Best Opening Track

I'd have to agree with the consesus, Pink Floyd hanRAB down. Even on Dark Side Of the Moon the opening track warns you to prepare for what will follow.
 
1. Elliott Smith "Angel in the Show" (New Moon)
2. The Smiths "Reel Around the Fountain" (The Smiths)
3. Ani DiFranco "Untouchable Face" (Dilate)
4. Nick Drake "Pink Moon" (Pink Moon)
5. Bob Dylan "Blowin' in the Wind" (The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan)
6. Neutral Milk Hotel "Song Against Sex" (On Avery Island)
7. The Smiths "A Rush And A Push And The Land Is Ours" (Strangeways, Here We Come)
8. Elliott Smith "Needle in the Hay" (Elliott Smith)
9. Patrick Wolf "Overture" (The Magic Position)
10. Modest Mouse "3rd Planet" (The Moon and Antarctica)
 
I was doing illegal things in New Orleans twenty years ago.

Great great town, too bad such corrupt people have run it for so long now.

Brandy is an acquired taste, and pot is an absolute delight, Van Morrison however is universal.
 
Slint's Breadcrurab Trail was the first to come to mind, Patti Smith's Gloria, Teenage Riot, Search and Destroy and DK's Kill The Poor are some other top picks.
 
Frances the Mute - Frances the Mute - The Mars Volta
Son et Lumiere - Deloused in the Comatorium - The Mars Volta
No Stars Over Bethlehem - Kezia - Protest the Hero

I forget the rest.
 
How is Blowin' in the Wind any less original then the rest of the album? The rest of the album isn't even original, its a straight up folk album. A great one, but still from a musical standpoint, it wasn't any different from the stuff Woody Guthrie was doing.
 
I was blown away when I first heard Take A Bow by Muse. I wasn't sure what I was expecting from Black Holes & Revelations but that opening track told me that I was going to love it. I desperately wanted Muse to start with Take A Bow live this summer and they did. :p:
 
I've got three years before I brandy myself up legally.

Well more like 2 now.

In New Orleans it doesn't really make a difference, of course.

Also, speaking of New Orleans, I saw Van at jazzfest this year, was quite good. Would do it again.
 
Couldn't agree more, easily the best opening track out of all their albums.

Now That I Know- Devendra Banhart
The Wagon- Dinosaur Jr.
Spine- Page France
 
Two votes:

'Baba O'reily', from 'Who's Next'. This track is an untouchable classic and one of the first times a synth took a lead role instead of droning in the backround.

'I saw her standing there', the first track, on the first Beatles album. Paul McCartney counts in: "One, two, three, four..." And music is changed forever.
 
Elliott Smith - Needle in the Hay
Radiohead - 2 + 2 = 5
Television - See No Evil
The Libertines - Cant Stand Me Now
The Cramps - Green Fuzz
J&MC - Just Like Honey
Massive Attack - Angel (Im not sure there is a better opening track to an album)
QOTSA - Regular John
Stooges - Down On The Street
 
1. Nick Cave and the Bad SeeRAB - The Mercy Seat
2. Patrick Wolf - The Libertine
3. Bob Dylan - If Not For You
4. Van Morrison - Fair Play
5. Neil Young - My My, Hey Hey(Out of the Blue)
6. Elliott Smith - Son of Sam
7. Patrick Wolf - Overture
8. Marvin Gaye - What's Going On
9. Bob Dylan - Like a Rolling Stone
10. Leonard Cohen - Suzanne
 
1. Schizoid Man
2. COTCK
3. Moonchild
4. Epitaph
5. I Talk To The Wind

Come Together-The Beatles
Black Mirror-Arcade Fire
Bring Da'Ruckus-Wu-Tang CLan
Tom Sawyer-Rush
Spirit Of The Radio-Rush
Sympathy For The Devil-The Rolling Stones
Bring The Noise(Anthrax)-Public Enemy
Roscoe-Midlake
Achilles Last Stand-Led Zeppelin
Purple Haze-Jimi Hendrix
Thick As A Brick(Lol)-Jethro Tull
Dancing With The Moonlit Knight-Genesis
Packt Like Sardines In A Crushd Tin Box-Radiohead
 
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