Chicago Transit Authority - "Introduction"
Chicago Transit Authority - "Introduction"
Cobra handling and cocaine use are a bad mix.
6 o'clock...!
Nazareth-Hair...
Deus Ex Machina- Devoto
Some I've always liked:
Steve Hackett - Ace of Wands
Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath
Black Sabbath - War Pigs
Led Zeppelin - Achilles Last Stand
Shylock - Ile De Fievre
SFF - Tao
Ultravox - Astradyne
Judas Priest - Victim of Changes
Soft Machine - Teeth
National Health - Tenemos Roads
Alice in Chains - Them Bones
Locanda Delle Fate - A volte un istante di quiete
Mastodon - Blood and Thunder
Slayer - Angel of Death
Tu veux un camembert?
City Nights from Holdsworth’s Secrets album. A Gary Husband tune that really kicks off one the most perfect albums I’ve heard.
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"Tubes World Tour" - Young and Rich
Cobra handling and cocaine use are a bad mix.
Excellent opening tracks on debut albums:
Kansas: "Can I Tell You"
Starcastle: "Lady of the Lake"
GTR: "When the Heart Rules the Mind"
There are a ton of good answer for this questions, but here are a few that come to mind...
I'd say most Rush albums has great openers.
"Dance of a Volcano" - Genesis
"Paradigm Shift" - LTE
"Jordrok" - Anglagard
"Mean Street" - Van Halen
Chad
Um. Roundabout?
The Prog Corner
Speed King - Deep Purple In Rock.
"We hope you like our new direction"
Totally agree with YIND, not so sure I may not have preferred Fragile with HOTS opening.
Food for thought...if CDs were around in 1974, perhaps some 3 song albums may have been programmed differently:
1) Relayer....Soundchaser—->Gates——>To Be Over
2) CTTE.......Siberian——>CTTE———>AYAI
Death On Two Legs- Queen
Tightrope- ELO
Machine Messiah- Yes
The Song Remains The Same- Led Zeppelin
Aqualung- Jethro Tull
Queen: Keep Yourself Alive (best album 1, side 1, song 1 ever)
Queen: Procession/Father To Son
Queen: Brighton Rock
Queen: Death On Two Legs
Queen: Tie Your Mother Down
Kiss: Strutter
Kiss: Got To Choose
Kiss: Room Service
Kiss: I Stole Your Love
Kiss: I Was Made For Loving You
Kiss: Is That You?
Kiss: Creatures Of The Night
Cheap Trick: Hello There
Cheap Trick: Surrender
Cheap Trick: Dream Police
Thin Lizzy: Mama Nature Said
Thin Lizzy: Do Anything You Want To
Thin Lizzy: We Will Be Strong
Thin Lizzy: Thunder & Lightning
The Rolling Stones: Yesterday's Papers
The Rolling Stones: Sympathy For The Devil
The Rolling Stones: Gimme Shelter
The Rolling Stones: Start Me Up
Deep Purple: ...And The Address
Deep Purple: Speed King (including the "chaos" intro that the idiots at Warners cut from the Stateside release)
Deep Purple: Highway Star
Deep Purple: Burn
Uriah Heep: Gypsy
Uriah Heep: High Priestess (on the US release of Salisbury)
Uriah Heep: Bird Of Prey (on the UK release of Salisbury)
Uriah Heep: Look At Yourself
Uriah Heep: The Wizard
Uriah Heep: Sunrise
Blue Oyster Cult: Transmaniacon MC
Rainbow: Tarot Woman
Rainbow: Kill The King
Rainbow: All Night Long
Rainbow: I Surrender
Rainbow: Death Alley Driver
Dokken: Without Warning
Quiet Riot: Metal Health (Bang Your Head)
Slade: Cum On Feel The Noize (yeah, it was a non-album single, but it's the first song on Side A of the Sladest best of, so it counts, I think)
Slade: Run Runaway (well, it is on the US version of the album)
Magma: Hortz Fur Dëhn Štekëhn Ẁešt (snicker)
Magma: Köhntarkösz
Magma: The Last Seven Minutes
Magma: Retrovision
The Beatles: Taxman
The Beatles: Come Together
The Byrds: Lover Of The Bayou
The Who: Armenia City In The Skies
The Who: Baba O'Riley
The Who: Slip Kid
The Who: New Song
Tangerine Dream: Phaedra
Tangerine Dream: Rubycon Part One
Tangerine Dream: Ricochet Part One
Tangerine Dream: Cherokee Lane
Tangerine Dream: Cold Bent Sidewalk
Electric Light Orchestra: Turn To Stone
Electric Light Orchestra: Prologue/Twilight
Electric Light Orchestra: Secret Messages
The Police: Next To You
The Police: Message In A Bottle
The Police: Don't Stand So Close To Me
The Police: Spirits In THe Material World
The Police: Synchronicity I
The Ramones: Blitzkrieg Bop
The Ramones: Do You Remember Rock And Roll Radio?
The Ramones: Little Bit O' Soul
Journey: Any Way You Want It
Journey: Don't Stop Believin'
Journey: Separate Ways (Worlds Apart)
Lynyrd Skynyrd: Saturday Night Special
The Monkees: Salesman
The Monkees: Opening Ceremony/Porpoise Song
In the original demo order - Discipline was the opening track. That should have stayed the same.
Opened Moles Club and the subsequent gigs with it...
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Death inspires me like a dog inspires a rabbit
Floyd: Speak to me/Breathe
Yes: Roundabout
The Who: Baba O'Riley
And a quirky one, as it is the only song on that side, Mike Oldfield: Tubular Bells, Part 1.
I am also partial to Jerusalem, by ELP as an opener. It's almost like a prayer to start off the album.
Genesis - Down and Out from And Then There Were Three
Every Zep opener.
Yes - Yours Is No Disgrace, Roundabout, Machine Messiah.
Rush Tom Sawyer
Genesis - Eleventh Earl of Mar, Dance on a Volcano, Dancing with a Moonlit Knight, The Musical Box, Watcher of The Skies, Looking For Someone.
ELP The Endless Enigma, Barbarian, Jerusalem
One of my favs is Behind the Lines from Duke
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