POV: Side One, Track One

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Choose 5. I'll start:

Stooges - Search and Destroy - Raw Power
Rolling Stones - Gimme Shelter - Let it Bleed
Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit - Nevermind
Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath
Beatles - Come Together - Abbey Road

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Less Rockist Honorable Mentions:

Janes's Addiction - Up the Beach - Nothing's Shocking
Uncle Tupelo - Gun - Still Feel Gone
Poster Children - Black Dog - RTFM
My Bloody Valentine - Only Shallow - Loveless
Bjork - Army of Me - Post
Nick Drake - Pink Moon - Pink Moon

― yr mom (yr mom), Thursday, 5 May 2005 17:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Sonic Youth-Teenage Riot-Daydream Nation

― Jabberwocky1, Thursday, 5 May 2005 18:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Pavement--Summer Babe (Slanted and Enchanted)
Built To Spill--The Plan (Keep It Like A Secret)
Liz Phair--6'1" (Exile In Guyville)
Outkast--Gasoline (Stankonia) skits don't count
Husker Du--Flip Your Wig (Flip Your Wig)

― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Thursday, 5 May 2005 18:01 (twenty-one years ago)

whoops 5 my bad...here are 4 more

I Am Trying To Break Your Heart -Wilco-YHF
Web In Front - Archers of Loaf - Icky Mettle
Small Stakes-Spoon-Kill The Moonlight
Rhymin' and Stealin'-Beastie Boys-Licensed To Ill

― Jabberwocky1, Thursday, 5 May 2005 18:02 (twenty-one years ago)

galaxie 500 - blue thunder, on fire
new order - age of consent, power...
human league - the things that dreams are made of, dare!
daft punk - one more time, discovery
archie shepp - attica blues, attica blues

― jmeister (jmeister), Thursday, 5 May 2005 18:09 (twenty-one years ago)

So many good ones have already been suggested. Here's an attempt at no repeating:

"White Light, White Heat" by the Velvet Underground, White Light, White Heat
"Hold My Life" by the Replacements, Tim
"Do the Strand" by ROxy Music, For Your Pleasure
"Immigrant Song" by Led Zeppelin, Led Zeppelin III
"New Day Rising" by Husker Du, New Day Rising

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Thursday, 5 May 2005 18:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Intros hinder this thread.

Miles Davis - On Green Dolphin Street ('58 Miles)
LL Cool J - Mama Said Knock you Out
NWA - Straight Outta Compton
Charles Mingus - Better Get Hit in Yo' Soul (Mingus Ah Um)
Beach Boys - Wouldn't It Be Nice (Pet Sounds)
Run DMC - Peter Piper (Raising Heck)

― PappaWheelie (PappaWheelie), Thursday, 5 May 2005 18:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Stooges - "Down in the Street" (it owns this thread)
Kraftwerk - "The Robots"
Sonny Rollins - "St. Thomas"
Talking Heads - "Born Under Punches"
Kinks - "Village Green"

― Keith C (kcraw916), Thursday, 5 May 2005 18:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Show Me - ABC (Lexicon of Love)
Who's Joe? - New Order (WFTSC)
Those First Impressions - Associates (Perhaps)
Fan Club - Blondie (Plastic Letters)
Definitive Gaze - Magazine (Real Life)
Paperhouse - Can (Tago Mago)

Can't count, that's 6. Sorry!

― Dr. C (Dr. C), Thursday, 5 May 2005 18:38 (twenty-one years ago)

There must be a thread about this already.

― billstevejim (billstevejim), Thursday, 5 May 2005 18:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Wheels of Confusion / The Straightener - Black Sabbath (Vol. IV)
Rise Above - Black Flag (Damaged)
When I Get to the Border - R&L Thompson (I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight)
Feel - Big Star (#1)
Easy Skanking - Bob Marley (Kaya)

― 57 7th (calstars), Thursday, 5 May 2005 18:51 (twenty-one years ago)

"Like a Rolling Stone" Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited
"Can You Forgive Her?" Pet Shop Boys - Very
"Lonley Woman" Ornette Coleman - The Shape of Jazz to Come
"Memphis, Egypt" The Mekons - The Mekons Rock'n'Roll
"Right Off" Miles Davis - Tribute to Jack Johnson

― Not Thaat Chuck, Thursday, 5 May 2005 18:53 (twenty-one years ago)

"Europe Endless" Kraftwerk, Trans-Europe Express
"Little Fury Things" Dinosaur Jr., Y.L.A.O.M.
"Sign 'O' the Times" Prince, Sign 'O' the Times
"Rikki Don't Lose That Number" Steely Dan, Pretzel Logic
"Iron Galaxy" Cannibal Ox, The Cold Vein

― poortheatre (poortheatre), Thursday, 5 May 2005 19:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Beyond Belief - Elvis Costello - Imperial Bedroom
16 Shells from a Thirty-Ought Six (live)- Tom Waits - Big Time
FF=66 - Jawbox - For Your Own Special Sweetheart
Mass Romantic - New Pornographers - Mass Romantic
Act We Act - Sugar - Copper Blue

― BofB, Thursday, 5 May 2005 21:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Coltrane -- A Love Supreme
New Order -- Dreams Never End
Prefab Sprout -- Faron
Roxy Music -- Re-Make/Re-Model
Brian Eno -- Needle In The Camel's Eye

― righteousmaelstrom (righteousmaelstrom), Thursday, 5 May 2005 21:29 (twenty-one years ago)

...I just made a mix based on this theme. A selection:

"Ace of Spades" Motorhead - Ace of Spades
"Lightsabre Cocksucking Blues" Mclusky - Mclusky Do Dallas
"Seventeen Years" Ratatat - Ratatat
"Letter From An Occupant" New Pornos - Mass Romantic
"Sure Shot" Beasties - Ill Communication

― giboyeux (skowly), Thursday, 5 May 2005 21:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Isn't Letter From an Occupant is track 5 or 6?

Anyway:

Our Prayer - Brian Wilson
A Salty Salute - GBV
It Won't Be Long - Beatles
Tripoli - Pinback
Over The Mountain - Ozzy

― darin (darin), Thursday, 5 May 2005 21:41 (twenty-one years ago)

1. "Down on the Street" by the Stooges on Funhouse
2. "Detroit Rock City" by Kiss on Destroyer
3. "Uncontrollable Urge" by Devo on Q:Are We Not Men?
4. "Requiem" by Killing Joke on Killing Joke
5. "Black Planet" by the Sisters of Mercy on First and Last and Always

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 5 May 2005 21:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Isn't Letter From an Occupant is track 5 or 6?

...could be? It shows up as no. 1 on my iTunes (don't actually have the album).

― giboyeux (skowly), Thursday, 5 May 2005 21:49 (twenty-one years ago)

It's track 5 I think.

― righteousmaelstrom (righteousmaelstrom), Thursday, 5 May 2005 21:55 (twenty-one years ago)

POX: Awesome Album Opening Tracks
BEST Album Opening Tracks of all time

(and links to others within those)

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Thursday, 5 May 2005 21:59 (twenty-one years ago)

And "Letter From an Occupant" is Track 6.

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Thursday, 5 May 2005 22:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Making it a POX

Black Sabbath - Sabbath Bloody Sabbath - Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
The Rolling Stones - Exile on Main Street - Rocks Off
The Rolling Stones - Let it Bleed - Gimme Shelter
The Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers - Brown Sugar
Oasis - Definitely Maybe - Rock and Roll Star
Metallica - Ride the Lightning - Fight Fire With Fire
Neil Young - Rust Never Sleeps - My My, Hey Hey (Out of the Blue)
Queen - The Game - Play the Game
Thelonius Monk - Monk's Dream - Monks Dream (Take 8)
The Talking Heads - Remain in Light - Born Under Punches (The Heat Goes On)

― Bryan Moore (Bryan Moore), Thursday, 5 May 2005 22:20 (twenty-one years ago)

My top five album openers:

1. Black Sabbath - Wheels of Confusion (including The Straightener)
2. New Order - Age of Consent
3. Gary Numan + Tubeway Army - Me! I Disconnect From You
4. Can - Future Days
5. Kraftwerk - Europe Endless

― Kent Burt (lingereffect), Friday, 6 May 2005 06:09 (twenty-one years ago)

age of consent rules!

― jmeister (jmeister), Friday, 6 May 2005 06:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Following Pleasant Plains's example, here's five unmentioned as yet:

1."Kingdom Come" (Sir Lord Baltimore)
2."Steps" (Cecil Taylor)
3."You Hit The Nail On The Head" (Funkadelic)
4."Man On The Move" (MX-80 Sound)
5."Neat Neat Neat" (The Damned)

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Friday, 6 May 2005 06:36 (twenty-one years ago)

"maggot brain" is another great one from fukadelic too

― jmeister (jmeister), Friday, 6 May 2005 06:39 (twenty-one years ago)

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