Favorite first tracks!

[CREAM'd]

ACDC Highway to hell - Highway to hell.
Black Sabbath Paranoid - War pigs.
Bob Dylan Bringin It All Back Home - Subterranian homesick blues.
Bob Dylan Highway 61 Revisited - Like a rolling stone.
Bob Dylan The Times Are A Changin' - The times are a changin.
Cream Disraeli Gears - Strange Brew.
Cream Wheels Of Fire - White room.
David Bowie Hunkie Dory - Changes.
David Bowie Space Oddity - Space oddity.
Deep Purple Machine Head - Highway star.
Deep Purple Fireball - Fireball.
ELO All Over The World - Mr blue sky.
Jimi Hendrix Are You Experienced - Foxey lady.
Jimi Hendrix Band Of Gypsys - Who Knows.
Johnny Cash At San Quentin - Big river.

 

[CREAM'd]

Led Zeppelin BBC Sessions Disc 1 - You shook me.
Led Zeppelin BBC Sessions Disc2 - Immigrant song(they shoulda put this song on disc 1 as the intro.
Led Zeppelin II - Whole lotta love.
Led Zeppelin IV - Black dog.
MC5 Kick Out The Jams - Ramblin' Rose.
Motorhead - Motorizor - Runaround man.
REM Accelerate - Living well is the best revenge.
Ramones It's Alive - Rockaway beach.
Rory Gallagher - Cradle rock.
The Beach Boys Pet Sounds - Wouldn't it be nice.
The Beatles Abbey Road - Come together.
The Beatles Love - Get back.
The Beatles White Album - Back in the USSR.

 

[CREAM'd]

The Rolling Stones Beggars Banquet - Sympathy for the devil.
The Rolling Stones Exile On Main St. - Rocks off.
The Rolling Stones Get Yer Ya Ya's Out - Jumpin' jack flash.
The Rolling Stones Sticky Fingers - Brown Sugar.
The Traveling Wilburys Collection - Handle with care.
The White Stripes Elephant - Seven nation army.
The Who Live At Leeds - Heaven and hell.
The Who Who's Next - Baba O'Riely

 

[Rocker440]

Quite a few more....

Had to Cry Today - Blind Faith
Album: S/T

Strange Brew - Cream
Album: Disraeli Gears

Bad Scene - Ten Years After
Album: Sssh...

One of These Days - TYA
Album: A Space in Time

You Give me Loving - TYA
Album: Rock And Roll Music to The World

Batuka - Santana
Album: III

Funk #49 - James Gang
Album: Rides Again

Walk Away - James Gang
Album: Thirds

The Grind - Tommy Bolin
Album: Teaser

A New Day Yesterday - Jethro Tull
Album: Stand Up

Razamanaz - Nazareth
Album: Razamanaz

Hair of The Dog - Nazareth
Album: Hair of The Dog

One of These Nights - The Eagles
Album: One of These Nights

Man on The Silver Mountain - Rainbow
Album: Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow

Stand Up And Shout - Dio
Album: Holy Diver

Rocky Mountain Way - Joe Walsh
Album: The Smoker You Drink, The Player You Get

 

[OptimisticFutureBlues]

Like a Rolling Stone - Bob Dylan
Turn to Stone - Electric Light Orchestra
Good Times Bad Times - Led Zeppelin
Mambo Sun - T.Rex
Sunday Morning - The Velvet Underground
Shotgun Willie - Willie Nelson
Boston - Foreplay/Long Time
Concrete Jungle - Bob Marley
Rock n Roll Damnation - Ac/dc
Castellorizon - David Gilmour

 

[fielding]

Tom Sawyer-Rush
Album: Moving Pictures

Baba O'Riley-The Who
Album: Who's Next

Dream On-Aerosmith
Album: Aerosmith

Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap-AC/DC
Album: Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap

Whole Lotta Love-Led Zeppelin
Album: Led Zeppelin II

 

[Rocker440]

Some more......

Shapes of Things - Jeff Beck
Album: Truth

You Know What I Mean - Jeff Beck
Album: Blow by Blow

Mississippi Queen - Mountain
Album: Climbing

Don't Look Around - Mountain
Album: Nantucket Sleighride

Roadhouse Blues - The Doors
Album: Morrison Hotel

Natural Thing - The Doobie Brothers
Album: The Captain And Me

I Stole Your Love - Kiss
Album: Love Gun

Gypsy - Uriah Heep
Album: S/T

Look at Yourself - Uriah Heep
Album: Look at Yourself

The Wizard - Uriah Heep
Album: Demons & Wizards

All top corkers, imo!

 

[TeleCat]

Let me get my Blackmore fixation out of the way first and foremost.

Deep Purple
And the Address from Shades of Deep Purple
Speed King from In Rock (Beautiful cacophony. Blackmore demonstrates how it would sound if you played a Gibson ES 335 with a boat motor. The album closes in the same manner at the end of Hard Loving Man).
Title tracks from Fireball, Burn and Stormbringer (Fireball is the actual ventilator from De Lane Lea Studios being fired up).
Highway Star from Machine Head
Knocking at Your Back Door from Perfect Strangers (What a build up)
Vavoom: Ted The Mechanic from Purpendicular (Steve Morse making a statement that he deserves to don the royal purple)

Rainbow
Man on the Silver Mountain from Blackmore’s Rainbow
Tarot Woman from Rising
Title track from Long Live Rock and Roll
Wolf to the Moon from Stranger In Us All

Black Sabbath
War Pigs from Paranoid
Sabbra Cadabbra from Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
Neon Knights from Heaven and Hell (Can’t overstate this one enough as it ushered in a new sound for Sabbath in the 80’s)
Turn Up the Night from Mob Rules
Trashed from Born Again (Heavy as hell and Gillan’s trademark scream sets the pace)
Eye Witness from Cross Purposes

Led Zeppelin
Good Times Bad Times from Led Zeppelin I
Whole Lotta Love from Led Zeppelin II
Immigrant Song from Led Zeppelin III (Hard rock teaser from an otherwise acoustic affair)
The Song Remains The Same from Houses of The Holy
We’re Gonna Groove from Coda


Title tracks from AC/DC’s Highway to Hell and Back In Black
There’s Only One Way to Rock From Sammy Hagar’s Standing Hampton and the title track to Three Lock Box
Wait Until the Summer’s Gone from Zebra’s No Tellin’ Lies
Hooked On Music from Pat Travers’ Go For What You Know
Hello There from Cheap Trick’s Live at Budokan (Live albums have an unfair advantage as they’re supposed to have killer lead in tracks but the last two had to be mentioned).
Meadows from Joe Walsh’s The Smoker You Drink The Player You Get (funny scat and scream intro breaks into a rather deep lyrical song)
Scuttle Buttin’ from Steve Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble’s Couldn’t Stand the Weather
Led Boots and What Mama Said from Jeff Beck’s Wired and Who Else respectively (as a side note: Ice Cream Cakes from the Jeff Beck Group album may very well be the worst lead off track ever).
Mean Street and Good Enough from Van Halen’s Fair Warning and 5150 respectively
Need You Bad from Ted Nugent’s Weekend Warriors
Up In the Sky from Joe Satriani’s Crystal Planet
The Attitude Song from Steve Vai’s Flex-Able
Title track from Aerosmith’s Toys In The Attic
Road Fever and Good Morning from Blackfoot’s Strikes and Marauder respectively
Cradle Rock from Joe Bonamassa’s A New Day Yesterday (A Rory Gallagher cover on an album titled after a Jethro Tull cover. Awesome version none the less).
Fight the Good Fight from Triumph’s Allied Forces
I Don’t Know and Over The Mountain from Ozzy Osbourne’s Blizzard of Ozz and Diary of a Madman respectively.
Finding My Way from Rush’s debut
Cruise Missle from the Steve Morse Band’s The Introduction and the title track from Southern Steel
Rough Boys from Pete Townshend’s Empty Glass
Stand Up and Shout from Dio’s Holy Diver

And finally some obscure gems:

Shakin’ The Blues from The Screamin Cheetah Wheelies debut
Mr. Walker from Ronnie Montrose’s Music From Here (Track #2 – Primary Function – would have been better in my opinion but, oh well. I love this album!!)
Highway Jones from Cry of Love’s Brother (I’m a sucker for muted chords)

Last but not least, a non-musical one, but it cracks me up and I have to include it:
Mr. Finklestein Shit Kid from Cheech and Chong’s Up In Smoke soundtrack (Struther Martin).

I could go on but this is getting long winded. By and large anything that starts with or leads into a captivating riff is fine by me. This would make one hell of a mixed recording.

 

[LG]

^^That is quite a list Telecat.

 

[Kuaizi]

A couple of my favorites that I don't think have been listed yet:

The Smashing Pumpkins - Everlasting Gaze
Album: Machina/The Machines of God


Queensryche - Queen of the Reich


Robert Palmer - Every Kinda People
Album: Double Fun


Billy Joel - Movin' Out (Anthony's Song)
Album: The Stranger

ELO - Turn to Stone
Album: Out the Blue

Sarah Mclachlan - Possession
Album: Fumbling Towards Ecstasy

Aphex Twin - 4
Album: Richard D. James Album

Blink-182 - Pathetic
Album: Dude Ranch

Slayer - Angel of Death
Album: Reign in Blood


Tried to list some (more like a fraction lol ) of mine that aren't obvious ones are already listed!