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Norlander on February 27 2023 22:05:02
My list of the best album openers, in no particular order and without thinking too long about it:

Pink Floyd - Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Parts I–V) - from Wish You Were Here

Guns N' Roses - Welcome to the Jungle - from Appetite for Destruction

Eagles - Hotel California - from Hotel California

Metallica - Enter Sandman - from the Black Album

R.E.M. - Drive - from Automatic for the People

Honorable mention Dire Straits - Telegraph Road - from Love over Gold
OKJones on February 28 2023 15:42:55
Iron Maiden - Caught Somewhere in Time - Somewhere in Time

Toto - Rosanna - Toto IV

Rainbow - Man on the Silver Mountain - Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow

Judas Priest - Painkiller - Painkiller

Deep Purple - Highway Star - Machine Head

idk impossible task, could have been 5 totally different songs.
Norlander on February 28 2023 21:04:22
Man on the Silver Mountain, yeah that should absolutely be there.
Boddin on February 28 2023 21:47:49
Bruce Springsteen - Born in the U.S.A. - Born in the U.S.A.

Megadeth - Holy Wars... The Punishment Due - Rust in Peace

Black Sabbath - War Pigs - Paranoid

AC/DC - Hells Bells - Back in Black

Dire Straits - Down the Waterline - Dire Straits

Honorable mention RATM - Bombtrack - RATM
OKJones on March 01 2023 11:29:31
I also thought about Down the waterline i love it, but it's a pretty obscure Dire Straits song.
Norlander on March 01 2023 16:08:33
Obscure? Not at all, apart from the fact that both of you are forgetting that it's named "Down to the Waterline".

I was deciding between it and Telegraph Road for my honorable mention (which was in the top 5 in the first draft, but then had to push it for Enter Sandman).

As for not being obscure: it was included both on Dire Straits, the "best of" album Money for Nothing, it is on the live album "Live at the BBC", it was released as a single, and has it's own Wikipedia page. It is a great song, just IMO not as good as Telegraph Road, which also is a Side 1, Track 1 from Dire Straits - and which incidentally does not have it's own Wikipedia page :/
Boddin on March 01 2023 16:54:37
Yea was a bit hasty there. The obscure part is not being on Sultans of Swing (The very best of). Can't remember "best of" album?
Norlander on March 01 2023 17:03:17
Money for Nothing, the album, is their first "best of" album

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Money_for_Nothing_(album)
OKJones on March 01 2023 19:01:00
It's from the first album, which is one of the lesser known albums. Apart from being on compilations it's a bit obscure. Anyway there are probably hundreds of monster hits to choose from.
Norlander on March 01 2023 21:28:51
Disagree. Lesser known it is not, unless you compare it solely to Brothers in Arms :P

It is their all time second best selling studio album, with a higher US chart placement than Love Over Gold and On Every Street, which charted better in the UK. Those 3 albums are known by people who have a passing interest in Dire Straits.

Communiqué and Making Movies are the lesser known, the latter only reaching the top of the charts in Norway (I heard it a lot as a kid :P). Actually now thinking about it, I should put Dire Straits - Tunnel of Love - Making Movies into my top 5 (+1) list. It an amazing open song, to me it is better than Telegraph Road and Down to the Waterline.
OKJones on March 01 2023 22:11:14
At least from people I know Brothers in Arms and Making Movies are the big ones. Anyway I agree with Tunnel of Love.
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