Best Opening Tracks. EVER!

KEXP.org did a great thing the other day. They went through a countdown of the best opening tracks voted by the listeners. I had nothing to do with the voting process but I definitely enjoyed quite a few tracks. I blipped some, listened to others on the way to work, and looked at the stuff I didn't know.

The ones in bold print are some of my favorites:

Rank	Opening Track	Band	Album
110	Caribou	Pixies	Come On Pilgrim
109	Is There A Ghost	Band of Horses	Cease to Begin
108	It Was There That I Saw You: Source Tags and Codes	And You Will Know Us By the Trail of the Dead	Source Tags and Codes
107	Cowboys	Portishead	Portishead
106	Song Remains the Same	Led Zeppelin	Houses of the Holy
105	Love Burns	Black Rebel Motorcycle Club	Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
104	I Will Follow	U2	Boy
103	Packed Like Sardines In a Crushed Tin Box	Radiohead	Amnesiac
102	To Bring You My Love	PJ Harvey	To Bring You My Love
101	The District Sleeps At Home Tonight: Give Up	Postal Service	Give Up
100	Never Let Me Down Again: Music For The Masses	Depeche Mode	Music For the Masses
99	Love Vigilanties	New Order	Low Life
98	Leave Them All Behind	Ride	Going Blank Again
97	Secret Meeting	The National	Alligator
96	New Year	Death Cab For Cutie	Transatlanticism
95	She’s In Parties	Bauhaus	Burning From the Inside
94	Drive	REM	Automatic For the People
93	Kissing The Lipless	The Shins	Chutes Too Narrow
92	Baba O’Riley	The Who	Who’s Next
91	Speed Trials	Elliott Smith	Either/Or
90	Nebraska	Bruce Springsteen	Nebraska
89	2+2=5 (The Lukewarm)	Radiohead	Hail To the Thief
88	Rhymin & Stealin	Beastie Boys	License to Ill
87	Whole Lotta Love	Led Zeppelin	Led Zeppelin II
86	Message in a Bottle	The Police	Regatta de Blanc
85	Everything Hits At Once	Spoon	Girls Can Tell
84	Beautiful Day	U2	All That You Can’t Leave Behind
83	While You Were Sleeping	Elvis Perkins	Ash Wednesday
82	Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God)	Kate Bush	Hounds of Love
81	Summer Babe (Winter Version)	Pavement	Slanted & Enchanted
80	Jimmy James	Beastie Boys	Check Your Head
79	15 Step	Radiohead	In Rainbows
78	Bombtrack	Rage Against The Machine	Rage Against the Machine
77	Bridge Over Troubled Water	Simon & Garfunkel	Bridge Over Troubled Water
76	Caring Is Creepy	The Shins	Oh, Inverted World
75	The Queen Is Dead	The Smiths	The Queen Is Dead
74	Fake Empire	The National	Boxer
73	Planet Telex	Radiohead	The Bends
72	My Name is Jonas	Weezer	Weezer
71	New Day Rising	Husker Du	New Day Rising
70	Finest Worksong	R.E.M.	Document
69	Don’t Stop ‘Til You Get Enough	Michael Jackson	Off the Wall
68	I Saw Her Standing There	The Beatles	Please Please Me
67	I Am Trying to Break Your Heart	Wilco	Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
66	In The Flowers	Animal Collective	Merriweather Post Pavillion
65	The Stars of Track and Field	Belle and Sebastian	If You’re Feeling Sinister
64	Bittersweet Symphony	The Verve	Urban Hymns
63	Age of Consent	New Order	Power Corruption & Lies
62	Untitled	Interpol	Turn on the Bright Lights
61	Radio Free Europe	R.E.M.	Murmur
60	I Am One	Smashing Pumpkins	Gish
59	Help!	The Beatles	Help
58	Disorder	Joy Division	Unknown Pleasures
57	Know Your Rights	The Clash	Combat Rock
56	3rd Planet	Modest Mouse	The Moon and Antarctica
55	Respect	Aretha Franklin	I Never Loved A Man the Way I Love You
54	I Will Dare	The Replacements	Let It Be
53	Good Times Bad Times	Led Zeppelin	Led Zeppelin I
52	Up A Beach	Jane’s Addiction	Nothing’s Shocking
51	Sympathy for the Devil	The Rolling Stones	Beggars Banquet
50	Tangled Up in Blue	Bob Dylan	Blood On the Tracks
49	Rid of Me	PJ Harvey	Rid of Me
48	Space Oddity	David Bowie	Space Oddity
47	Welcome to the Jungle	Guns & Roses	Appetite for Destruction
46	We Will Rock You	Queen	News Of the World
45	Let’s Go Crazy	Prince	Purple Rain
44	Foxy Lady	Jimi Hendrix	Are You Experienced
43	Sgt Pepper Lonely Hearts Club Band	The Beatles	Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band
42	Boys Don’t Cry	The Cure	Boys Don’t Cry
41	Cherub Rock	Smashing Pumpkins	Siamese Dream
40	Plainsong	The Cure	Disintegration
39	What’s Going On	Marvin Gaye	What’s Going On
38	Who Loves the Sun	Velvet Underground	Loaded
37	Hells Bells	AC/DC	Back In Black
36	Search and Destroy	The Stooges	Raw Power
35	Taxman	The Beatles	Revolver
34	Fight Test	Flaming Lips	Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
33	Burning Down the House	Talking Heads	Speaking In Tongues
32	Blitzkrieg Bop	Ramones	The Ramones
31	Hell’s Bells	AC/DC	Back In Black
30	Search and Destroy	The Stooges	The Stooges
29	Come Together	The Beatles	Abbey Road
28	Gloria	U2	October
27	Wouldn’t It be Nice	Beach Boys	Pet Sounds
26	The Stone Roses	The Stone Roses	The Stone Roses
25	Get Up Stand Up	Bob Marley and the Wailers	Burnin’
24	Imagine	John Lennon	Imagine
23	Pink Moon	Nick Drake	Pink Moon
22	Only Shallow	My Bloody Valentine	Loveles
21	Devil’s Haircut	Beck	Odelay
20	Head Like a Hole	Nine Inch Nails	Pretty Hate Machine
19	Rusty Cage	Soundgarden	Badmotorfiner
18	Wanna Be Startin’ Somethin’	Michael Jackson	Thriller
17	Sympathy for the Devil	Rolling Stones	Beggars Banquet
16	Sunday Bloody Sunday	U2	War
15	Gimme Shelter	Rolling Stones	Let It Bleed
14	Bone Machine	Pixies	Surfer Rosa
13	Angel	Massive Attack	Mezzanine
12	Break on Through	The Doors	The Doors
11	King of Carrot Flowers	Neutral Milk Hotel	In An Aeroplane Over the Sea
10	Just Like Honey	Jesus and Mary Chain	Psychocandy
9	Teenage Riot	Sonic Youth	Daydream Nation
8	Everything in Its Right Place	Radiohead	Kid A
7	Where The Streets Have No Name	U2	The Joshua Tree
6	Like a Rolling Stone	Bob Dylan	Highway 61 Revisited
5	London Calling	The Clash	London Calling
4	Debaser	Pixies	Doolittle
3	Airbag	Radiohead	OK Computer
2	Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels)	Arcade Fire	Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels)
1	Smells Like Teen Spirit	Nirvana	Nevermind