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

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  1. Ted Dinard

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  2. Smack

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    Anthrax - "A.I.R." The first thrash song I ever heard.
     
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  3. bluejeanbaby

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    Mine too, always on my list of my favorite records. Joe Walsh is in the group there, am I correct?
     
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  4. stoneknuckle

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    Hard to isolate just one...but,I think The Hellacopters "Gotta Get Some Action(Now)" from SSTTM will always inhabit my #1 spot...followed closely by "Lay Your Love On Me" from "Free And Easy" by Bad Wizard and "Search & Destroy" on "Raw Power" Stooges.

    Good call on "London Calling" by previous posters.
     
  5. this is what first came to mind:

     
  6. Artdob

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    Peter Gabriel: Darkness (best heard with the lights out)
     
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    I think I've got to hand it to Queen on this one... Father To Son from Queen II is a hell of an opening track.
     
  8. Steve Carras

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    Also
    (again, song, album, artist, year):
    "Wannabe",Spcie Girls, Spice,1996
    "Why Do You Let Me Stay Here" She (aka Zooey Deschanel) and Him, She & Him 1, 2008
     
  9. zx2dave

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    In For The Kill!- Budgie

    Great tune!
     
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  10. paradoxguy

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    "I Saw Her Standing There" - Please Please Me (The Beatles)
    "Dreaming" - Eat To The Beat (Blondie)
    "Sodajerk" - Red Letter Day (Buffalo Tom)
    "Safe European Home" - Give 'Em Enough Rope (The Clash)
    "London Calling" - London Calling (The Clash)
    "Looking For Lewis and Clark" - State Of Our Union (The Long Ryders)
    "IOU" - Pleased To Meet Me (The Replacements)
    "Strangers When We Meet" - Especially For You (The Smithereens)
    "I Wanna Destroy You" - Underwater Moonlight (The Soft Boys)
    "The Ties That Bind" - The River (Bruce Springsteen)
    "Cry Mercy, Judge" - Flash Light (Tom Verlaine)
     
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  11. ConnieGuitar

    ConnieGuitar Here in my balloon...

    Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Parts I-V) - Pink Floyd
    Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God) - Kate Bush
    Let's Go Crazy - Prince & The Revolution
    Wanna Be Startin' Something - Michael Jackson
    Roadhouse Blues - The Doors
    Debaser - Pixies
     
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  12. Chris DeVoe

    Chris DeVoe RIP Vickie Mapes Williams (aka Equipoise)

    You're right, that is another amazing first track. And Kate does love her drums.
     
  13. Logan S

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    No question.
     
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  14. stephenlee

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    First one that came to mind!
     
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  18. CorporalClegg

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    Pink Floyd - In the flesh (from The Wall album)
     
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  19. Scott S.

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    Serve the Servants by Nirvana
    Roundabout
    Brother Brother by Carole King
    Funeral For A Friend
     
  20. The7thStranger

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    Powerful in terms of loud, brashness:

    "Behind the Lines" - Genesis / Duke
    "Radio Nowhere" - Bruce Springsteen / Magic
    "Machine Messiah" - Yes / Drama
    "Spice Up Your Life" - Spice Girls / Spiceworld
    "In For the Kill" - La Roux / La Roux
    "You've Got the Magic" - John Fogerty / Hoodoo
    "Live Your Life Be Free" - Belinda Carlisle / Live Your Life Be Free
    "Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God)" - Kate Bush / Hounds of Love
    "Staying Power" - Queen / Hot Space
    "Tie You Mother Down" - Queen / A Day at the Races
    "Death on Two Legs (Dedicated to...)" - Queen / A Night at the Opera
    Literally every Queen album ever.
    "Separate Ways (World Apart)" - Journey / Frontiers
    "Some Nights" - fun. / Some Nights
    "Celebrity Skin" - Hole / Celebrity Skin
    "D-Day" - Blondie / Panic of Girls

    Powerful in terms of, "There is no better way to start off this record than with ____":

    "Another World" - Joe Jackson / Night & Day
    "Movin' Out (Anthony's Song)" - Billy Joel / The Stranger
    "The Heart of Rock and Roll" - Huey Lewis and the News / Sports
    "Control" - Janet Jackson / Control
    "Interlude/Rhythm Nation" - Janet Jackson / Rhythm Nation 1814
    "Oven Ready" - Cakes da Killa / Hunger Pangs
    "Vengeance" - Carly Simon / Spy
    "Outside" - Childish Gambino / Camp
     
  21. Randu

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    Not even much of a Zep fan & I gotta agree with that one
     
  22. kippyy

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    Funeral for a Friend-Elton
     
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  24. jwb1231970

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    Tommy - Overture
     
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    SLAYER - Angel Of Death (from 'Reign In Blood' 1986).
     
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