Best opening tracks of debut albums?

Stooges - 1969

 

NY Dolls - Personality Crisis

 

Dictators - Next Big Thing

 

Ramones - Blitzkrieg Bop

 

Dead Kennedys - Kill The Poor

 

Crabby Appleton - Go Back.

 

Dead Boys - Sonic Reducer

 

Scheuber-Everything, 2016

 

Tears of Rage from Big Pink for sure

 

- "Talkin' Bout a Revolution" from Tracy Chapman in 1988
- "Sittin' on Top of the World" from Lenny Kravitz in 1989

These may not be at the top of the list all-time, but in the late 80's they immediately grabbed my attention as something refreshing when I first heard them, and I knew I'd like the rest of each of the albums before hearing them in full.

 

Tracy Chapman "Talkin' bout a Revolution"



Adam Wernick quoted Tracy Chapman in a recent PRI web article:
"Chapman was only 24 years old and had never recorded professionally when she stepped into the studio to make her debut album. Still, she says, these were songs she had been playing for years. She wrote “Talking About a Revolution” when she was 16 and had been playing it regularly in coffeehouses and street performances."

 

Blue Öyster Cult - Transmaniacon MC

 

Madrugada
Vocal, from Idustrial Silence

 

Round Here - Counting Crows...I can remember the first time I heard the song like it was yesterday...Seoul Korea on a bus going back to Osan AB...it's been 23 years...wow...

 

Certainly "purple Haze" on the us version lp.
Ditto "Foxey lady" UK.


Others in rock ...off top head
"Light my Fire" Doors
"Saw her Standing There" Beatles
"Tears of Rage" Band
"Evil Ways" Santana
"21st Century Schizoid Man" Crimson
"Route 66" Stones UK
"Not Fade Away" US

 

"C'mon Everybody" - NRBQ

 

Utah Saints cover/mix/sample-(Simple Minds) New Gold Dream (81-82-83-84), 1992

 

Lots of good ones but this must be up there. In fact it was; on my mostly funk radio show a few years back I did a 9-song set like this...Michael Anes on Twitter

 

Sonics - The Witch

 

Flash & The Pan - Hey, St Peter

 

"To Know You" is one of Nichole Nordeman's best songs and it opens her debut album, "Wide Eyed." The next 2 tracks, the title track and "Who You Are" are also classics so that is a great one, two, three punch.

 

May not be the best, but a good one is Sweet Jane from Lou Reed's rock n roll animal

 

Good one. I have a US pressing on its way. ☺️

 

Agreed. That's a great one!