Favorite opening track?

[mjlambert1]

What is your favorite opening track on an album?

For me, its a toss-up between War Pigs off of Paranoid and Frank Sinatra from Fashion Nugget.

[tridentgum0]

See No Evil - Marquee Moon (Television)
Out on the Weekend - Harvest (Neil Young)
Whiskey Man - Flirtin' With Disaster (Molly Hatchet)
Is There a Ghost - Cease to Begin (Band of Horses)
The best Ever Death Metal Band in Denton - All Hail West Texas (Mountain Goats)
Debaser - Doolittle (Pixies)
Dragonaut - Holy Mountain (Sleep)

[afterstasis]

carissa's wierd - heather rhodes
husker du - these important years
the mountain goats - the best ever death metal band in denton

[franticfish]

Obscura - Obscura (Gorguts)
Transilvanian Hunger - Transilvanian Hunger (Darkthrone)
Don't Eat The Yellow Snow - Apostrophe (') (Frank Zappa)
Pierced From Within - Pierced From Within (Suffocation)
Mother Man - Unquestionable Presence (Atheist)
21st Schizoid Man - In the Court of the Crimson King (King Crimson)
Hortz Fur Dëhn Stekëhn West - Mekanïk Destruktïw Kommandöh (Magma)
La Faulx - Heresie (Univers Zero)
War - In The Praise of Learning (Henry Cow)

[supernova1324]

New Day Rising - New Day Rising (Husker Du)
Something I Learned Today - Zen Arcade (Husker Du)
Prison Song - Toxicity (System of a Down)
To Defy the Laws of Tradition - Frizzle Fry (Primus)
Seven - Diary (Sunny Day Rela Estate)
Bat Out of Hell - Bat Out of Hell (Meat Loaf)
Trompe Le Monde - Trompe Le Monde (Pixies)

[Fizzeler]

Cygnus ... Vismund ... Cygnus - Frances The Mute (The Mars Volta)
In The Eyes Of The World - Stardust We Are (The Flower Kings)
All The Ways The Same/As The World - As The World (echolyn)
Neon Knights - Heaven And Hell (Black Sabbath)
Majesty - Battalions Of Fear (Blind Guardian)
Close To The Edge - Close To The Edge (YES)

[LegendofRock3021]

Evil - Melissa (Mercyful Fate)
Gypsy - ...Very 'Eavy ...Very 'Umble (Uriah Heep)
Hoochie Koochie Lady - Elf (Elf)
I Will Kill Again - The Black Flame (Wolf)
Only Shallow - Loveless (My Bloody Valentine)
Personality Crisis - New York Dolls (New York Dolls)
Stand Up and Shout - Holy Diver (Dio)
Steel Lord on Wheels - Defying the Rules (Hibria)

[Swivle]

I Feel Free - Fresh Cream (Cream)
In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3 - In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3 (Coheed and Cambria)
Foam Born: The Backtrack - Colors (Between the Buried and Me)
Come Together - Abbey Road (The Beatles)
Funeral for a Friend/Love Lies Bleeding - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road (Elton John)
Painkiller - Painkiller (Judas Priest)
Hit the Lights - Kill 'Em All (Metallica)
Bloodmeat - Fortress (Protest the Hero)

[Wiiman95]

Roundabout - Fragile(YES)
The Glass Prison - Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence(Dream Theater)
The Way - All the Pain Money Can Buy(Fastball)
Oblivion - Crack the Skye(Mastodon)
Fear of a Blank Planet - Fear of a Blank Planet(Porcupine Tree)

[jayou521]

Only Shallow - Loveless (My Bloody Valentine)
Indeed.

My list:

Only Shallow - Loveless (My Bloody Valentine)
Cygnus X-1 Book II: Hemispheres - Hemispheres (Rush)
Veil of Maya - Focus (Cynic)
Caught Somewhere In Time - Somewhere In Time (Iron Maiden)
Once Upon A Time In The West - Alchemy: Dire Straits Live (Dire Straits)
Down To The Waterline - Dire Straits (Dire Straits)
Untitled - Turn on the Bright Lights (Interpol)
Yours Is No Disgrace - The Yes Album (Yes)
The Gates of Delirium - Relayer (Yes)
Roundabout - Fragile (Yes)
The Age of Pamparius - Apocalypse Dudes (Turbonegro)


In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3 - In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3 (Coheed and Cambria)
Doesn't count since The Ring in Return is the first track.

[DeadPhoenix223]

Blackmail The Universe was cool the first time I heard it.

[Swivle]

Doesn't count since The Ring in Return is the first track.

I consider it the opener, since The Ring Return is more of an intro than a song, if that makes sense.

Also, +1000000 for Hemispheres. My favourite Rush song.

[harveyglobetrot]

- Born Under Punches (The Heat Goes On) - Talking Heads (off Remain In Light)
- I Will Dare - The Replacements (off Let It Be)
- Begin The Begin - R.E.M. (off Lifes Rich Pageant)
- Street Life - Roxy Music (off Stranded)
- The Fear - Pulp (off (This Is Hardcore)
- Let's Go Crazy - Prince (off Purple Rain)

[Rocket2Russia]

"Theme From Flood" - They Might Be Giants (Flood)

There's no more appropriate opener to any album. Shame on you all not thinking of it before me!

[macamatic]

Mirrors - The Great Misdirect (Between the Buried and Me)
For the Soul of the Savior - The Mark of the Judas (Darkest Hour)
The Glass Prison - Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence (Dream Theater)
Follow the Hollow - Natural Born Chaos (Soilwork)
The Grudge - Lateralus (Tool)

Probably plenty I missed. Really, my list of favorite closing tracks is much longer.

[afterstasis]

"Theme From Flood" - They Might Be Giants (Flood)

There's no more appropriate opener to any album. Shame on you all not thinking of it before me!

more like shame on you for not saying "ana ng"!

[Rocket2Russia]

more like shame on you for not saying "ana ng"!

"Ana Ng", too, is awesome, but what other opener is going to tell you that the ocean levels are rising as a direct result of the album to which you are about to listen?

That's right, none.

[clashcityrocker10]

Pixies - "Debaser" (Doolittle)
The Clash - "London Calling" (London Calling)
The Who - "The Real Me" (Quadrophenia)
Dead Kennedys - "Kill the Poor" (Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables)
Sonic Youth - "Teen Age Riot" (Daydream Nation)
Sonic Youth - "Dirty Boots" (Goo)
Neil Young - "Cinnamon Girl" (Everybody Knows This is Nowhere)

[supernova1324]

All these people listing Debaser as the first track on doolitte made me realize that my copy is out of order.

[Lameboy19]

concubine

didn't see that coming did you?

[Lithuanian_Boy]

Foam Born A: The Backtrack - Colors by Between the Buried And Me
Mirrors - The Great Misdirect by Between the Buried And Me
Bloodmeat - Fortress by Protest the Hero
Windowpane - Damnation by Opeth
Deadwing - Deadwing by Porcupine Tree
Speak to me/Breathe - Dark Side of The Moon by Pink Floyd
Old Crows - Old Crows/Young Cardinals by Alexisonfire

[Cubecubed]

There's no Secrets this Year-Silversun Pickups(Swoon)
No World for Tomorrow-Coheed and Cambria(No world for Tomorrow)
Burnout-Green Day(Dookie)
The Yeah Yeah Yeah Song-The Flaming Lips (at war with the mystics)

[killer_roach]

Abydos - The Inhabitants of His Diary (Abydos)
Dream Theater - A Nightmare to Remember (Black Clouds & Silver Linings)
Under The Influence Of Giants - Ah Ha (Under The Influence Of Giants)
Ayreon - Age of Shadows / We Are Forever (01011001)
Circus Maximus - Sin (The 1st Chapter)
Filter - Hey Man, Nice Shot (Short Bus)
Jamiroquai - Feels Just Like It Should (Dynamite)
King Crimson - 21st Century Schizoid Man (In The Court Of The Crimson King)
Monster Magnet - Melt (God Says No)
Nine Inch Nails - Head Like A Hole (Pretty Hate Machine)
Opeth - Windowpane (Damnation)
Rush - Anthem (Fly By Night)
Saviour Machine - Carnival of Souls (Saviour Machine)
Transatlantic - Duel With The Devil (Bridge Across Forever)
Uriah Heep - Hold Your Head Up (Raging Silence)
Van Der Graaf Generator - Darkness (11/11) (The Least We Can Do Is Wave To Each Other)
Yes - Yours Is No Disgrace (The Yes Album)

[MrFruitLord]

Concubine
Debaser
Disorder
and a lot more.

[overcookedbacon]

Sonic Youth - "Teen Age Riot" (Daydream Nation)
Joy Division - "Disorder" (Unknown Pleasures)
Joy Division - "Atrocity Exhibition" (Closer)
Rheostatics - "Record Body Count" (Melville)
Siouxsie & The Banshees - "Spellbound" (Juju)
Pavement - "Summer Babe (Winter Version)" (Slanted & Enchanted)
Pavement - "Stereo" (Brighten The Corners)
Dinosaur Jr. - "Freak Scene" (Bug)
Dinosaur Jr. - "Almost Ready" (Beyond)
Dinosaur Jr. - "Little Fury Things" (You're Living All Over Me)
Modest Mouse - "3rd Planet" (The Moon & Antarctica)

[neckermanncj]

the mountain goats - the best ever death metal band in denton
:)

Sonic Youth - "Teen Age Riot" (Daydream Nation)
Joy Division - "Disorder" (Unknown Pleasures)
Joy Division - "Atrocity Exhibition" (Closer)
Rheostatics - "Record Body Count" (Melville)
Siouxsie & The Banshees - "Spellbound" (Juju)
Pavement - "Summer Babe (Winter Version)" (Slanted & Enchanted)
Pavement - "Stereo" (Brighten The Corners)
Dinosaur Jr. - "Freak Scene" (Bug)
Dinosaur Jr. - "Almost Ready" (Beyond)
Dinosaur Jr. - "Little Fury Things" (You're Living All Over Me)
Modest Mouse - "3rd Planet" (The Moon & Antarctica)

i agree with all of these except the highlighted one's i haven't heard before

[tridentgum0]

Why didn't you quote me and smile?! I had the Best Ever Death Metal band in Denton in my post, too! :(

[neckermanncj]

Why didn't you quote me and smile?! I had the Best Ever Death Metal band in Denton in my post, too! :(
i didn't see it, although i'll give you 2 smiles!


Is There a Ghost - Cease to Begin (Band of Horses)
The best Ever Death Metal Band in Denton - All Hail West Texas (Mountain Goats)


:)
:)

[animemetalhead]

The Glass Prison - Dream Theater - Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence
The End of Everything - Trivium - Ascendancy
Ashes - Five Finger Death Punch - The Way of the Fist
Maria - Green Day - International Superhits

[sonicnerd23]

Going for the One - Yes
Whole Lotta Love - Led Zeppelin
In the Flesh? - Pink Floyd
Keep Yourself Alive - Queen
Creatures of the Night - Kiss

[ZosoBaron]

Apparently, Roundabout is an opening track. Thus, my favorite opening track is also my favorite song. :p

[Lizard_King]

Disorder- Joy Division (Unknown Pleasures)
Break on Through - The Doors (The Doors)
Death- White Lies (To Lose My Life)
Untitled - Interpol (Turn Out the Bright Lights)
Jenny was a Friend of Mine - The Killers (Hot Fuss)

thats the top 5 TRUE opening tracks, as in the first track on each bands first album :)

[Bub]

Disorder - Joy Division (Unknown Pleasures)
Airbag - Radiohead (OK Computer)
Everything in Its Right Place - Radiohead (Kid A)
My Name Is Jonas - Weezer ( The Blue Album)
Tired of Sex - Weezer (Pinkerton)
Blister in the Sun - Violent Femmes

[tridentgum0]

I'm very angry for forgetting:

Judas Priest - "Rapid Fire" (British Steel
Lush - ''Sweetness and Light" (Gala)

[DJFreddyG]

Judas Priest - "Rapid Fire" (British Steel

I may be wrong, but I thought Breaking The Law was the opening track on British Steel?

Otherwise:
Smells Like Teen Spirit - Nevermind
Hotel California - Hotel California

[tridentgum0]

No. Breaking the Law is third.

[DJFreddyG]

I went to FYE.com and got the tracklist (showing Breaking The Law as 3rd) but it didn't look right...making me think I was crazier than normal. I am not home to pull the vinyl, so I checked:

http://www.discogs.com/Judas-Priest-British-Steel/release/1586397

If the page loads, this is the CD Back Cover Image:

http://www.allcdcovers.com/download/f492b0db272787660a8fc64115ef34f3/15665/033a1a06fa125a422bce4bad830f12a1/4b39062b/judas_priest_british_steel_2001_retail_cd-back

[tridentgum0]

That's right. I went to see Priest on the British Steel tour and that's the order they played in.

[maddoggnick96]

Arctic Monkeys - Brianstorm (Favourite Worst Nightmare)
Arctic Monkeys - The View from the Afternoon (Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not)
Dream Theater - The Glass Prison (Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence)
X Japan - Art of Life (Art of Life) :p

And it's not rock but:

Daft Punk - One More Time (Discovery)

[afterstasis]

if i'm not mistaken the original version of "british steel" had "breaking the law" first, but the remastered version was in a different order.

[seriousbusson]

That's how it was in the US release, but the remaster follows the original UK vinyl's order, where "Rapid Fire" came first.

Time to crack out a briefing of my list:
Pretty much any Beatles opener. Somehow they're always epic, so trying to name them all would drive me crazy.
Iron Maiden's another band with great album openers. "Aces High" from Powerslave, (Caught)Somewhere in Time, and Seventh Son's "Moonchild" are the first to come to mind.
Oh, and Black Sabbath's "Black Sabbath" from their album Black Sabbath is prett cool, too. :p
Judas Priest- "Painkiller"(Painkiller)
Joy Division- "Disorder"(Unknown Pleasures)
Cynic- "Veil of Maya"(Focus)
Megadeth- "Holy Wars... The Punishment Due"(Rust in Peace)
Neutral Milk Hotel- "King of Carrot Flowers"(In the Aeroplane Over the Sea)
W.A.S.P.- "I Wanna Be Somebody"(W.A.S.P.)
W.A.S.P.- "The Heretic (The Lost Child)"(The Headless Children)
My Bloody Valentine- "Only Shallow"(Loveless)
Mayhem- "Freezing Moon"(De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas)
Frank Zappa- "Peaches en Regalia"(Hot Rats)
Steely Dan- "Black Friday"(Katy Lied)
Steely Dan- "Rikki Don't Lose That Number"(Pretzel Logic)
Steely Dan- "Bodhisattva"(Countdown to Ecstasy)

[DJFreddyG]

if i'm not mistaken the original version of "british steel" had "breaking the law" first, but the remastered version was in a different order.

You are correct. I have the original vinyl of British Steel and it was easy for me to play "Breaking The Law" on Rock Nights (especially after a few beverages) because it was Track 1, Side 1.

[tridentgum0]

See No Evil - Marquee Moon (Television)
Out on the Weekend - Harvest (Neil Young)
Whiskey Man - Flirtin' With Disaster (Molly Hatchet)
Is There a Ghost - Cease to Begin (Band of Horses)
The best Ever Death Metal Band in Denton - All Hail West Texas (Mountain Goats)
Debaser - Doolittle (Pixies)
Dragonaut - Holy Mountain (Sleep)

Add:

Teenage FBI - Do the Collapse (Guided By Voices)
Wiser - Crawl (Coffin Break)
Release the Kraken - Drowned in a Sea of Sound (The Daysleepers)

[citizenCERO]

Teenage Riot
We Had To Change The Name Of This Song Something About Being Sued
Concubine

[FleshofJesu]

every cursed album

[AKALink]

Taxman hands down for me

[xX_Sandman_Xx]

Welcome To The Jungle

[TheChangling]

Break on through - The Doors
sgt. Pepper's lonely hearts club band - The beatles

[CyanFunk]

'Bat out Hell' - Meat Loaf (Bat Out of Hell)
'Two of Us' - The Beatles (Let It Be)
'Highwayman' - The Highwaymen (Highwayman)

[DJFreddyG]

Turn to Stone - ELO (Out of the Blue)
Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap - AC/DC (Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap)
Hells Bells - AC/DC (Back In Black)
Stayin Alive - Bee Gee's (Sat Night Fever Strk)

[Dante1847]

a lot of good choices already mentioned. I'll add:

"Dramamine" - Modest Mouse (This is a Long Drive for Someone....)
"Good Lies" - The Notwist (The Devil, You, + Me)
"Is There a Ghost" - Band of Horses (Cease to Begin)

[Runesmith]

Bauhaus - "Dark Entries" (In The Flat Field)
Bowie - "Five Years" (Ziggy)
Daft Punk - "One More Time" (Discovery)

[Kasil]

Arctic Monkeys - "The View From the Afternoon" (Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not)
The Beatles - "Come Together" (Abbey Road)
Coheed and Cambria - "The Ring in Return" (In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3)
Coheed and Cambria - "Keeping the Blade" (Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV: Volume I - Fear Through the Eyes of Madness)
Muse - "Newborn" (Origin of Symmetry)
My Chemical Romance - "The End."/"Dead!" (The Black Parade)
Porcupine Tree - "Even Less" (Stupid Dream)
Queens of the Stone Age - "You Think I Ain't Worth a Dollar But I Feel Like a Millionaire" (Songs for the Deaf)
Weezer - "My Name is Jonas" (Weezer)
Weezer - "Tired of Sex" (Pinkerton)
The Who - "Baba O'Reily"

[McGerkey]

There is no better opening than "Sitting" from Cat Stevens' Catch Bull At Four.

[Doom878]

Rise Against - Collapse (Post America) - Appeal To Reason
Audioslave - Cochise - Audioslave
Audioslave - You Time Has Come - Out of Exile
All That Remains - This Calling - The Fall of Ideals
Black Tide - Shockwave - Light From Above
Disturbed - Indestrucible - Indestructible
Foo Fighters - The Pretender - Echoes, Silence...
Foo Fighters - In Your Honor - In Your Honor
Megadeth- Holy Wars... The Punishment Due - Rust in Peace
Metallica - Fight Fire With Fire - Ride The Lightning
Metallica - Battery - Master of Puppets
Pearl Jam - Once - Ten
Rush - Spirit of Radio - Permanent Waves
Rush - Tom Sawyer - Moving Pictures

[Soror_YZBL]

My brain is burnt out, so I can only go by my mp3 collection. :)

The Vampire Song - Bloodletting (Concrete Blonde)
Assassing - Fugazi (Marillion)
The Philadelphia Grand Jury - Widow City (Fiery Furnaces)
The Chronic - The Chronic (Dr Dre, biatch)
Ma Jeunesse - Comme si de Rien n'Etait (Carla Bruni)
Windowpane - Damnation (Opeth)
A Daisy Chain for Satan - Confessions of a Knife (My life with the thrill kill kult)
Vision Thing - Vision Thing (Sisters of Mercy)
Countdown to Armageddon/Bring the Noise - It takes a nation etc (Public Enemy)
Sidewalk Chalk - Hello, Hello (The A Sides)
King of Carrot Flowers - In the aeroplane etc (Neutral milk Hotel)
Unicorn - Shimmering, warm and bright (Bel Canto)
Benediction - Swastikas for Goddy (Current93)
Fear of a blank planet (porcupine tree)

[TheNew]

The Who-Overture (Tommy)
The Beatles-Taxman (Revolver)
Nirvana-Smells Like Teen Spirit (Nevermind)
Pink Floyd-Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Parts I-V)- (Wish You Were Here)
Radiohead-Airbag (Ok Computer)
Dream Theater-Scene One: Regression (Metropolis, Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory)

[Mega-Tallica]

Metallica - "Fight Fire With Fire" (Ride The Lightning)
Creed - "Bullets" (Weathered)
Guns N' Roses - "Welcome To The Jungle" (Appetite For Destruction)
Redemption - "Threads" (The Fullness Of Time)
Machine Head - "Imperium" (Through The Ashes Of Empires)
Drowning Pool - "Sinner" (Sinner)
Alice In Chains - "Them Bones" (Dirt)
Pantera - "Cowboys From Hell" (Cowboys From Hell)
Sevendust - "Black" (Sevendust)
Dream Theater - "The Root Of All Evil" (Octavarium)
Korn - "Blind" (Korn)
Bleeding Through - "For Love And Failing" (The Truth)
Iced Earth - "Burning Times" (Something Wicked This Way Comes)
Godsmack - "Moon Baby" (Godsmack)
Queensryche - "Best I Can" (Empire)
Disturbed - "Voices" (The Sickness)
Papa Roach - "Infest" (Infest)
Megadeth - "Holy Wars...The Punishment Due" (Rust In Peace)

[Blackat_999]

Speak to me/Breathe - The Dark Side of the Moon (Pink Floyd)
Knocking at Your Back Door - Perfect Strangers (Deep Purple)
Death on Two Legs - A Night at the opera (Queen)
Airbag - Ok Computer(Radiohead)
The Glass Prison - Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence(Dream Theater)
Good Times, Bad Times - Led Zeppelin I (Led Zeppelin)
In the Flesh - The Wall (Pink Floyd)

[neckermanncj]

Just Like Honey

[ElectricWankery]

Deceptacon - Le Tigre (Le Tigre)
Schizophrenia - Sister (Sonic Youth)
1969 - The Stooges (The Stooges)
Down on the Street - Fun House (The Stooges)
Search and Destroy - Raw Power (The Stooges)
Ghost Rider - First Album (Suicide)

[Onslaught_fei]

Moskau by Dschinghis Khan on their 1979 s/t .

[FleshofJesu]

Disorder - Unknown Pleasures - Joy Division

[Birdboy.Dom]

Gotta be "This Calling" from The Fall of Ideals by All That Remains - the beginning scream just perfectly sets the album up.

[neckermanncj]

Almost Ready - Dinosaur Jr.

[franticfish]

guys, "disorder" is the opening track.

[neckermanncj]

guys, "disorder" is the opening track.

well yeah, but we're just trying to find complements since nothing can surpass it

[afterstasis]

i've been pretty obsessed with this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIYO27pT9bI) one lately.

[dman2309]

Nirvana- "Blew" (Bleach)
Sonic Youth- "Teen Age Riot" (Daydream Nation)
Phoenix- "Lisztomania" (Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix)
Queen- "Somebody to Love" (A Day at the Races...side two :P)
Pixies- "Debaser" (Doolittle)
Rod Stewart- "Every Picture Tells a Story" (Every Picture Tells a Story)

[Axterix]

Some of my favorites:

"Pull Me Under" - Dream Theater (Images and Words)
"Angels Holocaust" - Iced Earth (Night of the Stormrider)
"Trashed" - Black Sabbath (Born Again)

[b2ru7]

SURELY Holy Wars... The Punishment Due - Megadeth (Rust In Peace)

[seriousbusson]

"Pull Me Under" - Dream Theater (Images and Words)


I still maintain that this is the only good song Dream Theater has ever recorded.

[beatlesfan99]

Come Together-Abbey Road

[overdriveguitarman]

Chamber the Cartridge was a really good start to the Sufferer & the Witness, it starts out with a real cool drum beat, kind of relaxed but still fairly fast, then guitar comes, and it gets faster, and then boom! Awesome stuff all over the place!

haha

listen to it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDmcv_14mEg&feature=related

Also, at the end of the intro the drummer is hitting the snare crazy fast, how does he do that?

Edit: Beatlesfan99: "You are the Egg Man, but I am the Walrus!!"

Sorry man! I already have that gig

[decyferdownrocks]

Break Free - Decyfer Down
Coming in From The Cold - Bob Marley
Give Until it Hurts - Deepfield

[RagAndBone]

Nirvana- "About a Girl" (Bleach)

If I'm not mistaken...isn't the opening track of Bleach "Blew"?

[afterstasis]

If I'm not mistaken...isn't the opening track of Bleach "Blew"?

that is indeed true... not sure what nirvana-avatar person's doing there...

[SynesterSeX]

"Critical Acclaim" - Avenged Sevenfold (Avenged Sevenfold)

"It's All Over" - Three Days Grace (One-X)

[Lameboy19]

Tiered of Sex (Weezer - Pinkerton)
You Should Be Hated Here (Carissa's Wierd - Songs About Leaving)
Dead Moon California (Ceremony - Still Nothing Moves You)
Lust For Life (Girls - Girls)
Building Steam With a Grain of Salt (DJ Shadow - Entdroducing)
Moon Child (M83 - Before the Dawn Heals Us)
Moya (Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Slow Riot For New Zero Kanada EP)
Liquid Swords (GZA - Liquid Swords)
Straight Outta Compton (N.W.A - Straight Outta Compton)

[dman2309]

If I'm not mistaken...isn't the opening track of Bleach "Blew"?

I feel like such an idiot. I was thinking Blew but typed About a Girl on accident. My god, I hate myself.

[Bub]

I feel like such an idiot. I was thinking Blew but typed About a Girl on accident. My god, I hate myself.

You should.

[overcookedbacon]

I've really been loving Royksopp's "Happy Up Here" from the album Junior of late.

[CCDaDon]

Once by Pearl Jam

[Canned_Promise]

Let It Rock from Slippery When Wet.

[saganship]

Airbag - Radiohead (OK Computer)
Resistance - Muse (The Resistance) 'cause I'm seeing them next week!!
Where The Streets Have No Name - U2 (The Joshua Tree)
And The Gods Made Love - Jimi Hendrix (Electric Ladyland)
Speak To Me/Breath - Pink Floyd (Dark Side Of The Moon)

[Gargoyle2500]

(Song) - (Album)

A. C. Newman

Miracle Drug - The Slow Wonder

The Beach Boys

Wouldn't It Be Nice - Pet Sounds

The Beatles:

No Reply - Beatles For Sale
A Hard Day's Night - A Hard Day's Night
Help! - Help!
Taxman - Revolver
Drive My Car - Rubber Soul
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

The New Pornographers:

The Electric Version - Electric Version
Mass Romantic - Mass Romantic
Twin Cinema - Twin Cinema

XTC:

Making Plans For Nigel - Drums & Wires

Well, Not all of these are "Favorite opening tracks" But they're all good to start off the albums IMO.

[DarkMagic56]

Speak To Me/Breathe - Pink Floyd
In The Flesh? - Pink Floyd
Smells Like Teen Spirit - Nirvana
You Think I Ain't Worth A Dollar... - Queens Of The Stone Age
No One Loves Me & Neither Do I - Them Crooked Vultures
This Is A Call - Foo Fighters
Mr. Self Destruct - NIN

[Onslaught_fei]

Immortal Rites (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7YLblswAI0)

[CEEDZ13]

To End the Rapture-Avenged Sevenfold

[TeamAliceFTW]

The Truth Is A Terrible Thing - You Me At Six
Sunburn - Muse

[darkwinterbeast8]

Bathory-Odin Rides Over Nordland; mainly because it is an intro track to A Fine Day To Die, which is Bathory's best track and on my short list for best songs ever!! :cool:

[matthewm94]

Mordecai - BTBAM
All Bodies - BTBAM
Foam Born - BTBAM
Awaken - The Empire Shall Fall
Black Valor - The Black Dahlia Murder
Boot Dagger Boogie - Guitars That ate My Brain - Paul Waggoner
This Calling - All That Remains
The Truth of a Liar - August Burns Red

[Rockox]

Dream Theater - Pull Me Under
Weezer - My Name is Jonas
Tori Amos - Crucify
Skid Row - Monkey Business
George Michael - Praying For Time
Twisted Sister - Stay Hungry
Alice in Chains - Rotten Apple
Suzanne Vega - Tom's Diner
Nick Cave - The Mercy Seat
David Lee Roth - Yankee Rose
Queensryche - Walk in the Shadows
Michael Jackson - Wanna Be Startin' Something
Toad the Wet Sprocket - Fly From Heaven

[overdriveguitarman]

Song - Album - Artist

I'd Tell You But... - For Blood and Empire - Anti-Flag
State of the Union - Siren Song of the Counter Culture - Rise Against
Chamber the Cartridge - The Sufferer & the Witness - Rise Against
Collapse (Post-Amerika) - Appeal to Reason - Rise Against

Very surprising I know, deep breaths now.

[Doom878]

^Surprised you didn't put Collapse (Post-America). Always gets me hyped.

[bjyaritz]

"Good Times Bad Times" by Led Zeppelin

[krisko]

Procession-Moody Blues
Somewhere Only We Know-Keane
Neighborhood 1-Arcade Fire
Politik-Coldplay

[MFDoomuhlay]

"Rejoice" off of People Who Can Eat People Are the Luckiest People in the World.
(andrewjacksonjihad.)

[mclovin783]

Icky Thump- White Stripes, jus a ****in amazin way 2 start off th album with th balance of sounds an ****
Disloyal Order of Water Buffaloes- Fall Out Boy, an great way 2 start off th last album before th "hiatus"

[overdriveguitarman]

^Surprised you didn't put Collapse (Post-America). Always gets me hyped.

Oh I forgot about that one! For some reason I haven't gotten back into the Appeal to Reason album in a long time but Collapse (Post-Amerika) was my favorite song off that album!

I'll add that actually

Edit: And now that I think about it, State of the Union started off the Siren Song of the Counter Culture album! And that was an epic song as well! :D

[Rocket2Russia]

"Personality Crisis" - New York Dolls is another great one. Speaking of, I should probably check out some more of their stuff...

[supernova1324]

Gray Death by Xiu Xiu opening for Dear God... was a fricken great track.

[ROCKBANDFANATIC7526]

"Personality Crisis" - New York Dolls is another great one. Speaking of, I should probably check out some more of their stuff...

Their second album is worth checking out.

[ElectricWankery]

Another one I have to mention is "Hootenanny" off of The Replacements album of the same name.

"It's a.... HOOOOOOOOOOOOOtenanny!"

[porterguy]

Two Of Us - Let It Be - The Beatles

Beyond Beautiful - Just Push Play - Aerosmith

[Aeope]

I Remember Now (Queensrÿche) - Operation: Mindcrime
Blackened (Metallica) - ...And Justice for All
Angel of Death (Slayer) - Reign in Blood
Attack (System of a Down) - Hypnotize
The Ecstasy of Gold (Metallica) - S&M