Best opening track of a debut album?

stufisher

Of course the ones that leapt out at me have been cited early doors:

Good times bad times (LZ)
Runnin' with the Devil (VH)

but I'd also throw in:

I ain't the one (Lynyrd Skynyrd)
I will follow (U2)

However you slice'n dice it this is a great thread ... brings back so many memories from the last fifty years or so (for me anyway)  

prowla

Come And Get It, by Badfinger was on Magic Christian Music, their first album as Badfinger; the track was written by Paul McCartney and featured music from the movie The Magic Christian, which starred Peter Sellers and Ringo Starr.

Reverend

Dopesick said:

Black Sabbath
Eternal nightmare 
The Tempter

Ftfy

Reverend

The tempter 
Black sabbath
Sailing on
Sonic reducer
Nod scene
We gotta know
Immortal rites
I aint no joke
Bring da ruckus 
Twist of cain
Death tone
Prowler 

prowla

Going back over time...

Ashes, by Five Finger Death Punch is a good 'un; I saw them supporting Lamb Of God and they were really good live.

Papercut by Linkin Park set the scene (though In The End is their best track).

I Will Follow by U2 shows The Edge was there from the beginning.

Girls On Film by Duran Duran had a classy video...

Why Dontcha by West, Bruce & Laing is belter!

Mississippi Queen, was Mountain's intro as the band, though Leslie West release a solo album "Mountain" the year before.

Litterick

Non-Alignment Pact

EricTheWeary

https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6i4l-LrVWwvdA1f_7iC9jmoXGW52cufo&feature=share

Not absolutely everything mentioned and a couple not mentioned thrown in but hopefully the link works so if you have YouTube music and need something to do the washing up to at the time of writing it’s 39 songs. 

Grumpyrocker

Black Sabbath is the greatest of those mentioned for me. Not just a song, but a manifesto. Here you go everyone, this is heavy metal, go have fun with it. Not intentional of course, but what an influential song. 

Good Times Bad Times is a brilliant introduction. Here we are, talented fuckers aren't we, strap in. 

I love Maiden, but for me Prowler is far from their best. Imagine if they'd kicked off the debut album with Phantom of the Opera. That track was my introduction to band, long before I actually got into them, via the Daley Thompson Lucozade advert. 

hollywoodrox

Kebabkid said:

For me it's Giant's 'I'm a believer' with the mighty Dann Huff



Go West's 'We Close our Eyes'

Toto's 'I'll Supply the Love' - ok, the instrumental, 'Child's Anthem' is the first tune but this is the first song

Dude , hats off to you , you picked three blinders there ,absolutely exquisite taste 

mudslide73

A lot of my favs have gone, but I've always loved Finding My Way from Rush's first record. 

Nitefly

Another vote here for "Do It Again".

markv

Lots of good candidates here, not sure I can offer many more but just off the top of my head:

• Phil Collins - "In the Air Tonight" (Face Value)
• Jeff Buckley - "Mojo Pin" (Grace)
• Dexys Midnight Runners - "Burn It Down" (Searching for the Young Soul Rebels)

ICBM

markv said:

Phil Collins - "In the Air Tonight" (Face Value)

That's a great one. Shame his music took only a downward trajectory from then on...

markv

ICBM said:

markv said:

Phil Collins - "In the Air Tonight" (Face Value)

That's a great one. Shame his music took only a downward trajectory from then on...

Yeah, it's one of my favourite albums but it would also be a good candidate for the list "debut albums that were really good but that the artist totally failed to subsequently live up to"

And on the other hand: great first track from a superb debut album, I've just thought of:

Nick Drake - "Time Has Told Me" (Five Leaves Left)

scrumhalf

Blister On The Moon frm Taste's self-titled first album, what an opening statement.

HAL9000

She Does It Right - Dr Feelgood

Deadman

Street of dreams (The Damned, Phantasmagoria).

Writing on the wall (Hazel O’Connor, Breaking glass).

goldtop

You're 16 years old, all around you psychedelia is morphing into hard rock, the engineer presses [Record] and you set your band off on an amazing 50 year arc:



(OK, so he buggered off pretty quickly afterwards, and developed a more melodic style, but what a debut.)

stimpsonslostson

Has Rock n roll star by Oasis been mentioned? 
I remember the first time I heard Definitely Maybe & it was really exciting. 

EricTheWeary

stimpsonslostson said:

Has Rock n roll star by Oasis been mentioned? 
I remember the first time I heard Definitely Maybe & it was really exciting. 

Yes it has (on my playlist and came up during the washing up).