Blitzkreig Bop - Ramones - The Ramones
I Wanna Be Adored - The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses
Smells Like Teen Spirit - Nevermind - Nirvana
Stuck Between Stations - Boys and Girls in America - The Hold Steady
Head Like a Hole - Pretty Hate Machine - Nine Inch Nails
Cherub Rock - Siamese Dream - Smashing Pumpkins
Baba O'Riley - Who's Next - The Who
1999 - 1999 - Prince
Rocks Off - Exile on Main Street - The Rolling Stones
Jailbreak - Jailbreak - Thin Lizzy

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Oh, that's not obvious enough Rob. How about the Beatles? Or fucking... fucking Beethoven? Side one, Track one of the Fifth Symphony?




But seriously My Name Is Jonas, Weezer.

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U2 - "Where the Streets Have No Name"

The rest:
Arcade Fire - "Neighborhood #1"
Patti Smith - "Gloria"
Bob Dylan - "Subterranean Homesick Blues"
Radiohead - "Everything In Its Right Place"
Talking Heads - "Born Under Punches"
The Replacements - "I Will Dare"
Kate Bush - "Running Up That Hill"
The Dismemberment Plan - "A Life of Possibilities"
Neil Young - "My My, Hey Hey"
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark - "The New Stone Age"

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I hadn't thought about that movie in years, but as I was driving home from bowling tonight, I Wanna Be Adored came up in my shuffle, and I got to thinking...


Also, fuck the Beatles.

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I love the Beatles but leadoff tracks weren't really their thing. "Taxman" is probably the best one. I don't like "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" much.

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U listen 2 U Talking U2 2 Me ever?

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No, maybe I should.

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God damn, they were so great with leadoff tracks...And She Was, Thank You for Sending Me an Angel, Uh-Oh Love Comes to Town...such a great fucking band...

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Taxman is in that list of Beatles songs I don't hate.

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Psyco Killer on Stop Making Sense counts right?

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Listen to it you big dummy.

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Sure...why not.

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Doesn't get much better than "My My Hey Hey"

You Are Invited is the better track but dosent work as a track 1.

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First song on side one of a band's first album is that band's best song ever 78% of the time. Good Times, Bad Times; Radio Free Europe; I Must Be High; I Will Follow, and MANY more...

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Soccer 1,2,3
Spanish Honor Society 1,2,3,4
Forensics 1,2,3,4

"Smiles with Nostrils"

"...no Hmong, go find some blacks"

I'm partial to Takin A Ride when it comes to The Replacements.

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I wouldn't consider Good Times/Bad Times the best Zeppelin song ever...not even their best track one...Immigrant Song and Achilles' Last Stand are both far better.

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I Must Be High = good choice

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"Spider in the Snow" is my favorite track from the album but also doesn't work at the beginning.

Two songs that for all the world should have been openers but weren't: "When the Levee Breaks" on the untitled fourth Zeppelin album and "This Charming Man" on The Smiths. That guitar riff should have been the way the world was introduced to the Smiths.

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You couldn't be more wrong. It was all downhill from there.

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Soccer 1,2,3
Spanish Honor Society 1,2,3,4
Forensics 1,2,3,4

"Smiles with Nostrils"

"...no Hmong, go find some blacks"

Not close to their best leadoff, not even 50th percentile of that album. You on stupid pills?

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The beauty of music is that we can agree to disagree...but all are better than Rock and Roll...

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To whom are you referring?

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Yeah, When the Levee Breaks would have been a far better leadoff than what we were given.

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"Good Times, Bad Times." From that album alone, you have "Your Time Is Gonna Come," "Dazed and Confused," "Black Mountain Side," "Communication Breakdown," and "How Many More Times." As far as Zeppelin openers go, it's not close to "Immigrant Song," "The Song Remains The Same," or "Achilles Last Stand."

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Stooges, Funhouse, "Down on the Street"
Replacements, Sorry Ma, "Takin' A Ride"
Faces, Long Player, "Bad 'n' Ruin"
Ike Reilly, Salesmen and Racists, "Last Time"
Yayhoos, Fear Not The Obvious, "What Are We Waiting For"
Sleater-Kinney, Dig Me Out, "Dig Me Out"

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Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Elon, Tulsi, and Don

Fee - Phish - Junta
Rift - Phish - Rift
Free - Phish - Billy Breathes
Good Times, Bad Times - Led Zeppelin - I
The Song Remains the Same - Led Zeppelin - Houses of the Holy
Achilles Last Stand - Led Zeppelin - Presence
It's Gonna Be a Long Night - Ween - Quebec
Take Me Away - Ween - Chocolate and Cheese
One of These Days - Pink Floyd - Meddle
That's It For the Other One - Grateful Dead - Anthem of the Sun
St. Stephen - Grateful Dead - Aoxomoxoa
Uncle John's Band - Grateful Dead - Workingman's Dead
Box of Rain - Grateful Dead - American Beauty
Sympathy for the Devil - Rolling Stones - Beggar's Banquet
No Turning Back - G. Love and Special Sauce - Philadelphonic
Like a Rolling Stone - Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited
Tangled Up in Blue - Bob Dylan - Blood on the Tracks
Hurricane - Bob Dylan - Desire
Cinnamon Girl - Neil Young - Harvest
Changes - David Bowie - Hunky Dory
Chilly Water - Widespread Panic - Space Wrangler

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Good people drink good beer - Hunter S. Thompson

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Waiting for the time when I can finally say
That this has all been wonderful, but now I'm on my way

"Immigrant Song" sucks. "Achilles Last Stand" borders on self-parody.

"Good Times, Bad Times" and "Communication Breakdown" are the best songs on that first record.

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Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Elon, Tulsi, and Don

What's Mine Is Yours is still a banger.

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"Communication Breakdown" is the closest Zeppelin got to punk rock. It's a good one, but I won't stand for trashing "Immigrant Song" or "Achilles Last Stand." I mean, if you think about it, every Led Zeppelin song borders on self-parody! Isn't that the charm of it all?

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