best opening salvo...

1. "Down on the Street"
2. "Loose"
3. "TV Eye"

...and I know I'm going to catch shit for this, but...

Destroyer by Kiss..

1. "Detroit Rock City"
2. "King of the Nighttime World"
3. "God of Thunder"

1. Biomusicology
2. Parallel or Together?
3. Under the Hedge
4. Dial Up
5. Timorous Me

AND

Stone Roses, Stone Roses (US):

1. I Wanna Be Adored
2. She Bangs the Drums
3. Elephant Stone
4. Waterfall

Social Distortion S/T
1. So Far Away
2. Let It Be Me
3. Story of My Life
4. Sick Boys

"Needles in the Camel Eye" - upbeat, fairly standard
"Paw Paw Negro Blowtorch" - hmmm okay we're getting a bit weirder now
"Baby's on Fire" - ???!!!

Manifesto
Trash
Angel Eyes
Still Falls the Rain

rock and roll
club mekon

definitely a salvo. Any album who's first (intelligble) word is "destroy" can't be all bad...

(And sometimes 'Rock Your Body,' but usually not.)

By the time they're done, I don't have anything left. My ears hurt and I can't go on. I have no idea what the other seven or eight songs sound like.

Metallica:
"Battery"

Black Sabbath:
"Sweet Leaf"

(do you see what i did there?)

The Ramones-Leave Home
1.Glad To See You Go
2.Gimme Gimme Shock Treatment
3.I Remember You
4.Oh Oh I Love Her So
5.Carbona Not Glue
6.Suzy Is A Headbanger
7.Pinhead
Not The bands best album, but possibly the best side of Rock'n'Roll EVAH.
One more:
Led Zep-Physical Graffiti
1.Custard Pie
2.The Rover
3.In My Time of Dying

Curtis Mayfield, Superfly: "Little Child Runnin' Wild", "Pusherman", "Freddie's Dead". Opening a soundtrack with three of the ten best R&B songs ever (in any definition of the genre) in a row is one hell of a feat.

Beck, Mellow Gold: "Loser", of course, but then "Pay No Mind (Snoozer)" which is bitter and great and sounds like an abandoned burgundy brick sepiatone '70s Glendale strip mall and "Fuckin' With My Head (Mountain Dew Rock)" is like Captain Beefheart... well, I'd add some sort of "...doing/smoking/sounding like something" but it really does sound like Safe As Milk-ian lunatic blues-hijacking with little else to tamper with it. (This is laudatory and not a biter j'accuse.)

Chemical Brothers, Surrender: "Music: Response" completely gets me twitchy and amped and ready to just run up like BAM POW and flail everything because I'm too overloaded to think about coordinating my limbs into so-called "dancing"; such things would require too much thought and effort and the spontaneity would be lost. Consider all that lunacy, then consider that "Under the Influence" damn near doubles that sensation in me, and then "Out of Control" comes in and my eyes get watery for God's sakes. "Orange Wedge" lets me back down (appropriate title, given the "have some orange slices" solution to a far-too-intense LSD experience as exhibited in the "Drugachussettes" bit on "Mr. Show") and in the process has me thinking "someone should really be rhyming over this, that would be awesome."

If only Ike and Tina's "River Deep - Mountain High" were track 3...

And I'm quite fond of the knockout combo of:
1) Non-Alignment Pact
2) The Modern Dance
on Pere Ubu's The Modern Dance. It's such a strong opening, I hardly remember the rest of the album.

yes Cathy Dennis comin' through like the JBs

"Up the Beach"
"Ocean Size"
"Had a Dad"
"Ted, Just Admit It... "

from U2's The Joshua Tree. Three rock songs as good as any ever written (too bad the rest of the album doesn't even compare).

I think this should be disqualified on the grounds that it's a whole side.

(though i also like the boston opening)

and also Archer Prewitt's 'Three', with
1. Over The Line
2. Tear Me All Away
3. When I'm With You
4. Two Can Play

all four being totally gorgeous ornate pop genius.

Just had to throw my two cents in there.

1. Furious
2. Firepile
3. Dio

is a pretty good way to start an album. Particularly when you've been knocking off dodgy soundtracks for 8 years or so.

Elvis Presley - 'From Elvis in Memphis'