On the first track of this one, she calls Mr. Combs.
On the first track of "My Life," Sean Combs, her producer, calls Ms. Blige and yells into her answering machine.
Transmetropolitan, the first track of our debut album Red Roses For Me, is in many respects the Pogues' mission statement.
"I arrived in town with an electric toothbrush pressed against my clitoris," she announced, on the first track of her 2011 record, "Viscera".
"The customer is obviously/Oblivious and wrong," sings Julian Casablancas in a sweet falsetto on the first track of his new album.
Even live recordings he sometimes treated as drafts; the first track of Davis's "Live at Fillmore East," from 1970, contains a snippet pasted in from a different song.
On Morning Side, the first track of this two-track album, a sample of Bollywood singer Lata Mangeshkar repeats, as Kieran "Four Tet" Hebden assembles beats and textures beneath Mangeshkar's voice using Ableton software, complete with time glitches.
Allowing the music to speak for itself, without introduction, I then cued up the coup de grâce: the first track of "Hard Rain," from 1976, a proto-punk version of "Maggie's Farm" that can only be called perverse.
The Hartnolls open with the declarative One Big Moment, also the first track of Wonky, which builds carefully towards the promise of the title, a fat synth melody that swoops low enough to rattle internal organs.
