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.
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)
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Inward
Chance
Big Country - The Crossing
A house is not a motel
Andmoreagain
Love - Forever Changes
(Although, You set the scene is the best and last track on the album)
The Queen is Dead/Frankly Mr Shankly/I know it's Over
I'm a Loser
Baby's in Black
The Beatles - Beatles for Sale
Fly On A Windshield
Broadway Melody Of 1974
Genesis - The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway
(Can you heal us) Holy Man
Wild wood
Paul Weller - Wild Wood
Once
Even Flow
Alive
Search and Destroy
Gimme Danger
Your Pretty Face is Going to Hell
Gimme Shelter
Love In vain
Country Honk
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)
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)
Golden Years
Word on a Wing
David Bowie - Station to Station
Let's Get It On
Please Stay (Once You Go Away)
If I Should Die Tonight
1993
Is Wrestling Fixed
The Only Living Boy in New Cross
superb
Listen
Does This Train Stop on Merseyside?
Shine On You Crazy Diamond
Saw them a few times, they were fantastic live.
"The King of Carrot Flowers, Pt. One"
"The King of Carrot Flowers, Pts. Two & Three"
"In the Aeroplane over the sea"
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 ...
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.
Till Tomorrow
Starry Starry Night
Highway Star and Sweet Child in Time (only two tracks on the First side)
Meat loaf
You took the words...
Heaven can wait