As I was sitting around listening to Morcheeba's Charango, and it occurred to me that I really loved the first four opening tracks on that album, and that when I played one, I just had to follow it up with the next track. That got me thinking about the assorted other albums that I had in my collection that (in my mind) had that unique distinction--the album opened and had a set of songs that seemed to naturally flow from one track into the next.
So, I think I'm going to do--as NPR and the NewsHour likes to call them--an "occasional piece" on great album openings. And to avoid the risk of being cliched, I'm going to try to ignore the obvious ones.
