FabSwingers.com forum: Favourite opening album track

By *edkent69 OP Man
over a year ago

maidstone

So what's a good track to open an album with?

I'm going with Let's Go Crazy, from Purple Rain.

From the opening 'dearly beloved', through the thumping funk/rock beat, odd lyrics, finally to the climatic squealing guitar solo, which finishes in a way that makes your ears go 'wow! it's gone really quiet!'.

Truly a great opening track.

Any other suggestions?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Bombtrack! Rage Against By The Machine, from Rage Against The Machine.

Or... Cherrybomb, by the Runaways from their self titled debut album.

Or Bat Out Of Hell, from... you don't need me to tell you that

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By *oward1978Man
over a year ago

Rotherham

Like A Rolling Stone from Highway 61 Revisited.

Beat that!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

It's no game - David Bowie, amazing guitar and screaming vocals, like he means it.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Indestructable from Indestructable by Disturbed

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Album..Rainbow Rising

Track..Tarot woman

Amazingness...high.

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By *elvet RopeMan
over a year ago

by the big field

Take your pic from

Carter USM 'Surfin USM (30 Something) or

The Family CAt 'Albert Hoffmans Bike' (Tell Em We're Surfing)

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Plastic ono band

The opening track is the quite depressing but utterly heart wrenching track, mother.

Which was followed with hold on and I found out

Quite possibly the best album ever written

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By *iamondjoeMan
over a year ago

Glastonbury

Easy.

Best opening to any album EVER...

"Oh my GOD...!"

Welcome to the jungle By Guns N' Roses

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kr8-E8may2Y

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Easy.

Best opening to any album EVER...

"Oh my GOD...!"

Welcome to the jungle By Guns N' Roses

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kr8-E8may2Y"

Yeeeees! That was my next choice.

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By *iamondjoeMan
over a year ago

Glastonbury

"Easy.

Best opening to any album EVER...

"Oh my GOD...!"

Welcome to the jungle By Guns N' Roses

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kr8-E8may2Y

Yeeeees! That was my next choice.

"And you're a very sexy girl

That's very hard to please

You can taste the bright lights

But you won't get them for free"

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By *risky_MareWoman
over a year ago

...Up on the Downs

Whole Lotta Love!!

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By *risky_MareWoman
over a year ago

...Up on the Downs

"Whole Lotta Love!!

(Closely followed on LZ II by the sexiest track of all time......

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By *iamondjoeMan
over a year ago

Glastonbury

"Whole Lotta Love!!

This is a great track

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Easy.

Best opening to any album EVER...

"Oh my GOD...!"

Welcome to the jungle By Guns N' Roses

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kr8-E8may2Y"
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I would have gone with that as my third choice after breath from dark side of the moon

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By *iamondjoeMan
over a year ago

Glastonbury

"Easy.

Best opening to any album EVER...

"Oh my GOD...!"

Welcome to the jungle By Guns N' Roses

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kr8-E8may2Y.

I would have gone with that as my third choice after breath from dark side of the moon"

Again great track but not as an opener

More...

stereo mcs- connected

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qm8ClRnVxtE

You gotta kick the compilation in to gear

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Breaking Into Heaven,

Stone Roses, Second Coming

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Easy.

Best opening to any album EVER...

"Oh my GOD...!"

Welcome to the jungle By Guns N' Roses

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kr8-E8may2Y.

I would have gone with that as my third choice after breath from dark side of the moon

Again great track but not as an opener

More...

stereo mcs- connected

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qm8ClRnVxtE

You gotta kick the compilation in to gear"
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You don't get any better poetry than Floyd.

Every year is getting shorter, never seem to find the time

Plans that either come to naught or half a page of scribbled lines

Hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way

The time is gone, the song is over, thought I'd something more to say.

Sums me up perfectly

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Smashing Pumpkins - Siva (Gish)

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Band on the run

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

or Money Pink Floyd if you accidentally play the B side 1st

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Smells like teen spirit - nirvana

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Easy.

Best opening to any album EVER...

"Oh my GOD...!"

Welcome to the jungle By Guns N' Roses

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kr8-E8may2Y

Yeeeees! That was my next choice.

Agreed!

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By *LCoupleCouple
over a year ago

Norfolk

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Mean Street from Van Halen's Fair Warning album is a stonking opener.

More recently White Trash Millionaire from Black Stone Cherry's album Between The Devil And Deep Blue Sea.

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By *LCoupleCouple
over a year ago

Norfolk

"Take your pic from

Carter USM 'Surfin USM (30 Something) or

The Family CAt 'Albert Hoffmans Bike' (Tell Em We're Surfing)"

I was going to put surfing USM. Too.

Forgot to quote hence deletion.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Sign Of The Cross - Iron Maiden from X Factor

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Smashing pumpkins

Melancholy and infinite sadness... Great instrumental leading on to the amazing Tonight.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

American Idiot

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Or maybe Maggot Brain by Funkadelic. That track is immense!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Or maybe Maggot Brain by Funkadelic. That track is immense!"

Nice one

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

'Jailbreak' from the Thin Lizzy album of the same name.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Airbag, OK Computer

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Airbag, OK Computer

I was just about to post this!

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By *iamondjoeMan
over a year ago

Glastonbury

If ya like hippy shit, this isn't bad...

Govinda- Kula Shaker

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SyVaLpa_vc

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By *iamondjoeMan
over a year ago

Glastonbury

And this is an excellent live version

Elbow One Day Like This with the BBC Concert Orchestra and choir Chantage

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hk2xaeXnxlM

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Like A Rolling Stone from Highway 61 Revisited.

Beat that!"

Hurricane from Desire?

Some to be going on with

Hollywood Nights from Stranger in Town - Bob Seger

Come Together from Abbey Road - The Beatles

Aloneagainor from Forever Changes - Love

Christine's Tune from Gilded Palace of Sin - Flying Burrito Brothers

Alice's Restaurant Massacree from Alice's Restaurant - Arlo Guthrie

The latter one took me a couple of plays before i understood why no-one got slaughtered.

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By *igandanneCouple
over a year ago

Cheltenham

Back in the USSR beatles white album

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Guns In The Sky

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By *ouple in LancashireCouple
over a year ago

in Lancashire

I wanna be adored, the lead into it is very good..

theses threads are great for broadening ones listening ideas..

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Taxman - Revolver The Beatles

What's Goin On - What's Goin On Marvin Gaye

Around the World - Californication RHCP

Once - Ten Pearl Jam

Dead and Bloated - Core Stone Temple Pilots

There will be more when I remember them... lol

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Be Boo A Lula by Demented Are Go.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Poundcake from Van Halen's Live Right Here Right Now album.

The intro with the drill on a guitar is awesome...

https://youtu.be/KhbGSprvfbE

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Be Boo A Lula by Demented Are Go. "
bop not boo lol.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Hells bells from Ac/Dc's Back in Black is incredible.

The moment that bell rings the adrenaline starts pumping and its all the more potent because of the significance attached to the return after the death of Bon Scott.

What a tribute!!

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By *irty130Couple
over a year ago

Bristol Area

"Breaking Into Heaven,

Stone Roses, Second Coming"

QUALITY!

(actually equally "I Wanna Be Adored" on the first album - I love how it builds!)

I also love the opening track on Kosheen's Resist album (Demonstrate). A short one, just setting everything up and then just dropping into Hide U.

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