. The most obvious that hasn't been mentioned is Brown Sugar-The Rolling Stones (Sticky Fingers). It also should be listed as best opening note of an album.
Great call.
Tom sawyer, moving pictures - RUSH
Aqualung, Aqualung Tull
ON your radio, I'm the man - Joe Jackson
Hells Bells, back in black - AC/DC
Getting closer, back to the Egg - Wings
(Although reception is technically track one on back to the egg, it's half spoken word and more of a novelty)
"what's this? A doorknob? Good show!" the easily impressed Dr. Bartley

Sorry, if you don't have Boston, More Than A Feeling or The Who, New Song in there, you fail

1. Thunder Road - Born To Run (Bruce Springsteen)
2. Hollywood Nights - Stranger In Town (Bob Seger)
3. Tangled Up In Blue - Blood On The Tracks (Bob Dylan)
4. Bat Out Of Hell - Bat Out Of Hell (Meat Loaf)
5. Movin' Out - The Stranger (Billy Joel)

The most obvious that hasn't been mentioned is Brown Sugar-The Rolling Stones (Sticky Fingers). It also should be listed as best opening note of an album.

1. Luv'n Haight - Sly and the Family Stone (There's a Riot Going On)
2. I Looked Away - Derek and the Dominoes (Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs)
3. The Hero Takes a Fall - The Bangles (All Over the Place)
4. Concrete Jungle - The Wailers (Catch a Fire)
5. Discovering Japan - Graham Parker and the Rumour (Squeezing Out Sparks)
   Bonus Cut: 6) Little Child Runnin' Wild - Curtis Mayfield (Superfly)
   Extra Bonus Cut: 7) Obvious Bicycle - Vampire Weekend (Modern Vampires of the City)
   (Leaving off the obvious, such as Like a Rolling Stone, Gimme Shelter, I Saw Her Standing There)

top 30
tell me why - neil young (after the gold rush)
the magnificent seven - the clash (sandinista!)
im still in love with you - al green (im still in love with you)
you think i aint worth a dollar but i feel like a millionaire - queens of the stone age (songs for the deaf)
come together - the beatles (abbey road)
angel - massive attack (mezzanine)
immigrant song - led zeppelin (III)
gloria - patti smith (horses)
burning down the house - talking heads (speaking in tongues)
1969 - iggy & the stooges (the stooges)
beyond belief - elvis costello (imperial bedroom)
mysterons - portishead (dummy)
vicious - lou reed (transformer)
sympathy for the devil - the rolling stones (beggars banquet)
natural mystic - bob marley & the wailers (exodus)
airbag - radiohead (ok computer)
head like a hole - nine inch nails (pretty hate machine)
testify - rage against the machine (the battle of los angeles)
silver - echo & the bunnymen (ocean rain)
breathe - pink floyd (dark side of the moon)
green river - creedence clearwater revival (green river)
and it stoned me - van morrison (moondance)
excursions - a tribe called quest (the low end theory)
100% - sonic youth (dirty)
fight test - the flaming lips (yoshimi battles the pink robots)
metronomic underground - stereolab (emperor tomato ketchup)
get innocuous! - lcd soundsystem (sound of silver)
the headmaster ritual - the smiths (meat is murder)
megalomaniac - incubus (a crow left of the murder)
hexagram - deftones (deftones)

underrated bob
"Somebody showed me a picture, and I just laughed
Dignity never been photographed."

jokerman! classic bob.

Bob Dylan - Blood On The Tracks - Tangled Up In Blue
Bob Dylan - Infidels - Jokerman
"Somebody showed me a picture, and I just laughed
Dignity never been photographed."

? Welcome to the Jungle - Guns N Roses
? Godless - Dandy Warhols
? Dear Lover - Social Distortion
? Dive - Nirvana
? Sure Shot - Beastie Boys

Excellent choices!
You'd probably like almost the entire soundtrack to Sofia Coppola's "Marie Antoinette" (Yes, that's right!). Many people didn't like New Wave mixed with a period piece, but you can't beat people in satin & wigs dancing in a Baroque palace to "Hong Kong Gardens" by Siouxsie and the Banshees. Here are some of the songs:

• Aphrodisiac - Bow Wow Wow
• What Ever Happened? - The Strokes
• Ceremony - New Order
• Plainsong - The Cure
• Natural's Not In It - Gang of Four
  Don't get me wrong
  It might be unbelievable,
  But let's not say so long.

1. Silver - Echo & The Bunnymen (Ocean Rain)
2. Johnny Strikes Up the Band - Warren Zevon (Excitable Boy)
3. Janie Jones - The Clash (The Clash)
4. Disorder - Joy Division (Unknown Pleasures)
5. No Action - Elvis Costello (This Year's Model)

judging by all that crazy stuff I posted I can see why, but I enjoy Orchid quite a bit, I will add In The Mist She Was Standing to my list. I also like the Katatonia album that the Opeth vocalist was on 'Black Murder Day'.

Wow. You probably think Opeth is too mainstream, but The Leper Affinity and Ghost of Perdition are awesome.

lps only, no cds except for*
Svartsyn - Surth Lit the Earth
Dismember - Override Of The Overture
Vinterland - Our Dawn Of Glory
Nocte Obducta - Hexer (Verflucht)*
Chaos Invocation - Delirium Worship And Total Abandon
Dawn - The Knell And The World
Watain - The Limb Crucifix
Dissection - Black Horizons
Immortal - Withstand The Fall Of Time
Dismember - Of Fire
Svartsyn - Apocalyptic Prophecy
Funeral Mist - Agnus Dei
Funeral Mist - The Devil's Emissary
Funeral Mist - Sword Of Faith
Svartsyn - Terrordemon
Repugnant - Hungry Are The Damned
Sacramentum - Fog's Kiss
Dawn - Eyesland
Unpure - Never In Gold
Merciless - Unbound
Unanimated - At Dawn/Whispering Shadows
Necrophobic - Celebration Of The Goat
Malign - Sinful Fleshspear
Heresi - Liothe
Sacrilege - Summon The Masses And Walk Through The Fire
Watain - Devil's Blood
Watain - Legions Of The Black Light
Setherial - In The Still Of A Northern Fullmoon
Satyricon - The Dawn Of A New Age
Entombed - Left Hand Path
Morbider - When Darkness Returns
Sentenced - My Sky Is Darker Than Thine
Midnight - Satanic Royalty
Antaeus - Rot
Cult Of Fire - Zv Svtu
Fides Inversa - Decollatio
Nominon - Release In Death
Nifelheim - Infernal Flame of Destruction
Horrendous - The Womb
Mayhem - Funeral Fog
Kalmah - Evil In You*
Kalmah - For The Revolution*
Kalmah - Heroes To Us*
Arckanum - Svarti
Arsis - The Face Of My Innocence
Demonical - The Arrival Of Armageddon
Demonical - Suicide Throne
Gorgoroth - Revelation Of Doom
Grand Belial's Key - Foul Parody Of The Lord's Supper
Vorum - Impetuous Fires
Possessed - The Exorcist
In Aeternum - Majesty Of Fire
In Flames - Stand Ablaze
Enforcer - Midnight Vice
Naglfar - As The Twilight Gave Birth To The Night
Sentenced - When the Moment of Death Arrives
Ravencult - Sacrilege Of Death
Sacrilege - Frozen Thoughts
Megiddo - The Devil And The Whore
Satan - Time To Die
Glorior Belli - From Darkness There Springs Light
Kalmah - Seventh Swamphony*
Gridlock - Pallid

1. Pavement - Summer Babe (Winter Version) (Slanted & Enchanted)
2. Steven Wilson - Luminol (The Raven that Refused to Sing)
3. Strapping Young Lad - S.y.l. (Heavy as a Really Heavy Thing)
4. Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Storm (Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven)
5. Mercury Rev - Meth of a Rockette's Kick (Boces)

Badlands Bruce Springsteen (Darkness on the Edge of Town)
Easy Money Billy Joel (An Innocent Man)
Out Among The Stars Johnny Cash (Out Among The Stars)
Wake Up And Make Love With Me Ian Dury (New Boots And Panties!!)
Dog Eat Dog Adam And The Ants (Kings Of The Wild Frontier)
Poor Men Wanna Be Rich, Rich Men Wanna Be Kings
And A King Ain't Satisfied Til He Rules Everything

this is surprisingly difficult. had to think back to when I was a kid and actually played CDs. songs I actually know to be track 1's. in no particular order:
Pink Floyd - Speak to me/Breathe (Dark Side) obvious, I know, but it was my first slow dance with a girl. plus the whole brilliant album thing
Alice In Chains - Them Bones (Dirt) favorite song to listen to when I had the top down in my convertable
Our Lady Peace - One Man Army (Hapiness) great for belting out when no one is listening. those high note are hard, but fun
The Clash - London Calling (London Calling) also obvious, but the clash is just great and this album is amazing. no offense to Rob, but its a better song that Janie Jones
Radiohead - Planet Telex (Bends) almost any list would have this album on it. it's one of those rare, perfect albums you don't skip tracks on. like Siamese Dream or Nevermind
Ho! Ha ha! Guard! Turn! Parry! Dodge! Spin! Ha! Thrust!

Bird on a Wire, Leonard Cohen - Songs from a Room
Hadn't heard that before, it was nice. But Suzanne from Cohen's first album is one of the greatest opening tracks ever.

Shine On You Crazy Diamond, Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
Let's Go Crazy, Prince & the Revolution - Purple Rain
Bird on a Wire, Leonard Cohen - Songs from a Room
Maggot Brain, Funkadelic - Maggot Brain
Respect, Aretha Franklin - I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You