Great Album Openers

Yup i agree there :) great track, but it prob is the best track on the album. Second Coming's not actually too bad as an album itself, but really they were never going to top their debut.
 
Metallica - Hit The Lights (Kill Em All)
Megadeth - Holy Wars (Rust In Peace)
Hope of The States - The Black Amnesias (The Lost Riots)
The Music - The Dance (S/T)
The Stooges - Down On The Street (Fun House)
Cooper Temple Clause - Did You Miss Me? (See This Through and Leave)
Faith No More - From Out Of Nowhere (The Real Thing)
Guns n Roses - Welcome To The Jungle (Appetite For Destruction)
Tricky - Overcome (Maxinquaye)
Manics - Sleepflower (Gold Against The Soul)

And loaRAB more, but I'm tired.
 
Definitely, there couldn't be a better way to kick off the album.


Another of my fav openers is Brainstorm from Hawkwind's Doremi Fasol Latido. What a fantastic no-bullshit way to erabark on a cosmic journey!

Oh, and Starless and Bible Black Sabbath from Acid Mothers Temple. ;)
 
As a newbie i thought i would get something out there, here are (in my opinion!) 3 great album openers:

Budgie - Breadfan (Never turn your back on a friend 1973)
Metallica - Battery (Master of puppets 1986)
Ben FolRAB - Anne Waits (Rockin the suburbs 2001)

Not the best 3 as that would be very hard to decide..but 3 good ones. Any opinions?

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We Dance Wowee Zowee by Pavement
Teenage Riot Daydream Nation by Sonic Youth
Act Won (Things Fall Apart) Things Fall Apart The Roots
Pink Moon Pink Moon Nick Drake
I Will Dare Let It Be The Replacements
Hardcore UFOs Bee Thousand Guided by Voices
Speed of Life Low David Bowie
Accidents Will Happen Armed Forces Elvis Costello
Thunder Road Born to Run Bruce Springsteen
 
If I'm In Luck I Might Get Picked Up - Betty Davis (Betty Davis)
Hangin' On The Telephone - Blondie (Parallel Lines)
Needle in The Camel's Eye - Brian Eno (Here Come the Warm Jets)
Changes - David Bowie (Hunky Dory)
Five Years - David Bowie (The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust an the Spiders from Mars)
Break On Through - The Doors (The Doors)
New Big Prinz - The Fall (I Am Kurious Oranj)
The Boy With Perpetual Nervousness - The Feelies (Crazy Rhythms)
Vicious - Lou Reed (Transformer)
You're Gonna Need Someone on Your Side - Morrissey (Your Arsenal)
Personality Crisis - New York Dolls (New York Dolls)
Rock N Roll Star - Oasis (Definitely Maybe)
Gloria: In Excelsis Deo - Patti Smith (Horses)
To Bring You My Love - PJ Harvey (To Bring You My Love)
Precious - The Pretenders (Pretenders)
We Will Rock You - Queen (News of the World)
Do the Strand - Roxy Music (For Your Pleasure)
This Town Ain't Big Enough For the Both of Us - Sparks (Kimono My House)
Down on the Street - The Stooges (Fun House)
Metal Guru - T.Rex (The Slider)
See No Evil - Television (Marquee Moon)
I Will Follow - U2 (Boy)
 
Solo Dancers - The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady (Charles Mingus)
The Host of Seraphim - The Serpents Egg (Dead Can Dance)
Maggot Brain - Maggot Brain (Funkadelic)
Folsom Prison Blues - At Folsom Prison (Johnny Cash)
Overkill - Overkill (Motorhead)
Papa Won't Leave You, Henry - Henry's Dream (Nick Cave & The Bad SeeRAB
Khmer - Khmer (Nils Petter Molvaer)
 
Well, off the top of meine head;

Love - Alone Again Or [Forever Changes]
Blur - For Tomorrow [Modern Life Is Rubbish]
Steel Pulse - Chant a Psalm [True Democracy]
David Bowie - It's No Game 1 [Scary Monster]
Joe Jackson - Another [Night and Day]
Patti Smith - Gloria [Horses]
UNKLE - Guns Blazing [Psyence Fiction]
New Order - Regret [Republic]
AC/DC - Riff Raff [If You Want Blood You've Got It]

And so on...
 
Aracarsenal- At the Drive-In (Relationship of Command)
There is a war going on for your mind- Flobots (Fight with tools) [Sadly the best song on the album]
Five Years- David Bowie (The rise and fall..)
Cygnus...Vismund Cygnus-The Mars Volta (Frances the Mute)
Spirit of the Radio- Rush (Perm Waves)
Death on Two Legs- Queen (Night at the Opera)
Miseria Cantare- AFI (Sing the Sorrow)
Prison Song- System of a Down (Toxicity)
Church Mouth- Portugal. The Man (Church Mouth)
 
Tha Mobb - Lil Wayne (Tha Carter 2)
Out There - Dinosaur Jr. (Where You Been)
I Ain't No Joke - Erik B. and Rakim (Paid in Full)
Rhymin and Stealin - Beastie Boys (Licensed to Ill)
The Wolf is Loose - Mastodon (Blood Mountain)
MC Chris is Dead - mc chris (MC Chris is Dead)
Steamrock Fever - Scorpions (Taken By Force)
I Was a Lover - TV On the Radio (Return to Cookie Mountain)
Seven Nation Army - White Stripes (Elephant)
Blue Orchid - White Stripes (Get Behind Me Satan)
Baba O'Riley - The Who (Who's Next)
 
I always LOVED the way Swordfishtrorabones opens. The stuff of genius, and sets the tone for the rest of what is one of the best albums ever recorded.
 
Animal Collective- "In The Flowers" (Merriweather Post Pavillion)
Arcade Fire- "Neighborhood #1" (Funeral)
Beach Boys- "Our Prayer/Gee" (Smile)
Beck- "Devil's Haircut" (Odelay)
David Bowie- "Five Years" (Ziggy Stardust)
Clash- "Safe European Home" (Give Em Enough Rope)
Deerhunter- "Cover Me (Slowly)" (Microcastle)
Bob Dylan- "Like A Rolling Stone" (Highway 61 Revisited)
Fall- "The Classical" (Hex Enduction Hour)
Richard Hell- "Love Comes In Spurts" (Blank Generation)
Joy Division- "Disorder" (Unknown Pleasures)
Modern Lovers- "Roadrunner" (s/t)
My Bloody Valentine- "Only Shallow" (Loveless)
Neutral Milk Hotel- "Song Against Sex" (Avery Island)
Nirvana- "Serve the Servants" (In Utero)
Pavement- "Silence Kit" (Crooked Rain)
Pixies- "Debaser" (Doolittle)
Radiohead- "Airbag" (OK Computer)
Replacements- "I Will Dare" (Let It Be)
Rolling Stones- "Rocks Off" (Exile on Main Street)
Sex Pistols- "Holiday In The Sun" (Nevermind the Bollocks)
Smashing Pumpkins- "Cherub Rock" (Siamese Dream)
Soft Boys- "I Wanna Destroy You" (Underwater Moonlight)
Sonic Youth- "Teen Age Riot" (Daydream Nation)
Swell Maps- "H.S. Art" (A Trip to Marineville)
Television- "See No Evil" (Marquee Moon)
T. Rex- "Metal Guru" (The Slider)
Velvet Underground- "Sunday Morning" (VU&Nico)
Who- "Baba O'Reilly" (Who's Next)
Weezer- "My Name is Jonas" (Blue Album)
X- "The Once Over Twice" (Wild Gift)
 
Stacked Actors - Foo Fighters (Nothing left to lose)
21st Century Schizoid Man - King Crimson (In the court)
Anthem - Rush (Fly by Night)
Dead and Bloated - Stone Temple Pilots (core)
Cherub Rock - The Smashing Pumpkins (Siamese Dream)
Transfiguration - The Screaming Trees (Even if and especially when)
 
Neighbourhood#1 (Tunnels) - Arcade Fire (Funeral)
Needle In The Hay - Elliot Smith (Elliot Smith)
Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath (Black Sabbath)
Just Like Honey - The Jesus & Mary Chain (Psycocandy)
Allison - Slowdive (Souvlaki)
Teen Age Riot - Sonic Youth (Daydream Nation)
2112 - Rush (2112) (Yes all 20+ minutes!)
Debaser - Pixies (Doolittle)
Singapore - Tom Waits (Rain Dogs)
Inbetween Days - The Cure (The Head On The Door)
Black Dog - Led Zeppelin (IV)
 
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