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Best Opening Three Tracks On A Record

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  • aliwibble said:
    Script For A Jesters Tear

    He Knows You Know

    The Web


    Marillion - Script For A Jesters Tear.
    @AddickUpNorth Which track off that album is it that goes "I'm losing on the swings, I'm losing on the roundabouts"? Had a friend from uni that played that a fair amount, so I always think of him when I hear it.

    @aliwibble - that’ll be the title track Script For A Jesters Tear.
  • Dire straits - love over gold

    1. Telegraph Road
    2. private Investigations
    3. Industrial Disease

    Dire straits - Making Movies

    1. Tunnel Of Love
    2. Romeo & Juliet 
    3. Skateaway. 

    Absolute classics. Mind you only 5 and 6 songs respectively on both albums. 
    Only problem with Love over Gold is that the first 2 songs take up all of side 1.....so if you have the album version you have to turn it over to listen to the 3rd one on the list. I think it therefore fails by default, otherwise it would have been one if my choices.
    Three first tracks that are half an album, and pretty decent, are from side one of the Yes Album.

    Yours is no disgrace.
    The Clap.
    Starship Trooper.
  • edited February 2020
    Flying saucer attack

    No

    Somebody's gonna get their head kicked in tonight

    Top of the pops


    I can't stand The Rezillos
  • MrWalker said:
    Flying saucer attack

    No

    Somebody's gonna get their head kicked in tonight

    Top of the pops


    I can't stand The Rezillos
    Great energetic band
  • Thanks AUN.
  • Boomtown Rats - The Fine Art of Surfacing

    1. Someone’s Looking at You
    2. Diamond Smiles
    3. Wind Chill Factor (Minus Zero)
  • Sunday Morning

    I'm waiting for the man

    Femme fatale

    Velvet Underground & Nico
    Darn, I was going for the same album.

    Here's a pretty obvious choice:

    Beatles 'Revolver'

    1 Taxman
    2 Eleanor Rigby
    3 I'm Only Sleeping

  • Rockaway Beach

    Teenage Lobotomy

    Blitzkrieg Bop

    It's Alive by The Ramones, great live album.


  • Lloyd Cole & The Commotions - Rattlesnakes
    1. Perfect Skin
    2. Speedboat
    3. Rattlesnakes 
  • Schizophrenia 
    (I got a) catholic block
    beauty lies in the eye 

    Sonic Youth - sister
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  • XTC - Nonsuch

    The Ballad of Peter Pumpkinhead
    My Bird Performs
    Dear Madam Barnum

    Squeeze - Argybargy

    Pulling Mussels (from the shell)
    Another Nail in my Heart
    Separate Beds
  • Been listening to a bit of Weller today.  Introducing The Style Council was their first (mini) album.  Opened with...

    Long Hot Summer (extended 12in version) - my favourite summer track
    Headstart for Happiness
    Speak Like a Child 

    Also The Verve’s Urban Hymns.  Saw them play a charity gig for Shelter at Brixton Academy around the time this came out. One of my best ever gigs...

    Bittersweet Symphony
    Sonnet
    The Rolling People 
  • Now my heart is full
    spring heeled Jim
    Billy Budd

    Morrissey - Vauxhall and I
  • Mud;
      
      Dyna-mite

    Tiger Feet

    The Cat Crept In
  • It's Raining Today
    Copenhagen
    Rosemary

    Scott Walker - Scott 3
  • edited February 2020
    Uboat said:
    Pixies - Doolitle

    1. Debaser
    2. Tame
    3. Wave of Mutilation

    Boom
    I'll be in the minority here. I much prefer Pixies' Surfer Rosa album to Doolittle.

    Opening three tracks:

    1. Bone Machine
    2. Break My Body
    3. Something Against You
  • Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Everybody Knows This is Nowhere

    1. Cinnamon Girl
    2. Everybody Knows This is Nowhere
    3 Round & Round
  • How could I forget this?! Probably my favourite opening tracks to any album:

    1. Gloria
    2. Redondo Beach
    3. Birdland

    The album, Horses by Patti Smith. 1975.
  • edited February 2020
    The last few Johnny Cash records have great opening tracks - the last is my favourite:

    The Man Comes Around
    Hurt  - my favourite cover of all time
    Give My love to Rose
    AMERICAN IV

    Love the first Jam record

    Art School
    I've changed my address
    Slow Down
    IN THE CITY



  • The last few Johnny Cash records have great opening tracks - the last is my favourite:

    The Man Comes Around
    Hurt
    Give My love to Rose
    AMERICAN IV





    I agree. The last 4 albums were all excellent. Terrific choice. 
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  • stonemuse said:
    The last few Johnny Cash records have great opening tracks - the last is my favourite:

    The Man Comes Around
    Hurt
    Give My love to Rose
    AMERICAN IV





    I agree. The last 4 albums were all excellent. Terrific choice. 
    Rick Rubin is a great producer and did amazing work with Johnny Cash.
  • edited February 2020
    stonemuse said:
    The last few Johnny Cash records have great opening tracks - the last is my favourite:

    The Man Comes Around
    Hurt
    Give My love to Rose
    AMERICAN IV





    I agree. The last 4 albums were all excellent. Terrific choice. 
    Rick Rubin is a great producer and did amazing work with Johnny Cash.
    He revitalised his work ... they were a superb team. 

    Incredible passion and emotion on some of the tracks. 
  • Supertramp - Crime of the Century

    School
    Bloody Well Right
    Hide In Your Shell
  • A cheat BUT sides A and B were swapped at the last moment, so I'm picking the first 3 songs of Side B of The Beatles' Abbey Road

    Here comes the sun
    Because
    You never give me your money
  • Trick of the Tail - Genesis.

    Dance on a Volcano.
    Entangled
    Squonk
    My Mrs has got that on at the moment. 
    I'm at the point of finding the most blunt knife we have in the house and chopping my member and nads off and throwing them down the garden to ease the pain of listening to this. 
    If you do then I expect she'll be in need of a replacement to satisfy her. Seeing as me & her obviously have the same great taste in music I'd be happy to help her out anytime she needs a good....... 😉
    ...Financial advisor
    ...moan
  • As one resident Reggae aficionado:

    The Wailers: Catch a Fire (1973)

    -Concrete Jungle
    -Slave driver
    -400 years

    Those first three songs go hard!
  • I am the sea
    The real me
    Quadrophenia


    The Ooo
  • From the days when .........

    Where the streets have no name
    I still haven't found what I'm  looking for
    With or without you


    The Joshua Tree 
  • Remake/Remodel
    Ladytron
    If there is something


    Roxy Music - Roxy Music album review  Louder
  • edited January 2021
    OK, coming from left field here:

    "Blackwater Side
    "The Snow It Melts The Soonest"
    "Willie O'Winsbury"

    Anne Briggs, eponymous album.
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