Your favorite opening Trifecta?

The first one is hot. The other two are not.

Judas Priest: "Breaking the Law", "Rapid Fire", "Metal Gods"
Megadeth: "Holy Wars", "Hangar 18", "Take No Prisoners"
Rush: "Spirit of Radio", "Freewill", "Jacob's Ladder"

But if I only had to pick one it would be...

Yes: "Close to the Edge", "And You and I", and "Siberian Khatru".

 

Fair enough. I like the album too...just not as much as the others.

 

Also fair enough! Your picks are excellent!

 

I saw Radiohead's OKC, but not The Bends. (Might have missed it though!)

1. Planet Telex
2. The Bends
3. High & Dry

 

Black Cow
Aja
Deacon Blues

 

Dire Straits - Making Movies

1. Tunnel of Love
2. Romeo & Juliet
3. Skateaway

 

1. Rednecks
2. Birmingham
3. Marie
(Randy Newman's Good Old Boys)

He was after something with this album, and he captured it perfectly, and bravely, with these first three songs.

 

Clutch - s/t:

Big News
Big News II
Rock and Roll Outlaw

 

Cheap Trick - In Color

Hello There
Big Eyes
Downed

 

1. Where the Streets Have No Name
2. I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
3. With Or Without You

 

I have another with four, not three:

Most Anything You Want
Flowers and Beads
My Mirage
Termination

(Iron Butterfly, In-a-Gadda-da-Vida)

 

from Blur's S/T:
1. "Beetlebum"
2. "Song 2"
3. "Country Sad Ballad Man"

 

Thunder Road
Tenth Avenue Freezeout
Night

 

Especially For You - Smithereens

1. Strangers When We Meet
2. Listen to Me Girl
3. Groovy Tuesday

 

The three King Crimson 80's albums

Discipline: Elephant Talk, Frame By Frame, Matte Kudasai

Beat: Neal And Jack And Me, Heartbeat, Sartori In Tangier

Three Of A Perfect Pair: TOAPP, Model Man, Sleepless

Genesis: Abacab, No Reply At All, Me And Sarah Jane

Can: Mushroom, Paperhouse, Oh Yeah

Gary Numan: Airlane, Metal, Complex

 

One from Ozzy Osbourne's Diary Of A Madman album

1. Over The Mountain
2. Flying High Again
3. You Can't Kill Rock And Roll

 

From Sammy Hagar's VOA album

1. I Can't Drive 55
2. Swept Away
3. Rock Is In My Blood

 

Wow! You really hit it out of the park with these selections!

Fantastic list... the best (IMHO) I've seen so far!

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I can't resist a vote for:

Johnny Strikes Up the Band
Roland The Headless Thompson Gunner
Excitable Boy
(Warren Zevon, of course)

 

1. Meant For You
2. Friends
3. Wake The World

1. She's The Kind Of Girl
2. One In A Hundred
3. Here Tonight

1. Begin The Begin
2. These Days
3. Fall On Me

 

Skylarking - XTC
1. Summer's Cauldron
2. Grass
3. The Meeting Place

On the Beach - Neil Young
1. Walk On
2. See the Sky About to Rain
3. Revolution Blues

Down on the Drag - Joe Ely
1. Fools Fall in Love
2. B.B.Q. and Foam
3. Standin' at the Big Hotel

Whatever- Aimee Mann
1. I Should've Known
2. Fifty Years After the Fair
3. 4th of July

Girlfriend - Matthew Sweet
1. Divine Intervention
2. I've Been Waiting
3. Girlfriend

 

Seeing Whatever and Girlfriend back to back made me smile big time! - I'm making that happen tomorrow! Two awesome albums!

 

The first three songs of any Beatles album.

 

Brilliant record!

 

Every Little Bit -Whatever It Is-Chicken Fried
Zac Brown Home Grown 2005

Uncommon Connection-How Bad's The Coffee-The Nagging Dark
John Hiatt and the Goners-Beneath This Gruff Exterior

I Ain't the One-Tuesday's Gone-Gimme Three Steps
Lynyrd Skynyrd

eAST oF EDEN-After The Flood-Ways to be Wicked
Lone Justice

Love Struck Baby-Pride and Joy-Texas Flood
SRV-Texas Flood