Best opening tracks on albums.

[Scimmy]

A recurring thread I know but there hasn't been one for a while so here goes. Obviously I can only speak from my own experience, so my favourite opening tracks are, in no order,

Baba O'Riley from Who's Next?
One Of These Days from Meddle
Black Dog, from Led Zep 4
More Than A Feeling from Boston first album
Peaches En Regalia from Hot Rats.

 

[Ricci's Special Kebabs]

Air - La femme d'argent

 

[10 Gary Rowells]

Queen is Dead.

 

[__howdy__]

Welcome to the Jungle - Appetite for Destruction

 

[Cee Jay]

100 years....Pornography

Certainly sets the scene, as does the opening line “ It doesn’t matter if we all die”

 

[Snaggletooth]

Black Sabbath from the album Black Sabbath by Black Sabbath.

And Holidays in the Sun by the Pistols.

 

[screwjack]

‘plainsong’ from disintegration (cure)
‘gimme shelter’ from let it bleed (stones)

 

[Dennis]

I wanna be adored

Hells Bells

 

[ned_werby]

Hello Hooray from Billion Dollar Babies
Runnin' with the Devil from Van Halen

 

[OLDROKERENDER]

Station To Station - Bowie (from album of same name)
Back In The USSR - The Beatles White Album
Wheels Of Confusion - Black Sabbath 4
Immigrant Song - Zep 3

 

[CheersMarra84]

Bitter Sweet Symphony - Urban Hymns

Debaser - Doolittle

Cherub Rock - Siamese Dream

Gimme Shelter - Let It Bleed

 

[Flying Lotus]

The Streets - Turn The Page
Wu-Tang Clan - Bring Da Ruckus
Kraftwerk - The Robots
Bowie - 5 Years
The Horrors - Mirror’s Image

 

[Bakerlooline]

Brighton Rock - Sheer Heart Attack

 

[weebil64]

London Bridge - see left

Where the Streets have no name - detractors can do one.

 

[Boinger]

Keep Yourself Alive - Queen.

 

[Sgt Pepper]

Come Together - Abbey Road

 

[Boinger]

Black Sabbath from the album Black Sabbath by Black Sabbath.

And Holidays in the Sun by the Pistols.

Winner.

 

[fyl2u]

The Dam At Otter Creek by Live on the Throwing Copper album.
Round Here by Counting Crows on the August And Everything After album.

 

[Sam Handwich]

Safe European Home - Give 'Em Enough Rope.
London Calling - London Calling
Janie Jones - The Clash

 

[Bob Fleming]

As much as Nirvana hasn't aged well (for me) I would say Smells like teen spirit.