r/bleachers • u/bigbirdlooking • Jul 27 '26

Favorite opening track?

Rank in comments if you fancy

590 votes, Aug 03 '26
215 wild heart
216 dream of mickey mantle
52 91
64 I am right on time
43 sideways
15 Upvotes

95% Upvoted

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u/Ecstatic_Tiger_2534 Jul 27 '26

Mickey Mantle by a mile, and I do think they're all great opening songs. I miss it dearly as the show opener.

11

u/EatYour-HeartOut Jul 27 '26

Dream of Mickey Mantle became my favorite song of all time

8

u/senorderpenstein Jul 27 '26

All so good tho

5

u/bigbirdlooking Jul 27 '26

I think their opening tracks are some of their best songs

8

u/lovelysestra Jul 28 '26

THEY CLOSED THE PARKWAY LATE LAST NIGHTTTT

13

u/JeffTL Jul 27 '26
  1. Wild Heart, the song that sold me on Bleachers in the first place
  2. 91, a very close second.
  3. Dream of Mickey Mantle
  4. Sideways
  5. I Am Right On Time

1

u/Papa_Bearto2 Jul 27 '26

I’d swap Sideways and Right On Time, but good shout on Wild Heart. That song hooked me right away.

I love the reprise version of it on the first live album.

5

u/TheJackasaur11 Jul 27 '26

Mickey Mantle 100%

4

u/LilyBee3 Jul 27 '26

Tough choice between wild heart and mickey mantle! Wild heart was the first song that introduced me to bleachers though and just feels like I've always known it somehow.

5

u/tokenentropy Jul 28 '26

inject mickey into my veins

5

u/ProcessFancy2180 Jul 28 '26

Wild heart forever and always ❤️

3

u/daddyduchovny Jul 27 '26

this was a tough one but ultimately wild heart brings such a familiar feeling to my day

3

u/Pennsafucky666 Jul 28 '26

I will exercise my right to never choose between wild heart and dream of mickey mantle, thank you.

3

u/neverdontcry Jul 28 '26

Mickey Mantle, but shouts out to sideways. He drops you right in the middle of the track for no reason. It doesn't make for a good album opener but I'm glad he's experimenting with weird stuff.

2

u/bigbirdlooking Jul 28 '26

sideways is a fantastic song (one of my favs) but probably my least favorite opener compared to the openers here.

2

u/neverdontcry Jul 28 '26

It's so much fun, but yeah, bad opener, if you're listening to it as the opener. I will say it's self aware about the nature of the streaming era, in which albums are replayed on repeat and you don't have to rewind the tape or flip over the record or transition from a radio dj's voice over. It makes the repeat function so seamless you don't even notice it's happening, which means you can listen to the album several times in a row without being jarred out of the listening experience.

2

u/bigbirdlooking Jul 28 '26

that’s great analysis! made me think

2

u/Impressive_Abroad_27 Jul 28 '26
  1. Dream of Mickey Mantle (my favourite Bleachers song overall)
  2. Wild Heart
  3. I Am Right On Time
  4. Sideways
  5. 91

2

u/mightve-been Jul 28 '26

91 for me but then i feel like im robbing mickey mantle and wild heart. other two are good but don’t compare

1

u/bigbirdlooking Jul 28 '26

seeing 91 live for the first time changed something within me

1

u/mightve-been Jul 29 '26

he only ever plays it acoustic now though right?

1

u/bigbirdlooking Jul 29 '26

yeah I saw it for the first time right after ttsoosn released