Best 3 songs that kick off an album

[Tyeetime]

Tell me what album has the best opening 3 songs on it, that make you want to turn up the speakers/headphones. Bonus points if one of the songs is largely acoustic.

Here's mine:

Sticky Fingers
-Brown Sugar
-Sway
-Wild Hoses

[Methos1979]

Certainly NOT an acoustic album but the one that always pops in my mind is Deep Purple's Machine Head. The opening song, Highway Star, literally got me out of bed and to high school for most of those 4 years. The first three are:

1. Highway Star
2. Maybe I'm A Leo
3. Pictures Of Home

But then again the whole album is excellent ending with

5. Smoke On The Water
6. Lazy
7. Space Trucking

Oh, and the fourth is Never Before, also great. Pound for pound, song for song, one of my all-time faves and one of the all-time best.

[BrunoBlack]

American Beauty by the Grateful Dead
Just crank it up for the entire album.

[Slothead56]

First Boston album:

• More than a Feeling
• Peace of Mind
• Foreplay/Longtime

[Steve DeRosa]

Originally Posted by Tyeetime

Tell me what album has the best opening 3 songs on it, that make you want to turn up the speakers/headphones...

With the Beatles
It Won't Be Long
All I've Got to Do
All My Loving

Two classic - and contrasting - Lennon vocals, and the one that kicked off the first Sullivan appearance...

[M19]

Close to the Edge
And You and I
Siberian Khatru


Wait...that's the WHOLE album!

[Heroditus]

Blood on the Tracks——-Bob Dylan

1. Tangled Up In Blue
2. Simple Twist of Fate
3. You’re A Big Girl Now

[Brucebubs]

The Yes Album

1. - Yours Is No Disgrace
2. - The Clap
3. - Starship Trooper

[AmericanEagle]

Lynyrd Skynyrd (Pronounced 'Lĕh-'nérd 'Skin-'nérd)

Songs 2, 3, and 4:

Tuesday’s Gone
Gimme Three Steps
Simple Man

[jpd]

Analog Man....turn it UP
Wrecking Ball....turn it all the WAY UP
Lucky that Way...calm down a little

[catdaddy]

Bob Marley's Kaya album:

1. Easy Skanking
2. Kaya
3. Is This Love

[blue]

Back in Black:

Hells Bells

Shoot to Thrill

What do you do for Money Honey

C'mon man! I remember the first time I dropped the neddle on that album. Literally leaned forward on the intro of Hells Bells.

[Big-E]

I'll bite........."The History of Fairport Convention"

1. Meet on the Ledge
2. Fotheringay
3. Mr Lacey

I used to crank the hi-fi right up for the vinyl album. (The CD copy that replaced it doesn't quite cut it).

[M19]

Originally Posted by Brucebubs

The Yes Album

1. - Yours Is No Disgrace
2. - The Clap
3. - Starship Trooper

Crossed my mind too.

[Nymuso]

Originally Posted by Slothead56

First Boston album:

• More than a Feeling
• Peace of Mind
• Foreplay/Longtime

For me it is a toss up between this and the Eagles’ first album:

Take it Easy
Witchy Woman
Peaceful Easy Feeling

I simply can’t decide.