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AC/DC - Highway To Hell

AC/DC - Hells Bells

AC/DC - For Those About To Rock

The Beatles - Magical Mystery Tour

The Black Keys - Weight Of Love

Black Sabbath - Sabbath Bloody Sabbath

Black Sabbath - Hole In The Sky

The Eagles - Hotel California

Fuzz - Earthen Gate

Guns N' Roses - Welcome To The Jungle

Iron Maiden - Moonchild

JAY Z & Kanye West - No Church In The Wild

King Crimson - 21st Century Schizoid Man

KISS - Detroit Rock City

Led Zeppelin - Whole Lotta Love

Led Zeppelin - Immigration Song

Megadeth - Trust

Metallica - Enter Sandman

Metallica - Fuel

Monster Magnet - Hallucination Bomb

Motorhead - Overkill

Motorhead - Ace Of Spades

Motorhead - Sacrifice

Neil Young - Rockin' In The Free World (Acoustic) [Live]

RHCP - Around The World

Rush - A Farewell To Kings

Rush - The Spirit Of Radio

Rush - Tom Sawyer

Slash - Ghost

U2 - Discoteque

U2 - Beautiful Day

Wolfmother - How Many Times

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Led Zeppelin - Good Times Bad Times, Whole Lotta Love, Black Dog

The Beatles - A Hard Day's Night, Help!, Drive My Car, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Heart's Club Band/With a Little Help From my Friends, Come Together

The Rolling Stones - Paint it Black/Mother's Little Helper, Sympathy for the Devil, Gimme Shelter, Brown Sugar, Rocks Off, Miss You, Start Me Up

Bob Dylan - Blowin' in the Wind, The Times They are A-Changin', Bringing It All Back Home Again, Like a Rolling Stone, Lay Lady Lay, Tangled Up in Blue

Derek and the Dominos - I Looked Away

Lynyrd Skynyrd - I Ain't The One

AC/DC- Hell's Bells's, Highway to Hell

Guns N' Roses - Welcome to the Jungle

Queen - Keep Yourself Alive. Death on Two Legs, Tie Your Mother Down, Play the Game, We Will Rock You, Radio Ga Ga, Innuendo

Cream - I Feel Free, Strange Brew

Jimi Hendrix Experience - Purple Haze

Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath, War Pigs

Dead Kennedys - Kill the Poor

Manic Street Preacers - Yes, Elvis Impersonator/Blackwood Pier, Sleepflower, The Everlasting

Tom Waits - Tom Trauber's Blues, Ol' 55, Bone Machine, Singapore, Hoist That Rag, Alice

Sex Pistols - Anarchy in the U.K.

David Bowie - Changes

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Mouth for War or Arise by Sepultura.

Black Sabbath

Foxy Lady

Kill You

Fight Fire with Fire

We Die Young

EDIT : Fuck I forgot Holy Wars...The Punishment Due and The Chronic (Intro). Put them up there with the first two.

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The two greatest album openers ever in my opinion are:

Welcome to the Jungle. Not only does it set the tone for that album it sets the tone for Guns N Roses as a whole. It's incredible and punches you right in the face. Amazing build up and then that explosion into the riff. Pure awesomeness

Where the Streets Have No Name. In the same way it encompasses all that is U2 in a way. It's got this uplifting vibe and feels very spiritual and the build up with the organ and then the echoing guitar sounds. It's pretty magical.

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The Rolling Stones Sympathy For The Devil

Massive Attack Angel

Led Zeppelin Black Dog

N.W.A. Straight Outta Compton

Meat Loaf Bat Out Of Hell

John Lennon Imagine

The Clash London Calling

Deep Purple Burn

Jethro Tull Aqualung

But my best opener/closer song is Shine On You Crazy Diamond.

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slayer- hell awaits. angel of death, south of heaven

blind guardian- welcome to dying, ninth wave, time what is time

iced earth- angels holocaust, burnt offerings

bathory- shores in flames

amon amarth- valhall awaits me

judas priest- victim of changes, painkiller

nightingale- the fields of life

iron maiden- caught somewhere in time, sign of the cross

black sabbath- black sabbath, headless cross, trashed

dio- jesus mary and the holy ghost

deep purple- highway star

rainbow- man on the silver mountain, tarot woman, long live rock n roll

paradise lost- gothic

lynyrd skynyrd- gimme back my bullets

the slow death- the long march

candlemass- solitude

nightwish- stargazers

while heaven wept- the furthest shore

the moody blues- the day begins

shape of despair-fallen

gnr- welcome to the jungle

edge of sanity- twilight

testament- dnr, over the wall

tom waits- the earth died screaming

metallica- hit the lights, battery, blackened, fight fire with fire

opeth- the moor, windowpane

megadeth- holy wars.... the punishment due

alice in chains- we die young

alice cooper- welcome to my nightmare

boston- more than a feeling

johnny cash- south wind

bob seger- rock n roll never forgets

ccr- i put a spell on you

motorhead- overkill

gnr- welcome to the jungle

thin lizzy- thunder and lightning

insomnium- ill starred son

king diamond- at the graves

mercyful fate- evil, a dangerous meeting,nightmare be thy name

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Michael Jackson - Don't Stop Til You Get Enough

Black Sabbath - War Pigs

Alice Cooper -Brutal Planet

Prince - Eye No

Prince - Rave Un2 The Joy Fantastic

The Time - Wild & Loose

GNR - Jungle

Tori Amos - Spark

Kate Bush - King of the Mountain

Sebastian Bach - Angel Down

Morrissey - Now My Heart Is Full

The Smiths - Reel Around The Mountain

Van Hunt - North Hollywood

The Rolling Stones - Sympathy For The Devil

Ramones - Cretin Hop

Aerosmith - Eat The Rich

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Megadeth - Dielectric Chaos (Endgame)

Body Count - Body Count's in the house

Guns N Roses - Civil War

Guns N Roses - Welcome to the jungle

Guns N Roses - Chinese Democracy (had to get that one in there! :D )

Nirvana - Smells like teen spirit

Guano Apes - Open your eyes

Guano Apes - Innocent Greed

Nightwish - Dark chest of wonders

System of a Down - Prison Song

Bob Dylan - Subterranean homesick blues

Plus many others that I can'r remember

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The Stooges- Down On The Street

Iggy & The Stooges- Search And Destroy

Bowie- The Width Of A Circle

Station To Station

Day In Day Out

New Killer Star

Pink Floyd- Shine On You Crazy Diamond Parts I-V

Uriah Heep- Gypsy

Ozzy- I Don't Know

Over The Mountain

Bark At The Moon

Van Halen- Mean Streets

Poundcake

Motley Crue- Livewire

GWAR- Horror Of Yig

LARD- War Pimp Renaissance

RHCP- Warped

Dani California

Electric Six- Dance Commander

Rock And Roll Evacuation

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Iggy Pop/Stooges - Search & Destroy. Lust For Life

Lynyrd Skynyrd - Sweet Home Alabama. Gimme Back My Bullets

Rolling Stones - Gimme Shelter

The Doors - Break on Through to the Other Side

Soundgarden - Rusty Cage

Nirvana - Smell Like Teen Spirit

Pearl Jam - Once

White Stripes - Seven Nation Army

2Pac - Ambitionz Az A Ridah

Wu-Tang Clan - Bring Da Ruckus

GNR - WTTJ. Civil War

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