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

YellowSnowYellowSnow Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 35,812 Founders Club
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Best Side A, Track #1 on a 1991 Rock Album 29 votes

Smells Like Teen Spirt - Nirvana (Nevermind)
55%
CFetters_Nacho_LoverRaceBannonFire_Marshall_BilliDawgwhlinderMad_SondncTheHBchuckTequillabiak1AlexishuskyhooliganEl_KRDRwooderson92 16 votes
Civil War - G n' R (Illusions II)
0%
Rusty Cage - Soundgarden (Badmotorfinger)
27%
alumni94dfleaWilliams3YellowSnowdannarcJoeyFishpo31WoolleyDoog 8 votes
Once - Pearl Jam (Ten)
0%
Only Shadow - My Bloody Valentine (Loveless)
0%
Say Hello 2 Heaven - Temple of the Dog
3%
DerekJohnson 1 vote
Something to Talk About - Bonnie Raitt (Luck of the Draw)
3%
Cougzz 1 vote
I Am One - Smashing Pumpkins (Gish)
0%
Radio Song - R.E.M. (Out of Time)
0%
F.O. Row Peter Puffer, you left off...
10%
Fenderbender123BleachedAnusDawgalopeciadawg 3 votes
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  • BleachedAnusDawgBleachedAnusDawg Member Posts: 11,743
    F.O. Row Peter Puffer, you left off...
    Metallica, Black Album, Enter Sandman.
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  • YellowSnowYellowSnow Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 35,812 Founders Club
    Rusty Cage - Soundgarden (Badmotorfinger)
    BleachedAnusDawg said:

    Metallica, Black Album, Enter Sandman.

    Ah god damn it - I had that in my notes and spaced.
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  • chuckchuck Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 11,188 Swaye's Wigwam
    Smells Like Teen Spirt - Nirvana (Nevermind)
    BleachedAnusDawg said:

    Metallica, Black Album, Enter Sandman.

    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.
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  • JoeyJoey Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 6,828 Founders Club
    Rusty Cage - Soundgarden (Badmotorfinger)
    Tough call. Teen spirit sold the albums but Rusty Cage is a more liked song as time goes on IMO
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  • BleachedAnusDawgBleachedAnusDawg Member Posts: 11,743
    edited January 25
    F.O. Row Peter Puffer, you left off...
    YellowSnow said:

    BleachedAnusDawg said:

    Metallica, Black Album, Enter Sandman.

    Ah god damn it - I had that in my notes and spaced.
    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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  • YellowSnowYellowSnow Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 35,812 Founders Club
    Rusty Cage - Soundgarden (Badmotorfinger)
    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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  • chuckchuck Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 11,188 Swaye's Wigwam
    Smells Like Teen Spirt - Nirvana (Nevermind)
    YellowSnow said:

    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.

    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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  • wooderson92wooderson92 Member Posts: 125
    Smells Like Teen Spirt - Nirvana (Nevermind)
    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
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  • alopeciadawgalopeciadawg Member Posts: 58
    F.O. Row Peter Puffer, you left off...
    Midnight Oil - Don't wanna be the one

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IveuP25qX6k
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  • YellowSnowYellowSnow Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 35,812 Founders Club
    Rusty Cage - Soundgarden (Badmotorfinger)
    chuck said:

    YellowSnow said:

    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.

    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.
    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.
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  • Fire_Marshall_BillFire_Marshall_Bill Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 24,149 Founders Club
    Smells Like Teen Spirt - Nirvana (Nevermind)

    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.

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  • chuckchuck Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 11,188 Swaye's Wigwam
    Smells Like Teen Spirt - Nirvana (Nevermind)
    https://hardcorehusky.com/discussion/comment/1942842#Comment_1942842

    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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  • YellowSnowYellowSnow Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 35,812 Founders Club
    Rusty Cage - Soundgarden (Badmotorfinger)
    https://hardcorehusky.com/discussion/comment/1944366#Comment_1944366

    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.

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  • Fenderbender123Fenderbender123 Member Posts: 2,986
    F.O. Row Peter Puffer, you left off...

    Song: Learning to Fly

    Album: Into The Great Wide Open (1991)

    Artist: Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

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  • CFetters_Nacho_LoverCFetters_Nacho_Lover Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 30,731 Founders Club
    Smells Like Teen Spirt - Nirvana (Nevermind)

    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.

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  • TheHBTheHB Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 6,296 Swaye's Wigwam
    Smells Like Teen Spirt - Nirvana (Nevermind)

    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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