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Track 1, side 1, 1st album...best opener
Posted: Fri May 19, 2023 6:15 pm
by Bordeaux
Frightened - the fall
Re: Track 1, side 1, 1st album...best opener
Posted: Fri May 19, 2023 6:16 pm
by claret2018
Smells like teen spirit
Re: Track 1, side 1, 1st album...best opener
Posted: Fri May 19, 2023 6:23 pm
by Tricky Trevor
Meat Loaf, Bat Out of Hell first track album of same name.
Close thread.
Re: Track 1, side 1, 1st album...best opener
Posted: Fri May 19, 2023 6:29 pm
by Bordeaux
For those of a certain age...blue orchids playing golden lion, tod, week saturday
Re: Track 1, side 1, 1st album...best opener
Posted: Fri May 19, 2023 6:38 pm
by Kuriosoranj
Like eating glass, silent alarm, bloc party.
1st one that came to mind.
Re: Track 1, side 1, 1st album...best opener
Posted: Fri May 19, 2023 6:46 pm
by aclaretinstevenage
Tricky Trevor wrote: ↑Fri May 19, 2023 6:23 pm
Meat Loaf, Bat Out of Hell first track album of same name.
Close thread.
Yeah! I'll go with that.
Re: Track 1, side 1, 1st album...best opener
Posted: Fri May 19, 2023 6:46 pm
by dougcollins
Re: Track 1, side 1, 1st album...best opener
Posted: Fri May 19, 2023 7:01 pm
by Claretmisterg
https://youtu.be/kWhzG9cQGgc
Remake/Remodel first track on first Roxy Music album. Superb.
Re: Track 1, side 1, 1st album...best opener
Posted: Fri May 19, 2023 7:12 pm
by TheFamilyCat
Best intro, of not best track:
Welcome to the Jungle,
Appetite for Destruction
Guns n Roses
Re: Track 1, side 1, 1st album...best opener
Posted: Fri May 19, 2023 7:13 pm
by Stubsy
Janie Jones.
Re: Track 1, side 1, 1st album...best opener
Posted: Fri May 19, 2023 7:17 pm
by Lancasterclaret
I'm sorry, but if you are not putting "I wanna be adored" by The Stone Roses on their self titled debut album then everyone on here is either a lot younger or a lot older than I thought
Re: Track 1, side 1, 1st album...best opener
Posted: Fri May 19, 2023 7:23 pm
by Herts Clarets
Lancasterclaret wrote: ↑Fri May 19, 2023 7:17 pm
I'm sorry, but if you are not putting "I wanna be adored" by The Stone Roses on their self titled debut album then everyone on here is either a lot younger or a lot older than I thought
Exactly my choice too. 34 years after I first heard it, I still get goosebumps when I hear that opening bassline
Re: Track 1, side 1, 1st album...best opener
Posted: Fri May 19, 2023 7:36 pm
by jdrobbo
Somewhere Only We Know
Hopes and Fears
Keane
Sub note: reached one billion Spotify downloads last week.
Re: Track 1, side 1, 1st album...best opener
Posted: Fri May 19, 2023 7:40 pm
by ervi34
TheFamilyCat wrote: ↑Fri May 19, 2023 7:12 pm
Best intro, of not best track:
Welcome to the Jungle,
Appetite for Destruction
Guns n Roses
Not a big GNR fan but hard to argue with that.
Others I like:
Take it Easy - Eagles
Good Times Bad Times - Led Zeppelin 1
Re: Track 1, side 1, 1st album...best opener
Posted: Fri May 19, 2023 7:43 pm
by andyh
Disorder - Unknown Pleasures - Joy Division
Re: Track 1, side 1, 1st album...best opener
Posted: Fri May 19, 2023 7:45 pm
by dougcollins
Good Times, Bad Times is a great shout.
Re: Track 1, side 1, 1st album...best opener
Posted: Fri May 19, 2023 7:57 pm
by Jacob Rees Dogg
With a Hip- Echo and the Bunnymen off the seminal Heaven up Here
HMHB - Fuckin’ ‘ell it’s Fred Titmus
Re: Track 1, side 1, 1st album...best opener
Posted: Fri May 19, 2023 7:58 pm
by Roosterbooster
jdrobbo wrote: ↑Fri May 19, 2023 7:36 pm
Somewhere Only We Know
Hopes and Fears
Keane
Sub note: reached one billion Spotify downloads last week.

Every now and again, a poster you respect says something that shocks you.
I'd go Over My Head, Fleetwood Mac, The White Album
(technically not their first album, but the first album by the classic Rumours lineup of McVie x2, Fleetwood, Buckingham and Nicks)
Re: Track 1, side 1, 1st album...best opener
Posted: Fri May 19, 2023 8:00 pm
by bfcjg
Drive, Automatic for the People REM.
Re: Track 1, side 1, 1st album...best opener
Posted: Fri May 19, 2023 8:04 pm
by bobinho
Thunder road. Springsteen from Born to run.
Hanging on the telephone. Blondie from parallel lines.
Jokerman. Dylan from Infidels.
Suspect device. SLF from inflammable material
Holidays in the sun. Sex pistols from never mind the ********.
Re: Track 1, side 1, 1st album...best opener
Posted: Fri May 19, 2023 8:06 pm
by boatshed bill
Jethro Tull "My Sunday Feeling" from their 1st album "This Was" brilliant opener.
Re: Track 1, side 1, 1st album...best opener
Posted: Fri May 19, 2023 8:07 pm
by jdrobbo
Roosterbooster wrote: ↑Fri May 19, 2023 7:58 pm

Every now and again, a poster you respect says something that shocks you.
I'd go Over My Head, Fleetwood Mac, The White Album
(technically not their first album, but the first album by the classic Rumours lineup of McVie x2, Fleetwood, Buckingham and Nicks)
Have an eclectic taste. Love Keane. Seen them and TC several times…favourite group is Erasure. Like the Stones and Beach Boys. 🫣

Re: Track 1, side 1, 1st album...best opener
Posted: Fri May 19, 2023 8:14 pm
by Roosterbooster
jdrobbo wrote: ↑Fri May 19, 2023 8:07 pm
Have an eclectic taste. Love Keane. Seen them and TC several times…favourite group is Erasure. Like the Stones and Beach Boys. 🫣
That is definitely eclectic. Nice. No shame in liking what you like. Just surprised me. I'm a massive Beach Boys fan too. Kokomo is in my top 10 ever songs
Re: Track 1, side 1, 1st album...best opener
Posted: Fri May 19, 2023 8:15 pm
by Jakubs Tash
Rock n Roll Star - Definitely Maybe (Oasis)
Re: Track 1, side 1, 1st album...best opener
Posted: Fri May 19, 2023 8:22 pm
by sportak-mustgo
Apple Green on Slinky by Milltown Brothers
Re: Track 1, side 1, 1st album...best opener
Posted: Fri May 19, 2023 8:23 pm
by Cabbage
Counting Crows
August and Everything After
Round Here
Re: Track 1, side 1, 1st album...best opener
Posted: Fri May 19, 2023 8:25 pm
by sportak-mustgo
Song for the Lovers on Alone with Everybody - Richard Ashcroft
Re: Track 1, side 1, 1st album...best opener
Posted: Fri May 19, 2023 8:26 pm
by sportak-mustgo
A Message to You Rudy : The Specials
Re: Track 1, side 1, 1st album...best opener
Posted: Fri May 19, 2023 8:32 pm
by elwaclaret
Stone Roses - I wanna be adored
Madness - One Step Beyond
The Jam - Dream Time
Re: Track 1, side 1, 1st album...best opener
Posted: Fri May 19, 2023 8:33 pm
by Bordeaux
Jacob Rees Dogg wrote: ↑Fri May 19, 2023 7:57 pm
With a Hip- Echo and the Bunnymen off the seminal Heaven up Here
HMHB - Fuckin’ ‘ell it’s Fred Titmus
Going up is 1st, side 1,1st album, but heaven up here is a joyous thing
Re: Track 1, side 1, 1st album...best opener
Posted: Fri May 19, 2023 8:37 pm
by Braindead
I Wanna Be Adored - Stone Roses
Sometimes - Gerry Cinnamon
Son of a Gun- The LA'S
Re: Track 1, side 1, 1st album...best opener
Posted: Fri May 19, 2023 8:39 pm
by Braindead
sportak-mustgo wrote: ↑Fri May 19, 2023 8:22 pm
Apple Green on Slinky by Milltown Brothers
Great shout on a great album
Re: Track 1, side 1, 1st album...best opener
Posted: Fri May 19, 2023 8:45 pm
by Ptangyangkipperbang
Love Vigilantes New Order
Re: Track 1, side 1, 1st album...best opener
Posted: Fri May 19, 2023 8:45 pm
by Sackville
Into the valley on scared to dance by the skids
Re: Track 1, side 1, 1st album...best opener
Posted: Fri May 19, 2023 8:55 pm
by sportak-mustgo
I know I shouldn’t be pedantic, but not their 1st Album.
I bet you were waiting to see who’s bite first….?
Great track though
Re: Track 1, side 1, 1st album...best opener
Posted: Fri May 19, 2023 8:55 pm
by claret2018
Lancasterclaret wrote: ↑Fri May 19, 2023 7:17 pm
I'm sorry, but if you are not putting "I wanna be adored" by The Stone Roses on their self titled debut album then everyone on here is either a lot younger or a lot older than I thought
It’s not even the best opener to a Stone Roses album!
Re: Track 1, side 1, 1st album...best opener
Posted: Fri May 19, 2023 8:57 pm
by Ptangyangkipperbang
sportak-mustgo wrote: ↑Fri May 19, 2023 8:55 pm
I know I shouldn’t be pedantic, but not their 1st Album.
I bet you were waiting to see who’s bite first….?
Great track though
But neither is the OPs choice
Re: Track 1, side 1, 1st album...best opener
Posted: Fri May 19, 2023 9:00 pm
by Ptangyangkipperbang
Sorry ignore that I've had amalfuntion
Re: Track 1, side 1, 1st album...best opener
Posted: Fri May 19, 2023 9:01 pm
by Jacob Rees Dogg
Bordeaux wrote: ↑Fri May 19, 2023 8:33 pm
Going up is 1st, side 1,1st album, but heaven up here is a joyous thing
Cheers Bordeaux.
I think we’re both wrong, it’s Show of Strength then With a Hip.
Oh, just realised you were speaking about the first album and I picked the second. At least we agree HUH is good

Re: Track 1, side 1, 1st album...best opener
Posted: Fri May 19, 2023 9:05 pm
by RMutt
Definitive Gaze, Real Life, Magazine.
Roadrunner, Modern Lovers, Modern Lovers.
A couple that just missed it, I Wanna be your Dog is second on The Stooges album and Another Girl Another Planet is second on the Only Ones album.
Re: Track 1, side 1, 1st album...best opener
Posted: Fri May 19, 2023 9:09 pm
by Pheonixknight
Hells bells from back in black...ac/dc....really sets the tone for a brilliant album that just never gets old.
Re: Track 1, side 1, 1st album...best opener
Posted: Fri May 19, 2023 9:16 pm
by Jacob Rees Dogg
ABC - Show Me off the Lexicon of Love
Re: Track 1, side 1, 1st album...best opener
Posted: Fri May 19, 2023 9:17 pm
by Billyblah
Fotherngay - Fairport Convention, from the 1968 album What we did on our holidays
Re: Track 1, side 1, 1st album...best opener
Posted: Fri May 19, 2023 9:20 pm
by timshorts
What do you want from me - monaco
Up the down escalator - the chameleons
And for those bus pass types that have been posting things on here that usually have me dashing for the remote/off switch,
more than a feeling - boston.
Re: Track 1, side 1, 1st album...best opener
Posted: Fri May 19, 2023 9:22 pm
by bobinho
sportak-mustgo wrote: ↑Fri May 19, 2023 8:26 pm
A Message to You Rudy : The Specials
I nearly went for this…. Then I realised it didn’t qualify and I was gutted…
Re: Track 1, side 1, 1st album...best opener
Posted: Fri May 19, 2023 9:23 pm
by theonlywayisup
The Doors
Break on through (to the other side)
Re: Track 1, side 1, 1st album...best opener
Posted: Fri May 19, 2023 9:24 pm
by bobinho
bobinho wrote: ↑Fri May 19, 2023 8:04 pm
Thunder road. Springsteen from Born to run.
Hanging on the telephone. Blondie from parallel lines.
Jokerman. Dylan from Infidels.
Suspect device. SLF from inflammable material
Holidays in the sun. Sex pistols from never mind the ********.
Just realised only two of my choices qualify….



Re: Track 1, side 1, 1st album...best opener
Posted: Fri May 19, 2023 9:25 pm
by timshorts
Pheonixknight wrote: ↑Fri May 19, 2023 9:09 pm
Hells bells from back in black...ac/dc....really sets the tone for a brilliant album that just never gets old.
Yes, but it's cheating.high voltage is the first album, so if we stick to the UK offering of the album, we get "it's a long way to the top" complete with bagpipes. Excellent.
Re: Track 1, side 1, 1st album...best opener
Posted: Fri May 19, 2023 9:31 pm
by depechedingle
The Killers from debut album Hot Fuss.
Jenny was a Friend of Mine.
Great introduction to the world, from the helicopter start.
Re: Track 1, side 1, 1st album...best opener
Posted: Fri May 19, 2023 9:31 pm
by HunterST_BFC
Just off the top of my head,..
The Stone Roses - I Wanna Be Adored
Depeche Mode - World In My Eyes
The Smiths – The Queen Is Dead
Tears For Fears - Shout
Joy Division - Disorder
TalkTalk - "Happiness Is Easy"
Stereolab - "Metronomic underground"
I could pick more...
All from great LPs with no filler tracks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyCjTj0 ... partacvs75