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Eight Easy Steps

The album's opening track, it was released in 2004 as the So-Called Chaos's third single.

Sitting Down Here

The song is the album's opening track, and was released as its second single, peaking at #5 in the UK Singles Chart (see 2000 in British music).


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2 + 2 = 5

"2 + 2 = 5" (a.k.a. "The Lukewarm.") is the opening track on English rock band Radiohead's sixth album, Hail to the Thief, released in 2003.

A Hawk and a Hacksaw and the Hun Hangár Ensemble

Kiraly Siratás, album's opening track, is based around the main melody from Bedřich Smetana 19th-century piece "Vltava".

Amy Rigby

Til The Wheels Fall Off, with its opening track, "Why Do I," produced by Richard Barone, was released on Signature in 2003, and Little Fugitive in 2005.

Another Lover

The song was featured as the opening track to the 1989 comedy film Loverboy starring Patrick Dempsey.

Are You Hung Up?

"Are You Hung Up?" is the opening track on the 1968 album We're Only in It for the Money by Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention.

Between the Devil and the Sea

Pitchfork Media's Liz Colville wrote a mixed review, criticizing the opening track "Oh Be One" for its lyrics, percussion and predictability, while complimenting the band's few "glimpses of raging passion" elsewhere on the EP.

Clearview 77

The opening track on their 2000 EP "Another Story" produced by Agnostic Front frontman Roger Miret was played on K-ROCK's "The Buzz" with Matt Pinfield.

Cluster One

"Cluster One", an instrumental, is the opening track on Pink Floyd's 1994 album, The Division Bell.

Crystal Blue Persuasion

The title of the song is referenced in the song "He Do the Police in Different Voices", the opening track from the 1993 album Plants and Birds and Rocks and Things by The Loud Family.

Dimitri Minakakis

2007 Ire Works (Guest vocals on opening track Fix Your Face)

Emily Barker

In late 2008, the album's opening track "Nostalgia" was discovered by composer Martin Phipps who re-recorded it with Emily for use as the theme tune for the hit television series Wallander on BBC1 starring British actor Kenneth Branagh.

French Skyline

The opening track, "Latin Sirens Face The Wall," was recorded at Klaus Schulze Studios in Hambühren, West Germany, and was engineered by Klaus Schulze.

Future Legend Records

Future Legend Records was partly named after Future Legend, the opening track of David Bowie's 1974 album Diamond Dogs and partly to promote the company’s mission to find and introduce artistic 'legends of the future'.

Hairdresser on Fire

The opening track for Ryan Adams' Heartbreaker is a recording of an argument between Adams and David Rawlings over the inclusion of Suedehead, the A-side of this track, on Bona Drag.

Halfway to Sanity

"I Wanna Live", the album's opening track, was on the soundtrack to the 2006 video game Tony Hawk's Project 8.

Hawa Hawa

"Hawa Hawa" is the opening track and first single from SQS Supastars's 2010 album, Supastars.

Hipodil

The album's opening track, song about Gojko Mitić, "Bate Gojko" (Big Brother Gojko)rocketed to the top of Bulgarian airplay charts and was among the few Hipodil songs to have a video clip.

I Am a Rock

It was first performed by Simon alone as the opening track on his album The Paul Simon Songbook which he originally recorded and released in August 1965, only in the United Kingdom.

İzel Çeliköz

In 1997, İzel released her second solo album titled Emanet which featured Mustafa Sandal on the opening track as well as listing him as a producer.

Just Another Story

It is the opening track to the second Jamiroquai album The Return of the Space Cowboy, in all countries other than the U.S., where the song switches place with "Space Cowboy" to become the eleventh track.

Linda Ronstadt, Stone Poneys and Friends, Vol. III

"Some of Shelly's Blues" was the opening track on The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band's 1971 album, Uncle Charlie & His Dog Teddy; and as one of two follow-up singles from this album to their biggest hit, "Mr. Bojangles", this song hit #64 on the Billboard charts.

Mason Jennings

In 2002, Jennings released a studio album, Century Spring, and a "fans only" collection of acoustic songs, Simple Life. An EP supporting Century Spring was also released, featuring the album's opening track, "Living In The Moment," two live tracks, and the previously-unreleased "Emperor Ashoka."

Matte Kudasai

On 7 February 2011, Kurt Elling released the album The Gate, with a version of "Matte Kudasai" as the opening track.

Merry Blues

"Merry Blues" is the first single and the opening track from Manu Chao's second album, Próxima Estación: Esperanza.

Morgan Stewart's Coming Home

The soundtrack included the opening track 'Painted Moon' by The Silencers and music by Peter Bernstein, Timothy Duckworth, Bernard Herrmann, Chris Isaak, John Manikoff, and The Surfaris.

No Rain, No Rainbow

The opening track "Seven Hours" features, frontman Ryan Zimmerman's wife, Michelle along with many other guest vocalists throughout the album such as Craig Mabbitt of Escape the Fate, Beau Bokan and Jared Warth of Blessthefall and Cameron Martin of The Irish Front.

Once Bitten...

The album's opening track, "Lady Red Light", was featured on the NBC show Parks & Recreation in the episode "Tom's Divorce".

Otome Pasta ni Kandō

"Otome Pasta ni Kandō" is also featured on the album All of Tanpopo as the opening track.

Perils from the Sea

On September 11, 2011, Sun Kil Moon's Mark Kozelek asked Jimmy LaValle, of The Album Leaf, to collaborate on a song, resulting in the album's opening track, "What Happened to My Brother".

Prelude/Angry Young Man

Live versions have been released as the second track of KOHЦEPT, the 11th track of the first disc of 2000 Years: The Millennium Concert, and the opening track on the first disc of 12 Gardens Live and Live at Shea Stadium: The Concert.

Saṃsāra

Samsara is the title of the opening track of the album Deep Blue by Parkway Drive.

Say It Loud – I'm Black and I'm Proud

Jazz pianist Jaki Byard recites the title phrase at the onset of "Parisian Thoroughfare", the opening track of his album The Jaki Byard Experience.

Šlágry

The opening track, "Šavlový Tanec", was composed by Aram Khachaturian.

Stuck Between Stations

Stuck Between Stations is named after the opening track of The Hold Steady’s Boys and Girls in America album.

Suikoden III

The vocal to the opening track "Ai wo Koete" (usually translated as "Exceeding Love" or "Transcending Love") was performed by Himekami.

Suitable for Framing

The album contains the top 20 hit singles "Easy to Be Hard", "Eli's Coming", and "Celebrate"; the latter of which (along with the album's opening track "Feelin' Alright") featured the Chicago horn section.

The Himalayans

The Himalayans song "Round Here" was recorded on Counting Crows' first album (being the opening track), and remains popular at their live performances.

The Olivia Tremor Control

Signal Morning, Circulatory System's sophomore LP features the reunion of Will Hart and Bill Doss singing harmonies on its opening track.

The Original Soundtrack

The album's opening track, Kevin Godley and Lol Creme's "Une Nuit A Paris", is an nine-minute, multi-part "mini-operetta".

This Guy's in Love with You

UK group These New Puritans featured an avant-garde cover of the song as the opening track on their 2013 album, Field of Reeds.

This Wreckage

It was featured as the opening track on his 1980 LP Telekon and was the third and final single to be released from that album (although the only one to feature on every configuration of Telekon worldwide).

Time and a Word

The opening track contains an orchestral intro to Richie Havens' song "No Opportunity Needed, No Experience Necessary", featuring a main theme from the 1958 film The Big Country by Jerome Moross.

Tom Copson

Tom Robinson from BBC Introducing recently played the opening track "Afraid to Fall" twice on his 6music show.

Vjetar s Dinare

The opening track Zaustavi se vjetre plays out as a conversation between Thompson and the Dinaric winds, sung by a Dalmatian klapa, in which Thompson begs the winds to tell him about his family.

Within a Mile of Home

The review referred to the opening track "Screaming at the Wailing Wall" as a "toe-tapping, arm-in-arm Celtic boogie tune" and the following song "The Seven Deadly Sins" as a "kitchen-party Celtic assault." The review also noted that the song “To Youth (My Sweet Roisin Dubh)” sounds like a "Dublin-ized Mike Ness of Social Distortion" and that “The Wanderlust” as a combination of The Clash and The Pogues.

Women and Children First

The opening track, "And the Cradle Will Rock...", begins with what sounds like a guitar, but is, in fact, a phase shifter-effected Wurlitzer electric piano played through Van Halen's 1960s model 100-watt Marshall Plexi amplifier.

Wow/Grape Jam

The opening track "Never" is the best known song and has often been cited as a probable source for Led Zeppelin's song "Since I've Been Loving You": the opening lyrics, the bluesy arrangement and some melodic elements are almost identical.

Zyon Cavalera

His in utero heartbeat was used as the introduction to the Chaos A.D. album's opening track Refuse/Resist from his father Max's days in Sepultura.