Albums you start on tracks other than 1

[Baroque]

Vektor - Terminal Redux
I start on the 2nd track Cygnus Terminal. I actually like Track 1, it's one of my favorite tracks, but it doesn't work as an album opener imo. I listen to it after the rest of the album, or on its own.

Obituary - Slowly We Rot
Begin with Track 4 - Slowly We Rot. It sets the tone perfectly for the rest of the album. Starting from 1 on this album is good too, you can't go wrong. But I like to dive right in to the depths of this beast.

 

[CiG]

I have too much respect (obsession?) for the album experience to do anything like this, but sometimes I accidentally put a tape in at side 2 first and it can change the album's flow in a cool way, for example Sabbath Bloody Sabbath starting with "Killing Yourself to Live" instead of the title track.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

I used to do this with Onslaught's In Search of Sanity, a thrash album opening with a boring five minute ambient bit, but since it's now a listen-once-every-several-years album I'll probably listen to that track again. Overall I'm too autistic to skip tracks unless they really absolutely suck.

 

[no country for old wainds]

i sometimes do it with into glory ride. there are probably quite a few examples.

 

[The Butt]

I have too much respect (obsession?) for the album experience to do anything like this

Same.

 

[no country for old wainds]

that's kind of a weird dogmatic approach lol. i mean, surely part of respecting the Album Experience is skipping terrible/ill-fitting songs which detract from said experience. i wouldn't do it with an album i'm just getting to know or in cases where the song is just kind of mediocre, but occasionally it's logical.

 

[CiG]

If I'm skipping a song, the album experience has already been soiled for me so at that point it doesn't matter much anymore.

 

[Satanstoenail]

I usually skip intros to albums if I wanna get straight to the meat & potatoes.

 

[EspaDa]

^ Indeed. I never skip The Hellion though. This one sets perfect mood for the incoming Electric Eye.

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

i almost always skip intros, unless i REALLY like them or its an album that i'm still getting familiar with

 

[Slayed Necros]

Yeah a lot of intros are worthless, especially ambient/noisy shit commonly found at the beginning of black metal albums. Short acoustic intros or instrumental metal tracks are fine.

 

[EspaDa]

Silvester Anfang into Deathcrush works really good for me. Love the intro. I sometimes skip Funeral Fog when listening to De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas. Dont really like the track.

 

[Vegard Pompey]

I can't think of an album I do this with tbh.

 

[CiG]

Silvester Anfang into Deathcrush works really good for me.

Yeah same. Deathcrush just wouldn't be quite the same without listening to it.

 

[The Ozzman]

Type O Negative unless the 1st track isn't actually an intro

 

[Vilden]

If I put on a whole album it never happens really, but sometimes i want to hear a specific song and then I can't be bothered to switch and let the rest of the album play after that.

Two albums this has happened quite abit with is:

SSoaSS: Starting with Infinite Dreams (which is kind of weird because I love Moonchild)
Open the Gates: Starting with Astronomica

 

[Master_Yoda77]

I usually listen to the first track of every album, but there are certain albums "Phoenix Rising" that I almost never finish.

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

It also matters if i'm listening to something at home, or while i'm driving or at work.

 

[arg]

I delete intros, outros and individual songs from albums if I hate them lol. Only songs I like are allowed in my iTunes


When I buy a new album I listen to it from start to finish for about a week and 1/2, until I get bored of the same sequence all the time, then I play it on shuffle for another week or so, then it eventually joins the big shuffle across my entire library

 

[The Ozzman]

The majority of this happening for me actually results from incorrect tagging of digital files on my thumb drives since most of my listening is done in the car.