Most Edgy, Ballsiest song to open up a Rock album

[downtownrobbrown]

I say I Zimbra by the Talking Heads. It is not even a language just nonsensicle Dadaist poem lyrics.

 

[SoulOnIce]

Angel of Death

 

[mrmatthew]

 

[Horseleech]

This shit sounds incredible cranked on a good system:

 

[TheKindCromang]

Drop the needle, wait a few seconds, hacking cough, then this

 

[stratasphere]

 

[Rockadelic]

Immigrant Song and both Sabbaths are good calls.





For me it will always be the first track off Vincebus Eruptum....hearing it for the first time in '68 was a mindblower.





The fact that it was a hit doesn't diminish it's raw power.

 

[RAJ]

This one comes to mind:

 

[Bon Vivant]

This one took a pair of brass ones, IMO.

















I'll also add Smells Like Teen Spirit. We've all heard that one, so I'm not posting a link.

 

[bull_ox]

Ridiculously over-the-top:

 

[vintageinfants]

 

[vintageinfants]

downtownrobbrown said:I say I Zimbra by the Talking Heads. It is not even a language just nonsensicle Dadaist poem lyrics.




i, bongo player.

 

[The_Hook_Up]

Cosign on "angel of death". Brutal





Might I add BOCs "The Red and the Black"


Sleep "Dragonaut" or maybe Stooges "Search and Destroy"?

 

[The_Hook_Up]

Also, if you are going to go Sabbath, none of their LPs opened as large as the 1st one...Shit... thunder, rain and then that fucking riff...had to have been shocking as hell to have heard that with 1970 ears...fuck.

 

[DrWu]

Unlike anything else that came before it. You knew you were in for it.














Also, great left field song choice.

 

[The_Hook_Up]

C'mon dude, Coltrane? I don't know anyone who doesn't love him, but he is the furthest thing from rock that I can imagine. Not a left field choice, a more of a WTF choice. It would be like saying "ham" if asked what the best vegetable is.

 

[pimlicosquirrel]

Chuck Berry - Liverpool drive


Dk's - California Uber Alles


Cro-Mags - We Gotta know


Motorhead - Motorhead / Ace Of Spades


Fugazi - Turnover


Helmet - In The Meantime


Run DMC - Runs House

 

[mattB]

ok, so the whole side 1 is the opening track, but what an opening and what a scream!

 

[Garcia_Vega]

 

[The_Hook_Up]

Garcia_Vega said:




not the first track on the LP...the LP's first track is a cover of Ted Taylor's "Ramblin' rose". KOTJ is the 2nd song.