Top 5 Opening Album Tracks

Randy Described Eternity - Built to Spill - Perfect from Now On

Don Caballero 3 - Don Caballero - What Burns Never Returns

What's a Little Reign? - The Fucking Champs - IV

Caleb Meyer - Gillian Welch and Dave Rawlings - Hell Among the Yearlings

Revelator - Gillian Welch and Dave Rawlings - Time (The Revelator)

Lust for Life - Iggy Pop - Lust for Life

The Swimming Song - Loudon Wainwright III - Attempted Moustache

Teeth Like God's Shoeshine - Modest Mouse - The Lonesome Crowded West

Auto Rock - Mogwai - Mr. Beast

Karelia (Opus 2) - Mono - Under the Pipal Tree

The King of Carrot Flowers Pt. 1 - Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane, Over the Sea

Dear Spirit, I'm in France - Oxes - Oxes

Bone Machine - The Pixies - Surfer Rosa

Regular John - Queens of the Stone Age - Queens of the Stone Age

Brown Sugar - Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers

Alone and Unaware, the Lang Changed Before Our Eyes - Red Sparowes

Hot Black Silk - Songs: Ohia - Axxess and Ace

And She Was - Talking Heads - Little Creatures

Astral Weeks - Van Morrison - Astral Weeks

Wild Night - Van Morrison - Tupelo Honey

Wenn es Passiert - Wir Sind Helden - Von Hier an Blind



OK. Way over 5, but that was as much as I could pare it down.

John Coltrane- Blue Train (Blue Train)
Frank Zappa- Peaches En Regalia (Hot Rats)
Horace Silver- Song For My Father (Song For My Father)
Gil Scott Heron- The Revolution Will Not Be Televised (Pieces of a Man)
Sonny Sharrock- Promises Kept (Ask the Ages)

it's not even close to 5, and yes, this list could probably be edited down, but whatever, i'm enthusiastic:

Radiohead - Everything In Its Right Place - (Kid A)
Guns n Roses - Welcome To The Jungle - (Appetite for Destruction)
U2 - Where The Streets Have No Name - (The Joshua Tree)
Jane's Addiction - Stop (Ritual de lo Habitual)
Jane's Addiction - Up The Beach - (Nothing's Shocking)
The Smiths - The Queen Is Dead - (The Queen Is Dead)
Jeff Buckley - Mojo Pin - (Grace)
Smashing Pumpkins - I Am One - (Gish)
The Stone Roses - I Wanna Be Adored - (The Stone Roses)
LCD Soundsystem - Get Innocuous! - (Sound of Silver)
Led Zeppelin - Immigrant Song - (LZ III)
The Cure - Plainsong - (Disintegration)
Orbital - Time Becomes - (Orbital 2)
Prodigy - Smack My Bitch Up - (Fat of the Land)
The Mars Volta - Son et Lumiere/Inertiatic ESP - (De-Loused in the Comatorium)
Underworld - Cups - (Beaucoup Fish)
Underworld - Juanita/Kiteless/To Dream of Love (Second Toughest In The Infants)
Miles Davis - So What - (Kind of Blue)
Joy Division - Atrocity Exhibition - (Closer)

In no particular order:

London Calling - The Clash (London Calling)
Safe European Home - The Clash (Give 'Em Enough Rope)
Hell's Bells - AC/DC (Back In Black)
Thunderstruck - AC/DC (Razor's Edge)
Highway To Hell - AC/DC(Highway To Hell)
Overture/Sinister Rouge Bad Religion (Empire Strikes First)
Sure Shot - Beastie Boys (Ill Communication)
Peaceful Day - Pennywise (About Time)
Time Marches On - Pennywise (Land Of The Free?)
Rusty Cage - Soundgarden (Bad Motorfinger)
Pretty Noose - Soundgarden (Down On The Upside)
Who Knows - Jimi Hendrix (Band Of Gypsys)
Someone - Suicide Machines (Battle Hymns)
New Girl - Suicide Machines (Destruction By Definition)
Sometimes I Don't Mind - Suicide Machines (Suicide Machines)
The Power Of Equality - Red Hot Chili Peppers (Blood Sugar Sex Magik)
Down - 311 (Blue Album)
Get Up, Stand Up - The Wailers (Burnin')
Concrete Jungle - Bob Marley & The Wailers (Catch A Fire)
Cadence To Arms - Dropkick Murphys (Do Or Die)
For Boston - Dropkick Murphys (Sing Loud, Sing Proud)
Break On Through - The Doors (The Doors)
People Of The Sun - Rage Against The Machine (Evil Empire)
Skintight - The Donnas (Get Skintight)
It's On The Rocks - The Donnas (Spend The Night)
Johnny Appleseed - Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros (Global A Go-Go)
Coma Girl - Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros (Streetcore)
Tony Adams - Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros (Rock Art & The X-Ray Style)
A Hard Day's Night - The Beatles (A Hard Day's Night)
I Hope You Die - The Bloodhound Gang (Hooray For Boobies)
Indestructible - Rancid (Indestructible)
Disclaimer/The Meaning Of Life - The Offspring (Ixnay On The Hombre)
Countdown To Armageddon/Bring The Noise - Public Enemy (It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back)
Hey Dude - Kula Shaker (K)
2000 Light Years Away - Green Day (Kerplunk)
Holidays In The Sun - Sex Pistols (Nevermind The Bollocks)
Smells Like Teen Spirit - Nirvana (Nevermind)
500 Channels - Choking Victim (No Gods/No Managers)
Girls & Boys - Blur (Parklife)

Apparently RudieCanFail at counting.

I ain't ne'er had no use fer no book lernin'.

8 is the new 5
AC/DC - Highway To Hell - (Highway To Hell)
The Clash - London Calling (London Calling)
Marvin Gaye – What’s Going On (What’s Going On)
Guns 'n Roses - Welcome to the Jungle (Appetite for Destruction)
Led Zeppelin - Whole Lotta Love (Zeppelin II)
The Who - Baba O'Reilly (Who's Next)
Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit (Nevermind)
Rolling Stones - Brown Sugar (Sticky Fingers)

Beautiful morning - Machine Head "the Blackening"

A few that are missing:

"Blitzkrieg Bop" - The Ramones (The Ramones)
"Kill the Poor" - The Dead Kennedys (Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables)
"Disorder" - Joy Division (Unknown Pleasures)
"Roadrunner" - The Modern Lovers (The Modern Lovers)