25 Greatest Album Opening Tracks (1960's)

My 25 favorite opening tracks from albums released in the 1960s.
All credit to Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Crazy Horse, Leonard Cohen, The Beatles, Frank Zappa, Pink Floyd, The Velvet Underground, Nico, Simon & Garfunkel, Jimi Hendrix, The Beach Boys, The Doors, Led Zeppelin, Cream, The Rolling Stones, Aretha Franklin, Marvin Gaye, Tammi Terrell, and King Crimson

Best Closing Tracks
Best Albums

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[magicbus]

Led Zeppelin Whole Lotta Love
The Rolling Stones Gimme Shelter
Bob Dylan Like A Rolling Stone
Rolling Stones Sympathy For The Devil
The Doors Hello I Love You

[nicedevil]

Wouldn't It Be Nice at 17??? Cmon its one of the best tracks period.

[TheTornadoMan]

I respect you for putting 21st Schizoid Man on 1st, probably the heaviest song in the 60s and while progressive rock started earlier, it definitely influenced a lot of music afterwards

[nic-nack]

Paint it black, strange days and For what it’s worth should be high in this list

[andyboerger]

Great List! Must have been hard to leave 'Drive My Car' and 'Sgt. Pepper's' off, but it's better to spread the love around.

[drdavid]

Great list - here's a few more

Tracks of My Tears - Smokey Robinson & The Miracles 1965
Help - The Beatles 1965
Mr Tambourine Man - The Byrds 1965
Turn Turn Turn - The Byrds 1966
Fifth Dimension - The Byrds 1966
So You Want To Be A Rock 'n Roll Star - The Byrds 1967
Alone Again Or - Love 1967
Care For Cell 44 - The Zombies 1968
Astral Weeks - Van Morrison 1968
Candy Says - The Velvet Underground 1969
Light Flight - Pentangle 1969
Come All Ye - Fairport Convention 1969

[joseresendiz]

Astronomy Domine instead of Let There Be More Light

[TedBonkers]

woulddnt it be nice pet sounds needs to be higher

[aminahmed]

Absolutely fantastic have a wonderful day ❤😊

[xtra_krispy]

Pink floyd W, also i would have put sunday morning at no1

[Bottled-Soap]

Why isn’t the opening track to sgt pepper number one

[dancrothers]

Seriously……the greatest opening track of all is simply “Baba O ‘Reilly “ it’s not a valid list without it!

[MOET]

Why does everybody fuck up the Beatles and love songs like come together and taxman? You pick 3 Beatles songs that aren't in their top 100 but don't include top 10 songs like No Reply and Help? 🤦‍♂️

[gregorydillon]

I bet picking opetrack was harder than picking closing track

[ozthecapybara]

Where Shine on you crazy diamonf pts 1-5!?!?

[zane]

random rules is better than all of these

[grahamdowney]

Did you know, there has been great music made after the late 60's?

[garycombs]

The #1 song single handedly discredited this list.

Under no circumstances whatsoever should it have even been listed in the top 25.

[GuillermoRodriguezMoreno]

Where the fuck is American crucifixion?