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Excellence. Such a powerful intro that MTV used it as their MTV News theme.
I will add:
Toxicity by System of a Down
Tom Sawyer by Rush
The Trooper by Iron Maiden
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Best rock song intro?
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I would expect no less from somebody with your user name.
Excellence. Such a powerful intro that MTV used it as their MTV News theme.
I will add:
Toxicity by System of a Down
Tom Sawyer by Rush
The Trooper by Iron Maiden
Yeah, Van Halen seemed to do that. Intruder melded right into Pretty Woman, as did Eruption into You Really Got Me.
The pairs were nearly always played as a single track on the radio, at least early on around here.
Maybe Eddie wanted credit for his original material, plus an extra track listing looked good on the sleeve.
I have Gimme Shelter running around inside my head.
I wonder has anyone mentioned the very long and amazing "intro" on "Funeral for a Friend/Love Lies Bleeding" from Elton John's Goodbye Yellow Brick Road.
I'm amazed that the discussion didn't end here....what a choooooon!
I've always rated 'Raise Your Hands' as the best Bon Jovi intro....you just know it's not gonna disappoint!
Radio4 does long intros to many of their songs. Two that I like are This is Not a Test, and Party Crashers.
My favorite short intro is David Bowie's Modern Love. You can hear one or two seconds of it and you know what it is, same as with Van Halen's Jump. Bloc Party's Tulips or their Banquet, and Clapton's No Alibis are also instantly recognizable from a few seconds of the intro.
Back aways:
Bob Dylan - Freight Train Blues
The Eagles - Get Over It
My favorite short intro is David Bowie's Modern Love. You can hear one or two seconds of it and you know what it is, same as with Van Halen's Jump. Bloc Party's Tulips or their Banquet, and Clapton's No Alibis are also instantly recognizable from a few seconds of the intro.
Back aways:
Bob Dylan - Freight Train Blues
The Eagles - Get Over It
Cool old thread!
Three off the top of my head:
Revolution - Beatles (the rippin' version from the single, on PMV2)
Black Magic Woman - Santana
Time - Floyd
Three off the top of my head:
Revolution - Beatles (the rippin' version from the single, on PMV2)
Black Magic Woman - Santana
Time - Floyd
Pretty smart, actually. Songwriters are the only ones who get paid when a song gets radio airplay.
Dredging this thread out of the depths...I originally posted "Hells Bells", but the intro to Mayonaise by the Smashing Pumpkins has had me captivated to an extreme lately. Sometimes I just listen to the intro.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-swlx9z2O0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-swlx9z2O0
Best stolen song intro
I just noticed that Liz Phair borrowed the first 5 notes of her song "Firewalker" from Dream a Little Dream. I just picked random YouTube videos to illustrate the point. Compare 0:38 in the Phair video with 0:13 in the Glee video.
I read some music history pages and discovered that "Dream a Little Dream" was first recorded in 1931, so you'd think Phair would have had time to think of another sequence of notes!
I just noticed that Liz Phair borrowed the first 5 notes of her song "Firewalker" from Dream a Little Dream. I just picked random YouTube videos to illustrate the point. Compare 0:38 in the Phair video with 0:13 in the Glee video.
I read some music history pages and discovered that "Dream a Little Dream" was first recorded in 1931, so you'd think Phair would have had time to think of another sequence of notes!
I thought about Paranoid by Black Sabbath. Don't beat me if it was already mentioned. Too lazy to read all 150+ posts.
Oh boy, too many to mention. I'm going to agree with YYZ by Rush. The Morse code to open the song is just cool. I also love the intro to La Villa Strangiato. Of course, I also love the intro to 2112 (duh), especially when they hit it in concert.
And having just heard this song again, I want to mention "Ace of Spades" by Motorhead. Oh yeah, and special props to the video version of "One" by Metallica. The quotes from the movie Johnny Got his Gun really add to the song.
And having just heard this song again, I want to mention "Ace of Spades" by Motorhead. Oh yeah, and special props to the video version of "One" by Metallica. The quotes from the movie Johnny Got his Gun really add to the song.
