Not sure if this has been discussed before - apologies if it has - but showing my age I would like to nominate 'Highway Star' from Deep Purple's excellent 'Machine Head'.
The snare pop and what follows on Safe European Home by The Clash is a great start to Give Em Enough Rope. Not a great album though that was their next the start of which I'll probably hear in a few minutes
Wouldn't it be nice, Pet Sounds, Beach Boys. She bangs the Drum, Stone Roses, Stone Roses. Here comes the Sun, Abbey Road, The Beatles. Alone again or, Forever changes, Love.
Tough between Gimme Shelter and Baba O’Reilly, but close behind them from that era of the Black Prince Bexley and Croydon Greyhound nights, I give you Our Song (Saturday Morning Pictures) - Stray, and Time Was (Argus) - Wishbone Ash.
Wouldn't it be nice, Pet Sounds, Beach Boys. She bangs the Drum, Stone Roses, Stone Roses. Here comes the Sun, Abbey Road, The Beatles. Alone again or, Forever changes, Love.
Miles Davis - So What U2 - Where The Streets Have No Name Led Zeppelin - Good Times Bad Times The Strokes - Is This It? Stan Getz and Joao Gilberto - The Girl From Ipanema
There are many already covered above. Just throwing in a few ideas.
Wouldn't it be nice and Gimme Shelter as mentioned. Also, David Watts The Kinks- Something Else 21st Century Schizoid Man - King Crimson- In the Court of the Crimson King Bridge Over Troubled Water - Simon and Garfunkal - Bridge...
First album, first track, and introduction to the world, bass drum triplets, still sounds fresh, blistering and produced well enough to fill up all the spaces. Recorded in 1968, and first released in January of 1969 when the world was all valves and sliders.
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But I would add in, in a distant second,
Welcome to the Jungle - Appetite for Destruction - Guns n Roses
Genre-mashing mission statement from the best selling debut album of the 21st century.
Bring da Ruckus - Wu Tang Clan / 36 Chambers
Bittersweet Symphony - The Verve / Urban Hymns
Riverboat Song - OCS (Mosely Shoals)
Luckenbach Texas - Waylon Jennings (Ol Waylon)
Aviation - The Last Shadow Puppets (Everything You've Come To Expect)
A few of Glen Campbells and Weller etc etc
Where do the Children Play
But I will also concede to
Taxman - Revolver
Gimmee Shelter - Let it Bleed
Best opening song ever
Best intro ever
Welcome To The Jungle on Appetite for Destruction by Guns 'n' Roses
Them Bones on Dirt by Alice in Chains
Rust Cage on Badmotorfinger by Soundgarden
- Your Song - Elton John
- Enter Sandman - Metallica
- Welcome to The Jungle - Guns N Roses
- Innuendo - Queen
U2 - Where The Streets Have No Name
Led Zeppelin - Good Times Bad Times
The Strokes - Is This It?
Stan Getz and Joao Gilberto - The Girl From Ipanema
There are many already covered above. Just throwing in a few ideas.
Also, David Watts The Kinks- Something Else
21st Century Schizoid Man - King Crimson- In the Court of the Crimson King
Bridge Over Troubled Water - Simon and Garfunkal - Bridge...
Good Times Bad Times
Sorry Bob, but now we can close the thread.
"I'm in love with Rock n Roll, wow"
Gloria - Horses, Patti Smith
"Jesus died for somebody's sins but not mine"
Sunday Morning - The Velvet Underground