First Track Compilation

[kim]

Ooop's, I may have put this thread in the wrong category. For some reason, it ended up in the rockers lounge.

Here's a post that might get you thinking.

Consider all of the albums that you have in your collection....

Now, if you want to make a greatest "rock and roll" disc, which ones would you be able to choose to make such a disc...using only the first track from any album in your collection?

With that, I mean the first track on the disc as purchased. Not a greatest hits album either...the original from whence it came from.

Keep in mind that, you might want to pass along your personal desires and graces of the music that you love, so you just don't pick the first song from any album...instead, ones that you believe to be true to your heart and that hold water musically in your opinion.

Keep it simple and short if you'd like...doesn't have to be in alphabetical order either. Most releases contain about 10 to 12 tracks. If the songs are long, it's acceptable to allow for less...you be the judge.

I'll go first and because of my meager collection, surely to god, most folks will surpass my selections...

1. AC/DC - It's A Long Way To The Top (High Voltage)
2. BTO - Gimme Your Money Please (BTO)
3. Aerosmith - Toys In The Attic ( Toys In The Attic(
4. Elton John - Funeral For A Friend (Goodbye Yellow Brick Road)
5. Foreigner - Feels Like The First Time (Foreigner)
6. Jethro Tull - Beastie (Broadsword & The Beast)
7. Queen - Keep Yourself Alive (Queen)
8. Loverboy - The Kid Is Hot Tonight ( Loverboy)
9. Nazareth - Go Down Fighting (Loud & Proud)
10. Deep Purple - Highway Star (Machine Head)
11. Sweet - Ballroom Blitz (Desolation Boulevard)

Remember...you're making a disc that you not only want to listen to but one that you'd be able to inspire others with.

Damn!!! I forgot to include Heart!!!!...anyone?

If I get any kind of feedback, I'll shoot for "Track 2" songs.
We just might be able to compile some great songs here and also come to a conclusion...

Thanks
Kim

[rtbuck]

1) Personality Crisis - NY Dolls (S/T)
2) Under My Wheels - Alice Cooper(Killer)
3) Room Service - Kiss (Dressed To Kill)
4) If You Can't Rock Me - Rolling Stones (Its Only R & R)
5) Little Bit o Soul - Ramones (Subterranean Jungle)
6) Surrender - Cheap Trick (Heavan Tonight)
7) Go For A Soda - Kim Mitchell (Akimbo Alogo)
8) Cherry Baby - Starz
9) Precious - Pretenders (S/T)
10) Lust For Life - Iggy Pop (Lust For Life)
11) Dope Show - Marilyn Manson (Mechanical Animals)
12) 21st Century Schizoid Man - King Crimson (Court of the Crimson King)

[Pete]

1. Runnin' With The Devil (Van Halen)
2. Hell's Bells (Back In Black)
3. Rock Rock Till You Drop (Pyromania)
4. Hair Of The Dog (Hair Of The Dog)
5. Welcome To The Jungle (Appetite For Destruction)
6. One Of These Days (Meddle)
7. I Don't Know (Blizzard Of Ozz)
8. Shake My Tree (Coverdale Page)
9. Black Out (Black Out)
10. Enter Sandman (Metallica)
11. Live Wire (Too Fast For Love)

[DreamTide]

1. April Wine - Get Ready For Love(First Glance)
2. Triumph - Fool For Your Love(Allied Forces)
3. Whitesnake - Walking In The Shadow Of Blues
(Lovehunter)
4. Deep Purple - King Of Dreams(Slaves&Masters)
5. Richie Blackmore´s Rainbow - Wolf To The Moon
(Stranger Us In All)
6. Uriah Heep - The Other Side Of Midnight
(Head First)
7. Frank Marino - Strange Dreams(Juggernaut)
8. Magnum - How Far Jerusalem(On A Storytellers Night)

9.Krokus - Long Stick Goes Boom(One Vice At The Time)
10. Molly Hatchet - Whiskey Man(Flirtin´With Disaster)
11. 38 Special - Rockin´Into The Night(Rockin´Into...)
12. Pretty Maids - Future World(Future World)
13. Quiet Riot - Metal Health(Metal Health)
14. Status Quo - The Party Aint Over Yet(The Party...)
15. Slade - Run Runaway(Keep Your Hands Off My Power
Supply)
16.Saxon - Crusader Prelude/Crusader(Crusader)

[Jesse]

Send Me An Angel-Blackfoot
Bounty Huneter-Molly Hatchet
Eye Of The Tiger-Survivor
Baba O'Reilly-The Who
Twice As Hard-Black Crowes
Dirty White Boy-Foriegner
How ABout That-Bad Company
Black On Black-Heart
Creatures Of The Night-Kiss
Metal Heart-Accept
Stranglehold-Ted Nugent

[hifi]

For the record ... (he he he)

I’ve got to say that QUEEN certainly had an attention-getting first track on almost every album they did. Yes, I know I left out a couple ...

Keep Yourself Alive
Brighton Rock
Death On Two Legs (Dedicated To ...)
Tie Your Mother Down
We Will Rock You
Mustapha
Play The Game
Flash’s Theme
Radio Ga Ga
One Vision
Innuendo
It’s A Beautiful Day

[hifi]

There is a method to this madness ...

I guess this might be called HiFi’s 70’s Classics. If you weren’t actually there with me during the mid- to late 1970’s, well, it would take too long to explain ...

I put the songs in alphabetical order by band for now. Otherwise I’d be spending the rest of the day puzzling over how to order them!

More Than A Feeling - Boston (s/t)
Surrender - Cheap Trick (Heaven Tonight)
Tightrope - ELO (A New World Record)
Fool For The City - Foghat (Fool For The City)
Feels Like The First Time - Foreigner (s/t)
Never Been Any Reason - Head East (Flat As A Pancake)
Magic Man - Heart (s/t)
Carry On Wayward Son - Kansas (Leftoverture)
Detroit Rock city - Kiss (Destroyer)
Black Dog - Led Zeppelin (IV)
Dream Within A Dream - Alan Parsons Project (Edgar Allen Poe Tales of Mystery & Imagination)
Speak To Me/Breathe - Pink Floyd (Dark Side Of The Moon)
Death On Two Legs (Dedicated To ...) - Queen (A Night At The Opera)
The Grand Illusion (Styx)
Roundabout - Yes (Fragile)

(This actually got a little weird because a few songs I had in mind turns out they were actually the first song on Side 2 of the record! So I guess my friends and I, etc. were playing the second side first LOL)

[Equinox]

I'll give it some thought Kim....

I always thought Styx did a great job of getting the good feelings rolling on their albums.

You Need Love- Styx II
Witch Wolf- Serpent is Rising
Rock and Roll Feeling- Man of Miracles
Light Up- Equinox
Put Me On- Crystal Ball
Great White Hope- Pieces of Eight

They blew it on Cornerstone, which was a poor album IMO. They should have opened with "Borrowed Time."

Rockin' the Paradise- Paradise Theater

[hojam]

Klustrphnky - Ted Nugent, Craveman
In the Beginning/Shout At the Devil - Motley Crue, S.A.T.D.
Psycho Circus - KISS, Psycho Circus
Hells Bells - AC/DC, Back In Black
For Those About To Rock - AC/DC, F.T.A.T.R.
Mustafa - Queen, Jazz
Welcome To The Jungle - GnR, Appetite For Destruction
Rockin' The Paradise - Styx, Paradise Theatre
Dream Police - Cheap Trick, Dream Police
More Than A Feeling - Boston, Boston
I Stole Your Love - KISS, Love Gun
Cat Scratch Fever - Ted Nugent, Cat Scratch Fever