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

"Where The Streets Have No Name" from The Joshua Tree

 

Break On Through (The Doors-THE DOORS)
Back In The USSR (The Beatles-WHITE ALBUM)
Too Many People (Paul McCartney-RAM)
Baba O'Riley (The Who-WHO'S NEXT)
Blitzkreig Bop (The Ramones-THE RAMONES)

 

Another strong opening track..."The Feeling Begins" by Peter Gabriel from the Passion soundtrack. Fantastic percussion and a great recording.
"Moribund the Burgermeister" from the first solo PG is also pretty solid imho.

 

Neighborhood #1 from Arcade Fire's debut.

 

It was – post #15

 

'Rockwrock' - Ultravox's 'Ha-Ha-Ha' LP.

 

Black Sabbath on the first album. A certain genre was born right there...

 

A bunch, approximately in chronological order:

Moody Blues - Lost in a Lost World
Genesis - Watchers of the Skies
Ramatam - The Land / Rainy Sunday Evening
Amazing Blondel - Seascape
Bruce Springsteen - Thunder Road
Waterboys - Church Not Made With Hands
Trash Can Sinatras - Obscurity Knocks
Pulp - Mis-Shapes

 

Safe European Home packs a bigger wallop than London Calling, to me.

 

Another vote for War Pigs.

Coming out of my first innocent teenage year cocoon in the early 70's listening to am radio and Casey Kasem American Top 40 countdown to hanging out at the stoner's house up the street - War Pigs was the first song I heard by Black Sabbath on his stereo.

Best analogy is those Jet.com commercials - head *BLOWN*.

 

Station to Station
Larks Tongue in Aspic pt.1

 

Slayer - Angel of Death

 

Five Years

 

Theme from The Monkees

 

Song, artist, album, and year:
"Blue Ronda A la Turk" The Dave Brubeck Quartet from "Time Out",1959 (single release:1961)
"Break on Through to the Other Side" The Doors, self-titled, 1967
"All About That Bass" Meghan Trainor from "Title"(still her only hit album), 2014
"Intro/Morning" by Moody Blues and the London Festival Orchestra from "Days of Future Past",1967
"Stephanie Knows Who" by Love from "Da Capo",1967
"Sgt.Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" by The Beatles from the title album,1967
"Rolling in the Deep" by Adele, from "21",2011
"Hello" by Adele, from "25",2015
"Birthday" by The Beatles, from "The White Album",1968
"Fire" by The Crazy World of Arthur Brown from title album,1968
"Wild Thing" by The Troggs, from "From Nowhere",1966
"Them Changes" by Buddy Miles from the album also titled "Them Changes",1970
"Autobahn" by Kraftwerk from "Autobahn",1974 (US single:1975)

 

Sometimes a necklace is just a necklace.

 

'Inspired' by this one:

 

Dance Of The Volcano - Genesis - A Trick Of The Tail

 

I Saw Her Standing There

 

Start Me Up - Rolling Stones

 

21st Century Schizoid Man - King Crimson - you knew you were in for something special when this came on
Intruder - Peter Gabriel - Phil Collins' drums make this one
Watcher of The Skies - Genesis - Tony Banks and the Mellotron intro
Black Cow - Steely Dan - always loved this one since it's my favorite SD album
Fallen Angel - Robbie Robertson - probably my all-time favorite opening track by anyone - so beautiful
It's No Game (Part 1) - Bowie - such a powerful opener, and Bowie had plenty of them

 

"Aces High" from the Powerslave album by Iron Maiden.
Granted, maybe it's not THE most powerful--
but it was the first one that came to mind for some reason.

 

Public Image Limited - FFF

 

The Beatles - I Saw Her Standing There.... actually, it you want to count the snippet of ... 1 2 3 4... I'm fine with that as well.

Followed by Bruce Springsteen's Born In The USA.