Just trying to think of some of my favorite album-lead-off tracks. Stuff that just really launches an LP and sets the standard the others songs either have to match or surpass to be respected. Hip-hop albums run the risk of being underrepresented as the list grows because a lot of their lead-off tracks are sketches. And rules are rules (the rules are: no anthologies, no compilations, must be actual track 1, etc.). Feel free to add to the list.
So far I've got:
"Luv n' Haight" Sly and The Family Stone There's a Riot Goin' On
"Billy Jack" Curtis Mayfield There's No Place Like America Today
"Jimmy James" The Beastie Boys Check Your Head
"Race for the Prize" The Flaming Lips The Soft Bulletin
"Excursions" Tribe Called Quest The Low End Theory
"Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels)" The Arcade Fire Funeral
"Gone" The Black Crowes Amorica
"Welcome to the Jungle" G'n'R Appetite for Destruction
"Thunder Road" Bruce Springsteen Born to Run
"I'm Bad" LL Cool J Bigger and Deffer
"Revolution" Los Lobos Colossal Head
"You are a Runner and I Am My Father's Son" Wolf Parade Apologies to the Queen Mary
"Exactly Where I'm At" Ween White Pepper
"And It Stoned Me" Van Morrison Moondance
"Singapore" Tom Waits Rain Dogs
"Mambo Sun" T.Rex Electric Warrior
"The Beast and Dragon, Adored" Spoon Gimme Fiction
"Love Having You Around" Stevie Wonder Music of My Mind
"Have You Seen My Baby?" Randy Newman 12 Songs
"Let Me Drown" Soundgarden Superunknown
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This isn't really all that fair, but I've got to nominate:
Rocks Off - Rolling Stones, Exile on Main Street
Brown Sugar - Stones, Sticky Fingers
Copperhead Road - Steve Earl, Copperhead Road
I Saw the Light - Todd Rundgren, Something, Anything
And, perhaps the greatest of them all:
Running With the Devil - Van Halen I
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