks

Gentlemen by Afghan Whigs

Even though it's technically one song, the intro of Teen Age Riot on Daydream Nation fits here.

― kornrulez6969, Wednesday, November 19, 2008 12:11 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

That occurred to me, too. Also, though: "Winner's Blues" --> "Bull in the Heather."

And maybe "Contre le Sexisme" --> "Sunday" if the former weren't so long.

Railing -> Brown Paper Bag
Roni Size - Nu Forms

Also the same song but "Respectable Street" might qualify.

Iron Maiden-Killers

Ides of March into Wrathchild

Blows everything said so far away

Wonderful Rainbow --
"Hello Morning" > "Assassins"

Bill is correct.

Yellow Magic Orchestra - s/t
"Computer Game 'Theme from The Circus'" -> "Firecracker"

I'm with Bill!

St. Etienne - Foxbase Alpha: This Is Radio Etienne into Only Love Can Break Your Heart.

^^^^^^^^^

Andrew WK "The Wolf", Victory Strikes Again into Long Live the Party

This Nation's Saving grace by The Fall: Mansion and straight into Bombast.
Giant Steps by The Boo Radleys. That discordant minute or so before I hang Suspended.

Also the same song but "Respectable Street" might qualify.

I'd say it doesn't, only because the 7" version has the same faux-old-timey intro.

Spirit, "Prelude/Nothin' To Hide"

that akron/family half of that one split ep w/ AOL

trina's diamond princess, 'intro/sommore' => 'hustling'

"this is the motherfuckin' roll call so listen up. to all my ladies, nubian queens, black princesses, african godesses, choirgirls, young girls, models, skeezers, bitches, hoes, playettes, dykes, divas, housewives, gold diggers, sex chasers, cum guzzlers, chickenheads, crackheads, baller bitches, shake dancers and boosters: say what you want, we're all one and the same, no matter what they call you, or you call yourself, there's only three rules in this game: keep your nappy-ass hair done, do your motherfuckin' sit-ups, and whenever you lay on your back - make sure your paper is stacked. and with all that said and done, diamond princess: take this shit to another level!"

ELO
Prologue / Twilight
Time

...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead do this often.

Jane's Addiction - "Nothing's Shocking"
Up the Beach -> Ocean Size

Dumbfounded that I haven't been OTM'd on this by now.

Illmatic, you fucking chimps.

Okay, chimps is a bit harsh. But still. Illmatic!

eh, maybe. i don't think rap skits work as well here

m83 - dead cities, etc

(maybe moreso if 'run into flowers' were track 2, though)