Best opening 3 tracks of an album

[dingbat2]

I have been playing Goldfrapp's Blackcherry a lot recently, and I keep thinking those opening 3 songs are absolute belters...

1. Crystalline Green

2. Train

3. Blackcherry

I am struggling to think of a better opening 3 tracks of any album I've got

What do you think are the best opening 3 tracks of an album?

P.S. the rest of that album is cracking too, and I would recommend anyone who hasn't heard it to give it a listen, they are going to sound great in the JP tent, and they are likely to still play 3 songs off Blackcherry (Train, Blackcherry and Strict Machine) even though the album is 14 years old

[FloorFiller]

Hello
Roll With It
Wonderwall

Come at me.

[liamium]

Paperhouse > Mushroom > Oh Yeah off of Can's Tago Mago.

switch between the first two is my all time favourite track transition 

 

[OneLittleFish]

Idlewild - Remote Part

You held the world in your arms

Modern way of letting go

American English

[Primalcrux]

From (relatively) recent albums, I really like the Blossoms-Blossoms opening tracks:

1. Charlemagne

2. At Most A Kiss

3. Getaway

Edited April 28, 2017 by Primalcrux
Typo

[mjsell]

Remain in the Light - Talking Heads

Born Under Punches
Crosseyed and Painless
The Great Curve
(with a bonus Once In A Lifetime at 4)

Or

Led Zeppelin IV

Black Dog
Rock And Roll
The Battle of Evermore
(with a bonus Stairway to Heaven at 4)

 

 

 

[Tuna]

The Dead Flag Blues

East Hastings 

Providence

 

 

*this is probably cheating 

[Tommy101]

The View From the Afternoon > I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor > Fake Tales of San Fransico

or

Brown Sugar > Sway > Wild Horses

 

[not worthy]

easy,

Now 8

Notorius - Duran Duran

Suburbia - Pet Shop Biys

Walk this Way - Aerosmith/Run DMC

 

Drops mic, close thread

 

have it

[stuartbert two hats]

1. Love Me Do
2. Please Please Me
3. From Me To You

[Eks101]

 

Paperback Writer

Yellow Submarine 

Eleanor Rigby

 

"Best of the Beatles" (Disk2)

 

[Stokesy10]

1. View From The Afternoon

2. I Bet You Look Good On The Dance floor

3. Fake Tales of San Francisco

[Primalcrux]

3 minutes ago, Tommy101 said:

The View From the Afternoon > I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor > Fake Tales of San Fransico

 

The opening track of AM are amazing as well:

1. Do I wanna Know

2. R U Mine

3. One For The Road

[Odessa]

Bizarrely I was listening to Relationship of Command by At The Drive-in last night and was thinking exactly the same about Arcarsenal -> Pattern Against User -> One Armed Scissor. Incredible, in-your-face start to an album. Same goes for Songs For The Deaf. Oracular Spectacular by MGMT has a spectacular opening 3 tracks too.

 

[mr gumby]

First, we take Manhattan 

Ain't no cure for love 

Everybody knows

From I'm Your Man by Leonard Cohen.

[maelzoid]

26 minutes ago, FloorFiller said:

Hello
Roll With It
Wonderwall

Come at me.

Hello is far from their best.... 

1. Rock N Roll Star
2. Shakermaker
3. Live Forever

beat that lot fairly easily I think.

But for  me...

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

is pretty unassailable.

 

[theDBre]

Supergrass,  In It for the Money 

1. In It for the Money 

2. Richard III

3. Tonight

 

[Mezhyp1]

Rise > Weary > Cranes in the Sky - Solange, A Seat at the Table 

 

[parsonjack]

Faith

Father Figure

I Want Your Sex

 

Takes me back to some very happy times....and with added poignancy now.

[TheBurns]

1. Jeopardy
2. Oh My Darling Don't Cry
3. Blockbuster Night, Pt 1

[merago]

"Get Ready to Wiggle"
"Rock-a-Bye Your Bear" 
"Dorothy the Dinosaur" 

And from a debut album as well.

[mjsell]

Little Mix - Get Weird

Black Magic
Love Me Like You
Weird People

 

^{(yes I had to google this)}

[Odessa]

Just now, merago said:

"Get Ready to Wiggle"
"Rock-a-Bye Your Bear" 
"Dorothy the Dinosaur" 

And from a debut album as well.

I tell people my first ever gig was The Cribs but it was really this lot.

[Robofish]

Stationtostation/Golden Years/Word On A Wing

(but also Remain In Light as mentioned previously)

[dondo]

My tuppence worth is

George Best by the Wedding Present:

1. "Everyone Thinks He Looks Daft"
2. "What Did Your Last Servant Die Of?"
3. "Don't Be So Hard"

And also a cracking 4th track with a million miles