Best Opening Three Tracks On A Record

ChicagoAddick

Anna_Kissed said:

Simple Minds - New Gold Dream (81-82-83-84)    (1982)

1) Someone Somewhere In Summertime
2) Colours Fly And Catherine Wheel
3) Promised You A Miracle

Now that was an album. Good pick 

wwaddick

Macronate said:

The Jam - Sound Affects

1. Pretty Green
2. Monday 
3. But I’m Different Now

Would've been mine as well.

AddickUpNorth

In A Big Country

Inward

Chance


Big Country - The Crossing

milo

Alone again or
A house is not a motel
Andmoreagain

Love - Forever Changes

(Although, You set the scene is the best and last track on the album)

bigman backstick

The Queen is Dead - The Smiths

The Queen is Dead/Frankly Mr Shankly/I know it's Over

Six-a-bag-of-nuts

No Reply
I'm a Loser
Baby's in Black

The Beatles - Beatles for Sale

boggzy

The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway
Fly On A Windshield
Broadway Melody Of 1974

Genesis - The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway 

boggzy

Sunflower
(Can you heal us) Holy Man
Wild wood

Paul Weller - Wild Wood

stonemuse

dickad1 said:

stonemuse said:

Also a big vote for Suede:

The Drowners
Metal Mickey
Animal Nitrate
(followed by 4th track So Young) 

Good call, but I think Suede, Suede opens:
So Young
Animal Nitrate 
She's Not Dead

You are right ... and that's even better 

stonemuse

EastTerrace said:

stonemuse said:

A 3rd nomination would be No Need to Argue by The Cranberries:

Zombie
Ode to My Family
I Can’t Be With You 

Beautiful album.... but are they the opening three tracks?

Aside from that, there a many albums that start strong by many artists, although most can’t carry that promise through to the end.

Just checked ... I have a download that starts with those three tracks, but the CD is Ode to My Family, I Can't Be With You, and Twenty One (with Zombie as 4th track) ... still excellent. 

Chef_addick

Pearl Jam - Ten.

Once
Even Flow
Alive

Clem_Snide

Down on the street

Loose

TV Eye

Funhouse - The Stooges

stonemuse

Clem_Snide said:

Down on the street

Loose

TV Eye

Funhouse - The Stooges

Prompted me to look at Raw Power by Iggy & The Stooges - great first 3 tracks:

Search and Destroy
Gimme Danger
Your Pretty Face is Going to Hell

MrOneLung

Let It Bleed - Rolling Stones

Gimme Shelter
Love In vain
Country Honk

Karim_myBagheri

i've played this album a few times recently - 

Jim Steinman - Bad for Good

Bad for Good
Lost Boys and Golden Girls
Love and death and an American guitar (which is more of an into as it goes straight into Stark Raving Love)

TelMc32

Some great picks already with Stone Roses, The Jam, Specials, Madness, Foos, Ash,  I’d add another Arctic Monkeys album (AM) and Marvin Gaye’s What’s Going On.

AM - Do I Wanna Know? / R U Mine? / One For The Road

Marvin Gaye - What’s Going On / What’s Happening Brother / Flyin’ High (In The Friendly Sky)

Six-a-bag-of-nuts

Station to Station
Golden Years
Word on a Wing

David Bowie - Station to Station

hawksmoor

Let's Get It On - Marvin Gaye

Let's Get It On
Please Stay (Once You Go Away)
If I Should Die Tonight

stonemuse

Carter USM, 1992 The Love Album

1993
Is Wrestling Fixed
The Only Living Boy in New Cross

superb

stonemuse

This one is way up there for me - Christy Moore, Listen

Listen
Does This Train Stop on Merseyside?
Shine On You Crazy Diamond 

DaveMehmet

stonemuse said:

Carter USM, 1992 The Love Album

1993
Is Wrestling Fixed
The Only Living Boy in New Cross

superb

Saw them a few times, they were fantastic live.

stonemuse

DaveMehmet said:

stonemuse said:

Carter USM, 1992 The Love Album

1993
Is Wrestling Fixed
The Only Living Boy in New Cross

superb

Saw them a few times, they were fantastic live.

yup, great band

Karim_myBagheri

Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane over the sea

"The King of Carrot Flowers, Pt. One"
"The King of Carrot Flowers, Pts. Two & Three"
"In the Aeroplane over the sea"

Briston_Addick

I'd love to be able to nominate the fifth album by Finnish folk/pagan metal outfit Moonsorrow, Viides luku – Hävitetty

1. Jäästä syntynyt/Varjojen virta
2. Tuleen ajettu maa

Now comes the problem: there isn't a third track (track 1 is 30 mins, track 2 is 26 mins) so I guess that makes it ineligible for this discussion ...

JaysusTheJay

I'd prefer the LAST three songs of any album...

David Bowie - The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars

Side Two

4 - Ziggy Stardust

5 - Suffragette City

6 - Rock 'n' Roll Suicide

JaysusTheJay

But if it IS first three, then...

The Boards of Canada - The Campfire Headphase

Chromakey Dreamcoat

Satellite Anthem Icarus

Peacock Tail

I don't count the intro (Into the Rainbow Vein) as it's only a few seconds...

rananegra

Having the first three is actually quite hard, a lot of my favourite albums have 2 out of 3...

So here's two

The Seabirds
Estuary Bed
Chicken Killer
Triffids - Born Sandy Devotional

My Spanish Dad
Exit Wound
The Sexual Loneliness of Jesus Christ
Jackie Leven - Creatures of Light and Darkness 


A plus from me for Foreverchanges, Velvet Underground and Nico and The Clash as well. I'm sure there's more if I really put my mind to it. 

stonemuse

rananegra said:

My Spanish Dad
Exit Wound
The Sexual Loneliness of Jesus Christ
Jackie Leven - Creatures of Light and Darkness 

great recommendation

JiMMy 85

American Pie
Till Tomorrow
Starry Starry Night

Solidgone

Made in Japan - Deep Purple
Highway Star and Sweet Child in Time (only two tracks on the First side)

Meat loaf

Bat out of Hell
You took the words...
Heaven can wait