Best Two Lead-Off Songs on an Album

For a long time I thought the best two beginning songs on an album were "Whatever Happened to Pong?" and "Thalassocracy" off of Frank Black's Teenager of the Year. But recently, this assumption has been challenged by Turbonegro's "Librium Love" and "Armed and Fairly Well Equipped" off of special editions of Hot Cars and Spent Contraceptives. I mean, hell, both albums have awesome titles, but it's hard to argue with the latter. And plus, "Armed and Fairly Well Equipped" is like the greatest hardcore song ever. It's what Rites of Spring would've made had they had talent. And "Librium Love", once listened to, speaks for itself.

Two points of contact

FedEx recommends three. Ha!

Anyway.

1) If the dictators in the Middle East who are now "embattled" by protesters demanding "democracy" want to quell the uprisings, they need merely to pipe in live CSPAN. Once their subjects see what a horrific mess democracy actually is, they'll quiet down and be glad for what they have. I mean, hell, do these people actually want a John Boehner in their country? Or a Peter King?

2) Do you think the Nobel Peace Prize committee regrets giving their award to Barack Obama now that he's started a third war? My knowledge of US history is vast, but I'm drawing a blank on the last time we were engaged in three separate wars. Probably during the Reagan era we had at least a half-dozen "interventions" going on at any one time. But that's Reagan - Alzheimer in Chief - for you.