Best opening 3 songs on an album? or strongest 3 songs in a row on an album?

[Odoylerules22]

I second Nevermind

 

[Bluesbreaker]

Mars Volta Deloused in the Comatorium


Inertiatic ESP
Roulette Dares (The Haunt Of)
Drunkship of Lanterns

If we're counting the short instrumentals are part of other songs, then yes, very good pick.

 

[PurpleStorm]

Man I gotta think on this. Off top of head I love the first 3 songs on

Bobby D. - Desire
Zep - Houses of the Holy
Prince - Sign of the Times
AC/DC - Back In Black

on phone & can’t look ‘em all up now

 

[Lovestorm]

Katatonia - Brave Murder Day

1. Brave
2. Murder
3. Day

 

[Shadiata]

Layne Staley is the greatest fucking vocalist ever. He was literally decaying alive from his heroin addiction. You can tell how he had given up on life on those three songs. I can't imagine the hell he was living in. Dude was 86 lbs and 6'1 when he died

Rotten Apple probably my favorite AIC song. So many great ones

 

[Joe_Armstrong]

Diamonds ands Pearls - Prince

Thunder is a great start to an album and it only gets better after that.

 

[Chad R. Thundercock]

Alice In Chains - Facelift
1. We Die Young
2. Man in the Box
3. Sea of Sorrow

Alice in Chains - Dirt
1. Them Bones
2. Dam That River
3. Rain When I Die

Pantera - Vulgar Display of Power
1. Mouth For War
2. A New Level
3. Walk

 

[Chad R. Thundercock]

Whitesnake - 1987
1. Still Of The Night
2. Bad Boys
3. Give Me All Your Love

 

[Busgosu]

Burzum- Filosofem
- Dunkelheit
- Jesus' Tod
- Erblicket die Töchter des Firmaments

 

[Chad R. Thundercock]

Judas Priest - Painkiller
1. Painkiller
2. Hell Patrol
3. All Guns Blazing

 

[Daverisimo]

Kendrick Lamar-To Pimp a Butterfly
-Wesley's Theory
-For Free?
-King Kunta

My favorite of the 3:


Swans-Soundtracks for the Blind
-Red Velvet Corridor
-I Was a Prisoner in Your Skull
-Helpless Child

My favorite of the 3:


Charli XCX-Charli

-Next Level Charli
-Gone
-Cross You Out

My favorite of the 3:


Unfortunately, I think Charli falls off pretty hard after the first 3 tracks imo. The other 2 are brilliant all the way through though, and are probably the best albums of their respective decades (2010s and 90s) imo.

 

[HaulParris]

Nevermind

1. Smells Like Teen Spirit
2. In Bloom
3. Come as You Are

Joshua Tree

1. Where the Streets Have No Name
2. I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
3. With or Without You

Thriller

4. Thriller
5. Beat It
6. Billie Jean

Strong choices.

My contribution:
GlassJaw debut full-length:
1. Pretty Lush
2. Siberian Kiss
3. When One Eight Becomes Two Zeros

 

[Sweater of AV]

Arcade Fire - Funeral

Wake Up
Haiti
Rebellion

 

[Goon Dog]

Van Halen 1, great music plus introduced the world to EVH.
1. Runnin' with the Devil
2. Eruption/You Really Got Me
3. Ain't Talking 'Bout Love
4. I'm the One

 

[mbinder]

This is a great topic... I'll try to stick to ones I haven't seen yet.

OK Computer by Radiohead
Airbag
Paranoid Android
Subterranean Homesick Alien

Ten by Pearl Jam
Once
Even Flow
Alive

To Lose My Life... by White Lies
Death
To Lose My Life
A Place to Hide

Appetite for Destruction by Guns N' Roses
Welcome to the Jungle
It's So Easy
Nightrain

 

[Zer]

Best opening I would say Blackwater Park by Opeth

1. The Leper Affinity
2. Bleak
3. Harvest
(4. The Drapery Falls)

 

[Bluesbreaker]

Strong choices.

My contribution:
GlassJaw debut full-length:
1. Pretty Lush
2. Siberian Kiss
3. When One Eight Becomes Two Zeros

Five badass songs in a row on that album!

 

[Bluesbreaker]

Maybe my top choice, Corrosion of Conformity - Deliverance.

1. Heaven's Not Overflowing
2. Albatross
3. Clean My Wounds

 

[Zer]

Strong choices.

My contribution:
GlassJaw debut full-length:
1. Pretty Lush
2. Siberian Kiss
3. When One Eight Becomes Two Zeros

I thought Worship and Tribute had an absolute killer opening as well

1. Tip Your Bartender
2. MU Empire
3. Cosmopolitan Bloodloss
(4. Ape Dos Mil)

I haven't listened to Glassjaw in years. One of the big bands of my school days

 

[jnes]

Led Zeppelin II:

Heartbreaker
Livin Lovin Maid
Ramble On