Best opening tracks?

[Mitch E.]

Blues Traveler - "Runaround" off the only album anyone really cared about

Trina Magna (off Save His Soul, an album 100 percent better than Four) is jealous.

 

[Huggy]

"Baba O'Riley" - The Who, Who's Next
"Slip Kid" - The Who, Who By Numbers
"Sweet Jane" - Lou Reed, Rock N Roll Animal
"Just Another Night" - Ian Hunter, You're Never Alone With A Schizophrenic (followed by "Wild East" and "Cleveland Rocks", an absolutely killer threesome to start)
"Modern Love" - Bowie, Let's Dance

 

[TigerVols]

"Happy Together" from the Jam's "The Gift"

For those of you watching in black and white, this one's in technicolor....

I'd throw in Psychokiller from the Heads' concert album.

But the hands-down greatest opening song of all time is also the greatest debut song of all time:

Radio Free Europe (if you don't know who sung that, you don't belong on this thread!)

 

[Mizzougrad96]

Welcome to the Jungle was the one that really jumps out at me.

 

[Boom_70]

Going with Tiger Vols - if you don't know group / album this is wrong thread for you.

Aqualung

Radar Love

 

[User 1019]

You guys have missed a big one.

Sweet Home Alabama

 

[User 1019]

I Walk The Line

 

[Boom_70]

You guys have missed a big one.

Sweet Home Alabama

Yes sir- off "Second Helping" Album that first drew me to Skynard

Hey Three - what's the sound track of Afghanistan? What music you hearing?

Are you queuing up Ride of the Valkyries when landing?

 

[Buck]

'Roadhouse Blues'

 

[Trey Beamon]

And I don't have to tell Trey my favorite from the list he posted.

Am I right?

 

[Huggy]

"Talk To Ya Later" - Tubes

"Refugee", "The Waiting" and "Rockin' Around With You" - TP

 

[NoOneLikesUs]

Hell's Bells. The perfect segue from mourning the greatest rock frontman of all time to getting back to business.

 

[albert77]

Break On Through / The Doors
Box Of Rain / Grateful Dead, American Beauty
Uncle John's Band / Grateful Dead, Workingman's Dead
The Red and the Black / Blue Oyster Cult, Tyranny and Mutation
Purple Haze / Jimi Hendrix Experience, Are You Experienced?
Hotel California / The Eagles
Fat Man In the Bathtub / Little Feat, Waiting For Columbus
Don't Want You No More>Not My Cross To Bear / Allman Brothers Band
Waiting For the Bus>Jesus Just Left Chicago / ZZ Top, Tres Hombres
Take the Highway / Marshall Tucker Band
Sympathy For the Devil / Rolling Stones, Beggar's Banquet
21st Century Schizoid Man / King Crimson, In the Court of the Crimson King
Strange Brew / Cream, Disraeli Gears
One Of These Days / Pink Floyd, Meddle
Rednecks / Randy Newman, Good Old Boys
Speed King / Deep Purple, In Rock
Highway Star / Deep Purple, Machine Head
War Pigs / Black Sabbath, Paranoid

 

[Brooklyn Bridge]

no love for Bring the Ruckus off Enter the 36 Chambers from Wu-Tang Clan?

Oh, and Girl from Ipanema off the Getz/Gilberto collaboration.


(really divergent taste in music)

 

[Captain_Kirk]

They've all been mentioned alreeady, so here's another vote for:

"Rocks Off", Stones
"Where the Streets have No Name", U2
"Hells Bells", AC/DC

 

[zimbabwe]

"Steve Biko" by Tribe Called Quest, Midnight Marauders

 

[I Should Coco]

A few personal favorites:

"Tom Sawyer" -- RUSH
"Watcher of the Skies" -- Genesis
"Secondhand News" -- Fleetwood Mac
"Prison Song" -- System of a Down
"Seven Nation Army" -- The White Stripes
"Blitzkrieg Bop" -- The Ramones
"We Should Be Together" -- Jefferson Airplane
"Detroit Rock City" -- KISS
"Cult of Personality" -- Living Colour
"Taxman" -- The Beatles
"American Idiot" -- Green Day
"International Feel" -- Todd Rundgren
"Astronomy Domine" -- Pink Floyd
"Rosalie" -- Thin Lizzy

and, last but not least, given my SportsJournalists.com handle ...

"I'd Like to Know" -- Supergrass

 

[YGBFKM]

Two Thin Lizzy references already! Yeah!

 

[mpcincal]

Lots of great ones listed here. "Welcome to the Jungle" was pretty incredible in that it not only introduced the album, but also the band.

One of my favorite albums as a teen was Scorpions' "Love at First Sting," and the initial track "Bad Boys Running Wild" set the tone for the rest of the album.

 

[Steak Snabler]

Someone mentioned Straight Outta Compton by NWA. How did I not think of that? One our main cruising songs in small town Kentucky in high school.

"You are now about to witness the stren'th of street knowledge."