Favorite Opening Track(s)

[KDude]

White Zombie - Welcome to Planet Motherfucker
Cure - Boys Don't Cry
GZA - Liquid Swords

 

[iamathousandapples]

The Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness (Even though the album as a whole really isn't that good, the intro is amazing)
King Crimson - Red
Mastodon - Oblivion
Fates Warning - Disconnected Part I(especially if you've listened to the entire album in full, which also gets my award for best Outro)

 

[simulatedworld]

The Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness (Even though the album as a whole really isn't that good, the intro is amazing)

If only they'd taken the best tracks from each disc and made a normal length album, it could have been extraordinary.

As it is it suffers from typical double album syndrome.

 

[pure_mercury]

If only they'd taken the best tracks from each disc and made a normal length album, it could have been extraordinary.

As it is it suffers from typical double album syndrome.

I don't know if it would have flowed as well in a single album format, but it is too long and larded with filler. If you look at a lot of double albums, they wouldn't really work right if they were just a single album.

 

[wolfy]

Walk On: Neil Young (On the Beach)
Whole Lotta Love: Led Zep (Led Zepellin II)
Sabbath Bloody Sabbath:Sabbath Bloody Sabbath (Black Sabbath)
Baby, Please Don't Go: AC/DC (High Voltage:Australasian Edition)
Jimmy James:Beastie Boys (Check Your Head)
Like a Rolling Stone: Bob Dylan (Highway 61 Revisited)

 

[KDude]

I want to add... Death On Two Legs - Queen

 

[Gamine]

Anything by the Beach Boys.

Let's test it against everything it could be applied to:
My life? Check.
A Chick Flick? Check.
A Horror film? Check.
A satire? Check.
A commercial? Check.

 

[TopherRed]

1 Song: "Bohemian Like You" by the Dandy Worhols. Goes with friggin everything.

 

[human101]

miles davis - so what
photek - hidden camera

 

[tastes_like_purple]

The Guillotine part II - Escape The Fate

 

[Aerithria]

Joanna Newsom - Emily (Ys)

 

[highlander]

Best I think is Cherub Rock - Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream

and Let's Go Crazy - Prince - Purple Rain

 

[Kingfisher]

Bright Side Of The Road - Van Morrison (Into The Music)
A Message To You, Rudy - The Specials (Specials)
Fight Like A Brave - Red Hot Chili Peppers (The Uplift Mofo Party Plan)
Bop Gun - Parliament (Funkentelechy Vs. The Placebo Syndrome)

 

[aeon]

• "One of These Days" - Pink Floyd, from Meddle
• "Reverence" - The Jesus and Mary Chain, from Honey's Dead
• "Spellbound" - Siouxsie and the Banshees, from Juju
• "Do the Strand" - Roxy Music, from For Your Pleasure
• "Only Shallow" - My Bloody Valentine, from Loveless
• "Hanging on the Telephone" - Blondie, from Parallel Lines
• "I Wanna Be Adored" - Stone Roses, from Stone Roses
• "Smells Like Teen Spirit" - Nirvana, from Nevermind
• "Angel" - Massive Attack, from Mezzanine
• "Whole Lotta Love" - Led Zeppelin, from Led Zeppelin II
• "Taxman" - The Beatles, from Revolver
• "London Calling" - The Clash, from London Calling
• "Gimme Shelter" - The Rolling Stones, from Let It Bleed
• "She Blinded Me With Science" - Thomas Dolby, from The Golden Age of Wireless

cheers,
Ian

 

[Spamtar]

as noted above...One of These Days" - Pink Floyd, from Meddle (awsome base) and Smashing Pumpkins Siamese Dream and G&Rs Welcome to the Jungle.

also add

"Angel of Death" Slayer; Reign in Blood. (toss up between this and the more moody South of Heaven with its more memorable opening guitar riff)
"Poundcake" Van Halen; For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge also one of the most underrated albums of all time
"2112" (title track) Rush actually prefer the most of the rest of the album the same or better.
"Murder Was the Case" (Snoop Dogg) Murder Was the Case: The Soundtrack especially followed by the second track "Natural Born Killaz" (Dre and Ice Cube)
"Here with Me" Dido No Angel yup call me a romantic

 

[speculative]

I also enjoy opening tracks such as:

"Pork Chop's Little Ditty" from Primus' Pork Soda
and
"Untitled Track [1]" from Mudhoney's Piece of Cake

 

[Kingfisher]

Hot Head - Captain Beefheart, from Doc At The Radar Station

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[Halla74]

"Love On a Real Train" by Tangerine Dream

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This is the track where Tom Cruise "did it" with Rebecca DeMornay on a subway in the movie "Risky Business." I've used it as an intro on many a mix CD...

 

[EffEmDoubleyou]

"Smells Like Teen Spirit" - Nirvana, from Nevermind

Oh hell yes. I can't believe I forgot this one.

 

[Sinmara]

My favorite opening track is my favorite because it was so surprising.

Prelude 3.0 is the first track of Slipknot's album Vol. 3: The Subliminal Verses. If you haven't heard Slipknot, they're a metal band known for their brutal drum section. But Prelude 3.0 was a slow, sad song of regret that almost reminded me of a ballad.