Best 3 songs that kick off an album

[Dru Edwards]

Originally Posted by 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.

+1. And the first three songs on Side 2 are Back in Black, You Shook Me All Night Long, and Have a Drink on Me.

I'll add Metallica's Master of Puppets:
1) Battery
2) Master of Puppets
3) The Thing that Should Not Be

[Brucebubs]

'In Absentia' by Porcupine Tree

1. - Blackest Eyes
2. - Trains
3. - Lips of Ashes

but track 4. - Sound of Muzak is my favorite.

[OldLefty]

Geez, there's a lot of candidates...

Here's a couple:

Across the Great Divide
Rag Mama Rag
The Night they Drove Old Dixie Down

The Band, the Band

Born Under a Bad Sign
Crosscut Saw
Kansas City

Albert King, Born under a Bad Sign

[J Patrick]

...hard to top John Prines first three on his first record...


Illegal Smile
Spanish Pipe Dream
Hello in There

[Lkristians]

Fun thread! I'll bite:

Tommy......The Who:

Overture

It's a Boy

1921

[posternutbag]

Unplugged: Alice In Chains
Nutshell
Brother
No Excuses

The best MTV Unplugged album.

[offkey]

For me it's Van Morrison's Moondance
And It Stoned Me
Moondance
Crazy Love

[GCWaters]

Layla:

I Looked Away
Bell Bottom Blues
Keep on Growing

[bfm612]

Don't sleep on Harry Styles. No joke, Fine Line is a really great album with a really sweet start:

Track 1: Golden
Track 2: Watermelon Sugar
Track 3: Adore You

[dermeister1331]

Definitely not in the realm of any of the aforementioned, but a brilliant brilliant album start to finish, and one of, if not my favorite of theirs:

Opeth - Ghost Reveries

1. Ghost Of Perdition
2. The Baying Of The Hounds
3. Beneath The Mire

[captain_jack]

I'll throw out two:

Flogging Molly - Drunken Lullabies

1 - Drunken Lullabies
2 - What's Left of the Flag
3 - May the Lieveing Be Dead (In Our Wake)

Brian Fallon - Painkillers

1 - A Wonderful Life
2 - Painkillers
3 - Among Other Foolish Things

[fumei]

Originally Posted by FrankHudson

Or Leo Kottke's "6 And 12-String Guitar" AKA "The Armadillo Record" and we don't even have any voice to get in the way of acoustic guitar goodness.

1. The Driving of the Year Nail
2. The Last of the Arkansas Greyhounds
3. Ojo

Yes yes yes

[boombox]

Love's 'Da Capo'

Stephanie Knows Who
Orange Skies
¡Que Vida!

For me, this wins the best Side A of all time. Next three:

Seven & Seven Is
The Castle
She Comes In Colors

Another favourite is Fairfield Parlour's 'From Home To Home':

Aries
In My Box
By Your Bedside

Tough to argue with Prine's first though.

[AusTexMurf]

Originally Posted by Dru Edwards

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I'll add Metallica's Master of Puppets:
1) Battery
2) Master of Puppets
3) The Thing that Should Not Be

Then I'd Add :

Metallica's Kill 'em All
1. Hit The Lights
2. The Four Horsemen
3. Motorbreath

Really all the way through 6. Whiplash

[hopdemon]

Allman Bros Eat A Peach
1 Aint Wastin Time no More
2 Les Brers in A minor
3 Mellissa