*POLL* Best opening song on an album - (Group 29)

SONGS THROUGH SO FAR

NIRVANA - Smells Like Teen Spirit - Nevermind
KING CRIMSON - 21st Century Schizoid Man - In The Court Of The Crimson King
MARVIN GAYE - What's Going On -What's Going On
THE SMITHS - The Queen Is Dead - The Queen Is Dead
STEELY DAN - Do It Again - Can't Buy A Thrill
THE DOORS - The Changeling - L.A Woman
THE B-52'S - Planet Claire - The B-52's
TALKING HEADS - I Zimbra - Fear Of Music
THE WHO - Baba O'Riley - Who's Next
LED ZEPPELIN - The Song Remains The Same - Houses Of The Holy
THE BEATLES - A Hard Day's Night - A Hard Day's Night
BOB DYLAN - Like A Rolling Stone - Highway 61 Revisited
THE CLASH -London Calling - London Calling
THE STONE ROSES - I Wanna Be Adored - The Stone Roses
THE ROLLING STONES - Gimme Shelter - Let It Bleed
THE BYRDS - Mr. Tambourine Man - Mr. Tambourine Man
BLACK SABBATH - War Pigs - Paranoid
BLONDIE - Hanging On The Telephone - Parallel Lines
THE BEATLES - Taxman - Revolver
GUNS 'N' ROSES - Welcome To The Jungle - Appetite For Destruction
THIN LIZZY - Jailbreak - Jailbreak
R.E.M - What's The Frequency, Kenneth? - Monster
DEEP PURPLE - Highway Star - Machine Head
FLEETWOOD MAC - Second Hand News - Rumours
PINK FLOYD - Shine On You Crazy Diamond, Parts I-V - Wish You Were Here
VAN HALEN - Runnin' With The Devil - Van Halen
BOB DYLAN - Hurricane - Desire
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN - Born In The U.S.A. - Born In The U.S.A.
PRINCE - 1999 - 1999
AC/DC - Hells Bells - Back In Black
LED ZEPPELIN - Whole Lotta Love - Led Zeppelin II
CREAM - Strange Brew - Disraeli Gears
ELTON JOHN - Funeral For A Friend / Love Lies Bleeding - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
THE VERVE - Bitter Sweet Symphony - Urban Hymns
A-HA - Take On Me - Hunting High And Low
ROXY MUSIC - Do The Strand - For Your Pleasure
U2 - Sunday Bloody Sunday - War
RUSH - The Spirit Of Radio - Permanent Waves
THE POLICE - Message In A Bottle - Reggatta de Blanc
GENESIS - Dancing With The Moonlit Knight - Selling England By The Pound
THE BEACH BOYS - Wouldn't It Be Nice - Pet Sounds
DAVID BOWIE - Changes - Hunky Dory
THE BEATLES - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN - Thunder Road - Born To Run

 

The Waterboys - Don't bang the drum (the album, This is the Sea, starts off great and just gets better)
Genesis - Dance on a Volcano (first indicator that life existed after dear old Mr Gabriel!)

A mention for 10,000 Maniacs, who I thought produced a really special album with In My Tribe.

 

Pink Floyd - The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn
This is one of my favorite opening tracks.
It has all the things I look for in an opening song:
A strong song
Provides a sense for the theme of the album
Feeling of anticipation

 

Heard four of these.

Don't really like the Floyd song, and regard Erasure as fun but disposable so therefore my votes go to:

Genesis & The Waterboys. Great songs both!

 

The 2 old ones. I actually listened to the others..

ps: I guess Waterboys is okay also.

 

Astronomy Domine-Pink Floyd(Great Album Opening Song with or without being on LSD)
Untitled-Interpol(started my 16 Year Love of this Band and thought Joy Divsion had an unknown Group of Children)

I did give consideration to the Portishead Song.

 

Dance On A Volcano

A very good opener on a classic Genesis album

A Little Respect

So bouyant and a total eighties anthem!

 

Dance on a volcano
Don't bang the drum

Theme from flood and Mysterons both very close near misses
I love floyd and I don't think they have a bad album, but I am not as enamored with the Syd stuff as most seem to be.

 

Dance on a Volcano
Astronomy Domine

 

Astronomy Domine
Don't Bang The Drum

Both good songs but I confess I don't know any of the others.

 

I don’t think I know a single one.

 

Got the wrong Waterboys LP I think, with Church Not Made With Hands being such a classic, and leading off A Pagan Place ...

 

The correct answer is Dummy obviously!

 

ASTRONOMY DOMINE is the only classic one here.

I gave THEME FROM FLOOD my other vote since it won't win and I think it is a pretty funny opening song!

 

10,000 Maniacs and TMBG are no-brainers. If we could have voted for three tunes I would've also picked Erasure.

 

When I first heard Dummy I was too old for it. Cool sound scapes and sleazy sexuality didn't impress me anymore. The reviewers must have been very young.