Your favorite opening Trifecta?

Off the top of my head:
David Watts - Death of a Clown - Two Sisters [Something Else by the Kinks]
Care of Cell 44 - Rose for Emily - Maybe After He's Gone [The Zombies - Odessey and Oracle]
Across The Great Divide - Rag Mama Rag - The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down (The Band - s/t]
21st Century Schizoid Man - I Talk to the Wind - Epitaph [King Crimson - ITCOTCK]
Taxman - Eleanor Rigby - I'm Only Sleeping [The Beatles - Revolver]
Break On Through - Soul Kitchen - The Crystal Ship [The Doors - s/t]
White Room - Sitting On Top of the World - Passing the Time [Cream - Wheels of Fire]
Stolen Moments - Hoe Down - Cascades [Oliver Nelson - The Blues and the Abstract Truth]
Abide With Me - Well, You Needn't - Ruby, My Dear [Thelonious Monk - Monk's Music]
Brown Sugar - Sway - Wild Horses [The Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers]
All I Want - My Old Man - Little Green [Joni Mitchell - Blue]
Holidays In The Sun - Bodies - No Feelings [Sex Pistols - Never Mind The Bollocks, Here's The Sex Pistols]
Too High - Visions - Living For The City [Stevie Wonder - Innervisions]
Glad - Freedom Rider - Empty Pages [Traffic - John Barleycorn Must Die]
Gone Hollywood - The Logical Song - Goodbye Stranger [Supertramp - BIA]

 

1. The Power of Equality
2. If You Have to Ask
3. Breaking the Girl


1. Warped
2. Aeroplane
3. Deep Kick



1.Dani California
2. Snow (Hey Oh)
3. Charlie

 

1. Station to Station
2. Golden Years
3. Word on a Wing

 

I Robot
I Wouldn't Want To Be Like You
Some Other Time



Big Iron
Cool Water
Billy The Kid

 

Southern Harmony & Musical Companion - Sting Me / Remedy / Thorn In My Pride

AJA - Black Cow / Aja / Deacon Blues

 

Isn't it correctly selecting 1st, 2nd & 3rd in the same race?

 

Robert Palmer
Sneakin’ Sally Through the Alley

1. "Sailing Shoes" (Lowell George) – 2:44
2. "Hey Julia" – 2:24
3. "Sneakin' Sally Through the Alley" (Allen Toussaint) – 4:21

 

The Hooters - Nervous Night

1. And We Danced
2. Day By Day
3. All You Zombies

 

All 'N All- EWF

I still don't think there is a more euphoric opening in Pop/Soul/Funk

Serpentine Fire
Fantasy
In The Marketplace/Jupiter

 

Absolutely stellar opening, indeed!

 

Time for me to go listen to some EWF.
Don't forget....

1. In the Stone
2. Can't Let Go
3. After the Love Has Gone

 

That was the first 'trifecta' that came to mind. To round out the trifecta of Kinks trifectas, I'll add these two...

Something Else By The Kinks
"David Watts"
"Death Of A Clown"
"Two Sisters"

Muswell Hillbillies
"20th Century Man"
"Acute Schizophrenia Paranoia Blues"
"Holiday"

 

Great choice.

 

Elvis Costello - my aim is true

1. Welcome to the working week

2. Miracle Man

3. No Dancing

 

I know this one's been mentioned already, but I don't think there's anything that can top...

Highway 61 Revisited - Bob Dylan
"Like A Rolling Stone"
"Tombstone Blues"
"It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry"

...and 2 more from Bob (that haven't been mentioned)...

The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan
"Blowin' In The Wind"
"Girl From The North County"
"Masters Of War"

Blood On The Tracks
"Tangled Up In Blue"
"Simple Twist Of Fate"
"You're A Big Girl Now"

 

What about?

1. Subterranean Homesick Blues
2. She Belongs to Me
3. Maggie's Farm

 

Swamp Snake
Gang Bang
Faith Healer
SAHB - Next

Brown Sugar
Sway
Wild Horses

Just Drums
The Iliad
Insistor
Tapes N' Tapes - The Loon

First We Take Manhattan
Bird On A Wire
Famous Blue Raincoat
(Of course, the next song is Joan Of Arc, so I'm reaching a touch here...)

I actually thought there would be a lot more, but turns out many of my faves save an absolute killer track for number four.

 

Re-Make/Re-Model
Ladytron
If There Is Something

 

Just a Little Lovin'
So Much Love
Son of a Preacher Man

And

Court and Spark
Help Me
Free Man on Paris

And

Try Me
I Know
We Can Make It

 

Michael Nesmith

Calico Girlfriend / Nine Times Blue / Little Red Rider

 

1. Respect
2. Drown In My Own Tears
3. I Never Loved a Man (The Way I Love You)

 

Could never forget, it was the first album I ever bought with my own money! I played that mutha to death for the next 2 years. The lead off track is magical, one of the best opening tracks ever, but 'Can't Let Go' is no match for 'Fantasy'.

 

But "In the Marketplace" and "Jupiter" are no match for "After the Love Has Gone".

 

Some great choices there especially Innervisions, Blue, ITCOTCK, Doors and Monk's Music.