Top 5 Opening Album Tracks

So I was on my way home from work the other day and I started thinking, "What are my all-time top 5 album opening tracks?" So I decided to compile a list…

1. Black Sabbath – Black Sabbath
2. White Stripes - Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground
3. Sonic Youth – Teen Age Riot
4. Radiohead – Everything in its right place
5. Marvin Gaye – What’s going on

…can you do better?!

Harborcoat by R.E.M.
Roscoe by Midlake
Blue Bell Knoll by Cocteau Twins
Revival by Soulsavers

are a few good ones from the top of my head.

1. Baba O'Reilly - Who's Next - The Who
2. Thunderstruck - The Razor's Edge - AC/DC
3. Common People - Has Been - William Shatner
4. Blister in the Sun - Violent Femmes - Violent Femmes
5. Where the Streets Have No Name - The Joshua Tree - U2

1. Intruder Alert - The Joy of Gunz - Combichrist
2. Harsh Generation - Harsh Generation - Grendel
3. Microwaved - www.pitchshifter.com - Pitchshfter (great for testing the bass on you speakers)
4. Jesus Wept - Mindstrip - Suicide Commando
5. Straight outta Compton - Straight outta Compton - NWA (yes i know thats bizzare given my other choices but you have to appricate what it meant to an entire musical genre)

How about...
Angel - Mezzanine by Massive Attack
The Grudge - Lateralus by Tool
Gobbledigook - Með Suð í Eyrum Við Spilum Endalaust by Sigur Ros
Blackest Eyes - In Absentia by Porcupine Tree
Hunted By A Freak - Happy Songs for Happy People by Mogwai

Cheers!

1. Slayer: Angel of Death
2. King Crimson: 21st Century Schizoid Man
3. Flaming Lips: Race For The Prize
4. Television: See No Evil
5. Nirvana: Smells Like Teen Spirit

Mine probably aren't considered that great, but to me these albums start off perfectly

Arcade Fire - Funeral
Queens of the Stone Age - Rated R
Fu Manchu - In Search Of
Neverending White Lights - Act I

and since I'm having a hard time picking the 5th, here are 3 that I love:

Boy Hits Car - S/T
Violent Femmes - S/T
Eighteen Visions - Obsession

Like A Rolling Stone/Bob Dylan/Highway 61 Revisited

America Is Waiting/Brian Eno & David Byrne/My Life In the Bush of Ghosts

Love Vigilantes/New Order/Lowlife

Somewhat Damaged/Nine Inch Nails/The Fragile

Breath/Pere Ubu/Cloudland

Intruder/Peter Gabriel/3 (Melt)

Debaser/Pixies/Doolittle

Everything In Its Right Place/Radiohead/Kid A

More Than This/Roxy Music/Avalon

Dominion/Mother Russia - The Sisters of Mercy/Floodland

I Zimbra/Talking Heads/Fear of Music

Zoo Station/U2/Achtung Baby

I Was In the House When the House Burned Down/Warren Zevon/Life'll Kill Ya

My Name Is Jonas/Weezer/Weezer (The Blue Album)

Baba O'Riley/The Who/Who's Next


Yeah, that's 15.

Can someone else do a search? A thread several pages long exists on this (interesting) topic. I know b/c I added to it but I know it'll take me forever to find it.

Dropkick Murphys – For Boston – Sing Loud Sing Proud
Oasis – Fuckin in the Bushes – Standing on the Shoulders of Giants
Bush – Warm Machine – Science of Things
Midnight Oil – Beds are Burning – Diesel and Dust
Fine Young Cannibals – Johnny Come Home – Fine Young Cannibals

Ill Nino - One Nation Underground: "This is War"
Killswitch Engage - As Daylight Dies - "Daylight Dies"
Cancer Bats - Hail Destroyer - "Hail Destroyer"
Korn - Korn - "Blind"
Walls of Jericho - The American Dream - "The New Ministry"

Like Cassiel, I could probably stick another 10 on this list.

Radiohead - Everything In Its Right Place (Kid A) is what immediately sprung to mind as soon as I read the name of this topic. Also:

Modest Mouse - Dramamine (This Is A Long Drive...)
Sleater-Kinney - The Fox (The Woods)
Beck - Sexx Laws (Midnite Vultures)
Weezer - My Name Is Jonas (Blue Album)

Keeping the Blade - Coheed and Cambria

This Calling - All That Remains

Oroborus - Gojira

Blind - Korn

Ruin - Lamb of God

Vicarious-Tool-10,000 Days
Wake Up-Mad Season-Above
Poop Loser-Mudvayne-The Beginning of all Things to End
If I Was Your Vampire-Marilyn Manson-Eat Me, Drink Me
Mirrors-Between the Buried and Me-The Great Misdirect

Abbey Road - The Beatles "Come Together"

Kid A - Radiohead - "Everything in it's Right Place"

Places Like This - Architecture in Helsinki - "Red Turned White"

Paranoid - Black Sabbath - "War Pigs"

Nevermind - Nirvana - "Smells Like Teen Spirit"

I've had that riff stuck in my head for months.

"Bullhead's Psalm" by Baroness. It's a short instrumental intro, but it's got so much emotion in it. Great track.

In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3 - Coheed and Cambria
The Poet and the Pendulum - Nightwish
Bloodmeat - Protest the Hero
Tom Sawyer - Rush
Distant Early Warning - Rush

Harborcoat - R.E.M (Reckoning)
Holiday in the Sun - Sex Pistols (Never Mind the Bollocks)
Tell My Why - Neil Young (After the Gold Rush)
Imagine - John Lennon (Imagine)
Freak Scene - Dinosaur Jr. (Bug)

Whole Lotta Love - Led Zeppelin/Led Zeppelin II
Tom Sawyer - Rush/Moving Pictures
Stinkfist - TOOL/Aenima
Shine on your crazy diamond Parts 1-5 - Pink Floyd/Wish you were here

The Hellion/ Electric eye - Judas Priest
Just like honey - Jesus and Mary chain
Plastic bomb - Poison Idea
So what - Miles Davis
Odin's ride over Nordland/ A fine day to die - Bathory

Maxwell Murder - Rancid
Needle In The Hay - Elliott Smith
Safe European Home - The Clash
Sunday Morning - The Velvet Underground
Waiting Room - Fugazi

More I thought of:

Into the crypt of rays - Celtic Frost
Omens and portents I: The driver - Earth
Satori part I - Flower travellin band
Down the street - Iggy and the Stooges
Gimme shelter - Rolling stones

Smack My Bitch Up ~ Prodigy - Fat of the Land
Wait For the Blackout ~ The Damned - The Black Album
Sonic Reducer ~ Dead Boys - Young, Loud and Snotty
Hello There ~ Cheap Trick - In Color
Tie Your Mother Down ~ Queen - A Day At the Races

The Who - Baba O'Riley (Who's Next)
Pink Floyd - One Of These Days (Meddle)
PJ Harvey - To Bring You My Love (To Bring You My Love)
Curtis Mayfield - (Don't Worry) If There's A Hell Below We're All Going To Go (Curtis)
Jayhawks - Waiting For The Sun (Hollywood Town Hall)