It's easily solved. Open the album with Run Riot. Replace Run Riot at track nine with Ride Into The Sun. Move Women back to track 11 and get rid of the dreadful Excitable altogether. Suddenly a classic is even better.


With regards to the subject, one of my favourite AOR albums of the past decade was Brian McDonald's Voyage but I never understood why he opened it with the fairly average Intimate.
Also Magnum's Princess Alice opens with When We Were Younger, which is never an opening track for me.

"With eyes that are swollen and tearful, we all take a bow
It passes the time for a moment but what happens now?"