Author Topic: Great intros (Read 17801 times)

Deano · « **on:** 12 April, 2011, 10:16:35 pm »

As Peter pointed out, Love's Alone Again Or.

Any others? A couple more to get us started (sorry):

The sinister contrails of

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/-KTsXHXMkJA&rel=1" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/-KTsXHXMkJA&rel=1</a> (which also has a great ending, but that's a different thread).

And I love the whispery, drifting-in, then exploding anarchic rage of

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/YqbsW5hE8v8&rel=1" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/YqbsW5hE8v8&rel=1</a>. Geordie punk

clarion · « **Reply #1 on:** 12 April, 2011, 10:23:10 pm »

Pink Floyd's Shine On You Crazy Diamond is very good (just heard it on the radio)

by contrast, Saxon's 747 (Strangers In The Night) assaults your ears with an enormous opening chord.

Johnny Was as covered by SLF is wonderful.

clarion · « **Reply #2 on:** 12 April, 2011, 10:23:51 pm »

oh - Back In the USSR, with it's jet landing...

Voodoo Chile - Jimi

clarion · « **Reply #3 on:** 12 April, 2011, 10:26:06 pm »

Patti Smith's reworking of Gloria is bound to get your attention.

ravenbait · « **Reply #4 on:** 12 April, 2011, 10:30:32 pm »

The Dead Flag Blues by God Speed You! Black Emperor. Haunting.

Sam

interzen · « **Reply #5 on:** 12 April, 2011, 10:33:25 pm »

This:
YouTube
- ANGELIC UPSTARTS - Police Oppression

or this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7S9uNxUI9ng (Rush - Far Cry)

or even this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_j4Eq3ziE4 (Killing Joke - The Death And Resurrection Show)

LEE · « **Reply #6 on:** 12 April, 2011, 11:02:43 pm »

Foxy Lady - Hendrix
Pretty Vacant - The Sex Pistols (My favourite intro because I was at the perfect age to hear it for the first time. I wish I'd been the perfect age to hear "Satisfaction" intro by the Stones for the first time because it must have stopped people in their tracks)

RJ · « **Reply #7 on:** 12 April, 2011, 11:04:24 pm »

Over the Hill - John Martyn

Pingu · « **Reply #8 on:** 13 April, 2011, 12:23:32 am »

New Dawn Fades
Dead Souls

RJ · « **Reply #9 on:** 13 April, 2011, 12:35:14 am »

Quote from: Pingu on 13 April, 2011, 12:23:32 am

New Dawn Fades
Dead Souls

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/YkZk-1hw26s&rel=1" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/YkZk-1hw26s&rel=1</a>

Peter · « **Reply #10 on:** 13 April, 2011, 12:38:27 am »

That'll Be The Day - Buddy Holly and The Crickets

A Hard Day's Night - The Beatles

A Change Is Gonna Come - Sam Cooke (just listen to the intro theme weave then stop....all is silence... then the world's greatest voice climbs up to the key-note. Perfect.)

YahudaMoon · « **Reply #11 on:** 13 April, 2011, 12:51:33 am »

Dominoes. Donald Byrd

Torslanda · « **Reply #12 on:** 13 April, 2011, 12:56:02 am »

Queen - Brighton Rock.

War of the Worlds. On the right system that can make everything stand on end!

Pink Floyd - In the Flesh.

Rush - Xanadu.

Just realised I need to buy some more music . . .

On RoadRunner's criteria - Stairway to Heaven (or Eric Clapton's Let it Flow - it's the same thing)

Deano · « **Reply #13 on:** 13 April, 2011, 01:07:47 am »

Thin Lizzy's Whiskey in the Jar. Instantly recognisable from the first reverberating note.

I don't entirely agree with RR's rule, mind - I reckon intros just have to be fabulous. Check out the dripping chords and the bass that kicks in and hooks you before the drums and the twitchy guitars catch you in The Rapture's Out of the Races and onto The Tracks. The slow build-up, layer on layer, is immensely exciting. Same with the Wilderness of Manitoba's Summer Fires.

Obviously, I've deliberately chosen slightly more obscure tracks to make my point. I don't think they have to be that famous. Possibly that says more about my taste in music than anything else, mind

Torslanda · « **Reply #14 on:** 13 April, 2011, 01:11:56 am »

Eric Clapton playing Edge of Darkness always makes my blood run cold.

PaulF · « **Reply #15 on:** 13 April, 2011, 06:27:39 am »

R.E.M.'s cover of First We Take Manhattan

rogerzilla · « **Reply #16 on:** 13 April, 2011, 06:43:50 am »

Since someone mentioned Beethoven in another thread, the start of his Fifth Symphony has to be the most famous intro in classical music, possibly run a close second by the Einleitung from Richard Strauss' Also Sprach Zarathustra.

tiermat · « **Reply #17 on:** 13 April, 2011, 07:56:20 am »

ooo intros...

All My Life - Foo Fighters, for the way it builds, you can feel the anger in the words then it just explodes.
3rd Planet - Modest Mouse
Dazed and Confused - Led Zepplin, you know what it is from the first notes

And at the risk of being denied
Smoke On The Water - Deep Purple
</'90's joke>

eeymsmo · « **Reply #18 on:** 13 April, 2011, 08:11:15 am »

Therapy? - Screamager - Just starts from nowhere and is an instant grabber

interzen · « **Reply #19 on:** 13 April, 2011, 08:39:30 am »

Quote from: tiermat on 13 April, 2011, 07:56:20 am

And at the risk of being denied
Smoke On The Water - Deep Purple
</'90's joke>

You're only denied if you're a bass player, otherwise it's Stairway To Heaven (another memorable intro, even though I don't like Led Zep at all)

"No Stairway! Denied!"

Chris S · « **Reply #20 on:** 13 April, 2011, 08:42:32 am »

Quote from: clarion on 12 April, 2011, 10:23:10 pm

Pink Floyd's Shine On You Crazy Diamond is very good (just heard it on the radio)

Four and a half minutes of C-Minor. What's not to like?

Andrew Br · « **Reply #21 on:** 13 April, 2011, 11:12:01 am »

Quote from: RJ on 13 April, 2011, 12:35:14 am

Thieves Like Us

Perfect !

Also:-
I Wanna Be Adored- Stone Roses
Badge- Cream
Realing in the Years- Steely Dan
Age of Consent- New Order

onb · « **Reply #22 on:** 13 April, 2011, 11:28:54 am »

Gimme Shelter The Rolling Stones ,makes the hairs on the back of my neck stand uo
Baba O Riley._-TheWho

interzen · « **Reply #23 on:** 13 April, 2011, 11:50:32 am »

"What Difference Does It Make?" and "How Soon Is Now?" by The Smiths.

Both would figure highly in the "awesome riffs" stakes as well.

mrcharly-YHT · « **Reply #24 on:** 13 April, 2011, 12:02:57 pm »

My Best Friend's Girl - the cars

Whisky in jar - that first note!

Author Topic: Great intros (Read 17801 times)

ravenbait

LEE

Chris S