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So the other day I was watching the movie High Fidelity again. I love all of his top five lists... I think you know where this is going.
I'll start with one from the movie:

Top five side one, track one:
1. Television - See No Evil
2. Buddy Holly - I'm Gonna Love You too
3. Wire - Practice Makes Perfect
4. Suicide - Ghost Rider
5. Joni Mitchell - All I Want

Now one of my own (probably a little too similar but whatever)
Top five album closers:
1. Sonic Youth - Trilogy
2. Tom Waits - I Can't Wait To Get Off Work
3. My Bloody Valentine - Soon
4. The Doors - The End
5. Nick Drake - From Morning

Great movie! Good idea..

Top five favourite opening songs on albums.. These are not all necessarily my favourite songs, bands or albums (though some of them are), I just think they're really great songs to open albums with; Making statements about the tone and pace of the album.

1. Bon Iver (Bon Iver) - "Perth" - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bo6lKQYVUBU
2. The Beatles (Please Please Me) - "I Saw Her Standing There" - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DsgWfAilIEM
3. The Smashing Pumpkins (Mellon Collie) - "Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness" - Yeah thanks EMI.
4. The Flaming Lips (Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots) - "Fight Test" - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jcFKlEfu_eU
5. The Cure (Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me) - "The Kiss" - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XzlR8PT9S-A

1. Rolling Stones "Gimme Shelter" (Let It Bleed)
2. Flaming Lips "Race For The Prize" (The Soft Bulletin)
3. Can "Future Days" (Future Days)
4. Richard and Linda Thompson "When I Get To The Border" (I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight)
5. Sex Pistols "Holidays In The Sun" (Never Mind The Bollocks)

honorable mention: Neu!, "Hallogallo" (Neu!); Adele, "Rolling In The Deep" (21); Neil Young, "My Heart" (Sleeps With Angels); Humble Pie, "Four Day Creep" (Performance: Rockin' the Fillmore).

Side One, Track One (no order, obviously)
1. Sleep's Holy Mountain, Dragonaut
2. Husker Du's Zen Arcade, Something I Learned Today
3. Fugazi's 13 Songs, Waiting Room
4. Dead Meadow's Dead Meadow, Sleepy Silver Door
5. Funkadelic's Maggot Brain, Maggot Brain

Album Closers:
1. ISIS's Oceanic, Hym
2. The Experience's Electric Ladyland, Voodoo Child (Slight Return)
3. Kyuss's Welcome To Sky Valley, Whitewater
4. Replacements' Let It Be, Answering Machine.
5. Ween's The Mollusk, She Wanted To Leave (Reprise)

Album Openers:
Five Years - David Bowie (The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust)
The Beginning and The End - ISIS (Oceanic)
Cherub Rock - Smashing Pumpkins (Siamese Dream)
Farewell - Boris (Pink)
Pink Moon - Nick Drake (Nick Drake)

last tracks (in no particular order) (revised):
godspeed you black emperor!, "Deathkamp Drone/Antennas to Heaven" (lift yr skinny fists...)
Seal, "Violet" (Seal [1991])
The Beatles, "A Day In The Life" (Sgt. Peppers')
the Stone Roses, "Fools Gold" (bonus track on the US CD of The Stone Roses) (OK, it's cheating, but still!)
Neil Young and Crazy Horse "Hey Hey My My (Into The Black)" (Rust Never Sleeps, Live Rust [1978, 1979]) (it's the same track in different mixes!)

Ah dammit, I should've remembered Godspeed. The Dead Flag Blues should've been on my list.

off the top of my head .. I reserve the right to disavow this list at any time:

openers
Nirvana - In Utero - Serve the Servants
Jakob - Solace - Malachite
Radiohead - The Bends - Planet Telex
Pink Floyd - Meddle - One of These Days
The Who - Who's Next - Baba O'Riley

closers
Isis - Wavering Radiant - Threshold of Transformation
Tool - Aenima - Third Eye
Mogwai - Happy Songs for Happy People - Stop Coming to My House
The Beatles - Sgt Pepper's - A Day in the Life
Oasis - Morning Glory - Champagne Supernova

Openers:

1. Balmorhea / Constellations / To The Order of Night
2. Agalloch / Ashes Against the Grain / Limbs
3. Scale the Summit / Carving Desert Canyons / Bloom
4. Gorguts / Obscura / Obscura
5. Mono / Hymn to the Immortal Wind / Ashes in the Snow

... maybe.

Openers:
1. Teeth Like God's Shoeshine - Modest Mouse
2. A More Perfect Union - Titus Andronicus
3. Disorder - Joy Division
4. Race for the Prize - The Flaming Lips
5. Young Americans - David Bowie

There's way too many great openers and closers.

Closers:
1. New York, I Love You But You're Bringing Me Down - LCD Soundsystem
2. The End - The Doors
3. The Chemistry of Common Life - Fucked Up
4. Jungleland - Bruce Springsteen
5. Fairies Wear Boots - Black Sabbath

Opening:
Sonic Youth - Confusion is Sex - She's in a bad mood
Sleater-Kinney - Dig me out - Dig me out
Radiohead - Hail to the Thief - 2+2=5
PJ Harvey - Dry - Oh My Lover
Candlemass - Candlemass - Black Dwarf

Closing:
Sleater-Kinney - Sleater-Kinney - the last song
Oxbow - An Evil Heat - Shine (Glimmer)
Notwist - 12 - 12
The Gathering - How to measure a planet? - Travel
Boris - Pink - Just Abondoned My Self

openers:

1. race for the prize - flaming lips
2. episonik - oval
3. arcarsenal - atdi
4. catmaran - bear vs shark
5. crank heart - xiu xiu

openers
-frodus - red bull of juarez
-radiohead - the bends
-denison marrs - sing with me
-stavesacre - shiv
-frantic mantis - creation sickness

runners:
- polvo - fractured (like a chandelier)
-Alice in chains - them bones
-qotsa - Feel Good Hit of the Summer

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Openers:

1. Gospel - Congratulations... You've Hit Bottom!
2. Mogwai - Sine Wave
3. On the Might of Princes - The Water vs. The Anchor
4. Orchid - Destination: Blood!
5. Sigur Ros - Untitled 1

SO MANY GOOD ONES.

Openers:
(in no particular order)

1. Farewell - Boris (Pink)
2. Dance Yrself Clean - LCD Soundsystem (This is Happening)
3. In the Flowers -Animal Collective (Merriweather Post Pavillion)
4. Gathering Storm - Godspeed You! Black Emperor (Lift yr. Skinny Fists)
5. 21st Century Schizoid Man - King Crimson (In the Court of the Crimson King)

Closers:

1. Trilogy - Sonic Youth (Daydream Nation)
2. Mogwai Fear Satan - Mogwai (Young Team)
3. Sister Ray - The Velvet Underground (White Light/White Heat)
4. Strobe - Deadmau5 (For Lack of a Better Name)
5. Two Headed Boy pt.2 - Neutral Milk Hotel (In the Aeroplane Over the Sea)