Best Song Intro........

**SimonK** · 28th July 2018, 11:25

Can't remember if it has been mentioned (or even if I have mentioned it), but Creedence Clearwater Revival's 'Up Around The Bend' has an instantly recognisable and striking intro.

**SeanST150** · 28th July 2018, 12:26

For me, this has to be the best intro with a drum featuring heavily, equally the best drum finish to a song ever. Hell, it's just a song full of pure energy!!

Queens of the Stone Age - Song for the Dead

https://youtu.be/dOsmG-sufNc

**sinner77** · 28th July 2018, 13:12

Grohl is dead precise in timing and dynamics on this song. The whole album is stunning.

**David_D** · 28th July 2018, 15:11

Waterloo - Abba?

I'll get my coat ....

Lola (Kinks)

Suffragette City (Bowie)

Common People (Pulp)

**Kingstepper** · 28th July 2018, 15:57

Another Bowie, Rebel Rebel.

**alfat33** · 28th July 2018, 16:10

No G.D.M., Gina X

https://youtu.be/qPaiq9BxMyg

**j17ykp** · 28th July 2018, 20:37

Probably been mentioned before but

Hendrix - All Along the Watchtower

**Shounen** · 28th July 2018, 20:54

Ophidian - Butterfly VIP

Ruffneck & Synapse - Denial of Evil

Embrionyc - The Difference between Water & Tears

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something different :-)

**Omegamanic** · 28th July 2018, 22:23

The very beginning of The Automatic - Monster

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=o7X3LYGV_N8

**Omegamanic** · 28th July 2018, 22:31

The Smiths - What difference does it make

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HKadoVfr5dk

**Rbains0708** · 29th July 2018, 08:15

The first minute of led zeppelin-when the levee breaks

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**Shounen** · 29th July 2018, 18:33

Queen - Innuendo

**Glen Goyne** · 31st July 2018, 08:06

AC/DC thunderstruck.

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**Culminator** · 31st July 2018, 09:06

Smoke on the Water - Deep Purple

**K300** · 31st July 2018, 11:09

Money for nothing dire straights end of

Have to agree with that one.

But maybe Bon Jovi - Keep The Faith
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZQyVUTcpM4

Or The Animals - House of the Rising Sun
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0sB3Fjw3Uvc

Here's a couple of others that I'd consider, concidentally both include car engines.
Roxy Music - Love is the Drug
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0n3OepDn5GU
Wham - Club Tropicana
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYX0sjP6Za8

And more:
The Beatles - Back In The USSR
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJ2Pj04z7pc
Abba - Eagle
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDI7x1nwTUw

**doctorj** · 31st July 2018, 12:02

Some really good ones in this thread, but can I add:

Taper Jean Girl by Kings of Leon https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MBgQWq6cfw
How Soon Is Now by Johnny Marr (God I hate Morrissey) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9EjE4qm7b8
Outer Space by the Prodigy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4eav7dFvc8
Slam by Pendulum https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIOQ...&start_radio=1

edit:

Honest Mistake by the Bravery https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8vzbezVru4
Route 66 by Depeche Mode https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLC4TLDlFFo
Something Good by the Utah Saints https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7MC8Lw5e9Q Not too sure this counts as it's all the same but it's all good

**Mj2k** · 31st July 2018, 18:41

Originally Posted by andyb28

Ooh, more good choices here.

I would go with Surfin USM or Bloodsport for all over Sheriff Fatman personally, if we are looking at intros.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BGlAWeNFOE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VN9-NK6Z4SU

Seen them at Brixton a long long time ago and it was epic.

Brilliant, thank you - had forgotten all about Carter. Had a 5.30am leave for the office this morning and had both played far too loudly heading through the country lanes. ESP surfing USM, ah the memories!

Was too young to have seen them live, but looked amazing.

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**eagletower** · 31st July 2018, 18:46

Gimme shelter - The Rolling Stones

**pete-r** · 21st October 2020, 23:07

Cochise by Audioslave, not only for the intro but what a way to open an album!

**Dapper** · 21st October 2020, 23:17

**gavsw20** · 21st October 2020, 23:29

White Room - Cream

**hogthrob** · 22nd October 2020, 00:39

The whole first minute of Deep Purple - Highway Star (1997 Remix). I can't think of a finer example of the whole being greater than the sum of the parts, or a recording that gives a finer impression of a band working in harmony.

**Brighty** · 22nd October 2020, 03:09

First couple of minutes of Slayer Hell Awaits has to be some of the best heavy music ever, but undecided between the somewhat under produced album version or the live one from the decade of aggression album. Then of course there's good old raining blood.
Gimme shelter is a good shout, but for me, I prefer the heavier dirtier version by the Hellacopters

**Chinese_Alan** · 22nd October 2020, 10:11

Originally Posted by noTAGlove

Was discussed at length at the dinner table tonight, and the family’s top 4 we came up with is;

I am the Resurrection

Suedehead

Gimme Shelter

Sweet Child O’ Mine

So that’s that settled then.

Fools Gold intro is better than I am the resurrection IMO.

**Chinese_Alan** · 22nd October 2020, 10:13

I’d go with Arabella - Arctic Monkeys. Only 20 seconds..can that count?

**The Doc** · 22nd October 2020, 13:32

Radiohead - High and Dry

I don't know why, but I think this is perfect. I could play it over and over and it just fizzes in my head. The first 28 seconds until the vocal comes in.
Like art, I don't understand my longing for it. Somewhere in my midbrain the connections appreciate it.

Dakota - Stereophonics

If I was in a rock band, and I wrote one intro, I would happily stop after writing this and hang up my recording studio door pass.
Rest of the song isn't too shabby.

And.......

Mozart’s Serenade No. 10 in B Flat "Gran Partita" (K361) - YES, Mozart. Go and youtube it.
- " On the page it looked nothing. The beginning simple, almost comic. Just a pulse, bassoons and basset horns, like a rusty squeezebox. Then suddenly; high above it, an oboe, a single note, hanging there unwavering, till a clarinet took over and sweetened it into a phrase of such delight! This was no composition by a performing monkey! This was a music I’d never heard. Filled with such longing, such unfulfillable longing. It seemed to me that I was hearing the very voice of God. "

Yes, Mozart. He was there first.

**will128small** · 22nd October 2020, 18:01

Gimme Shelter and She Sells Sanctuary are good intros, but for me, Rasputin by Boney M is the best. Changes direction a few times before the verse kicks in.

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**Matt London** · 22nd October 2020, 19:33

Possibly my favourite ever https://youtu.be/z5rRZdiu1UE

This one is very evocative. To quote Dennis from It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia “Because of the implication.....” https://youtu.be/X_DVS_303kQ In seriousness, how can you ever dissociate this song from ‘That Scene’?

After rewatching The Sopranos during Lockdown:

Moonlight Mile by The Stones https://youtu.be/ugYzDqQtdHU
Thru and Thru by The Stones https://youtu.be/Emj8AGFobvs
Living on a Thin Line by The Kinks https://youtu.be/CsLhNxzwK1Y

**dandanthewatchman** · 22nd October 2020, 20:02

Fools Overture by Supertramp. On the Paris live album

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**Roberto** · 22nd October 2020, 20:29

Dire Straits - Once upon a time in the west - from the Alchemy Live Album

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2gzo...wEBFHUP903goUb

Well, well worth the wait..

**Martylaa** · 22nd October 2020, 20:37

I’ll go with The Arcade Fire and Wake Up...

Best intro for me...

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**Halitosis** · 22nd October 2020, 20:48

Theme From Shaft - Isaac Hayes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q429AOpL_ds

**Saint-Just** · 22nd October 2020, 20:53

Originally Posted by dandanthewatchman

Fools Overture by Supertramp. On the Paris live album

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When I was a student I had a small flat and a very good stereo, with oversized speakers for the size of the 32sqm flat. But the flat was mine, my first property bought with my wages as a freelance journalist and a favourable mortgage.
The same flat, one floor below, was an old boy who made a point of starting his very early shift noisily (4 AM)
One day I came down and asked him to be more considerate , just as I was. I was told to do one in not so many words.
The rest of the week, from 21:30 to 22:00 (France’s night time official start for noise related issues) I turned the speakers face down (it was something like 2x 100w!) and cut the treble, maximised the bass and played fool’s overture over and over.

After a couple of days or three, he came up to apologise, and we signed a peace treaty.

**sweets** · 22nd October 2020, 21:18

Peaches by The Stranglers - Perfect

**zelig** · 22nd October 2020, 22:18

Ministry - Jesus Built My Hotrod (Official Music Video)

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**K9david** · 22nd October 2020, 22:47

I'm suprised that these havent been considered

Edge of Seventeen Stevie Nick's and Thunderstruck by AC/DC.

Both favourites of mine

**Lammylee** · 22nd October 2020, 23:42

https://youtu.be/IXdNnw99-Ic

**dandanthewatchman** · 23rd October 2020, 00:01

Originally Posted by Saint-Just

When I was a student I had a small flat and a very good stereo, with oversized speakers for the size of the 32sqm flat. But the flat was mine, my first property bought with my wages as a freelance journalist and a favourable mortgage.
The same flat, one floor below, was an old boy who made a point of starting his very early shift noisily (4 AM)
One day I came down and asked him to be more considerate , just as I was. I was told to do one in not so many words.
The rest of the week, from 21:30 to 22:00 (France’s night time official start for noise related issues) I turned the speakers face down (it was something like 2x 100w!) and cut the treble, maximised the bass and played fool’s overture over and over.

After a couple of days or three, he came up to apologise, and we signed a peace treaty.

Haha “this is London calling”

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**simoscribbler** · 23rd October 2020, 06:26

For pure, ragged, punk energy the intro - with backward drums - of Another Girl, Another Planet. Just looked up details of the recording and interestingly the finished track is based on the demo, because that kind of magic only happens the once....

**Foxy100** · 23rd October 2020, 06:27

In about 1992, shortly after I'd bought my first CD player (I already had the 39-minute version of Blue Room by the Orb and just needed something to play it on) I was up at the unearthly hour of 8am or so to go to the dentist. I tiptoed out over my three friends who'd stayed the night and been up really late making a load of noise. Came back around 11 and they were all still asleep. I tiptoed back over them to the CD player, put on 'Time' by Pink Floyd and whacked the volume on full as the chimes kick in. I'm sure they all levitated they were off the floor so fast.

Honourable mention to 'Layla', 'You Really Got Me', 'In The Air Tonight' (eventually) and I'm sure loads more I'll think of later.

**Nealywheelie** · 24th October 2020, 09:16

Don't Take Me Alive, Steely Dan.

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**Omegamanic** · 24th October 2020, 10:17

Andreas Johnson - Glorious

https://youtu.be/pzQ82Ny1ToI

**Jega** · 24th October 2020, 12:11

December "63" Frankie Valli and the four seasons.

**Seiko7A38** · 24th October 2020, 14:30

The opening bars of Turn, Turn, Turn by the Byrds. 2 x 12 string guitars ....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcVmBRcZ92o

**xellos99** · 24th October 2020, 14:35

Rolling Stones Gimme Shelter.

**StackH** · 24th October 2020, 14:39

Never Let Me Down Again - Depeche Mode

**Middo** · 24th October 2020, 15:31

Elephants - then crooked vultures.

**pugster** · 24th October 2020, 16:43

has to be my favourite album from the last 10yrs

**rushroon** · 24th October 2020, 18:59

Rush - The Spirit of Radio

Incredible guitar intro!

**RJM25R** · 25th October 2020, 16:04

The Who

Won’t get fooled again

Honourable mention for Gimme Shelter and Sabotage by the Beastie Boys

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