Listening to music on my walk into work this morning and I got to thinking "Which band or artist has announced themselves to the world with the best track?"
It's a thought that came to me because of what I was listening to at the time, which I reckon must be hard to beat:
Welcome to the Jungle, G'n'R
Rock 'N' Roll Star - Definitely Maybe
That was one of the other ones that came to mind, definitely
How about Black Sabbath opening with its title track ?
Hard to just select one!
But I'd say Rock 'n' Roll Star by Oasis.
Suspect Device - Inflammable Material - Stiff Little Fingers
Twice as Hard by The Black Crowes
Welcome to the Jungle, G'n'R
Good one!
My favourite (NSFW):
Sunday Morning, Velvet Underground and Nico
Tutti Frutti, Little Richard
Dry the rain - Beta Band.
Bombtrack - Rage against the Machine
Feel Good Hit of the Summer - Rated R - Queens of the Stone Age
Bittersweet Symphony by The Verve
"You Think I Ain't Worth a Dollar, But I Feel Like a Millionaire" - sets the Album's stall out nice and early.
"Neat, Neat, Neat" from Damned, Damned, Damned
I think this is "the best", at the time it seemed a million miles always from the heavyweight slow rifola that was obliterating the vinyl outputs of that era.
Van Halen, Runnin' with the Devil.
**** wit dre day - The Chronic by Dr dre. Epic
Some great tracks up there.
Audioslave - Cochise
From an impact point of view - Davidian by Machine Head takes some beating....
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Roxy Music: Re-make/re-model.
How about Baba O'Reilly on Who's Next.
Can't think of many better ways to open an album.
I so misread the thread title. I am sorry. 😳
[s]Breaking into Heaven,
The Stone Roses, Second Coming[/s]
I'll Find You, by Hundred Reasons.
And good shout on Davidian, that intro. You can walk into a guitar shop 23 years later and play that riff and someone will always go MACINE HEAD! GRARAGRHGAHGARH!
Time Has Told Me - Nick Drake.
And for contrast, Motorhead - Motorhead.
Good game.
🙂
Bittersweet Symphony by The Verve
Not their debut album though. Related though, Star Sail from A Storm in Heaven is a heck of an opener.
I'd vote for I Wanna Be Adored. What a fantastic way to open an album
Frankie goes to Hollywood
Two tracks really but it's all one in effect:
The World is my Oyster/Welcome to the Pleasuredome
Do it again - Steely Dan.
[I]How about Baba O'Reilly on Who's Next.
Can't think of many better ways to open an album.
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Not a debut album.
Suede, So Young
Teenage Fanclub (Bandwagonesque), The Concept
Good call BinBins
There're loads.
But this one is just such a great and under-appreciated classic.
I so misread the thread title. I am sorry.[s]Breaking into Heaven,
The Stone Roses, Second Coming[/s]
I wanna be adored from their debut album was however, remarkable.
I put it on the second I saw this thread title!
Beat me to it MR.
Just flicking through the vinyl and that's going on next, when 'Can't Buy A Thrill' finishes.
🙂
Saw the title of the thread, instantly thought rock and roll star or welcome to the jungle
Who said stw members didnt have taste?
Whipping Boy Ben Harper
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Verves good call think first three tracks were all epic on that album.
Dire Straits - Down To The Waterline
Janie Jones
Nevermind wasn't Nirvana's debut album...
On a similar theme though, I thought 'This is a call' was a cracking opener from Foo Fighters
Ring Ring by ABBA.
How about Baba O'Reilly on Who's Next.Can't think of many better ways to open an album.
Not a debut album.
OK good point, I missed the debut album bit.
Switch to "Daft Punk are playin at my house" - LCD Soundsystem
Blitzkreig Bop, The Ramones.
Bat Out of Hell, Meatloaf
tis a cover but a cracking opening track on a debut album
Before I forget:
This opener by XTC was the most succinct slice of in-yerface pop perfection IMO. Again, under-played at the time by the stiffs at the Beeb. Their effortless 'tightly-slack' style has been copied since by countless bands.
Saw the thread title, thought "you can't really beat Welcome to the Jungle". Arctic Monkeys comes close, but no cigar
Guns Blazing - UNKLE
I want to hear what you've got to say - The Subways
the us version of are you experienced kicks off with this
I'm going to risk a flaming for this, but I'm going to give an honourable mention to:
Wishing I was Lucky; Wet Wet Wet
It's a great track from a band who were unfairly, due to their cutesy (pre massive smack habit) lead singer, given a 'boy band' label, which they never deserved.
I've always thought that when someone starts a 'The best...' thread and you list more than one thing you are kind of aguing against yourself, ain'tcha?
Anyways, +1 for 'Roxy Music: Re-make/re-model' 🙂
I'd like to say Chime by Orbital, but I don't think it was properly on an album.
So, I think I'll nominate Safe From Harm by Massive Attack.
Drac isn't that Gorillaz track 5 ?
Wasn't Supersonic Oasis' debut.
Metallica - Enter Sandman from the Black Album.
Drac isn't that track 5 ?
Oh wait am I missing something?
Oooooh! Ignore my posts. 😳
Anyways, +1 for 'Roxy Music: Re-make/re-model'
+3 for that. Good call, except for, y'know, me and the other guys...
Sunburn by Muse
has to be played loud
[I]Oh wait am I missing something?[/I]
Yeah, the thread title 🙂
good question. since going back to records one of the things i love about it is exactly that, putting on a band's first LP thinking what do they want the world to hear from them first. now this combines with my other love of records which is scoring something from the carboot or whatever that i may only know the single from radio and giving it a listen. so with all that, i give you the opening track of a 1st LP that truly blew me away the night i sat down and played it on my hifi (loudly).
B52s - Planet Claire
Gimmie shelter off let it bleed-rolling stones or Bone machine off surfer rosa-pixies
A new decade-a northern soul-the verve
Adam and the Ants - Cartrouble
Madness - One Step Beyond
The Specials - A Message to You Rudy
The Beat - Mirror in the Bathroom
(them 2-tone bands and associates knew what they were doing)
Jimi Hendrix - Foxy Lady or Purple Haze (depending on whether it's the US edition - neither one's anything other than awesome)
Duran Duran - Girls on Film
The Stooges - 1969
The Doors - Break On Through (To the Other Side)
I could go on....
Gimmie shelter off let it bleed-rolling stones
Metallica - Enter Sandman from the Black Album.
Seriously? I know lots of people aren't that into music history, but really?
And some peoples musical taste is trapped in 1978, what's that all about? 😉
Sorry I kinda missed reading the debut bit:),in that case its something for the weekend off fuzzy logic by the super furries
mikey3 - Member
Sorry I kinda missed reading the debut bit:)
Me too.
From an impact point of view - Davidian by Machine Head takes some beating....
This.
Hundreds of times over.
On first listen I actually stopped the tape recorder (remember them?!) halfway through and just sat there thinking "****. That's brilliant." Then rewound and started all over again. 🙂
(Then I went off in search of a back catalogue, convinced that there must be one...)
Good call with Xtal
Another "saw the thread title, thought of GnR" here.
Cochise is a great track, but Audioslave were a bit of a supergroup so I'm not really sure they can be counted.
As gavtheoldskater says there's something of the announcement about track one. So whilst there may be better debuts than, Erm, Debut, [b]Human Behaviour[/b] from the opening bass drum sound onwards just says this ain't the sugar cubes, this is something different...
I was going to say xtal too!
I put a spell on you - CCR
Get Miles - Gomez
Flume - Bon Iver
Also agree with RATM, Doors and Pearl Jam already mentioned.
Straight Outta Compton - Straight Outta Compton. NWA. Don't agree with the subject matter of some of the lyrics but a track that had massive impact.
Three pages in, no mention of 'My name is Jonas' from Weezer's Blue Album.
I am disappoint.
Oh, I'd also put forwards Of Monsters and Men's 'Dirty Paws' from 'My Head is an Animal'. Perfect scene setter for the album, and a super strong announcement of their intent.
Get Miles - Gomez.
Tells you what they are all about and sets up the rest of the album nicely.
