Track 1 Rockers

It's all about the first track. The first song on a great album sucks you in on the opening bar. The song will never get old for you even though you hear it the most. If you can't open an album well, than why am I listening? Here are two great openers from two great albums.
Most people know Genesis as the band that brought you I Can't Dance and Land of Confusion. Few know that they were an avant garde prog rock band in their inseption. Who knew that years later we'd be punished in the 80's by Rutherford's In the Living Years ? Even fewer people know that Peter Gabriel was their singer at the time. Gabriel made a name for himself on MTV and songs in movies (Project X and Say Anything).

This highpoint of this line-up was the album The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway. The title track kicks you in the arse right away and pulls you in. The themes and melodies in this track are revisted again and again throughout the album. Track 1 (The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway):

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And if you haven't already heard this one, you haven't lived. (Iggy and) The Stooges album Funhouse eventually made its way to the CD player at every party I went to from '95-*97. For some reason the next album, Raw Power got more press. For the money the production on this album is on my top 10.

The album starts out with Down On the Street. The song isn't particularly hard or fast. It carves out a groove that lets you know right away that these guys are badasses.

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