Driving to work this morning, 6.30am, a little Pantera on the player to blow away the cobwebs.

Got me thinking, which albums have great opening tracks? An opening track that really get you into the album with a bang. The albums don't have to be classics, just have great opening songs.

(if you wanna include the Eating, drinking, listening thats fine to)

I'll kick off:

Pantera – Cowboys from Hell – Cowboys from Hell.

RATM – Bombtrack – RATM.

Aerosmith – Eat the Rich – Get a Grip (i know technically the 2nd track…)

the intro to overkill by Motorhead always gets me revved up. Always has.

Friday night going out music raaarrrrghhhh!!!! release the bats

Hells Bells opening Back in Black by AC/DC still gets me going.

Also Rockaway Beach opening Its Alive by The Ramones…

Wait For The Blackout on The Black Album – The Damned

Fragile – God Is An Astronaut From the album All Is Violent, All Is Bright

Great track and a great album

Dialectic Chaos on Endgame by megadeth.
It's instrumental but the lead into the second track is awesome \m/ 😀

Good thread. I'm sure I'll think of loads later, but the first one to come to mind was The Kiss by the Cure. They also opened with this when I went to see them live in Birmingham NEC and I was right in the front row!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bIbLQTtD28

Also, didn't Frankie Goes to Hollywood kick off with a mega long version of Welcome to the Pleasuredome?

Hotel California

Not the first track but the second – Led Zep IV

For me its got to be "Breaking into Heaven" – 11:21 of pure bliss. Stone Roses – Second Coming.

Cochise-Audioslave. Think I'll listen to the whole album now. 😀

Bad Company – Five Finger Death Punch…. awesome track

Welcome to the Jungle. Obviously And Blackened. And Lose Control by Ash.

Bmc09 +1

Grand Theft Audio – Death to the Infidels.

]The second track is normally 'the one'

Blurs Song 2 being a classic

Or Everything Flows
Cannonball Still have a crush on Kim Deal

Opening tracks:
Dinosaur Jr – Freak Scene ( I'm one of the dorky, lanky looking ones in the crowd – anyone else at Reading that year – Nirvana etc …… memories)
Smells like teen spirit
Debaser

Now it's on
I'm getting old ……

Chemical Brothers – Leave Home from Exit Planet Dust

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7j-Ndccqaw

'Strength Beyond Strength' from 'Far Beyond Driven'

'Mouth for War' from 'Vulgar Display of Power'

Both Pantera.

Chemical Brothers – Leave Home from Exit Planet Dust

Good call

yes martyc… and not really even a stone roses fan but that track is a goodun… cracking opener.

Young Lust from Pump the start to a rocktastic time.

London Calling

Neon Knights from Sabbath's Heaven and Hell or Tarot Woman from Rainbow's Rising

Both great opening tracks, there again both great albums too

Einleitung from Also Sprach Zarathustra, Richard Strauss.

If you're going to have a Friday Night Music thread, please link to YouTube or similar vid of the tunes. Come on, do it properly at least ffs…

Woe to You Oh Earth and Sea
for the Devil sends the beast with wrath
because he knows the time is short
Let him who hath understanding
reckon the number of the beast
for it is a human number
its number is six hundred and sixty six.

I always liked Asian Dub Foundation – Enemy of the Enemy:
Fortress Europe

AC/DC thunderstruck like this !!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-f1cwycSWq0&feature=related

Oh I've misunderstood the point of the thread, sorry. I thought it meant great opening tunes in general. Soz. 😳

Shine On You Crazy Diamond

+1 for London Calling and FGTH

I'm sure to get flamed but Welcome To The Pleasure Dome is IMO a superb album that has stood the test of time. The opening track is the perfect start to a long early morning drive

Come on, do it properly at least ffs…

do you really need reminding what London Calling sounds like? 🙄

On a metal tip, has to be 'Roots Bloody Roots' on 'Roots' by the once mighty Sepultura.

Melechesh Rebirth of the Nemesis

Astarte God I hate Them All

Both have wakey wakey beginnings and to be frank Astarte could wake me up any time.

Kinky Afro. Happy Mondays. pills n thrills n bellyaches.

"son, I'm 30, I only went with your mother 'cos she's dirty"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3XIlEUO-VE

Proper good opener to a really patchy but good vibes album.

From out of nowhere on Faith no More's The Real Thing.

+1 for Breaking into Heaven and Thunderstruck

Valley of Lost Souls (on Flesh and Blood by Poison)
The Fun Lovin' Criminal (t'eponymous track on on Come Find Yourself)
Ch-Check It Out (To The Five Boroughs, Beastie Boys)
Let's Go Crazy (Purple Rain, Prince)
On Days Like These (The Italian Job)
States of Mind (Stacked Up, Senser)

Woe to You Oh Earth and Sea
for the Devil sends the beast with wrath
because he knows the time is short
Let him who hath understanding
reckon the number of the beast
for it is a human number
its number is six hundred and sixty six

Good track, but not the opening one from that album, that honour goes to Invaders I believe

Snow White Diner on the Handsome Family album "Twilight" always grabs my attention. Songs written in the present tense and first person always put you right there and that's quality narration.
Boxelder has a point with Grandaddy too – what a band they were!
Since the split, Jason's solo album was disappointing, but the new Admiral Radley album is worth every penny.

No I misunderstood I thought it mean tracks with great openings.

Break on Through, The Doors

Release the Pressure, Leftism

Gardenia from 'Welcome To Sky Valley' by Kyuss

It just gets the head nodding and continues to for the rest for the rest of the album.