QOTD: Best Opening/Closing Duos

Similar to the "Best 3 Song Stretches" thread, what albums have the best duo of opening and closing tracks?

(For the sake of discussion: don't do re-issues, re-releases, or bonus tracks. Also, if there is an intro, the second first real song does not count (ie. Godspeed from Cities).)

 

He Is Legend -- I Am Hollywood
Open: The Seduction
Close: I Am Hollywood

Will probably be my first thought for this conversation every single time.

A few others:

Copeland - Eat, Sleep, Repeat
Open: Where's My Head?
Close: When You Thought You'd Never Stand Out

mewithoutYou - Brother, Sister
Open: Messes of Men
Close: In A Sweater Poorly Knit

 

The Hotelier - Home, Like NoPlace Is There
"Introduction To the Album" and "Dendron"

The Get Up Kids - Something To Write Home About
"Holiday" and "I'll Catch You"

The Junior Varsity - Wide Eyed
"Get Comfortable" and "Saltwater Fountain"

 

Like A Rolling Stone / Desolation Row
London Calling / Train in Vain
Thunder Road / Jungleland
Human Behaviour / Play Dead
Mountainhead / Tiger Girl

 

I feel like a dummy for forgetting "Thunder Road" and "Jungleland."

 

Have to remember to think about this one later.

 

The Pull / Magnet (Threads - Now, Now)
Futures / 23 (Futures - Jimmy Eat World)
Attractive Today / Hold Me Down (Commit This To Memory - Motion City Soundtrack)
Born to Die / This Is What Makes Us Girls (Born to Die - Lana Del Rey)
I Don't Want Love / Putting the Dog to Sleep (Burst Apart - The Antlers)
The Sound / The Same (New Love - Allison Weiss)
Attention / Almost Here (Almost Here - The Academy Is...)
Texas Reznikoff / Last Words of a Shooting Star (Bury Me At Makeout Creek - Mitski)
Plainsong / Untitled (Disintegration - The Cure)
Tennis Court / A World Alone (Pure Heroine - Lorde)

 

I always thought Anberlin did a killer job of starting and ending their albums even if I didn't like a bunch of stuff in the middle.

Kill Me Quickly > The Beltsville Crucible (Thrice- The Illusion of Safety)
Yellow Theme/Take My Bones Away > Eula (Baroness- Yellow)
Winter > Shallows (Daughter- If You Leave)

 

I agree about Anberlin. dance, dance and *Fin are some of my favorite songs of theirs.

 

Already said but it really is the best: The Hotelier - Home Like Noplace Is There
An Introduction To The Album / Dendron

Jimmy Eat World - Futures
Futures / 23

The National - Boxer
Fake Empire / Gospel

Modest Mouse - The Moon & Antarctica
3rd Planet / What People Are Made of

Manchester Orchestra - Mean Everything To Nothing
Only One / the River

The Blood Brothers - Young Machetes
Set Fire To The Face On Fire / Giant Swan

Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago
Flume / Re:Stacks

Explosions In The Sky - The Earth Is Not A Cold Dead Place
First Breath After Coma / Your Hand In Mine

Brand New - The Devil & God Are Raging Inside Me
Sowing Season / Handcuffs

O'Brother - Garden Window
Malum / Last Breath

 

@Threads Good call on Burst Apart

 

Snowing - I Could Do Whatever...
I Think We're In Minsk / Could Be Better Forever

The Get Up Kids - Something to Write Home About
Holiday / I'll Catch You

Gioca Morra - just married
y'all boots hats (die angry) / me + geneine

Grown Ups - More Songs
Weed Science / Are You Shitten Me?

 

@KennedyBN good call on EITS

 

Ever So Sweet / Everything's Too Cold... But You're So Hot (The Room's Too Cold)
Alex English / People You Know (Dance Gavin Dance)
There, There / I Just Want to Sell Out My Funeral (The Greatest Generation)

and if you don't count the actual intro / closing tracks...

Understanding in a Car Crash / How Long Is the Night? (Full Collapse)

 

Tame Impala - Let It Happen / New Person, Same Old Mistakes (Currents)
The XX - Intro / Stars (XX)

 

Thursday - A City by the Light Divided: The Other Side of the Crash/Over and Out (Of Control) / Autumn Leaves Revisited

 

an intro / dendron
cynicism / sands
you or your memory / pale green things
and the hazy sea / like blood does
rifle eyesight / gary condit
our lives / title track

 

Such Small Hands / Nobody, Not Even The Rain [La Dispute]
Arrows / The Wild Bunch [Fireworks]
Geography, Vonnegut, and Me / When We Stand on Each Other We Block Out The Sun [Fireworks]
Embracing Facts / The Frames That Used To Greet Me [Into It. Over It.]
Re-do / Coals [Modern Baseball]
My Last Semester / All My Friends Are In Bar Bands [TWY]
Selfhood / My Wild One [Sharks]
Our Lives Would Make A Sad, Boring Movie / Title Track [The Hotelier]

 

Round Here / A Murder of One
Theatre / The Loosing of the Shadow
Crown of the Valley / Sweet Avenue
Five, Eight, and Ten / Parking Lot
LoveLetterTypewriter / TheLastWordIsRejoice
Swing Set / Apsides
Death with Dignity / Blue Bucket of Gold
A More Perfect Union / The Battle of Hampton Roads
Civil Twilight / Utilities

 

"Thunder Road" and "Jungleland" is my top opening/closing duo by such a wide margin that I almost feel like I don't have to list any others.

 

tim hecker - an imaginary country
"100 years ago" and "200 years ago"

thursday - a city by the light divided
"the other side of the crash" and "autumn leaves revisited"

bon iver - bon iver bon iver
"perth" and "beth/rest"

isis - oceanic
"the beginning and the end" and "hym"

mewithoutyou - brother sister
"messes of men" and "in a sweater poorly knit"

pianos become the teeth - keep you
"ripple water shine" and "say nothing"

fucked up - glass boys
"echo boomer" and "glass boys"

tame impala - currents
"let it happen" and "new person same old mistakes"

foxing - dealer
"weave" and "three on a match"


just some off the top of my head. i didnt read through the thread before doing this so im sure i repeated many

 

Good call on PBTT. I think I'll Be Damned and I'll Get By apply too

 

Renée/The Wheel (Laura Stevenson - Wheel)

 

The Gaslight Anthem- The '59 Sound
Great Expectations/The Backseat

Slayer- Reign In Blood
Angel of Death/Raining Blood

 

PBTT and Hotelier but they've been mentioned

Kanye West - Dark Fantasy / Who Will Survive in America

Mansions - Dig up The Dead / Yer Voice

Thursday - Fast to the End / Stay True

Weatherbox - That Mann / No Hands

Alexisonfire - Accidents / Happiness by the Kilowatt

Carly Rae Jepsen - Run Away With Me / When I Needed You