What's the best opening track of an album?

[Turn2]

Only one correct answer. Blind from Korn's self-titled. Instrumental build up to a scream of "Are you ready?"

Thanks. Now I've got the Crow Tow kid in my head again.

 

[t-noah]

Going back a ways, again,
Wouldn't It Be Nice, Beach Boys, Pet Sounds

 

[Bob f]

Truckfighters-Gravity X-Desert Cruiser

 

[t-noah]

Second Hand News, Fleetwood Mac, Rumours

 

[CtownCyclone]

If I've missed it, I apologize. I'll throw a vote out there for Audioslave on their self titled album, Cochise.

 

[t-noah]

Makes me think we could expand this topic to best combo of side 1/side 2 openers, for us old-school LP-oriented geezers.

"Let's Go" and "Night Spots" comes to mind for The Cars "Candy-O." ... I wouldn't put Let's Go as a go-to starter by itself, but in tandem, it's a different story.

"Hells Bells" and "Back in Black" another 1/2 killer.

Next OTN?

 

[t-noah]

Partial list. Limiting to one per artist. Roughly in chronological order. (A few on my list already mentioned in the thread)

Taxman — The Beatles (Revolver)
Like a Rolling Stone — Bob Dylan (Highway 61 Revisited)
Break on Through (To the Other Side) — The Doors (debut)
Sympathy for the Devil — The Rolling Stones (Beggars Banquet)
Ramble Tamble — CCR (Cosmo’s Factory)
Strutter — Kiss (debut)
See No Evil — Television (Marquee Moon)
London Calling — The Clash (title track)
Good Times Roll — The Cars (debut)
Begin the Begin — R.E.M. (Lifes Rich Pageant)
I.O.U. — The Replacements (Pleased to Meet Me)
Telephone Tree — Young Fresh Fellows (Electric Bird Digest)
Somebody to Shove — Soul Asylum (Grave Dancers Union)
Turn it On -- The Flaming Lips (Transmissions From the Satellite Heart)
Girls & Boys — Blur (Parklife)
Violet Eyes — Meat Puppets (Too High to Die)
Devils Haircut — Beck (Odelay)
The Good in Everyone — Sloan (One Chord to Another)
Stacked Actors — Foo Fighters (There is Nothing Left to Lose)
I Am Trying to Break Your Heart — Wilco (Yankee Hotel Foxtrot) … largely for the extended outro

Now wait just a dern minute!

How am I to keep up with this?

 

[t-noah]

Rock N Roll Damnation, AC/DC, Powerage

 

[t-noah]

Partial list. Limiting to one per artist. Roughly in chronological order. (A few on my list already mentioned in the thread)

Taxman — The Beatles (Revolver)
Like a Rolling Stone — Bob Dylan (Highway 61 Revisited)
Break on Through (To the Other Side) — The Doors (debut)
Sympathy for the Devil — The Rolling Stones (Beggars Banquet)
Ramble Tamble — CCR (Cosmo’s Factory)
Strutter — Kiss (debut)
See No Evil — Television (Marquee Moon)
London Calling — The Clash (title track)
Good Times Roll — The Cars (debut)
Begin the Begin — R.E.M. (Lifes Rich Pageant)
I.O.U. — The Replacements (Pleased to Meet Me)
Telephone Tree — Young Fresh Fellows (Electric Bird Digest)
Somebody to Shove — Soul Asylum (Grave Dancers Union)
Turn it On -- The Flaming Lips (Transmissions From the Satellite Heart)
Girls & Boys — Blur (Parklife)
Violet Eyes — Meat Puppets (Too High to Die)
Devils Haircut — Beck (Odelay)
The Good in Everyone — Sloan (One Chord to Another)
Stacked Actors — Foo Fighters (There is Nothing Left to Lose)
I Am Trying to Break Your Heart — Wilco (Yankee Hotel Foxtrot) … largely for the extended outro

Good Times Roll — The Cars (debut)

I like the Cars!
Now off to the other 50, or so, in your post!

 

[cyclones500]

Detroit Rock City, King of the Nighttime World, and God of Thunder is about as good a 1-2-3 punch to start an album as there is IMO.

That also has the LP-opening segue couplet w/ DRC & KOTNW.

Related-yet-separate topic.

Another example would be Sgt Pepper/With a Little Help From My Friends.

 

[Todd]

I shared this in another thread, but it’s hard to imagine a kid in 1970 seeing this album cover, throwing this record on and not shitting his pants.

Bravo! Havent listened all the way through for 40 years!

 

[t-noah]

The Black Crowes - Twice As Hard​

 

[demoncore1031]

 

[demoncore1031]

 

[t-noah]

I Saw Her Standing There, Beatles, Please Please Me (1963)
Nathaniel Murphy, 2:44 mark

Beatles Guitar Medley on 68’ Rosewood tele,​

And the original,

 

[t-noah]

Smooth Operator, Sade, Diamond Life (1984)

 

[t-noah]

I Don't Know, Ozzy Osbourne, Blizzard of Ozz (1980)

 

[t-noah]

Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers ~ Refugee ~ Damn The Torpedoes​

 

[t-noah]

Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers, Full Moon Fever, 1989

 

[t-noah]

Listening to some Heart, they have 2 albums that have killers leads.
Magic Man, Heart, Dreamboat Annie

and,
Barracuda, Heart, Little Queen