Song With Best Beginning


I'll nominate Like a Rolling Stone, Thunder Road, and New York City Serenade.
jfz
Somewhere Over the Rainbow when performed by Eva Cassidy. Very, very, moving I think.

Judy Garland's version, a classic, is too romantic for my taste. I find that Eva's intro, and her whole treatment as well takes this out of the childhood fantasy of Garland, converting it to an adult expression of hope and desire.

That's how I feel it anyway.
Baba O'Riley

Pete Townsend finally figures out an interesting way to use a synthesizer.