Track 1 Side 1

545454

Was just listening to Led Zep 1 and thinking, what a bloody great way to start an album
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSiUTSJ2NWY 

But then, I guess loads of albums have great openers, a few that spring to mind
Let it Bleed (Gimme Shelter)
Sign O' The Times
Doolittle (Debaser)
Siamese Dream (Cherub Rock)
Marquee Moon (See No Evil)
Off the Wall (Don't Stop til you get enough)
McAlmont & Butler (Yes)

Have you folks got any particular favourites?

randella

Appetite for Destruction (Welcome to the Jungle)

Ten (Once)

tone1

Even Flow - 10 Pearl Jam ( edit... even though Once was the first tack.....must have been on shuffle play mode... )
Nirvana - Love The Cult
Welcome to the Jungle - Appletize for destruction GNR 

not_the_dj

You guys must have different versions of that Pearl Jam album ;-)

545454

Talking of Welcome to the Jungle...haven't seen this film for a long time, but who can forget it...just weird
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndQLwGan5XM

tone1

not_the_dj said:

You guys must have different versions of that Pearl Jam album ;-)

Oh dear... have I got it wrong again?

thecolourbox

White Stripes Elephant (Seven Nation Army)

CHRISB50

DJ Shadow - Best Foot Forward - Endtroducing
MSP - Slash and Burn - Generation Terrorists
Radiohead - Planet Telex - The Bends 
Bluetones - Talking to Clarry - Expecting to Fly
FM - Need Your Love So Bad - Pious Bird of Good Omen
Goldie - Timeless - Timeless 
Jimi - Hey Joe - Are You Experienced
LZ - Whole Lotta Love - II
Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit - Nevermind
OCS - Riverboat Song - Moseley Shoals
Raconteurs - Steady As She Goes - Broken Boy Soldiers
Ride - Leave Them All Behind - Going Blank Again
TOTD - Say Hello 2 Heaven - S/T
Therapy? - Knives - Troublegum

That’ll do for now

lasermonkey

My Bloody Valentine - Only Shallow - Loveless
Cocteau Twins - Lazy Calm - Victorialand 
Teenage Fanclub - The Concept - Bandwagonesque 
Boards Of Canada - Ready Let's Go - Geogaddi
Massive Attack - Angel - Mezzanine 
Aphex Twin - Xtal - Selected Ambient Works 1985-92
REM - Harborcoat - Reckoning
Black Sabbath - Hole In The Sky - Sabotage
Siouxsie And The Banshees - Dazzle - Hyaena

DiscoStu

Metallica - Master of Puppets - Battery

scrumhalf

Foxy Lady - Are You Experienced

Highway Star - Machine Head

Bod

DiscoStu said:

Metallica - Master of Puppets - Battery

My choice too...

DiscoStu

Bod said:

DiscoStu said:

Metallica - Master of Puppets - Battery

My choice too...

30 years on, that very first acoustic part of the intro still gets me excited. Then the build... then the assault of the song itself. A blistering start.

Funkfingers

Start Me Up - The Rolling Stones - Tattoo You
One Little Victory - Rush - Vapor Trails
Led Zeppelin - Immigrant Song - LZIII
Richard Thompson - Tear Stained Letter - Hand Of Kindness
The The - I've Been Waiting For Tomorrow (All Of My Life) - Soul Mining
Donna Lee - Jaco Pastorius - Jaco Pastorius
Spirit Of The Radio - Rush - Permanent Waves
Rocks Off - The Rolling Stones - Exile On Main Street
Bruce Springsteen - Thunder Road - Born To Run
Yes - Going For The One - Going For The One
Bob Dylan - Rainy Day Women #12 & 35 - Blonde On Blonde


Most of all ...
Bob Dylan - Like A Rolling Stone - Highway 61 Revisited 

Sporky

Jane's Addiction - Nothing's Shocking - Up The Beach.

Funkfingers

CHRISB50 said:

Jimi - Hey Joe - Are You Experienced

Oops. UK release version of AYE? opens with Foxy Lady.

Hey Joe was a single. It appears on the 1997 remastered edition of AYE? as a bonus track.

JezWynd

Funkfingers said:

Bob Dylan - Rainy Day Women #12 & 35 - Blonde On Blonde


Most of all ...
Bob Dylan - Like A Rolling Stone - Highway 61 Revisited 

Must add Blood on the Tracks to that list: Tangled Up In Blue "Early one mornin' the sun was shining, I was layin' in bed" You know it's going to be a trip.

Stones, Exile - Rocks Off

not_the_dj

The Waterboys “Don’t bang a drum” from
the “This is the Sea” LP. 

A trumphant fanfare of an opening by track. 

https://youtu.be/Ztk2lvTN7ZA

scrumhalf

All Your Love - John Mayall's Bluesbreakers with Eric Clapton. Probably one of the most influential T1S1's.

munckee

I wanna be adored from the first stone roses album. 

munckee

Oh yeah an stone roses second album breaking into heaven,