Two simple rules:
I’ll start by tossing out “Can I Tell You Something” from the eponymous debut album by Kansas. While they were known for some longer prog rock pieces, this one clocks in at three and a half minutes and tells you pretty much everything you need to know about the band.
Bostons debut album Boston started right out with More Than a Feeling. The rest is rock and roll legend.
@Si_Amigo I came here to say this same thing!
That’s one of the ones I was about to post. The fade-in just adds to the greatness.
The other one, which ALSO features a fade-in, Van Halen’s “Runnin’ with the Devil”.
Blinded by the Light by Bruce Springsteen off Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J.
Considering that The Doors took their name from Aldous Huxley’s The Doors of Perception, this is a good ‘statement’ song:
While it’s nice to see another Triumvirat fan around here, “Old Loves Die Hard” was their fourth album.
Too obvious:
Even though a big chunk of the personnel changed before the second album, this is them right out of the gate:
I was going to post “Welcome to the Jungle” from Guns N Roses’ Appetite for Destruction album.
But I don’t if it counts because GnR self released a 5 track EP ( Live ?!★꩜ Like a Suicide) before it. Appetite for Destruction was their debut studio album.
Yeah, that counts.
A mellow one: Fig Tree Bay from Peter Frampton’s solo debut “Wind Of Change”.
A not-so-mellow one: Rock The Nation from “Montrose”.
“Suite: Judy Blue Eyes” from the first CSN album.
Already shared by others: Boston’s “More Than a Feeling,” Electric Light Orchestra’s “10538 Overture,” and CSN’s “Suite: Judy Blue Eyes.”
I’ll add:
“Breakin’ the Chains of Love,” by Fitz and the Tantrums:
“Heat of the Moment,” by Asia:
Another great first album was the Cars (by the Cars) and the song Let the Good Roll lead off to one of the most perfect albums I ever heard.
Mothers of Invention - “Hungry Freaks Daddy”
