Best Beatles Album Opening Songs
Listed below is the opening track to each of the Beatles' thirteen studio albums. (Abbey Road is a studio album, a compilation album like Love is not.) Please do not add to the list as it is already complete.Johns brutally honest and brilliant lyrics
"Help, I need somebody, help, not just anybody..."
Yeah. Catches you right off the bat.
One of their first mature songs.
"It was twenty years ago today Sgt. Pepper taught the band to play..."
I just really like the opening to this. It makes me smile.
Good but overrated. Not great - just iconic.
Lennon rambling about heroin. But Paul and Ringo make a really catchy beat.
"Here come old flattop, he come grooving up slowly..."
"It's been a hard day's night, and I've been working like a dog..."
The opening chord alone makes this the best on the list.
Lots of energy, catchy, a good time. I like Paul's drumming on this one.
Drive my car is my favorite, but for being so influential and still rocking 52 years later, I have to pick "I Saw Her Standing There."
"Well, she was just seventeen, you know what I mean..."
It's just a simple countdown and then BLAM it hits you with a driving distorted guitar. I love that so much.
"Let me tell you how it will be, there's one for you, nineteen for me..."
Oddly enough, a lot of the songs on this list are beatles songs I like less. this is my least favorite beatles songs, and I don't love Magical Mystery Tour,Taxman,come together, or sgt peppers
"I asked a girl what she wanted to be. She said, 'Baby, can't you see...'"
On par with Pepper as an album opener - it really gets you pumping. Very underrated!
Took me a while to understand this one but I love it.
For the mystery tour!
Roll up! Roll up!
Three great songs open this album: No Reply, I'm a Loser and Baby's in Black. As strong an opening trio as any Beatles album, if not stronger
"This happened once before, when I came to your door, no reply..."
Come on guys! Great opener to an underrated album!
This should be at least in the top 3. Ugh...
"In the town where I was born lived a man who sailed to sea..."
"It won't be long, yeah, yeah, yeah. It won't be long, yeah, yeah, yeah..."