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Best first track on an album

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  • Kinsella87
    Kinsella87 Posts: 466
    edited March 2024

    JamesSeed said:
    Fisherman - The Congos from The Heart of the Congos LP, produced by Lee Scratch Perry.
    Listening to fisherman whilst walking round on a hot day is bliss 👌

    Also smoking a zoot helps 😂
  • Oliver Street
    Oliver Street Posts: 5,132
    Nubian Sundance, Mysterious Traveller by Weather Report... one of many great opening tracks!
  • PeterGage
    PeterGage Posts: 1,793
    The opening Orchestral piece to the live album "Hot August Night", Neil Diamond, 1972.
  • robinofottershaw
    robinofottershaw Posts: 1,921
    PragueAddick said:
    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. 
    Loved the Argus album.
  • Crispy
    Crispy Posts: 586
    Huge Killers fan so Jenny Was a Friend of Mine would be my choice
  • EveshamAddick
    EveshamAddick Posts: 7,014
    Longships - The Raven - Stranglers
    Message in a bottle - Regatta - The Police
    Clubland - Trust - Elvis Costello
    Mother - Plastic Ono Band - John Lennon
    Survey Says - ! - The Dismemberment Plan
    Schizophrenia - Sister - Sonic Youth
    New Day Rising - New Day Rising - Husker Du
    Rid of Me - Rid of Me - PJ Harvey
    Knut - The Unwinding Hours
  • SuedeAdidas
    SuedeAdidas Posts: 7,741
    Lincsaddick said:
    From 'The Royal Scam' .. Steely Dan .. this one .. https://youtu.be/a7kduNihACs
    Yet another great song about drugs. 
  • KBslittlesis
    KBslittlesis Posts: 8,605
    Prime Time - Ammonia Avenue
  • Leroy Ambrose
    Leroy Ambrose Posts: 14,436
    Kinsella87 said:
    Leroy Ambrose said:
    Puressence - Sharpen Up The Knives (Only Forever) 
    Metallica - Battery (Master of Puppets)
    Slayer - South of Heaven (South of Heaven)
    Sleep Token - Chokehold (Take Me Back To Eden)
    Deftones - My Own Summer (Around The Fur) 
    Also Deftones Back to School on White Pony album 
    First track on that is Feiticeira isn't it? 
  • JamesSeed
    JamesSeed Posts: 17,380
    .Oliver Street said:
    Nubian Sundance, Mysterious Traveller by Weather Report... one of many great opening tracks!
    Nearly posted that as well. The fake crowd noise adds to the energy. 
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  • rananegra
    rananegra Posts: 3,689
    The Seabirds - opener on the Triffids masterpiece Born Sandy devotional, brilliant story song 
    What's Going On - Marvin Gaye
    Almost With You - Opener on the Church's 2nd album, the Blurred Crusade. 
    New Day Rising - Husker Du, loud aggressive and strangely melodic at the same time
    Falling and Laughing - Orange Juice on You Can't hide Your Love Forever. Production a bit ropy but such an enthusiastic song
    There are definitely others I rate if I spend more time thinking
  • Lincsaddick
    Lincsaddick Posts: 32,348
    JamesSeed said:
    .Oliver Street said:
    Nubian Sundance, Mysterious Traveller by Weather Report... one of many great opening tracks!
    Nearly posted that as well. The fake crowd noise adds to the energy. 
    Birdland on 'Heavy Weather' is another great 1st track on what is i m o a pretty ordinary album otherwise
  • PopIcon
    PopIcon Posts: 5,970
    Black Sea - XTC - Respectable Street

    Borrowed by Blur fkr Tracy Jacks.
  • swordfish
    swordfish Posts: 4,234
    Redvaliant said:
    Can't get enough - Bad Company
    Well you're in the right place here 😉

    Nothing from George so far, but with Motorhead's Ace of Spades already mentioned, I always found Jesus to a Child (Older) a right moody listen. Always reminds of a former girlfriend I was seeing at the time living the dream. 

    Moving swiftly on, as I had to when she ditched me,  how has Thunder Road off Born to Run - Bruce Springsteen, not had a mention yet. Winner by a distance for me.
  • JamesSeed
    JamesSeed Posts: 17,380
    edited March 2024
    Lincsaddick said:
    JamesSeed said:
    .Oliver Street said:
    Nubian Sundance, Mysterious Traveller by Weather Report... one of many great opening tracks!
    Nearly posted that as well. The fake crowd noise adds to the energy. 
    Birdland on 'Heavy Weather' is another great 1st track on what is i m o a pretty ordinary album otherwise
    You guys would enjoy Cosmic Fusion, who are like a house band with an ever changing line up, Upstairs at Ronnie’s. 7th March to 27th June 9pm. 
    https://www.ronniescotts.co.uk/find-a-show/cosmic-fusion
  • Sven_the_Viking
    Sven_the_Viking Posts: 200
    edited March 2024
    I get together with a bunch of friends every Friday to discuss music and play tracks. By coincidence, our theme this week was "opening tracks on albums".

    My favourites from last night were:

    Get Ready for Love - Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds
    I Wanna be Adored - The Stone Roses
    Lightsabre Cocksucking Blues - Mclusky
  • Davo55
    Davo55 Posts: 7,836
    Another Springsteen entry:

    Thunder Road / Born to Run
  • swordfish
    swordfish Posts: 4,234
    Just been a treatin' myself to a bit of' Have Mercy' of Tres Hombres - ZZ Top,  which was my first introduction to the band way back when. Saw them in concert on the Afterburner tour many years later and they were, well, Top. What a show and what performers they were 
  • fadgadget
    fadgadget Posts: 1,391
    The Beautiful South = Old Red Eyes Is Back
    Black = Wonderful Life
    Erasure = A Little Respect
    The Human League = The Black Hit Of Space
    Japan = Gentlemen Take Polaroids
    Love = Alone Again or
    Magazine = Shot By Both Sides
    OMD = Radio Prague
    OMD = New Babies New Toys
    OMD = Enola Gay
    The Police = Message in a Bottle
    Roxy Music = Do The Strand
    Sparks = This Town aint Big Enough For The Both of Us
    Talk Talk = Talk Talk
    Ten Pole Tudor = Swords Of a Thousand Men
    Ultravox = Astradyne
    Yazoo = Nobodys Diary  
  • EveshamAddick
    EveshamAddick Posts: 7,014
    fadgadget said:
    The Beautiful South = Old Red Eyes Is Back
    Black = Wonderful Life
    Erasure = A Little Respect
    The Human League = The Black Hit Of Space
    Japan = Gentlemen Take Polaroids
    Love = Alone Again or
    Magazine = Shot By Both Sides
    OMD = Radio Prague
    OMD = New Babies New Toys
    OMD = Enola Gay
    The Police = Message in a Bottle
    Roxy Music = Do The Strand
    Sparks = This Town aint Big Enough For The Both of Us
    Talk Talk = Talk Talk
    Ten Pole Tudor = Swords Of a Thousand Men
    Ultravox = Astradyne
    Yazoo = Nobodys Diary  
    Magazine are a good call but track 1 on Real Life is Definitive Gaze..
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  • Garrymanilow
    Garrymanilow Posts: 13,169
    Routine Pain - Spanish Love Songs
    Round Here - Counting Crows
    Farewell, Mona Lisa - Dillinger Escape Plan
  • kafka
    kafka Posts: 2,368
    EveshamAddick said:
    fadgadget said:
    The Beautiful South = Old Red Eyes Is Back
    Black = Wonderful Life
    Erasure = A Little Respect
    The Human League = The Black Hit Of Space
    Japan = Gentlemen Take Polaroids
    Love = Alone Again or
    Magazine = Shot By Both Sides
    OMD = Radio Prague
    OMD = New Babies New Toys
    OMD = Enola Gay
    The Police = Message in a Bottle
    Roxy Music = Do The Strand
    Sparks = This Town aint Big Enough For The Both of Us
    Talk Talk = Talk Talk
    Ten Pole Tudor = Swords Of a Thousand Men
    Ultravox = Astradyne
    Yazoo = Nobodys Diary  
    Magazine are a good call but track 1 on Real Life is Definitive Gaze..
    I would like to add Remake/Remodel to the Roxy Music call 
  • RopeYardRails
    RopeYardRails Posts: 111
    Tyler UB40 Signing Off
  • KBslittlesis
    KBslittlesis Posts: 8,605
    Don’t Go - Upstairs at Eric’s 
  • cafc_se7
    cafc_se7 Posts: 2,274
    I wanna be adored - Stone Roses
    View from the Afternoon - Arctic Monkeys
  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,024
    Dreams Never End - New Order - Movement
    Eat Y'self Fitter - The Fall - Perverted By Language
    Lay of the Land - The Fall - Wonderful & Frightening World
    Loser - Beck - Mellow Gold
    Devil's Haircut - Beck - Odelay
    Perfect Skin - Lloyd Cole - Rattlesnakes
    Lloyd I'm Ready to be Heartbroken - Camera Obscura - Let's Get Out of this Country 
  • Lincsaddick
    Lincsaddick Posts: 32,348
    Rosanna.. Toto .. on Toto lV .. superbly produced and performed 80s pop/rock
  • Rufus is a dogs name
    Rufus is a dogs name Posts: 1,517
    cafc_se7 said:
    I wanna be adored - Stone Roses
    View from the Afternoon - Arctic Monkeys
    Arctic Monkeys have a superb knack for nailing opening tracks (on their early albums at least).

    View From The Afternoon, Brianstorm, Do I Wanna Know, are all brilliant openers.
  • Bill_Stumps
    Bill_Stumps Posts: 882
    edited March 2024
    Street of Dreams - The Damned -   Phantasmagoria
  • Braziliance
    Braziliance Posts: 8,358
    edited March 2024
    Had a scan and don't think I saw any of these mentioned; 

    Ramones - Ramones - Blitzkrieg Bop

    Journey - Escape - Don't stop Believen' 

    Boston - Boston - More than a feeling

    Bring me The Horizon - That's the Spirit - Doomed

    The Clash - London Calling - London Calling 

    Catatonia -  International Velvet - Mulder and Scully (personal fav)

    Republica - Republica - Ready to Go

    Sum 41 - Does this look Infected - The Hell Song (outrageous opening album track imo) 



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