Best opening 3 tracks of an album

[T-Mouse]

1 hour ago, CajunMoon said:

If we are allowed more than one album AND if 'Way to Blue' by Nick Drake counts (released as a compilation years after he died) then I'll also have:

1. 'Cello Song (all time favourite song)
2. Hazey Jane I
3. Way to Blue

Personally the opening trio on Pink Moon and Bryter Later would just about trump those two for me. All his records tho are simply divine.

[Gnomicide]

2 hours ago, Quark said:

Welcome To The Jungle

It's So Easy

Nightrain

 

This. Very much this.

[CaledonianGonzo]

You're in Love

Never Use Love

Lay It Down

[The Nal]

17 minutes ago, T-Mouse said:

All his records tho are simply divine.

Indeed. Alt fave from me, the last three tunes - Man in a Shed, Fruit Tree, Saturday Sun. 

[rosssss224]

14 minutes ago, Gnomicide said:

This. Very much this.

THIS.

[Gnomicide]

5 minutes ago, CaledonianGonzo said:

You're in Love

Never Use Love

Lay It Down

Nah. Never Use Love is not up to the others. You need 

Wanted Man
You're in Trouble
Round and Round

[CajunMoon]

23 minutes ago, T-Mouse said:

Personally the opening trio on Pink Moon and Bryter Later would just about trump those two for me. All his records tho are simply divine.

Can't argue with this (esp as Hazey Jane II features)

6 minutes ago, The Nal said:

Indeed. Alt fave from me, the last three tunes - Man in a Shed, Fruit Tree, Saturday Sun. 

...or this

[4519dennis]

Astral Weeks

Beside You

Sweet thing

[Gnomicide]

If the answer wasn't so obviously Welcome To The Jungle > It's So Easy > Nightrain, I'd be tempted by:

Rocks Off
Rip This Joint
Shake Your Hips

 

[eastynh]

54 minutes ago, charlottesometimes said:

Depeche Mode | Violator:

World In My Eyes

Sweetest Perfection

Personal Jesus

 

Massive Attack | Mezzanine:

Angel

Rising Son

Teardrop

I think the opening of Songs of faith and Devotion is better than Violator.

I Feel You

Walking In My Shoes

Condemnation

The violator start is not too shabby though, especially with Personal Jesus coming next.

[eastynh]

Black Grape - Its Great

Reverend Black Grape

In The Name Of the Father

Tramazi Party

[CaledonianGonzo]

11 minutes ago, Gnomicide said:

Rocks Off
Rip This Joint
Shake Your Hips

 

Shake Your Hips is, relatively speaking, a bit of a lowlight though.

[The Nal]

One Hit (To The Body)

Fight

Harlem Shuffle

[Gnomicide]

1 minute ago, CaledonianGonzo said:

Shake Your Hips is, relatively speaking, a bit of a lowlight though.

Do the hip shake Baybeh.

Yeah, I suppose so, when compared to the previous to tracks. They often take a dip on track three, just checked on Beggar's Banquet and Let it Bleed. Dear Doctor & Country Honk respectively.

How about:

Brown Sugar
Sway
Wild Horses

[loulouboo]

Solid Air 

Over the hill

Don't want to know

 

Tricky's  maxinquaye - Overcome

Ponderosa 

Black Steel 

Incredible album

 

And Bjork, but couldn't decide between Post and Homogenic! 

[leekstokie]

U2 - The Joshua Tree

1. Where the streets have no name
2. I still haven't found what I'm looking for
3. With or without you

[Lucy92]

The french open 

Cassius

red socks pugie 

[Kizzie]

Being Together

I Just Wanna Make You Happy

 Could it be Forever

My first album, unless you count a particularly crap Top of the Pops album that had the worst Rod Stewart sing-a-likey song on it, and, and had a more or less naked woman on the cover.  My dad bought me that.

[roughbloke]

Green Day - American Idiot

American Idiot

Jesus of Suburbia 

Holiday (which rolls into Boulevard of broken dreams)

Absolute classic for me. 

[Alan_C]

I Wanna Be Adored

She Bangs The Drums

Waterfall

[russycarps]

50 minutes ago, 4519dennis said:

Astral Weeks

Beside You

Sweet thing

This is a great shout

[4519dennis]

8 minutes ago, russycarps said:

This is a great shout

Thank Van the Man - had a welsh girlfriend at university in 1983 who introduced me to this album and play it without fail every year.

[russycarps]

Just now, 4519dennis said:

Thank Van the Man - had a welsh girlfriend at university in 1983 who introduced me to this album and play it without fail every year.

Nevermind every year, I play it without fail every week!

A flawless album.

 

[6t6o6m]

Gonna get murdered here.

Incubus - Light Grenades

[redpaprika]

Skin & Bones
Here's Where The Story Ends
Can't Be Sure