Top Five: Side Ones, Track Ones

First, watch the following clip from High Fidelity:

Now presenting my Top Five Side Ones, Track Ones:

5. The Doors - "Break On Through"
   The Doors - First track, first side... of their very first record!
4. The Joshua Tree - "Where The Streets Have No Name"
   U2 - This one even gets the haters excited.
3. Love Over Gold - "Telegraph Road"
   Dire Straits - Perhaps Knopfler's greatest masterpiece.
2. Tattoo You - "Start Me Up"
   The Rolling Stones - Also the song they use to open their live shows.
1. The Beatles - "Back In The U.S.S.R"
   The Beatles - I have to agree with Jack Black on this one.

Honorable Mentions:

• Led Zeppelin III - "Immigrant Song"
  Led Zeppelin - This song grabs you by the balls -- the rest of the album never lets go.
• Arthur, or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire - "Victoria"
  The Kinks - A real rollicking rocker. Might've been in the Top Five if it weren't so sarcastic.
• Nice And Warm - "Nice And Warm"
  Tab Benoit - Again, first track of the first side of the very first album.
• Damn The Torpedoes - "Refugee"
  Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers - We can all agree that this is Tom Petty's best song, right?
• Heartbreaker - "To Be Young (Is To Be Sad, Is To Be High)"
  Ryan Adams - This really great lead-off song sets up an unreasonable expectation for the rest of an otherwise underwhelming album. N.B. - Technically not the first track.
 

Here they are again, for your listening pleasure: