The most powerful first track of an album you have ever heard

Blackstar.

 

CSNY - carry on - a hippie anthem if there ever was one.

 

Day of the Eagle should really be on the short list of powerful first tracks. The way those opening riffs explode out of the speakers at you, the vocal, the lyrics, the bluesy outro...it is one hell of a track to kick off an album.

 

Funeral for a Friend/Love Lies Bleeding. Powerful in its sheer brilliance.

 

The Width Of A Circle

 

The Revolution Will Not Be Televised --- Gil Scott-Heron.

 

The Width Of A Circle David Bowie
I Will Follow U2

 

"Don't Kill" off the album Tough Love by Hamell On Trial. A biting, satirical & funny knockdown of religion. A brilliant way to open a pretty great album.

 

Anton Bruckner, Symphony #9, movement one—Feierlich. Misterioso. Wilhelm Furtwängler, Berlin Philharmonic. recorded 1944:

 

Powerful?

I Saw Her Standing There - Beatles
Gimme Shelter - Rolling Stones
Every Picture Tells a Story - Rod Stewart
Black Dog - Led Zeppelin
Janie Jones - The Clash
Precious - Pretenders
Bad Reputation - Joan Jett
What's the Frequency Kenneth - REM
Violet - Hole
Go - Pearl Jam

 

Sweet - Ballroom Blitz

 

POWERFUL ! Shaun Murphy nails this one good.

 

UFO - "Let It Roll"

 

Aces High (Powerslave, Iron Maiden)

 

It would have been even better if they'd included Churchill's speech at the beginning of the studio version.

 

I raise you Down On The Street .

 

Eye Flies - Melvins (Gluey Porch Treatments)
Screen Shot - Swans (To Be Kind)

 

Bruce Springsteen - Badlands

 

Don't forget to check out the James Gang Live release!

 

Black Dog

 

Runnin' with the Devil from Van Halen. I really thought it was something when I first heard it.

 

"Born in the U.S.A." - Springsteen. Especially in 1984 when it came out.