KingSausage said:

#3: "Watch That Man" (David Bowie, Aladdin Sane)

Really? I've thought using it as the opening track is one of the main reasons people do not consider the Aladdin Sane album to be of the same quality as the material on Ziggy Stardust. It's just "basic glam rock" to many ears. I don't mind it myself, but it's nowhere nearly as dramatic and memorable as using "Five Years" to open an album.

I'd probably consider the greatest opening track on a Bowie album to be "Station To Station" myself.

1999

Let's Go Crazy

Come

U2 - Zooropa

The Verve - Bittersweet Symphony

Beatles - Two Of Us

Simple Minds - Stay Visible

Iggy Pop - Lust For Life

Van Morrison - Bright Side Of The Road

Bob Dylan - Changing of The Guards

The Church - Destination

The Waterboys - Church Not Made With Hands

The Jacksons - Can You Feel It

Echo And The Bunnymen - The Cutter

Pink Floyd - Shine On You Crazy Diamond

Beck - EPro

Pete Townshend - Rough Boys

Suede - Trash

INXS -Guns In The Sky

Tom Petty - Freefallin'

Coldplay - Politik

John Mayer - Waiting on The World to Change

Annie Lennox - Why

Tears for Fears - Shout

Oasis - Go Let It Out

New Order - Regret

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Nobody considers Sign O' The Times as a great opening track?

214 said:

Nobody considers Sign O' The Times as a great opening track?

I see 5 people mention it (replies 3, 6, 7, 9, & 18).

214 said:

namepeace said:

"You Are The Sunshine of My Life," Talking Book, Stevie Wonder

Exactly, that's a great one.

Our debt to Stevie can't be repaid!

namepeace said:

214 said:

Exactly, that's a great one.

Our debt to Stevie can't be repaid!

It's a great song, i just wish he wouldn't have end it that song before its time, at the very end when music starts to get faster. Such a shame.

214 said:

namepeace said:

Our debt to Stevie can't be repaid!

It's a great song, i just wish he wouldn't have end it that song before its time, at the very end when music starts to get faster. Such a shame.

Maybe we'll get the extended version someday . . .

namepeace said:

214 said:

It's a great song, i just wish he wouldn't have end it that song before its time, at the very end when music starts to get faster. Such a shame.

Maybe we'll get the extended version someday . . .

I pray for that.

Men At Work ~ Who Can It Be Now

Blue Magic ~ Three Ring Circus

Johnny Mathis ~ You Hit The Spot

Meco ~ Star Wars Theme / Catina Band

Eddie Holman ~ I Love You

O'Bryan ~ I'm Freaky

Garland Green ~ Jealous Kind Of Fella

Identity said:

"Band on The Run" - McCartney and Wings
"Ain't That Easy" - D'Angelo
"The Pride" - The Isleys

"If You Let Me Stay" - TTD

"1999" - Prince
"Back in the USSR" - The Beatles

"Stuff Like That" - Quincy Jones
" No Need to Worry" - The Winans
"Sweet Love" - Anita Baker

"Sign O' The Times" - Prince
"I'll Be Good To You" - The Bros Johnson
"Bop Gun (Endangered Species)" - Parliament
"The Headmaster Ritual" - The Smiths

"What's Going On" - Marvin Gaye"

"Wanna Be Startin' Somethin' - MJ
"Rock 'N Roll Star"- Oasis
"So What" - Miles Davis

i'm afraid "If You Let Me Stay" isn't the opening track on Introducing the Hardline

it's actually "If You All Get To Heaven"

Prince:

1999

Christopher Tracy's Parade

Sign O' The Times

Dirty Mind

David Bowie:

Young Americans

Five Years

Station to Station

Future Legend

It's No Game

Roxy Music:

Manifesto

More Than This

Street Life

Love Is The Drug

Blondie:

Europa

Dreaming

Lou Reed:

Berlin

Vicious

Funkadelic:

Maggot Brain

One Nation Under a Groove

Here's a few:

Suzanne - Leonard Cohen (Not only a great opening track, but a great opening track to his first album!)
Moving on Up - Primal Scream

Sign o the Times - Prince

Tangled Up in Blue - Bob Dylan (My favourite Dylan song)

Mercy Seat - Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds

thisisreece said:

Here's a few:

Suzanne - Leonard Cohen (Not only a great opening track, but a great opening track to his first album!)
Moving on Up - Primal Scream

Sign o the Times - Prince

Tangled Up in Blue - Bob Dylan (My favourite Dylan song)

Mercy Seat - Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds

That's a great one.

scratch said:

Identity said:

"Band on The Run" - McCartney and Wings
"Ain't That Easy" - D'Angelo
"The Pride" - The Isleys

"If You Let Me Stay" - TTD

"1999" - Prince
"Back in the USSR" - The Beatles

"Stuff Like That" - Quincy Jones
" No Need to Worry" - The Winans
"Sweet Love" - Anita Baker

"Sign O' The Times" - Prince
"I'll Be Good To You" - The Bros Johnson
"Bop Gun (Endangered Species)" - Parliament
"The Headmaster Ritual" - The Smiths

"What's Going On" - Marvin Gaye"

"Wanna Be Startin' Somethin' - MJ
"Rock 'N Roll Star"- Oasis
"So What" - Miles Davis

i'm afraid "If You Let Me Stay" isn't the opening track on Introducing the Hardline

it's actually "If You All Get To Heaven"

Yes, I'm well aware of that. See post # 27.

Toofunkyinhere said:

Beck - EPro

Good pull.

Portishead, Cowboys.

A few more favorites:

"My Philosophy" -- Boogie Down Productions, By All Means Necessary

"Resurrection" -- Common Sense, Resurrection

"Theme From Shaft" -- Isaac Hayes, Shaft

2freaky4church1 said:

Identity said:

scratch said:

i'm afraid "If You Let Me Stay" isn't the opening track on Introducing the Hardline

it's actually "If You All Get To Heaven"

Yes, I'm well aware of that. See post # 27.

Ah, I missed it

JJ Fad ~ Supersonic

Cover Girls ~ Wishing On A Star

Lisa Stansfield ~ This Is The Right Time

Lisa Stansfield ~ Never Gonna Fall

Ace Spectrum ~ Don't Send Nobody Else

The McCrarys ~ You

Betty Boo ~ Where Are You Baby?

Immigrant song - Led Zeppelin

All the pretty little horses - Calexico

Wanna be starting something - Michael Jackson

Rehab - Amy Winehouse

Blind / Psycho killer - Talking heads

Seven nation Army- White Stripes

A couple that I didn't see mentioned yet:

Nights on Broadway - Bee Gees, from the album Main Course

Staying Alive - Bee Gees, from Saturday Night Fever Sountrack

Bob Dylan - Subterranean Homesick Blues (Bringing It All Back Home)

Donovan - Sunshine Superman (Sunshine Superman)

The Doors - Break On Through (To the Other Side) (The Doors)

Richie Havens - High Flyin' Bird (Mixed Bag)

Cream - White Room (Wheels of Fire)

The Rolling Stones - Gimme Shelter (Let It Bleed)

Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young - Carry On (Deja Vu)

Curtis Mayfield - (Don't Worry) If There's a Hell Below, We're All Going to Go (Curtis)

Funkadelic - Maggot Brain (Maggot Brain)

Elton John - Tiny Dancer (Madman Across the Water)

Led Zeppelin - Black Dog (Led Zeppelin IV)

Stevie Wonder - Love Having You Around (Music of My Mind)

Joni Mitchell - Court and Spark (Court and Spark)

Jackson Browne - Late for the Sky (Late for the Sky)

Mother's Finest - Fire (Mother's Finest)

Fela Kuti - Zombie (Zombie)

The Beat - Mirror in the Bathroom (I Just Can't Stop It)

Earth, Wind & Fire - Let's Groove (Raise!)

Eddie Money - Shakin' (No Control)

Prince - Let's Go Crazy (Purple Rain)

LL Cool J - I Can't Live without My Radio (Radio)

Guns N' Roses - Welcome to the Jungle (Appetite for Destruction)

Prince - Sign o' the Times (Sign o' the Times)

Bobby Brown - Don't Be Cruel (Don't Be Cruel)

Janet Jackson - Rhythm Nation (Rhythm Nation 1814)

Foster the People - Helena Beat (Torches)

- Sign 'O' The Times

- Tangled up in Blue (Dylan - Blood on The Tracks)

- Wannabe Startin' Something

- Don't Stop till..

- Love's in Need of Love Today (Stevie - Songs In The Key)

- Like A Rolling Stone (Dylan - Highway 61)

- Back In The USSR ( Beatles - White Album)

- Evrything It Its Right Place (Radiohead - Kid A)

- Right off (Miles Davis Jack Johnson album)