What is your Favorite 'Opening Track' of Any Album (1 Viewer)

[SaintMeaux]

Straight Outta Compton - N.W.A.
Cowboys From Hell - Pantera
Welcome to the Jungle - GnR/Appetite for Destruction

 

[HouDat]

Fourplay Longtime---Boston.

While it's a nice piece, that's not the opening track to the album.

 

[PayOrPlay]

Fourplay Longtime---Boston.

While it's a nice piece, that's not the opening track to the album.

True--but "More than a Feeling," which is, is a great opening track. That album is one of the great headphone experiences of the '70s.

I also want to sign on to Saintmeaux's mentions of "Straight Outta Compton" (I'm not a rap fan at all, but that album smokes) and "Welcome to the Jungle".

 

[HouDat]

MTaF is an absolute classic rock legend.

 

[Nevimeister]

Jay-Z - Intro/A Million & One Questions/Rhyme No More.

DJ Premier=best producer of all time

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[ArmoredNOSaint]

1) Deep Purple "Burn"
2) Van Halen "Mean Streets"
3) Dio "Stand Up and Shout"
4) Black Sabbath "Neon Knights"
5) Led Zeppelin "Whole Lotta Love"
6) KISS "Detroit Rock City"
7) Queensryche "I Remember Now/Revolution Calling"
8) Metallica "Battery"
9) Dream Theater "Pull Me Under"
10) Shadows Fall "Redemption"
11) Symphony X "Inferno"

 

[MSUSousaphone]

I got back on to add Electric Eye/Judas Priest and Holy Wars/Megadeth...but people beat me to it.

I'll also throw out some honorable mentions: Black Sabbath/Black Sabbath...War Pigs/Black Sabbath...I want to Conquer the World/Bad Religion....The Number of the Beast/Iron Maiden...Pain Killer/Judas Priest...Road Rash/Mad Caddies...Last One Out of Liberty City/Less Than Jake...Waking the Fallen/Unholy Confessions/Avenged Sevenfold.

Also, I'm not a huge fan of AC/DC but Thunderstruck is a great intro.

 

[GhostFace]

Dramamine on "This is a Long Drive for Someone with Nothing to Think About", Modest Mouse.
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[idonthaveaname]

"arc arsenal" by at the drive-in off of relationship of command. it's probably my least favorite song on the cd, but a great way to start an album. when the bass kicks in

either that or the intro song of the baller blockin soundtrack

 

[RichPeace]

marching bands of manhattan by death cab for cutie off of plans

Yes.

I would also say that Bigsby Canyon Bridge off of Transatlantism(Sp?) is another really good one. Seems that Death Cab have mastered the opening track thing. Both songs really set the stage for a great albums.

 

[APSaintsFan]

I don't know but "Hells Bells" from AC/DC comes to mind for me.

AP

 

[Fiyo]

Highway to Hell -- Bon's finale on the album of the same name, followed by Hell's Bells introducing Brian Johnson on Back in Black ... that's a serious one-two punch right there

 

[keepoursaints]

Cowboys from Hell is a great start to an album for sure.

 

[zorro37]

London Calling, I can just imagine buying that album to see what the fuss is about around the new sound of the Clash and hearing those first 3 chords. Never have I heard 3 chords that spoke so much on their own, I could listen to them looped for 3 minutes. Then the bass kicks in and the snare, and Strummer rolls the opening line off of his tongue with attitude that if you'd never seen him you'd assume that skinny assed white boy was a big, burly Caribbean.

You could have switched off that record after the opening track, and known it was a classic. That song just epitomizes the annunciation of something fresh and new that an opening track should be.

 

[Broadmoor74]

True--but "More than a Feeling," which is, is a great opening track. That album is one of the great headphone experiences of the '70s.

I also want to sign on to Saintmeaux's mentions of "Straight Outta Compton" (I'm not a rap fan at all, but that album smokes) and "Welcome to the Jungle".

I wanted to mention "Welcome," but felt it was almost TOO awesome.