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01.16.13 21st Century's Most Mind-bendingly Awes

21st Century's Most Mind-bendingly Awesome Album Openers

"Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buend?a was to remember rthat distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice." The first time I read this (in rspanish), I had to hit a full stop. I'd barely opened the book and already Garc?a Marquez had in rone sentence flat vanquished 80% of anything I had ever read at that point in my life; that line ralone is a more complete, profound, and moving story than anything students are asked to write ran essay for in high school. One can hardly overestimate the importance of the first rstatement(s): they suck us right into the world we've just chosen to immerse ourselves into, rdeconstructing (or better yet: transforming) out of the cold the reality around us. They are the rbeginning of our drowns in the beauty of "art". SO! without further due, I present some of the r21st century albums with the most perfect, delicious and fitting openings for their lush rexperiences, be it the first five notes of how the first track segues--or explodes--into the second rlike some divine act. A list, quite obviously, to be expanded through time. This isn't just a rrecommendation: this is an applause from the bottom of my mind, and my imagination. Order is rinconsequential. "The train exited the long border tunnel, and it was Snow Country."
1Radiohead
Kid A
2Radiohead
Hail to the Thief
3The Mars Volta
De-loused in the Comatorium
4The Mars Volta
Frances the Mute
5Deerhunter
Cryptograms
6Deerhunter
Microcastle
7Jaga Jazzist
What We Must
8 Kings of Convenience
Riot on an Empty Streets
9Gorillaz
Demon Days
10Shpongle
Tales of the Inexpressible
11Younger Brother
A Flock of Bleeps
12Converge
Jane Doe
13Porcupine Tree
In Absentia
14Porcupine Tree
Fear of a Blank Planet
15Steven Wilson
Insurgentes
16No-man
Schoolyard Ghosts
17 M83
Hurry Up, We're Dreaming
18 Air
10000 Hz Legends
19Tera Melos
Tera Melos
20maudlin of the Well
Bath
2165DaysofStatic
The Fall of Math
22Opeth
Watershed
23Mono
Hymn to the Immortal Wind
24Cafe Tacuba
SiNo
25 Diablo Swing Orchestra
Pandora's Pinata
26John Frusciante
Shadows Collide with People
27Red Hot Chili Peppers
By the Way
28Cynic
Traced in Air
29At the Drive-In
Relationship of Command
30Blockhead
Music by Cavelight
31 Blockhead
Uncle Tony's Colouring Book
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33The Whitest Boy Alive
Dreams
34Grizzly Bear
Veckatimest
35Grizzly Bear
Shields
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