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Best first track on an album

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  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,024
    The Red Red Robin - The Songs of Charlton Athletic FC
  • DaveMehmet
    DaveMehmet Posts: 21,599
    Rock n Roll Star - Definitely Maybe 
  • cafc999
    cafc999 Posts: 4,967
    Welcome to the Jungle - Appetite for Destruction 
  • peterreeves
    peterreeves Posts: 1,062
    Arcade Fire-The Suburbs 
  • Greenhithe
    Greenhithe Posts: 778
    Right. Here goes

    Song of the Swords from Chronicle of the Black Sword by Hawkwind. Sets the whole album up well. And it’s an album that needs to be listened to from start to finish. 

    Mission Drive from Never Loved Elvis by The Wonder Stuff. Brilliant song brilliant opener. 

    Ace of Spades from Ace of Spades Motörhead. 

    Obviously Rock n Roll Star. For me the best seeing as it’s a debut 

    I wanna get high from Black Sunday by Cypress Hill. Great start to a classic album 

    2+2=5 from Hail to the Thief by Radiohead. I reckon their best album by a mile. 

  • JiMMy 85
    JiMMy 85 Posts: 10,193
    Baba O'Reilly gets my vote if I am being objective about it. 

    My personal favourite is probably How The West Was Won (And Where It Got Us) by R.E.M. on New Adventures In Hi-Fi. 


  • Chippycafc
    Chippycafc Posts: 14,144
    A Tab in the ocean by Nektar...only track on side 1 but awesome.
  • UEAAddick
    UEAAddick Posts: 512
    edited February 2024
    Across The Great Divide- The Band- The Band
    Jackie Wilson Said- St Dominics Preview- Van Morrison
    007 Shanty Town- 007 Shanty Town- Desmond Dekker
    Rip It Up- Rip It Up- Orange Juice


  • Chippycafc
    Chippycafc Posts: 14,144
    Singring and the glass guitar - Ra by Todd Rundgrens Utopia band.
  • Greenhithe
    Greenhithe Posts: 778
    Chippycafc said:
    A Tab in the ocean by Nektar...only track on side 1 but awesome.
    Never thought I’d read someone put Nektar on here. I love them. A tab in the ocean is a cracking album. I also love Down to Earth   Fair play. 
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  • red10
    red10 Posts: 834
    Holidays in the sun - Sex Pistols, Never mind the bollocks.
  • TelMc32
    TelMc32 Posts: 9,051
    What’s Going On - Marvin Gaye
    The Changingman/Sunflower/Long Hot Summer/Pretty Green - Paul Weller/The Style Council/The Jam
    Gangsters/Enjoy Yourself - The Specials
    One Step Beyond / Baggy Trousers - Madness
    Rock ‘n’ Roll Star - Oasis
    I Wanna Be Adored - The Stone Roses
    Bitter Sweet Symphony - The Verve
    Oblivious - Aztec Camera
    Baba O’Riley - The Who
    The Cutter - Echo & The Bunnymen
    Movin’ On Up - Primal Scream
    Love Vigilantes/Regret - New Order
    She’s So High/For Tomorrow/Tender - Blur
    All My Life/The Pretender - Foo Fighters
    Talk Talk - Talk Talk
  • red10
    red10 Posts: 834
    Holidays in the sun - Sex Pistols, Never mind the bollocks.

  • NorthStandDan
    NorthStandDan Posts: 54
    RedPanda said:
    NorthStandDan said:
    I’ll chip in on this one;
    Battery - Metallica - Master up Puppets
    Feel Good Hit of the Summer - QOTSA - Rated R
    Davidian - Machine Head - Burn my Eyes
    Prodigy - Smack by Bitch Up - Fat of the Land
    Roots Bloody Roots - Sepultura - Roots
    I Wanna Be Adored - Stone Roses - self titled
    Therapy? - Knives - Troublegum

    And a double entry for Pink Floyd; Shine On You Crazy Diamond; the original Parts I-IV on Wish You Were Here and the live version on Pulse.




    I'd put Fight Fire With Fire ahead of Battery. Would also go for Beneath The Remains as Sepultura's best opener.

    On your metal theme I'd say Angel of Death by Slayer. 

    Seen a couple mentions of Where The Streets Have No Name and I agree. Plus I saw Ternana in Serie B come out to that a couple of months ago. 
    Some good shouts there. Sepultura had a real run of opening their albums with killer tracks;
    Beneath the Remains
    Arise
    Refuse/Resist
    Roots Bloody Roots


  • franksav63
    franksav63 Posts: 23
    In Quintessence - East Side Story - Squeeze
  • Rothko
    Rothko Posts: 18,802
    Like eating glass - Silent Alarm - Bloc Party 

    terrible love - High Violet - The National 

    Do I want to Know - AM - Arctic Monkeys 

    Wanderlust - Present Tense - Wild Beasts

    smokers outside the hospital door - An end has a start - Editors 
  • Tutt-Tutt
    Tutt-Tutt Posts: 3,272
    Sometimes - Rattus Norvegicus - The Stranglers
  • DamoNorthStand
    DamoNorthStand Posts: 10,934
    Bitter Sweet Symphony - The Verve
  • wightaddick
    wightaddick Posts: 211
    edited February 2024
    ‘Burn’ from Deep Purple : Burn
    ‘Immigrant Song’ from Led Zeppelin : 3
    ‘Alone again or’  from Love : Forever Changes 

  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,024
    Tutt-Tutt said:
    Sometimes - Rattus Norvegicus - The Stranglers
    Great choice! Fantastic album that also has the best end track: Down in the Sewer
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  • Riscardo
    Riscardo Posts: 2,337

    Nirvana, "Smells Like Teen Spirit" From Nevermind
  • Addickhead86
    Addickhead86 Posts: 1,148
    The Avalanches - Since I Left You - from the album of the same name.
  • 82Stu
    82Stu Posts: 34
    The Queen is Dead - The Queen is Dead The Smiths
  • ken_shabby
    ken_shabby Posts: 6,255
    feels Like Teen Spirit,  Nirvana,   Nevermind
    Roots Bloody Roots,  Seplultura
    All My Life,  Foo Fighters
    Enter Sandman,  Metallica
    Knives,  Therapy,  Troublegum

    And for a change of pace,
    Enola Gay,  OMD,  Organisation
    Equinoxe 1, Equinoxe,  jean Michel Jarre
  • Rufus is a dogs name
    Rufus is a dogs name Posts: 1,517
    Highway to Hell - ACDC
    Do I Wanna Know - Arctic Monkeys (Brianstorm another great album opener)
    London Calling - The Clash
    Come Together - The Beatles
    Rock n Roll Star - Oasis
    I Wanna Be Adored - Stone Roses
    Sympathy For The Devil - Rolling Stones
    All My Life - Foo Fighters (The Pretender another great shout)
  • CafcWest
    CafcWest Posts: 6,167
    Gloria - Patti Smith on debut album Horses. "Jesus died for somebody's sins...but not mine".
  • KBslittlesis
    KBslittlesis Posts: 8,605
    Moving - The Kick Inside.
    Running up that hill (a deal with God) - Hounds of Love.
    The World is my Oyster - Welcome to The Pleasuredome.
  • Rothko
    Rothko Posts: 18,802
    KBslittlesis said:
    Moving - The Kick Inside.
    Running up that hill (a deal with God) - Hounds of Love.
    The World is my Oyster - Welcome to The Pleasuredome.
    Forgot that was the opener
  • KBslittlesis
    KBslittlesis Posts: 8,605
    Rothko said:
    KBslittlesis said:
    Moving - The Kick Inside.
    Running up that hill (a deal with God) - Hounds of Love.
    The World is my Oyster - Welcome to The Pleasuredome.
    Forgot that was the opener
    I remember when I first got it and put it on.
    My Dad came running up the stairs (not hill 😂) as he thought I had bought & was playing the drums 😂😂😂😂😂😂
  • LonelyNorthernAddick
    LonelyNorthernAddick Posts: 2,423
    Bombtrack from Rage Against The Machine self-titled album. That debut album is an amazing debut album as well.

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