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Best first track on an album

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'. 
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  • Gotta go some to beat Funeral for a Friend / Love lies Bleeding. 
  • 01. Papercut - Linkin Park (Hybrid Theory)

    Genre-mashing mission statement from the best selling debut album of the 21st century.
  • Blinded by the Light - Greetings from Ashbury Park.
  • edited February 24
    Taxman - Beatles / Revolver
    Bring da Ruckus - Wu Tang Clan / 36 Chambers
    Bittersweet Symphony - The Verve / Urban Hymns 
  • Here's Little Richard - Tutti Frutti
  • Got a few and in no particular order -

    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


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  • Not really sure but I do love the album Tea For the Tillerman by Cat Stevens, so, 

    Where do the Children Play 
  • Black Dog  -  Led Zep 4

    But I will also concede to

    Taxman - Revolver
    Gimmee Shelter  - Let it Bleed
  • As usual @bobmunro is correct. 

    Best song ever
    Best opening song ever
    Best intro ever

  • Telegraph Road.  Dire Straits - Love Over Gold
  • 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. 
  • Once on Ten by Pearl Jam

    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
  • 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. 
  • Accidents Will Happen from Armed Forces by Elvis Costello and the Attractions
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  • edited February 24
    An eclectic mix, but these are all 10/10 in their own way:

    - Your Song - Elton John
    - Enter Sandman - Metallica
    - Welcome to The Jungle - Guns N Roses
    - Innuendo - Queen
  • Tom Sawyer - Rush 
  • Bailey said:
    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. 
    First track on Abbey Road is Come Together….
  • Chizz said:
    The Police's Roxanne, from Outlandos d'amour is a pretty good first track, especially as it's the band's first album. 
    First track on Outlandos is Next to You.
  • 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.


    Good Times Bad Times

    Sorry Bob, but now we can close the thread.
  • "Don't Waste My Time"  -  Piledriver
  • Chizz said:
    The Police's Roxanne, from Outlandos d'amour is a pretty good first track, especially as it's the band's first album. 
    First track on Outlandos is Next to You.
    Yes, you're right. I was looking at a wrong listing. 
  • Janie Jones - The Clash 

    "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 
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