Best opening track of a debut album?

Philly_Q

The answer is Black Sabbath, but a few more which sprang to mind (apologies if any have already been mentioned):

Man on the Silver Mountain from Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow
In the New Age from Out of the Silent Planet by King's X
Bang Go the Bells by Babylon AD
Hungry for Rock from Earthshaker by Y&T (...cheating, but their first two albums were as Yesterday and Today)
Can I Tell You by Kansas
I See the Ruins from Last Decade Dead Century by Warrior Soul

LPManic

Did anyone mention Next to You - The Police?

EricTheWeary

LPManic said:

Did anyone mention Next to You - The Police?

I started going my own way with my playlist and that’s on there! 

Stuckfast

This has to be a pretty strong candidate:

Creed_Clicks

Blackened

Philly_Q

Creed_Clicks said:

Blackened

Debut album...?

StefB

Jonathangus said:

funhouse said:

Hells Bells, Back in Black

Er - debut album?

It was Brian Johnson's debut album with them I suppose.

MagicPigDetective

Couple of good uns:

Seagull by Ride, from their Nowhere debut LP
God! Show Me Magic by Super Furry Animals, Fuzzy Logic LP

Tele-scopic

Here's some from me that I don't think have been mentioned and that I hope are from the debut albums.  (I would have also gone for See No Evil, Marquee Moon, Television too)

Oblivious, High Land Hard Rain, Aztec Camera
Disorder, Unknown Pleasures, Joy Division
Safe From Harm, Blue Lines, Massive Attack
Falling and Laughing, You Can't Hide Your Love Forever, Orange Juice

Nitefly

Have we had "Yours Is No Disgrace" yet? 

Astonishing opener from "The Yes Album".

Reverend

A few more
Grand Funk - Are You Ready?
Slayer - Evil Has No Boundaries
Flotsam and Jetsam - Hammerhead
Mercyful Fate - Evil
Ashbury  - The Warning
Angel Witch - Angel Witch
Pentagram - Relentless
Saint Vitus - Saint Vitus
Candlemass - Solitude
the Obsessed - Tombstone Highway
Bolt Thrower - In Battle There Is No Law

mooncat

LA Guns - No Mercy

ICBM

Also not mentioned so far - Eagles, Take It Easy.

Maybe not quite as great or genre-defining as some already listed - although arguably AOR probably started there even if country rock didn't! - but good enough that they had difficulty topping it in their entire career, so much so that it was the final encore of the last gig they (the proper Eagles) ever played.

Philly_Q

ICBM said:

Also not mentioned so far - Eagles, Take It Easy.

Maybe not quite as great or genre-defining as some already listed - although arguably AOR probably started there even if country rock didn't! - but good enough that they had difficulty topping it in their entire career, so much so that it was the final encore of the last gig they (the proper Eagles) ever played.

I think that's a good one.  I'm not really an Eagles fan and I'm not that familiar with their material outside of the hits, but I certainly know that song.  And looking at the track listing of the first album I think it's the only one I know.

Eviltwin14

Twice as Hard - The Black Crowes
  Welcome to the Jungle - Guns n' Roses
  Make It  - Aerosmith

Shrews

Easy choice for me.

One Step Beyond from One Step Beyond

hollywoodrox

mooncat said:

LA Guns - No Mercy

Oooh great choice 

Tenebrous

Edit: Debut album, haha. My bad!

Janie Jones, then