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Best Opening Three Tracks On A Record

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  • ChicagoAddick
    ChicagoAddick Posts: 4,393
    Anna_Kissed said:
    Simple Minds - New Gold Dream (81-82-83-84)    (1982)

    1) Someone Somewhere In Summertime
    2) Colours Fly And Catherine Wheel
    3) Promised You A Miracle
    Now that was an album. Good pick 
  • wwaddick
    wwaddick Posts: 121
    Macronate said:
    The Jam - Sound Affects

    1. Pretty Green
    2. Monday 
    3. But I’m Different Now
    Would've been mine as well.
  • AddickUpNorth
    AddickUpNorth Posts: 8,325
    In A Big Country

    Inward

    Chance


    Big Country - The Crossing
  • milo
    milo Posts: 388
    Alone again or
    A house is not a motel
    Andmoreagain

    Love - Forever Changes

    (Although, You set the scene is the best and last track on the album)
  • bigman backstick
    bigman backstick Posts: 76
    The Queen is Dead - The Smiths

    The Queen is Dead/Frankly Mr Shankly/I know it's Over
  • Six-a-bag-of-nuts
    Six-a-bag-of-nuts Posts: 8,127
    No Reply
    I'm a Loser
    Baby's in Black

    The Beatles - Beatles for Sale
  • boggzy
    boggzy Posts: 3,595
    The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway
    Fly On A Windshield
    Broadway Melody Of 1974

    Genesis - The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway 
  • boggzy
    boggzy Posts: 3,595
    Sunflower
    (Can you heal us) Holy Man
    Wild wood

    Paul Weller - Wild Wood
  • stonemuse
    stonemuse Posts: 34,006
    dickad1 said:
    stonemuse said:
    Also a big vote for Suede:

    The Drowners
    Metal Mickey
    Animal Nitrate
    (followed by 4th track So Young) 

    Good call, but I think Suede, Suede opens:
    So Young
    Animal Nitrate 
    She's Not Dead
    You are right ... and that's even better  :)
  • stonemuse
    stonemuse Posts: 34,006
    EastTerrace said:
    stonemuse said:
    A 3rd nomination would be No Need to Argue by The Cranberries:

    Zombie
    Ode to My Family
    I Can’t Be With You 

    Beautiful album.... but are they the opening three tracks?

    Aside from that, there a many albums that start strong by many artists, although most can’t carry that promise through to the end.
    Just checked ... I have a download that starts with those three tracks, but the CD is Ode to My Family, I Can't Be With You, and Twenty One (with Zombie as 4th track) ... still excellent. 
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  • Chef_addick
    Chef_addick Posts: 2,196
    Pearl Jam - Ten.

    Once
    Even Flow
    Alive
  • Clem_Snide
    Clem_Snide Posts: 11,739
    Down on the street
    Loose
    TV Eye

    Funhouse - The Stooges
  • stonemuse
    stonemuse Posts: 34,006
    Clem_Snide said:
    Down on the street
    Loose
    TV Eye

    Funhouse - The Stooges
    Prompted me to look at Raw Power by Iggy & The Stooges - great first 3 tracks:

    Search and Destroy
    Gimme Danger
    Your Pretty Face is Going to Hell
  • MrOneLung
    MrOneLung Posts: 26,857
    Let It Bleed - Rolling Stones

    Gimme Shelter
    Love In vain
    Country Honk
  • Karim_myBagheri
    Karim_myBagheri Posts: 12,722
    i've played this album a few times recently - 

    Jim Steinman - Bad for Good

    Bad for Good
    Lost Boys and Golden Girls
    Love and death and an American guitar (which is more of an into as it goes straight into Stark Raving Love)
  • TelMc32
    TelMc32 Posts: 9,055
    Some great picks already with Stone Roses, The Jam, Specials, Madness, Foos, Ash,  I’d add another Arctic Monkeys album (AM) and Marvin Gaye’s What’s Going On.

    AM - Do I Wanna Know? / R U Mine? / One For The Road

    Marvin Gaye - What’s Going On / What’s Happening Brother / Flyin’ High (In The Friendly Sky)
  • Six-a-bag-of-nuts
    Six-a-bag-of-nuts Posts: 8,127
    Station to Station
    Golden Years
    Word on a Wing

    David Bowie - Station to Station
  • hawksmoor
    hawksmoor Posts: 2,608
    Let's Get It On - Marvin Gaye

    Let's Get It On
    Please Stay (Once You Go Away)
    If I Should Die Tonight
  • stonemuse
    stonemuse Posts: 34,006
    Carter USM, 1992 The Love Album

    1993
    Is Wrestling Fixed
    The Only Living Boy in New Cross

    superb
  • stonemuse
    stonemuse Posts: 34,006
    This one is way up there for me - Christy Moore, Listen

    Listen
    Does This Train Stop on Merseyside?
    Shine On You Crazy Diamond 
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  • DaveMehmet
    DaveMehmet Posts: 21,601
    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.
  • stonemuse
    stonemuse Posts: 34,006
    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.
    yup, great band
  • Karim_myBagheri
    Karim_myBagheri Posts: 12,722
    Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane over the sea

    "The King of Carrot Flowers, Pt. One"
    "The King of Carrot Flowers, Pts. Two & Three"
    "In the Aeroplane over the sea"
  • Briston_Addick
    Briston_Addick Posts: 11,677
    I'd love to be able to nominate the fifth album by Finnish folk/pagan metal outfit Moonsorrow, Viides luku – Hävitetty

    1. Jäästä syntynyt/Varjojen virta
    2. Tuleen ajettu maa

    Now comes the problem: there isn't a third track (track 1 is 30 mins, track 2 is 26 mins) so I guess that makes it ineligible for this discussion ...
  • JaysusTheJay
    JaysusTheJay Posts: 146
    I'd prefer the LAST three songs of any album...

    David Bowie - The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars

    Side Two

    4 - Ziggy Stardust
    5 - Suffragette City
    6 - Rock 'n' Roll Suicide
  • JaysusTheJay
    JaysusTheJay Posts: 146
    But if it IS first three, then...

    The Boards of Canada - The Campfire Headphase

    Chromakey Dreamcoat
    Satellite Anthem Icarus
    Peacock Tail

    I don't count the intro (Into the Rainbow Vein) as it's only a few seconds...
  • rananegra
    rananegra Posts: 3,689
    Having the first three is actually quite hard, a lot of my favourite albums have 2 out of 3...

    So here's two

    The Seabirds
    Estuary Bed
    Chicken Killer
    Triffids - Born Sandy Devotional

    My Spanish Dad
    Exit Wound
    The Sexual Loneliness of Jesus Christ
    Jackie Leven - Creatures of Light and Darkness 


    A plus from me for Foreverchanges, Velvet Underground and Nico and The Clash as well. I'm sure there's more if I really put my mind to it. 
  • stonemuse
    stonemuse Posts: 34,006
    rananegra said:


    My Spanish Dad
    Exit Wound
    The Sexual Loneliness of Jesus Christ
    Jackie Leven - Creatures of Light and Darkness 



    great recommendation
  • JiMMy 85
    JiMMy 85 Posts: 10,194
    American Pie
    Till Tomorrow
    Starry Starry Night
  • Solidgone
    Solidgone Posts: 10,210
    Made in Japan - Deep Purple
    Highway Star and Sweet Child in Time (only two tracks on the First side)

    Meat loaf
    Bat out of Hell
    You took the words...
    Heaven can wait

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