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Best first track on an album

BerkshireBobBerkshireBob
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Not sure if this has been discussed before - apologies if it has - but showing my age I would like to nominate 'Highway Star' from Deep Purple's excellent 'Machine Head'. 
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    SuedeAdidasSuedeAdidas
    Gotta go some to beat Funeral for a Friend / Love lies Bleeding. 
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    YoungFishCosta4tuneYoungFishCosta4tune
    01. Papercut - Linkin Park (Hybrid Theory)

    Genre-mashing mission statement from the best selling debut album of the 21st century.
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    Henry IrvingHenry Irving
    Blinded by the Light - Greetings from Ashbury Park.
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    ChunesChunes
    edited February 24
    Taxman - Beatles / Revolver
    Bring da Ruckus - Wu Tang Clan / 36 Chambers
    Bittersweet Symphony - The Verve / Urban Hymns 
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    AlgarveaddickAlgarveaddick
    Here's Little Richard - Tutti Frutti
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    GribboGribbo
    Got a few and in no particular order -

    Riverboat Song - OCS (Mosely Shoals)

    Luckenbach Texas - Waylon Jennings (Ol Waylon)

    Aviation -  The Last Shadow Puppets (Everything You've Come To Expect)

    A few of Glen Campbells and Weller etc etc


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    Karim_myBagheriKarim_myBagheri
    Not really sure but I do love the album Tea For the Tillerman by Cat Stevens, so, 

    Where do the Children Play 
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    golfaddickgolfaddick
    Black Dog  -  Led Zep 4

    But I will also concede to

    Taxman - Revolver
    Gimmee Shelter  - Let it Bleed
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    MrOneLungMrOneLung
    As usual @bobmunro is correct. 

    Best song ever
    Best opening song ever
    Best intro ever

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    SillybillySillybilly
    Telegraph Road.  Dire Straits - Love Over Gold
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    McCartneyMcCartney
    The snare pop and what follows on Safe European Home by The Clash is a great start to Give Em Enough Rope. Not a great album though that was their next the start of which I'll probably hear in a few minutes
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    BaileyBailey
    Wouldn't it be nice, Pet Sounds, Beach Boys. She bangs the Drum, Stone Roses, Stone Roses. Here comes the Sun, Abbey Road, The Beatles. Alone again or, Forever changes, Love. 
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    Friend Or DefoeFriend Or Defoe
    Once on Ten by Pearl Jam

    Welcome To The Jungle on Appetite for Destruction by Guns 'n' Roses

    Them Bones on Dirt by Alice in Chains

    Rust Cage on Badmotorfinger by Soundgarden
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    PragueAddickPragueAddick
    Tough between Gimme Shelter and Baba O’Reilly, but close behind them from that era of the Black Prince Bexley and Croydon Greyhound nights, I give you Our Song (Saturday Morning Pictures) - Stray, and Time Was (Argus) - Wishbone Ash. 
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    addicksonaddickson
    Accidents Will Happen from Armed Forces by Elvis Costello and the Attractions
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    cafctomcafctom
    edited February 24
    An eclectic mix, but these are all 10/10 in their own way:

    - Your Song - Elton John
    - Enter Sandman - Metallica
    - Welcome to The Jungle - Guns N Roses
    - Innuendo - Queen
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    GlenPonderGlenPonder
    Tom Sawyer - Rush 
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    EveshamAddickEveshamAddick
    Bailey said:
    Wouldn't it be nice, Pet Sounds, Beach Boys. She bangs the Drum, Stone Roses, Stone Roses. Here comes the Sun, Abbey Road, The Beatles. Alone again or, Forever changes, Love. 
    First track on Abbey Road is Come Together….
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    EveshamAddickEveshamAddick
    Chizz said:
    The Police's Roxanne, from Outlandos d'amour is a pretty good first track, especially as it's the band's first album. 
    First track on Outlandos is Next to You.
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    PaddyP17PaddyP17
    Miles Davis - So What
    U2 - Where The Streets Have No Name
    Led Zeppelin - Good Times Bad Times
    The Strokes - Is This It?
    Stan Getz and Joao Gilberto - The Girl From Ipanema

    There are many already covered above. Just throwing in a few ideas.

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    Six-a-bag-of-nutsSix-a-bag-of-nuts
    Wouldn't it be nice and Gimme Shelter as mentioned.
    Also, David Watts The Kinks- Something Else
    21st Century Schizoid Man - King Crimson- In the Court of the Crimson King
    Bridge Over Troubled Water - Simon and Garfunkal - Bridge...
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    seth plumseth plum
    First album, first track, and introduction to the world, bass drum triplets, still sounds fresh, blistering and produced well enough to fill up all the spaces. Recorded in 1968, and first released in January of 1969 when the world was all valves and sliders.


    Good Times Bad Times

    Sorry Bob, but now we can close the thread.
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    charlton4evercharlton4ever
    "Don't Waste My Time"  -  Piledriver
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    ChizzChizz
    EveshamAddick said:
    Chizz said:
    The Police's Roxanne, from Outlandos d'amour is a pretty good first track, especially as it's the band's first album. 
    First track on Outlandos is Next to You.
    Yes, you're right. I was looking at a wrong listing. 
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    Henry IrvingHenry Irving
    Janie Jones - The Clash 

    "I'm in love with Rock n Roll, wow"

    Gloria - Horses, Patti Smith

    "Jesus died for somebody's sins but not mine"

    Sunday Morning - The Velvet Underground 
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