Best Side A, Track #1 on a 1991 Rock Album

Best Side A, Track #1 on a 1991 Rock Album

  • Smells Like Teen Spirt - Nirvana (Nevermind)

    Votes: 16 55.2%

  • Civil War - G n' R (Illusions II)

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Rusty Cage - Soundgarden (Badmotorfinger)

    Votes: 8 27.6%

  • Once - Pearl Jam (Ten)

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Only Shadow - My Bloody Valentine (Loveless)

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Say Hello 2 Heaven - Temple of the Dog

    Votes: 1 3.4%

  • Something to Talk About - Bonnie Raitt (Luck of the Draw)

    Votes: 1 3.4%

  • I Am One - Smashing Pumpkins (Gish)

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Radio Song - R.E.M. (Out of Time)

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • F.O. Row Peter Puffer, you left off...

    Votes: 3 10.3%
  • Total voters
    29
Metallica, Black Album, Enter Sandman.
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Oh, no shit. Come on yella!

My vote wouldn't change, but that's a close call. Rusty Cage is too.

I hated Nevermind and this song in particular when it came out. One of my roommates played it multiple times every day for months. I think that and Blood Sugar Sex Magic were his only two CDs. I couldn't let myself like it until my son started listening to them in about 2010.
 
Tough call. Teen spirit sold the albums but Rusty Cage is a more liked song as time goes on IMO
 
Metallica, Black Album, Enter Sandman.
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Ah god damn it - I had that in my notes and spaced.
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It was the gateway Metallica song for a young BleachedAnusDawg to discover their earlier library. I would guess this is the case for half of their fans.
 
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What frustrates me about 1991 is so many of the best songs weren't lead off tracks.

I'm a firm believer in putting the best stuff first and the sound quality is already best on the outer grooves of a LP.

So many great songs are on the end of Side A or B and suffer from compression or inner groove distortion.
 
What frustrates me about 1991 is so many of the best songs weren't lead off tracks.

I'm a firm believer in putting the best stuff first and the sound quality is already best on the outer grooves of a LP.

So many great songs are on the end of Side A or B and suffer from compression or inner groove distortion.
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I don't know about the best song first but it has to be one of the best. A good writer uses thw first sentence to grab attention and set the mood. It's an introduction to the rest of the content and gets you fired up, or settled in, and excited for the rest.

I'm a big Alice in Chains fan and I feel like they were the masters of this:

And We Die Young (Facelift)
Them Bones (Dirt)
Grind ("Tripod")
Rotten Apple (Jar of Flies)

The Beatles were pretty good like this. Drive My Car, Taxman, Back In the USSR, Come Together.

Concrete Jungle (Catch a Fire) is one of the best mass introductions to a musical act that I can think of off hand. Maybe that doesn't count though since it was also the best song.
 
This pole has me fondly reminiscing the early 90's. In my senior year at UW in '92 I was lucky enough to get to see PJ at the Moore, lollappalooza(pj, soundgarden, rhcp) in silverdale, pj free at magnuson, and nirvana at the coliseum for the last show of the nevermind tour. What a time to be alive
 
What frustrates me about 1991 is so many of the best songs weren't lead off tracks.

I'm a firm believer in putting the best stuff first and the sound quality is already best on the outer grooves of a LP.

So many great songs are on the end of Side A or B and suffer from compression or inner groove distortion.
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I don't know about the best song first but it has to be one of the best. A good writer uses thw first sentence to grab attention and set the mood. It's an introduction to the rest of the content and gets you fired up, or settled in, and excited for the rest.

I'm a big Alice in Chains fan and I feel like they were the masters of this:

And We Die Young (Facelift)
Them Bones (Dirt)
Grind ("Tripod")
Rotten Apple (Jar of Flies)

The Beatles were pretty good like this. Drive My Car, Taxman, Back In the USSR, Come Together.

Concrete Jungle (Catch a Fire) is one of the best mass introductions to a musical act that I can think of off hand. Maybe that doesn't count though since it was also the best song.
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The Beatles Side A hooks were second to none. Only Let it Be and For Sale had lead track that were good, but not great.
 
great year for music
GNR, Metallica, and Ozzy all had yuge albums
Bill hated how grunge killed hair metal 30 years ago, but later appreciated it.
 
I'm a bigger fan of No Reply than your average Beatles fan. I think it's a great mood setter for the album. Too bad the album didn't quite stay on course. About 4 killers and too many fillers.
 
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I'm a bigger fan of No Reply than your average Beatles fan. I think it's a great mood setter for the album. Too bad the album didn't quite stay on course. About 4 killers and too many fillers.
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It's a good song that I've like since I first bought the cassette tape of Beatles for Sale in 1989. Just don't think it's on par with their other lead off tracks.
I'm a Loser and Baby's in Black are the standout tracks on that album. I Don't Want to Spoil the Party is an underrated deep track.
 
Not nearly the murderers row of the 1969 poll.

There are 4 songs in this poll that I either hate (REM), like but not OMG, I gotta hear it (Bonnie Raitt) or don’t even recognize (Valentine and Smashing Pumpkins songs).
Teen Spirit to me is the song on this list that I know exactly when and where I first heard it or in my case, first saw it on MTV.

Civil War was great at the time as I was going through a GnR phase which I still remember.

The other 3 songs Once, Say Hello to Heaven and Rusty Cage are great but don’t mark a moment in time as clearly as Teen Spirit.
 
Yeah, when I first heard Smells Like Teen Spirit, it was like "OK … OK … OK!"
After the crapfest that was the 80's, it was more than welcome.
 
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