Favorite first tracks!

[Rocker440]

What are some of your favorite first or lead album tracks?

A few of my favorites are...

Speed King; Burn - Deep Purple
Albums: In Rock; Burn

Ghost Riders (in The Sky) - The Outlaws
Album: Ghost Riders

Stranglehold - Ted Nugent
Album: S/T

Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath
Album: S/T

Life in London - Pat Travers
Album: Putting it Straight

Rockin' Into The Night - 38 Special
Album: Rockin' Into The Night

Waitin' For The Bus - ZZ Top
Album: Tres Hombres

Blackout - Scorpions
Album: Blackout

Over The Mountain - Ozzy Osbourne
Album: Diary of a Madman

Hells Bells - AC/DC
Album: Back in Black

Hot Blooded - Foreigner
Album: Double Vision

Best I Can - Queensryche
Album: Empire

Runnin' With The Devil - Van Halen
Album: S/T

Deliverin' The Goods; The Hellion/Electric Eye - Judas Priest
ALbums: Hell Bent For Leather; Screaming For Vengeance

 

[METALPRIEST]

Wow there's sooo many! I don't know if I could add just one or stop after 50

Here's a GREAT opening track to an album!!

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[Gabble Ratchet]

Genesis had a run of awesome, powerful openers through a large part of their career. IMO, these are those openers:

The Musical Box
Watcher Of The Skies
Dancing With The Moonlit Knight
Down And Out
Dance On A Volcano
Eleventh Earl of Mar
Behind The Lines
Abacab

 

[Lynch]

Artist - album - song title

Lynch Mob - Wicked Sensation - Wicked Sensation
Kiss - Kiss - Strutter
Kiss - Dressed To Kill - Room Service
Kiss - Destroyer - Detroit Rock City
Dokken - Under Lock and Key - Unchain The Night
Ratt - Out of the Cellar - Wanted Man
Cinderella - Long Cold Winter - Bad Seemstress Blues / Falling Apart at the Seems
Judas Priest - Hell Bent For Leather - Delivering The Goods
Judas Priest - Defenders of the Faith - Freewheel Burnin'
Judas Priest - Screaming for Vengeance - The Hellion/Electric Eye
Judas Priest - Painkiller - Painkiller
Led Zeppelin - II - Whole Lotta Love
ZZ Top - Tres Hombres - Waiting For The Bus / Jesus Just Left Chicago
ZZ Top - El Loco - Tube Snake Boogie



So many more I could list, but I'm out of time right now.

 

[METALPRIEST]

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[LG]

Here's one of my favorites.

Not Fragile



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[Death on Credit]

Like A Rolling Stone - Bob Dylan (Highway 61 Revisited)
Tangled Up in Blue - Bob Dylan (Blood on the Tracks)
Sympathy for the Devil - the Rolling Stones (Beggars Banquet)
Gimme Shelter - the Rolling Stones (Let it Bleed)
Brown Sugar - the Rolling Stones (Sticky Fingers)
Rocks Off - the Rolling Stones (Exile on Main St)
Down on the Street - the Stooges (Funhouse)
Search and Destroy - the Stooges (Raw Power)
Clash City Rockers - the Clash (The Clash)
London Calling - the Clash (London Calling)
Blitzkrieg Bop - the Ramones (The Ramones)
I Just Wanna Have Something to Do - the Ramones (Road to Ruin)
Purple Haze - the Jimi Hendrix Experience (Are You Experienced?)
Personality Crisis - the New York Dolls (The New York Dolls)
Hungry Freaks, Daddy - the Mothers of Invention (Freak Out!)

 

[TheFeldster]

 

[Cosmic Harmony]

Let's see who comes to mind....


Welcome to the Jungle- Guns N' Roses
Bat Out Of Hell- Meat Loaf
More Than A Feeling- Boston
Seven Nation Army- The White Stripes
Prisoner of Society- The Living End
Black Shuck- The Darkness
Try (Just A Little Bit Harder)- Janis Joplin
Pull Me Under- Dream Theater
I'd Do Anything For Love (But I Won't Do That)- Meat Loaf



Those are just a couple that come to mind right off the bat.

 

[Groovy Man]

Like A Rolling Stone - Bob Dylan (Highway 61 Revisited)

That was the first song that came to mind.



Here's a few great opening tracks....

War Pigs - Black Sabbath
Album: Paranoid

Aqualung - Jethro Tull
Album: Aqualung

Roundabout - Yes
Album: Fragile

Suite: Judy Blue Eyes - Crosby, Stills & Nash
Album: Crosby, Stills & Nash

Box Of Rain - The Grateful Dead
Album: American Beauty

Ain't Wastin' Time No More - Allman Brothers Band
Album: Eat A Peach

Take the Highway - Marshall Tucker Band
Album: Marshall Tucker Band

Mississippi Queen - Mountain
Album: Climbing!

Domino - Van Morrison
Album: His Band and the Street Choir

Band on the Run - Paul McCartney & Wings
Album: Band on the Run

Shine On You Crazy Diamond - Pink Floyd
Album: Wish You Were Here

Live For The Music - Bad Company
Album: Run With The Pack

Carry On Wayward Son - Kansas
Album: Leftoverture

Jailbreak - Thin Lizzy
Album: Jailbreak

Refugee - Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers
Album: Damn the Torpedoes

Rockin' Into the Night - .38 Special
Album: Rockin' Into the Night

Take It Easy - The Eagles
Album: Eagles

Kiss - Destroyer - Detroit Rock City

ZZ Top - El Loco - Tube Snake Boogie

Excellent choices!

Wow there's sooo many! I don't know if I could add just one or stop after 50

Agreed...so let's keep it goin'!