# Your idea of a weak album start **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** music\ **Created:** [June 18, 2022, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-idea-of-a-weak-album-start/966435 "2022-06-18T19:20:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2022, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-idea-of-a-weak-album-start/966435/21 "2022-06-20T03:56:03Z")
I’m not familiar with the Who tune, but I definitely know Sugar’s remake, but then again, put Bob Mould’s buzzsaw guitar on the phone book, and he could make it sound good. ---
**Author:** ![dalej42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@dalej42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalej42)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2022, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-idea-of-a-weak-album-start/966435/22 "2022-06-20T18:20:57Z")
No Son of Mine is a really dark song and an interesting choice to lead off We Can’t Dance by Genesis. You have to sing along with the deadbeat dad in the chorus, ‘You’re NO son, NO son of mine…’ ---
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2022, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-idea-of-a-weak-album-start/966435/23 "2022-06-20T21:24:21Z")
> [@Thudlow\_Boink](#): > > [Procession](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHfIftAK5Hs), the opening track to The Moody Blues album _Every Good Boy Deserves Favour_, is more of a sound collage than an actual song, and I usually skip it. You…you what now? You don’t get a mental slideshow of humanity from cavedays through to McMansions? At the very end when the electric guitar kicks in I get an image of a 747 touching down onto a scorching runway as the rest of the album “arrives” to re-teach us about music. I mean, the rest of the album kicks royal ass without mercy but Procession ties it all together before it even gets started. Jesus Hannibal Christ on a purple plastic crutch do you chop Late Lament off of Nights in White Satin as well? [all good-natured ribbing, but with a considerable amount of judgment] ---
**Author:** ![Lucas\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucas_jackson/32/303_2.png) [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2022, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-idea-of-a-weak-album-start/966435/24 "2022-06-20T21:42:51Z")
> [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](#): > > Ouch, that hurts. I dig that song. Seconding! ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2022, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-idea-of-a-weak-album-start/966435/25 "2022-06-21T02:51:58Z")
> [@Inigo\_Montoya](#): > > I mean, the rest of the album kicks royal ass without mercy but Procession ties it all together before it even gets started. I understand what it’s doing there, and I’m not arguing that it shouldn’t be, but I still usually skip it. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2022, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-idea-of-a-weak-album-start/966435/26 "2022-06-22T19:44:04Z")
10cc’s first album starts out with “Johnny Don’t Do It,” a 50s death rock parody of no particular note. Not terrible, but Zappa did the style better with _Cruising with Rueben and the Jets._ The album only kicks off with the next track, “Sand in My Face.” ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2022, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-idea-of-a-weak-album-start/966435/27 "2022-06-23T14:35:25Z")
nm Wrong Thread ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2022, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-idea-of-a-weak-album-start/966435/28 "2022-06-24T01:33:48Z")
While “Two of Us” is a perfectly ok number in of itself, I can spot six other numbers off _Let it Be_ I’d rather kick the lp off with.\* \*OMG what will happen if anyone dares question my sentence ending with a preposition. ---
**Author:** ![dalej42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@dalej42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalej42)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2022, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-idea-of-a-weak-album-start/966435/29 "2022-06-25T14:40:58Z")
> [@Guest-starring\_Id](#): > > While “Two of Us” is a perfectly ok number in of itself, I can spot six other numbers off _Let it Be_ I’d rather kick the lp off with.\* Would you start with Get Back and have Let it Be as the closer? ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2022, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-idea-of-a-weak-album-start/966435/30 "2022-06-25T15:18:46Z")
Almost perfect suggestion. ---
**Author:** ![wguy123](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wguy123/32/3161_2.png) [@wguy123](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wguy123)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2022, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-idea-of-a-weak-album-start/966435/31 "2022-06-27T17:35:14Z")
> [@Lucas\_Jackson](#): > > Seconding! Thirded! > [@Treppenwitz](#): > > Worse than weak, a song so bad it put me off the album for decades. _The Rise and Fall Of Ziggy Stardust (etc)_ opens with **Five Years**. That is an awesome song! The slow, gradual build, complete with the tension of his great vocals and lyrics. It is a fantastic album opener. Different strokes I guess. ---
**Author:** ![dalej42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@dalej42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalej42)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2022, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-idea-of-a-weak-album-start/966435/32 "2022-07-06T15:07:18Z")
Just thought of another one. I quite like the Run Devil Run album by Paul McCartney but I would not have Blue Jean Bop as the opener. The second song is the more upbeat She Said Yeah would have been a better choice. ---
**Author:** ![psychonaut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/psychonaut/32/4655_2.png) [@psychonaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychonaut)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2022, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-idea-of-a-weak-album-start/966435/33 "2022-07-12T17:33:55Z")
> [@dalej42](#): > > Would you start with Get Back and have Let it Be as the closer? That’s exactly what they did for [the 2003 rerelease](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Let_It_Be..._Naked). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-idea-of-a-weak-album-start/966435.md?page=1)