Best Debut Opening Segue?

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So which group's opening trio of songs on their debut _album_ can be considered the strongest? I reckon the Cars never topped their 1st 3 tracks - all 3 being perfect 3:44 pop gems; but other groups displayed the same consistancy...

The Cars - The Cars
good times roll / my best friend's girl / just what i needed

The Ramones - The Ramones
blitzkreig bop / beat on the brat / judy is a punk

The Velvet Underground - VU & Nico
sunday morning / waiting for my man / femme fatale

― chris andrews (fraew), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 21:46 (twenty years ago)

I simply can't go past Supervixen/Queer/Only Happy When It Rains off the first Garbage album. Three fantastic and very different pop songs with indelible hooks.

― edward o (edwardo), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 22:05 (twenty years ago)

If you're going by debut full lengths only and discounting EPs, then:
Pavement: Slanted and Enchanted
1. Summer Babe
2. Trigger Cut
3. No Life Singed Her

If not:

Television: Marquee Moon
1. See No Evil
2. Venus
3. Friction

― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 22:25 (twenty years ago)

The Police "Zenyatta Mondatta"
1. Don't Stand So Close To Me
2. Driven To Tears
3. When The World Is Running Down (You Make The Best Of What's Still Around)

― blunt (blunt), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 22:53 (twenty years ago)

Wow, that was their 3rd album. The 1st was not too shabby anyway with:
1. Next To You
2. So Lonely
3. Roxanne

― blunt (blunt), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 22:58 (twenty years ago)

Big Star - Feel / Ballad of El Goodo / Thirteen

― Mitch Mitchell (mitya), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 23:08 (twenty years ago)

lucky star / borderline / burning up

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 00:10 (twenty years ago)

girls & boys / tracy jacks / end of a century

― wombatX (wombatX), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 00:16 (twenty years ago)

oops sorry, didn't read the thread title properly

― wombatX (wombatX), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 00:16 (twenty years ago)

Stone Roses, Interpol.......Television OTM -- best debut side ever.

― PB, Wednesday, 7 September 2005 01:13 (twenty years ago)

VU & Nico is hard to argue with. Three songs practically in different genres!

― carl w (carl w), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 23:31 (twenty years ago)

The first FOUR on VU & Nico is pretty unarguable!

But personally, I've gotta cite "Man On The Move" > "Kid Stuff" > "Fascination" from MX-80 Sound's Hard Attack, because that's how long it took me (3 songs, or 2.5 actually) to realize that I'd found an album that was pretty special indeed. And it's been my favourite ever since (as I've tiresomely reiterated a dozen times here.)

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Thursday, 8 September 2005 00:31 (twenty years ago)

kornrulez6969:

"No Life Singed Her" is probably among the worst songs ever done by anybody. Ever. If S+E went straight from "Trigger Cut" to "In The Mouth A Desert," it would be unimpeachable.

― ghghghg, Thursday, 8 September 2005 00:53 (twenty years ago)

TTD: "If You All Get to Heaven," "If You Let Me Stay," "Wishing Well." Certainly the most audacious opening on a debut, and I'd say the best opening trio as well.

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Thursday, 8 September 2005 02:39 (twenty years ago)

Okay. I'll be the one to add this one:

Blister In the Sun / Kiss Off / Please Do Not Go

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Thursday, 8 September 2005 03:05 (twenty years ago)

Are You Experienced starts off with Purple Haze, Manic Depression, and Hey Joe.

― Hurting (Hurting), Thursday, 8 September 2005 03:20 (twenty years ago)

http://www.hebig.org/blogs/archives/main/segway.jpg

― singking, Thursday, 8 September 2005 03:24 (twenty years ago)

Straight Outta Compton/Fuck Tha Police/Gangsta Gangsta
and, if you include "major label debut" as "debut",
Smells Like Teen Spirit/In Bloom/Come As You Are is pretty solid

― greg c, Thursday, 8 September 2005 18:23 (twenty years ago)

Now, We're Gonna Sing/Instilled With Mem'ry/Pair Back Up Mass With

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Thursday, 8 September 2005 18:35 (twenty years ago)

Doomsday/Rhymes Like Dimes/The Finest

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 8 September 2005 18:38 (twenty years ago)

Bring Da Ruckus/Shame On A Nigga/Clan In Da Front

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 8 September 2005 18:39 (twenty years ago)

Not that anything else they made was much of a disappointment (and this album's one of my favourite records anyhow), but I do think Mission of Burma peaked on the first three tracks of Vs.: "Secrets", "Train", and "Trem Two".

― Ian Riese-Moraine: Let this bastard out, and you'll get whiplash! (Eastern Mantr, Thursday, 8 September 2005 18:41 (twenty years ago)

Sure 'Nuff 'N Yes I Do / Zig Zag Wanderer / Call On Me

― Billy Pilgrim (Billy Pilgrim), Thursday, 8 September 2005 20:13 (twenty years ago)

The VU and Garbage ones are my favs so far, but this gambit ran across my mind as I read the thread title:

Runnin' With The Devil/Eruption/You Really Got Me

...and I'm not even that big of a fan.

― Marxism Goes Better With Coke (Charles McCain), Thursday, 8 September 2005 21:45 (twenty years ago)

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