Guns N’ Roses tops best album opening songs list with ‘Welcome to the Jungle’

INDIO, CA – APRIL 16: Musician Axl Rose and Slash of Guns N’ Roses performs onstage during day 2 of the 2016 Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival Weekend 1 at the Empire Polo Club on April 16, 2016 in Indio, California. (Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images for Coachella)

Welcome to the Jungle” tops a list of the best opening tracks in history.  “Whole Lotta Love” is second, followed by “Let’s Go Crazy“.

The list comes from BroBible.com and includes the 50 best opening songs of all time.  One rule, each act could only be listed once.

Here’s some notables that made the list…

“Welcome to the Jungle”, Guns N’ Roses . . . off “Appetite for Destruction”

“Whole Lotta Love”, Led Zeppelin . . . off “Led Zeppelin 2”

“Let’s Go Crazy”, Prince and the Revolution . . . off “Purple Rain”

“Runnin’ with the Devil”, Van Halen . . . off their self-titled debut album

“Purple Haze”, The Jimi Hendrix Experience . . . off “Are You Experienced?”

“Refugee”, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers . . . off “Damn the Torpedoes”

“Beautiful Day”, U2 . . . off “All That You Can’t Leave Behind”

“Baba O’Riley”, The Who . . . off “Who’s Next”

“Gimme Shelter”, The Rolling Stones . . . off “Let It Bleed”

“Bombtrack”, Rage Against the Machine . . . off their self-titled debut album

“Tom Sawyer”, Rush . . . off “Moving Pictures”

“What’s Going On”, Marvin Gaye . . . off “What’s Going On”

“Back in the Saddle”, Aerosmith . . . off “Rocks”

Check out the full list at BroBible.com.

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