Here's a fun list: the 25 most epic opening rock tracks. It should sufficiently pump you up.
In today's age of individual iTunes downloads and, heavens forfend, music piracy, the order in which an album's tracks are organized doesn't matter as much as it did back in your mom and dad's era. But if you think of bands as collections of artists, and albums as tapestries, lovingly crafted out of well, smaller tapestries, then you can appreciate how important the order of tracks can be. And when it comes to rock, you want something that'll melt some faces from the starting gate. A quick jaunt through my music library turns up these all-time favorite opening tracks.
"Tell That Mick He Just Made My List of Things to Do Today," Fall Out Boy, Take This to Your Grave
This tune, in addition to featuring some fist-pumping guitar riffs and quintessentially emo lyrics, is followed by two other tremendous songs, "Dead on Arrival" and "Grand Theft Autumn," making the rare epic-opening-tracks trifecta.
"I Believe," Bon Jovi, Keep the Faith
All that needs to be said is that this is a sweeping anthem that happens to be the first track on the greatest album ever written by humans. About this, there can be no debate.
"Hands Down," Dashboard Confessional, A Mark, A Mission, A Brand, A Scar
When the song that a band consistently uses as a show-closer also happens to be the first song on an album, I think that adds up to a pretty good opening track. Also, "Hands Down" is followed by "Rapid Hope Loss" and "As Lovers Go," making another maybe-not-so-rare opening track trifecta.
Hmm . . . this is getting a little long. How about I stretch this bad boy out into a couple posts? That sounds like a capital idea.
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