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Best first track on an album

BerkshireBob
BerkshireBob Posts: 91
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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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  • SuedeAdidas
    SuedeAdidas Posts: 7,740
    Gotta go some to beat Funeral for a Friend / Love lies Bleeding. 
  • bobmunro
    bobmunro Posts: 20,843
    edited February 2024
    Stones - Let it Bleed - Gimme Shelter
    (close the thread!)

    Notable mentions:

    Dylan - Blood on the Tracks - Tangled up in Blue
    Springsteen - Born in the USA - Born in the USA
    Sabbath - Paranoid - War Pigs
    Floyd - Wish You Were Hear - Shine on you Crazy Diamond (Parts I-V)
    Floyd - The Piper at the Gates of Dawn - Astronomy Domine




  • DaveMehmet
    DaveMehmet Posts: 21,598
    Who’s Next - Baba O’Riley 
  • Off_it
    Off_it Posts: 28,845
    edited February 2024
    Bob has already given the correct answer.

    But I would add in, in a distant second,

    Welcome to the Jungle - Appetite for Destruction - Guns n Roses
  • YoungFishCosta4tune
    YoungFishCosta4tune Posts: 124
    01. Papercut - Linkin Park (Hybrid Theory)

    Genre-mashing mission statement from the best selling debut album of the 21st century.
  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,221
    Blinded by the Light - Greetings from Ashbury Park.
  • Chunes
    Chunes Posts: 17,347
    edited February 2024
    Taxman - Beatles / Revolver
    Bring da Ruckus - Wu Tang Clan / 36 Chambers
    Bittersweet Symphony - The Verve / Urban Hymns 
  • Algarveaddick
    Algarveaddick Posts: 21,153
    Here's Little Richard - Tutti Frutti
  • shirty5
    shirty5 Posts: 19,222
    Rock n Roll Star - Oasis/Definitely Maybe
  • Gribbo
    Gribbo Posts: 8,484
    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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  • Karim_myBagheri
    Karim_myBagheri Posts: 12,715
    Not really sure but I do love the album Tea For the Tillerman by Cat Stevens, so, 

    Where do the Children Play 
  • golfaddick
    golfaddick Posts: 33,626
    Black Dog  -  Led Zep 4

    But I will also concede to

    Taxman - Revolver
    Gimmee Shelter  - Let it Bleed
  • MrOneLung
    MrOneLung Posts: 26,849
    As usual @bobmunro is correct. 

    Best song ever
    Best opening song ever
    Best intro ever

  • Sillybilly
    Sillybilly Posts: 9,234
    Telegraph Road.  Dire Straits - Love Over Gold
  • McCartney
    McCartney Posts: 390
    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
  • Bailey
    Bailey Posts: 3,265
    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. 
  • Friend Or Defoe
    Friend Or Defoe Posts: 18,083
    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
  • PragueAddick
    PragueAddick Posts: 22,144
    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. 
  • addickson
    addickson Posts: 891
    Accidents Will Happen from Armed Forces by Elvis Costello and the Attractions
  • Chizz
    Chizz Posts: 28,331
    The Police's Roxanne, from Outlandos d'amour is a pretty good first track, especially as it's the band's first album. 
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  • cafctom
    cafctom Posts: 11,365
    edited February 2024
    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
  • GlenPonder
    GlenPonder Posts: 20
    Tom Sawyer - Rush 
  • EveshamAddick
    EveshamAddick Posts: 7,014
    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….
  • EveshamAddick
    EveshamAddick Posts: 7,014
    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.
  • PaddyP17
    PaddyP17 Posts: 13,035
    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.

  • Six-a-bag-of-nuts
    Six-a-bag-of-nuts Posts: 8,127
    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...
  • seth plum
    seth plum Posts: 53,448
    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.
  • charlton4ever
    charlton4ever Posts: 1,716
    "Don't Waste My Time"  -  Piledriver
  • Chizz
    Chizz Posts: 28,331
    EveshamAddick said:
    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. 
  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,221
    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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