Sorry if this has been said before.
Blinded by the Light, first track on Greetings from Asbury Park, by Bruce Springsteen (but not officially, The E Street Band).
Can someone with time on their hands compile all the correct responses into a monster Google Play music playlist for me? 🙂
Some great suggestions so far...Keep em coming!
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Outside the scope of this thread really as it's not the opener, but Iron Maiden by Iron Maiden appears on the "Iron Maiden" album..Also not the album opener: Bad Company, by.. you get the idea.
...and Tin Machine.
EDIT: On a hunch, just found another that is also the album opener, on a debut album to boot, one of the better known 80s eponymous hit singles: Living In A Box...
Thanks for that. Not heard the Iron Maiden, nor the Bad Company before, but on a quick listen of those I'd chose 1. Sabbath 2. Motörhead
Club Foot by Kasabian.
Unbelievably good debut album.
Good call on the Interpol and **** Buttons tracks.
I have to agree with Black Sabbath by Black Sabbath on the album Black Sabbath.
I think Transylvania is my highlight on their first album...but is it Maiden without Bruce?
Of course they are -D'anno was an amazing vocalist and the first two albums have to be appreciated separately from all the Dickinson stuff (equally very good but subtly different).
Maybe not their debut album but their break through School from Crime of the Century, Supertramp
Mysterons on Portisheads Dummy. Absolutely stunning.
Imagine the effect of putting this particular album on, and hearing this opening track, as a fifteen-year old, brought up on whatever was playing on the Light Programme in the 1969's...www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cj-H6UkKJFI
Quite possibly one of the most extraordinary opening tracks ever.
I was just a young lad when I heard heard black sabbath and 21st century schizoid man, around the same time. I would have both on my list of best tracks, along with Astronomy Domine and Interstellar Overdrive, so I guess Floyd did a double.
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Has anyone mentioned kick out the jams?
I very, very nearly did, and then I paused, and then I checked, and reminded myself that the album opens with "Rambling Rose"
Bugger so it is.
I just always play it first!
My first thought was Black Sabbath and then Hurry on Sundown but they've been mentioned, so what about
Seems like a lot of cock-rockers ride mtbs 😀
The two that stand out for me (both already mentioned by men of excellent taste)...
King Crimson - Court of the Crimson King: My best friends dad had a CD player in the early 80's and i still remember the day he sat us down and played this track in a darkened room. Blew my young mind!
Public Enemy - You're gonna get yours: Grew up listen to Hip Hop while my peers were into U2 Simple Minds, Duran Duran and all that shite. First listen was in my mates record shop and i'd never heard anything like it (the whole album). Changed hip hop forever.
And this track has been a fave of mine for years, I love the intro and first verse, T'Pau's "Heart and soul"...
Thanks for that. As a fanboi, you've saved me a job.
In a similar vein and because we were talking about WJ the other week, I'll posit Transvision Vamp's Trash City.
Frank Turner - from Sleep is for the Week
King Crimson - Court of the Crimson King: My best friends dad had a CD player in the early 80's and i still remember the day he sat us down and played this track in a darkened room. Blew my young mind!
I borrowed a copy from a mate at school, it was the cover that grabbed my attention, I'd never seen anything like it, not that I had much to compare it to, there were never really many records at home, music wasn't any big deal, we never had the money for luxuries like records, all the music I knew was from whatever the Beeb played; Beatles, Stones, Herman's Hermits, The Searchers... you get the picture.
So when Bob pitched up with CotCK, I just had to borrow it.
21st Century SM is still a remarkable piece of music, nothing else sounds like it, and it hasn't dated, the words still have relevance today.
Roxy Music remake - remodel did it for me.
I was gonna use that one, great track.Jacqueline by Franz Ferdinand
The closest thing Talking Heads came to doing a conventional love song. They got it out of their system with the first song of 77. And it's cracking.
for 2017 definitely this.
The smiths - reel around the fountain
But joy division - disorder gets my vote
