Best Opening Three Tracks On A Record

Addickhead86

some ones that I like, off the top of my head...

This Year's Model

No Action
This Year's Girl
The Beat

Fuzzy Logic

God! Show Me Magic
Fuzzy Birds
Something 4 The Weekend

To Pimp A Butterfly

Wesley's Theory
For Free?
King Kunta

Chef_addick

Terrance Trent D'Arby - Introducing the hardline.......

If You All Get To Heaven.
If You Let Me Stay.
Wishing Well.

Clem_Snide

DaveMehmet said:

stonemuse said:

Carter USM, 1992 The Love Album

1993
Is Wrestling Fixed
The Only Living Boy in New Cross

superb

Saw them a few times, they were fantastic live.

Live at the Venue with John Fat Beast as compear is one of my top 10 gigs of all time. They were amazing that night.

stonemuse

Levelling the Land - The Levellers

One Way
The Game
Fifteen Years

stonemuse

The Liberty of Norton Folgate - Madness

Overture
We Are London
Sugar and Spice

Chef_addick

Led Zep 4

Black Dog.
Rock and Roll
The Battle of Evermore.

SDAddick

PopIcon said:

CharltonKerry said:

Bridge over troubled waters by Simon and Garfunkle

1. Bridge over troubled waters
2. El condo pasa
3. Cecila 

Love this record (BOTW being one of the best songs of all time), but I think Graceland has the better three openers. In my opinion Graceland is one of the top ten records of all time 

1. Boy In The Bubble
2. Graceland
3. I Know What I Know

Brilliant roadtrip record. My dad used to play it incessantly in the car when we were kids. I used to hate it but I grew to love it. 

PopIcon

SDAddick said:

PopIcon said:

CharltonKerry said:

Bridge over troubled waters by Simon and Garfunkle

1. Bridge over troubled waters
2. El condo pasa
3. Cecila 

Love this record (BOTW being one of the best songs of all time), but I think Graceland has the better three openers. In my opinion Graceland is one of the top ten records of all time 

1. Boy In The Bubble
2. Graceland
3. I Know What I Know

Brilliant roadtrip record. My dad used to play it incessantly in the car when we were kids. I used to hate it but I grew to love it. 

BEST roadtrip record, I had it on no stop when I drove across America in 2014.

Covered End

McBobbin said:

Roses of course... But my nomination is probably not on most radars, it's Free All Angels by Ash:

Walking Barefoot
Shining Light
Burn Baby Burn

Absolute class

https://www.roundhouse.org.uk/whats-on/2020/ash/

Ash playing The Roundhouse Friday 27th March.
But it clashes with England v Italy.

cafctom

Michael Jackson - Off The Wall

Dont Stop Til You Get Enough
Rock With You
Working Day And Night

Briston_Addick

Some more nominations:

Pantera - Vulgar Display Of Power
1. Mouth For War
2. A New Level
3. Walk

Dire Straits - Communique
1. Once Upon A Time In The West
2. News
3. Where Do You Think You're Going

REM - Document
1. Finest Worksong
2. Welcome To The Occupation (2nd favourite REM song behind World Leader Pretend)
3. Exhuming McCarthy

Rammstein - Mutter
1. Mein Hertz Brent
2. Links 234
3. Sonne

Grant Lee Buffalo - Fuzzy
1. The Shining Hour
2. Jupiter And Teardrop
3. Fuzzy

Tindersticks - Curtains
1. Another Night In
2. Rented Rooms
3. Don't Look Down

Sillybilly

Dire straits - love over gold

1. Telegraph Road
2. private Investigations
3. Industrial Disease

Dire straits - Making Movies

1. Tunnel Of Love
2. Romeo & Juliet 
3. Skateaway. 

Absolute classics. Mind you only 5 and 6 songs respectively on both albums. 

Sillybilly

Runrig -The Big Wheel

1. Headlights
2. Healer in your Heart
3. Abhainn an T- Sluiagh  

NapaAddick

“Loaded” (The Velvet Underground)
1. Who Loves The Sun
2. Sweet Jane
3. Rock and Roll

stonemuse

This was a great idea for a thread ... well done @PopIcon

Briston_Addick

stonemuse said:

This was a great idea for a thread ... well done @PopIcon

There was a comment made about instrumental tracks earlier in the thread, on page 3:

PopIcon said:

Off_it said:

Leroy Ambrose said:

Briston_Addick said:

Off_it said:

Moonchild
Infinite Dreams
Can I play with Madness

(and The evil that men do up 4th)

Seventh Son of a Seventh Son - Iron Maiden

I see your Seventh Son and raise you a Beast:

Invaders
Children Of The Damned
The Prisoner
(followed by 22 Acacia Avenue, Run To The Hills, Number Of The Beast, Gangland, Hallowed Be Thy Name)

I see you both and raise you Powerslave

Aces High 
2 Minutes to Midnight
Losfer Words (best instrumental ever written) 

That's a bold statement. Better than Orion?

Beyond film soundtracks, I'm really struggling to think of any instrumental tracks I like. *cough* Flying, by Chas and Dave.

Sowing the seeds for the follow up discussion: favourite pop/rock/metal instrumental tracks ... ?

Stig

Briston_Addick said:

stonemuse said:

This was a great idea for a thread ... well done @PopIcon

There was a comment made about instrumental tracks earlier in the thread, on page 3:

PopIcon said:

Off_it said:

Leroy Ambrose said:

Briston_Addick said:

Off_it said:

Moonchild
Infinite Dreams
Can I play with Madness

(and The evil that men do up 4th)

Seventh Son of a Seventh Son - Iron Maiden

I see your Seventh Son and raise you a Beast:

Invaders
Children Of The Damned
The Prisoner
(followed by 22 Acacia Avenue, Run To The Hills, Number Of The Beast, Gangland, Hallowed Be Thy Name)

I see you both and raise you Powerslave

Aces High 
2 Minutes to Midnight
Losfer Words (best instrumental ever written) 

That's a bold statement. Better than Orion?

Beyond film soundtracks, I'm really struggling to think of any instrumental tracks I like. *cough* Flying, by Chas and Dave.

Sowing the seeds for the follow up discussion: favourite pop/rock/metal instrumental tracks ... ?

Think we should definitely have a new thread on that.  Probably best to leave it a week or so though, don't want to turn Charlton Life into a music site. 

UEAAddick

The Language of Life- Everything But The Girl

Driving 
Get Back Together
Meet Me In The Morning

Briston_Addick

Stig said:

Briston_Addick said:

stonemuse said:

This was a great idea for a thread ... well done @PopIcon

There was a comment made about instrumental tracks earlier in the thread, on page 3:

PopIcon said:

Off_it said:

Leroy Ambrose said:

Briston_Addick said:

Off_it said:

Moonchild
Infinite Dreams
Can I play with Madness

(and The evil that men do up 4th)

Seventh Son of a Seventh Son - Iron Maiden

I see your Seventh Son and raise you a Beast:

Invaders
Children Of The Damned
The Prisoner
(followed by 22 Acacia Avenue, Run To The Hills, Number Of The Beast, Gangland, Hallowed Be Thy Name)

I see you both and raise you Powerslave

Aces High 
2 Minutes to Midnight
Losfer Words (best instrumental ever written) 

That's a bold statement. Better than Orion?

Beyond film soundtracks, I'm really struggling to think of any instrumental tracks I like. *cough* Flying, by Chas and Dave.

Sowing the seeds for the follow up discussion: favourite pop/rock/metal instrumental tracks ... ?

Think we should definitely have a new thread on that.  Probably best to leave it a week or so though, don't want to turn Charlton Life into a music site. 

If, heaven forbid, we lose tomorrow I think the only music on this site will be the 3rd movement of Chopin's Piano Sonata No 2, the piece of music more commonly known as the Funeral March ...

Salad

Aztec Camera- High Land, Hard Rain
1. Oblivious
2. Boy Wonders
3. Walk Out To Winter 

UEAAddick

Salad said:

Aztec Camera- High Land, Hard Rain
1. Oblivious
2. Boy Wonders
3. Walk Out To Winter 

Good Shout. Brilliant album

Sillybilly

Richard Thompson - Rumor & Sigh

1. Read About Love
2. I feel So Good
3. I Misunderstood

Rock Spectacle

stonemuse said:

Levelling the Land - The Levellers

One Way
The Game
Fifteen Years

Thought The Boatman was the third track, but excellent shout all the same - Glastonbury 1992, simply awesome. 

Salad

Blondie - Parallel Lines
1. Hanging On The Telephone
2. One Way Or Another
3. Picture This

stoneroses19

The Prodigy - Fat of the Land

1. Smack my b**** up
2. Breathe
3. Diesel power

bazjonster

American Pie - Don McLean

American Pie
Till Tomorrow
Vincent

Listen Without Prejudice - George Michael

Praying for Time
Waiting for That Day
Freedom! 90

AddickUpNorth

Script For A Jesters Tear

He Knows You Know

The Web


Marillion - Script For A Jesters Tear.

golfaddick

Sillybilly said:

Dire straits - love over gold

1. Telegraph Road
2. private Investigations
3. Industrial Disease

Dire straits - Making Movies

1. Tunnel Of Love
2. Romeo & Juliet 
3. Skateaway. 

Absolute classics. Mind you only 5 and 6 songs respectively on both albums. 

Only problem with Love over Gold is that the first 2 songs take up all of side 1.....so if you have the album version you have to turn it over to listen to the 3rd one on the list. I think it therefore fails by default, otherwise it would have been one if my choices.

aliwibble

AddickUpNorth said:

Script For A Jesters Tear

He Knows You Know

The Web


Marillion - Script For A Jesters Tear.

@AddickUpNorth Which track off that album is it that goes "I'm losing on the swings, I'm losing on the roundabouts"? Had a friend from uni that played that a fair amount, so I always think of him when I hear it.

CafcWest

Rusted Root - When I woke
(Not widely known outside USA)

Drum Trip
Ecstasy
Send me on my way