Best Album Openers...

[bumface]

Pixies - 'Debaser' on Doolittle
The Who Baba O'reily on Who’s Next
Radiohead - Everything in its Right Place on Kid A
David Bowie - 'Five Years' on The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars

I was thinking Pixies myself but I couldn't decide between Doolittle or Surfer Rosa.
Violent Femmes first album would probably be a contender too.
Summer Babe from Slanted and Enchanted as well.
There are too many to list.

 

[Bobby_Digital]

I Wanna Be Adored - Stone Roses

Roadhouse Blues - Morrison Hotel

Our Bovine Public - Men’s Needs, Women’s Needs, Whatever

 

[bumface]

Opening track from Partytime. One of the greatest albums ever recorded.

 

[Neilwarnocksbumbag]

Bittersweet symphony - urban hymns the verve
Rock and roll star - definitely maybe oasis
Do I wanna know - AM arctic monkeys

 

[indeedido]

Enter Sandman - Metallica - Metallica
Weight of love - Turn Blue - The Black Keys
Do I wanna know - AM - Arctic Monkeys
Each and everyone - Eden - Everything but the Girl
Driving - Language of life - EBTG
Slow night, so long - Aha Shake Heartbreak - Kings of Leon
By the way - By the way - Red Hot Chili Peppers
Spellbound - Juju - Siouxsie & The Banshees
Intro - XX - The XX
One hundred years - Pornography - The Cure

 

[Andybarca]

Bombtrack - Rage Against the Machine
You Can’t Bring Me Down - Lights Camera Revolution

 

[Flood]

Head Like a Hole (Pretty Hate Machine) - Nine Inch Nails
Plainsong (Disintegration) - The Cure
World In My Eyes (Depeche Mode) - Violator

Agree about Welcome to the `jungle and Stone Roses - Adored

 

[festa5]

Riverboat song - Moseley Shoals (OCS).

 

[rkangel]

Chill Out. Black Uhuru. Liberation.
As it suited my mood this afternoon and bore repeated playing.

 

[bumface]

An obvious one that doesn't seem to have been mentioned yet.

 

[bumface]

And another.

 

[bumface]

And another.

 

[newyddion]

 

[WindyNook]

Kick off your shoes!

 

[bumface]

 

[spacecake]

"The Changeling" L A Woman,
A boyfriend of my older sister bought her this album for her birthday,
after the opening few bars i was hooked on the doors for life.
Enjoy!

 

[borolad259]

Yup, good shout. Too good for that album mind.

 

[bumface]

 

[Anton_Berg]

'Album opener' means track no. 1, right?

 

[bumface]

'Album opener' means track no. 1, right?

I would have thought so.