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- Best opening track on a debut album?
Listening to music on my walk into work this morning and I got to thinking “Which band or artist has announced themselves to the world with the best track?”
It’s a thought that came to me because of what I was listening to at the time, which I reckon must be hard to beat:
Welcome to the Jungle, G’n’R
Posted 3 years agoRock ‘N’ Roll Star – Definitely Maybe
Posted 3 years agoThat was one of the other ones that came to mind, definitely
Posted 3 years agocentralscrutinizerMemberHow about Black Sabbath opening with its title track ?
Posted 3 years agoGlennQuagmireMemberHard to just select one!
But I’d say Rock ‘n’ Roll Star by Oasis.
Posted 3 years agojohn_drummerMemberSuspect Device – Inflammable Material – Stiff Little Fingers
Posted 3 years agoGlennQuagmireMemberTwice as Hard by The Black Crowes
Posted 3 years agoWelcome to the Jungle, G’n’R
Good one!
My favourite (NSFW):
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[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lp3kcHchD1Y[/video]martinhutchMemberSunday Morning, Velvet Underground and Nico
Posted 3 years ago
Tutti Frutti, Little RichardDry the rain – Beta Band.
Posted 3 years agoscudMemberBombtrack – Rage against the Machine
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Feel Good Hit of the Summer – Rated R – Queens of the Stone Ageretro83MemberBittersweet Symphony by The Verve
Posted 3 years agoKlunkMember[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCkNu9OxThc[/video]
Posted 3 years ago“You Think I Ain’t Worth a Dollar, But I Feel Like a Millionaire” – sets the Album’s stall out nice and early.
Posted 3 years agoCoyoteMember“Neat, Neat, Neat” from Damned, Damned, Damned
Posted 3 years agoI think this is “the best”, at the time it seemed a million miles always from the heavyweight slow rifola that was obliterating the vinyl outputs of that era.
Van Halen, Runnin’ with the Devil.
Posted 3 years ago
[video]https://youtu.be/2VFJB-ZeVqM[/video]**** wit dre day – The Chronic by Dr dre. Epic
Posted 3 years agoalanfMemberSome great tracks up there.
Posted 3 years ago
Audioslave – CochiseFrom an impact point of view – Davidian by Machine Head takes some beating….
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Posted 3 years agoRoxy Music: Re-make/re-model.
Posted 3 years agoHow about Baba O’Reilly on Who’s Next.
Can’t think of many better ways to open an album.
Posted 3 years agoI so misread the thread title. I am sorry. 😳
Posted 3 years agoBreaking into Heaven,
The Stone Roses, Second ComingI’ll Find You, by Hundred Reasons.
[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKpEMkvuxFE[/video]
And good shout on Davidian, that intro. You can walk into a guitar shop 23 years later and play that riff and someone will always go MACINE HEAD! GRARAGRHGAHGARH!
Posted 3 years agoTime Has Told Me – Nick Drake.
And for contrast, Motorhead – Motorhead.
Good game.
Posted 3 years ago
🙂matthew_hMemberBittersweet Symphony by The Verve
Not their debut album though. Related though, Star Sail from A Storm in Heaven is a heck of an opener.
I’d vote for I Wanna Be Adored. What a fantastic way to open an album
Posted 3 years agoFrankie goes to Hollywood
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Two tracks really but it’s all one in effect:
The World is my Oyster/Welcome to the Pleasuredome[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PeQAZsyucbQ[/video]
Posted 3 years agoDo it again – Steely Dan.
Posted 3 years agoHow about Baba O’Reilly on Who’s Next.
Can’t think of many better ways to open an album.
Not a debut album.
Posted 3 years agoSuede, So Young
Posted 3 years ago
Teenage Fanclub (Bandwagonesque), The ConceptGood call BinBins
Posted 3 years agoMalvern RiderMemberThere’re loads.
But this one is just such a great and under-appreciated classic.
[video]https://youtu.be/HiIAPsjuVW4[/video]
Posted 3 years agoTorminalisMemberI so misread the thread title. I am sorry.
Breaking into Heaven,
The Stone Roses, Second ComingI wanna be adored from their debut album was however, remarkable.
I put it on the second I saw this thread title!
Posted 3 years ago[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flt1I1U74h4[/video]
Posted 3 years agoBeat me to it MR.
Just flicking through the vinyl and that’s going on next, when ‘Can’t Buy A Thrill’ finishes.
Posted 3 years ago
🙂tpbikerMemberSaw the title of the thread, instantly thought rock and roll star or welcome to the jungle
Who said stw members didnt have taste?
Posted 3 years agoanagallis_arvensisMemberWhipping Boy Ben Harper
Posted 3 years agotailsMemberVerves good call think first three tracks were all epic on that album.
Posted 3 years agoGlennQuagmireMemberDire Straits – Down To The Waterline
Posted 3 years agojohnnersMemberJanie Jones
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