Best Song to Kick Off a Studio Album?

I'm listening to "The Song Remains the Same" off of LZ's House of the Holy. What a way to kick off an album.
What are some of the other of the greatest songs that announce/kick off a studio album with authority?

"Don't Want You No More". Great start for the best band ever !

I love the double bang of Take the Highway and Can't You See from the Marshall Tucker Band.
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Do It Again - Steely Dan (Can't Buy A Thrill)
First We Take Manhattan - Jennifer Warnes (Famous Blue Raincoat)
Diamonds & Rust - Joan Baez (D & R)
Jackie Wilson Said - Van Morrison (St Dominic's Preview)
Like A Rolling Stone - Dylan (Highway 61 Revisited)
Return Of the Grievous Angel - Gram Parsons (G A)
Late For The Sky - Jackson Browne (LFTS)
Solid Air - John Martyn (S A)
Running Up That Hill - Kate Bush (Hounds Of Love)
Suzanne - Leonard Cohen (Songs of....)
Cinammon Girl - Neil Young (EKTIN)
Any of the early Stones albums - Beggars' Banquet, Let It Bleed, Sticky Fingers etc
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Grinning in Your Face > Mother Earth - Gov't Mule (Gov't Mule)
Welcome to the Jungle - Guns and Roses (Appetite for Destruction)
Runnin' with the Devil - Van Halen (I)
Man on the Silver Mountain - Rainbow (Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow)
Achilles Last Stand - Led Zeppelin (Presence)
War Pigs - Black Sabbath (Paranoid)

Welcome To My Nightmare
Immigrant Song
R&R Never Forgets
Back In The Saddle
Black Sabbath

I'm listening to "The Song Remains the Same" off of LZ's House of the Holy. What a way to kick off an album.
I was think of the very same thing when I read the thread title.
"Birds of Fire" off the album of the same name by The Mahavishnu Orchestra springs to mind as well.
Blooby

Deep Purple - Machine Head - Highway Star

Multiple Pink Floyd (Pigs On the Wing1/Dogs - Animals, Wish You Were Here - title song,
Speak to Me/Breathe - Dark Side of the Moon, In The Flesh - The Wall)
Radio Waves - Radio KAOS - Roger Waters
Coyote - Hejira - Joni Mitchell
Move Over - Pearl - Janis Joplin
Suite Judy Blue Eyes - Crosby, Stills & Nash
Batuka - Santana III
Roadhouse Blues - Morrison Hotel - Doors
Sunday, Bloody Sunday - War - U2
Come Together - Abbey Road - Beatles
The Obvious Child - Rhythm of the Saints - Paul Simon
Glad - John Barleycorn Must Die - Traffic
White Room - Wheels of Fire - Cream
What's Going On - title song - Marvin Gaye
Telegraph Road - Love Over Gold - Dire Straits
Baba O'Riley - Who's Next - Who
Dixie Chicken - title song - Little Feat

"Firing Line" is a super underrated song, and was a great way for the band to reintroduce themselves.
"A Hard Day's Night" has to be in the mix - that chord says everything you need to know.
"I Just Want To Make Love To You" on Electric Mud - I don't care what the purists say, I never get tired of that album.
"Walked on Gilded Splinters" kicks off an album like no other, and it doesn't let up. People give Beck a lot of shit for using the drum beat, but can anyone deny this wasn't on the minds of everyone involved in Gregg's "Whipping Post" on Searching for Simplicity?
"Preachin' Blues" is the highlight for me on Derek's Out of the Madness album. The way Derek plays that old Son House lick is pretty much the same, but not at all, at the same time.
"Gimme Shelter" is pretty epic for a pretty epic album.
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