Here's my favorites:

I Saw Her Standing There ~ The Beatles
Taxman ~ The Beatles

Back In The U.S.S.R. ~ The Beatles
Sing My Heart Out ~ O'Jays

You Lied To Me ~ Cathy Dennis
Peter Piper ~ Run-DMC
Love In 'C' Minor ~ Cerrone
It's September ~ Johnnie Taylor
What About My Love ~ Johnnie Taylor
Your Love Is Rated X ~ Johnnie Taylor
Wall To Wall ~ Johnnie Taylor
Time After Time ~ Johnnie Taylor
Too High ~ Stevie Wonder

It's Good To Be Here ~ Digable Planets
Con Los Años Que Me Quedan ~ Gloria Estefan
The Musical Box ~ Genesis
I Don't Care Anymore ~ Phil Collins

Memory Lane ~ Minnie Riperton
Shout ~ Tears For Fears
Woman In Chains ~ Tears For Fears feat. Oleta Adams
Rockit ~ Herbie Hancock
Promises ~ Basia
Is It A Crime ~ Sade
Gasoline Dreams ~ OutKast
Better Make It Better ~ Swing Out Sister
Love's Taken Over ~ Chanté Moore
Too Much Information ~ Duran Duran

Rio ~ Duran Duran

Steppin' ~ Gap Band

Where Are We Going? ~ Gap Band
Salesman ~ The Monkees
Electricity ~ Midnight Star
One Of These Nights ~ The Eagles
Wild And Loose ~ The Time

Power ~ The Temptations

Full Of Fire ~ Shalamar

Heartbreaker (Part 1 & 2) ~ Zapp

I Am Love ~ Jackson 5

Jam ~ Michael Jackson
I Like To Live The Love ~ B.B. King
The Edge Of Heaven ~ Wham!
The Future ~ Prince
Trans-Island Skyway ~ Donald Fagen
Karma Chameleon ~ Culture Club

Breezin' ~ George Benson
Say You Do ~ Janet Jackson (original release, not the version on the CD)
Lovin' Is Really My Game ~ Brainstorm
I Want You ~ Marvin Gaye
Gonna Make You Sweat ~ C+C Music Factory
Feels Good ~ Tony! Toni! Toné!

Like a Rolling Stone

Like A Prayer

Don't Stp Til You Get Enough

Sign O The Times

Jam

Scream

Wanna Be Starting Something

Ciega.Sordomuda

Estoy Aqui

Whenver,Wherever

Drowned World.

"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

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

Solid choices. Especially love the bolded ones (not familiar with the others).

"Rocks Off" - The Rolling Stones - Exile On Main St.

"Giant Steps" - John Coltrane - Giant Steps

"Brilliant Corners - Thelonious Monk - Brilliant Corners

"Sting Me" - The Black Crowes - The Southern Harmony and Musical Companion

"Bomb First" - Makaveli - The Don Killuminati: The 7 Day Theory

"Love's In Need of Love Today" - Stevie Wonder - Songs in the Key of Life


The greatest opening track ever that started a musical revolution in my family is when I
was 16 years old and grabbed the US version of Hendrix's Are You Experienced? at the
beginning of the 10th grade:

"Purple Haze"

My brothers and I received electric guitars that Christmas break.

MattyJam said:

A few of my favourites: The Time - Wild & Loose Tori Amos - Spark Tori Amos - Parasol Tori Amos - Shattering Sea Chaka Khan - Back In The Day Rufus feat Chaka Khan - At Midnight (My Love Will Lift You Up) Jesse Johnson - Be Your Man Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Into My Arms Michael Jackson - Unbreakable Michael Jackson - Jam Michael Jackson - Don't Stop Til You Get Enough Prince - For You Prince - Sign O The Times The Family - High Fashion Guns N Roses - Welcome To The Jungle Guns N Roses - Civil War Neil Young - Out On The Weekend David Bowie - Station To Station David Bowie - Sunday David Bowie - Blackstar Kate Bush - King Of The Mountain Janet Jackson - The Velvet Rope Funkadelic - Maggot Brain John Lennon - Mother Black Sabbath - War Pigs Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath Bumblefoot - Abnormal The Smiths - Reel Around The Fountain Morrissey - Now My Heart Is Full Morrissey - Something Is Squeezing My Skull Sly & The Family Stone - In Time Van Hunt - North Hollywood Nine Inch Nails - Head Like A Hole Red Hot Chilli Peppers - Monarchy of Roses The Rolling Stones - Rough Justice

what? no love for "beauty queen / horses" or the even better, unreleased (but on 'a piano' box)
"fire eater's wife / beauty queen / horses" ?

bruce springsteen - nebraska

tricky - overcome

bjork - stonemilker

antony and the johnsons - hope there’s someone

bat for lashes - horse and I

U2 - zoostation

beatles - taxman

massive attack - protection

burial - archangel

miles davis - prelude [from agartha]

chad vangaalen - clinically dead

charles mingus - track A solo dancer

lou reed- vicious

the national - fake empire

tori amos - beauty queen / horses

tori amos - spark

sufjan stevens - futile devices

portishead - mysterons

portishead - cowboys

depeche mode - world in my eyes

midori takada - mr henri rousseau’s dream

nirvana - smells like teen spirit

shabazz palaces - free press and curl

windmill - tokyo moon

paul simon - the boy in the bubble

the various - thunnk

plant life - time traveller

maxwell - gestation/everwanting: to want you to want

dj shadow - building steam with a grain of salt

nick cave and the bad seeds - into my arms

roisin murphy - overpowered

susumo yokota - saku

darkside - golden arrow

nicolas jaar - être

placebo - pure morning

queen - innuendo

john grant - pale green ghosts

smashing pumpkins - mellon collie and the infinite sadness

elton john - daniel

leftfield - release the pressure

leftfield - dusted

eurythmics - beethoven [I love to listen to]

eurythmics - missionary man

lauryn hill - lost ones

fluke - bullet

fluke - absurd

the arcade fire - neighbourhood #1 [tunnels]

sinead o’ connor - the healing room

rem - drive

michael jackson - jam

leonard cohen - suzanne

madonna - drowned world/substitute for love

the chemical brothers - leave home

ryan adams - new york new york

pet shop boys - being boring

pet shop boys - left to my own devices

radiohead - airbag

terence trent d’arby - vibrator

alva noto & ryuichi sakamoto - siisx
neneh cherry - buffalo stance

IstenSzek said:

MattyJam said:

A few of my favourites: The Time - Wild & Loose Tori Amos - Spark Tori Amos - Parasol Tori Amos - Shattering Sea Chaka Khan - Back In The Day Rufus feat Chaka Khan - At Midnight (My Love Will Lift You Up) Jesse Johnson - Be Your Man Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Into My Arms Michael Jackson - Unbreakable Michael Jackson - Jam Michael Jackson - Don't Stop Til You Get Enough Prince - For You Prince - Sign O The Times The Family - High Fashion Guns N Roses - Welcome To The Jungle Guns N Roses - Civil War Neil Young - Out On The Weekend David Bowie - Station To Station David Bowie - Sunday David Bowie - Blackstar Kate Bush - King Of The Mountain Janet Jackson - The Velvet Rope Funkadelic - Maggot Brain John Lennon - Mother Black Sabbath - War Pigs Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath Bumblefoot - Abnormal The Smiths - Reel Around The Fountain Morrissey - Now My Heart Is Full Morrissey - Something Is Squeezing My Skull Sly & The Family Stone - In Time Van Hunt - North Hollywood Nine Inch Nails - Head Like A Hole Red Hot Chilli Peppers - Monarchy of Roses The Rolling Stones - Rough Justice


what? no love for "beauty queen / horses" or the even better, unreleased (but on 'a piano' box)
"fire eater's wife / beauty queen / horses" ?

Well, I didn't want to turn it into a Tori Amos list.

MattyJam said:

IstenSzek said:

Well, I didn't want to turn it into a Tori Amos list.

i hear you same reason i excluded a few tracks by certain artists.

for instance, there's no prince on my list at all because once i'd start...

Quickly off the top of my head..

Purple Haze - Jimi Hendrix

Electric Ladyland -Jimi Hendrix.

Wanna Be Startin' Something - MJ

Don't stop till you get enough - MJ

Inspiration information - Shuggie Otis.

You are the sunshine of my life. - Stevie wonder

Too High - Stevie wonder

Let's go crazy - Prince.

Sign o' the times -Prince.

+

Many more.

IstenSzek said:

bruce springsteen - nebraska

tricky - overcome

bjork - stonemilker

antony and the johnsons - hope there’s someone

bat for lashes - horse and I

U2 - zoostation

beatles - taxman

massive attack - protection

burial - archangel

miles davis - prelude [from agartha]

chad vangaalen - clinically dead

charles mingus - track A solo dancer

lou reed- vicious

the national - fake empire

tori amos - beauty queen / horses

tori amos - spark

sufjan stevens - futile devices

portishead - mysterons

portishead - cowboys

depeche mode - world in my eyes

midori takada - mr henri rousseau’s dream

nirvana - smells like teen spirit

shabazz palaces - free press and curl

windmill - tokyo moon

paul simon - the boy in the bubble

the various - thunnk

plant life - time traveller

maxwell - gestation/everwanting: to want you to want

dj shadow - building steam with a grain of salt

nick cave and the bad seeds - into my arms

roisin murphy - overpowered

susumo yokota - saku

darkside - golden arrow

nicolas jaar - être

placebo - pure morning

queen - innuendo

john grant - pale green ghosts

smashing pumpkins - mellon collie and the infinite sadness

elton john - daniel

leftfield - release the pressure

leftfield - dusted

eurythmics - beethoven [I love to listen to]

eurythmics - missionary man

lauryn hill - lost ones

fluke - bullet

fluke - absurd

the arcade fire - neighbourhood #1 [tunnels]

sinead o’ connor - the healing room

rem - drive

michael jackson - jam

leonard cohen - suzanne

madonna - drowned world/substitute for love

the chemical brothers - leave home

ryan adams - new york new york

pet shop boys - being boring

pet shop boys - left to my own devices

radiohead - airbag

terence trent d’arby - vibrator

alva noto & ryuichi sakamoto - siisx
neneh cherry - buffalo stance

Great we agree.

NorthC said:

King & Ducci... What's so great about Rocks Off that makes it better than Sympathy For te Devil, Gimme Shelter, Start Me Up or It's Only Rock & Roll or Brown Sugar or Miss You?

I should probably clarify my post as I don't think there is anyway to judge or measure "great-ness"
when it comes to art. I should say "Rocks Off" is one of my favorite album openers. I actually forgot
about "Start Me Up" and "Gimme Shelter"; and "Brown Sugar" is so cool! I just think the rollicking
nature of "Rocks Off" and the joy I experience from listening to it is moreso than the others you men-
tioned. If you want a exuberant album opener, The Stones are a great choice.

But excellent, excellent question, North.

I should add:

"Tired of Sex" by Weezer off of Pinkerton.

MD431Madcat said:

Quickly off the top of my head..

Electric Ladyland -Jimi Hendrix.

Not fair! "And the Gods Made Love" actually starts off Electric Ladyland! I was going to add this
tune, but for the reason given, I did not.

214 said:

IstenSzek said:

madonna - drowned world/substitute for love

Great we agree.

it's one of her best tracks ever, opening or otherwise

Identity said:

"If You Let Me Stay" - TTD

You must have one from another country that has a different track listing or a 8-track, because this is the 1st song on mine.

IstenSzek said:

214 said:

Great we agree.

it's one of her best tracks ever, opening or otherwise

Indeed, it's in my top 3 of hers.

MickyDolenz said:

duccichucka said:

MickyDolenz said:

Identity said:

"If You Let Me Stay" - TTD

You must have one from another country that has a different track listing or a 8-track, because this is the 1st song on mine.

Nope. I relied on my memory, which is clearly faulty.

To me - and the Gods made love isn't a song.. its an intro leading to the first 'Song'..

But technically you are correct!

duccichucka said:

MD431Madcat said:

Quickly off the top of my head..

Electric Ladyland -Jimi Hendrix.

Not fair! "And the Gods Made Love" actually starts off Electric Ladyland! I was going to add this
tune, but for the reason given, I did not.

purplepolitician said:

Let's Go Crazy

Good one