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Best intro in music... (1 Viewer)

another great one since you all want to know is the beginning of rock and roll aint noise polution by acdc look that is a little out of the old swc wheelhouse but if that baby is on its windows down crank it up and watch the neighbors say why is swc driving his escort around in december with the windows down and shouting about polution but you know what its all good bromigos its all really good take that to the bank

 
Too many to mention them all, but some notables that may not have been mentioned so far:

Dream Theater - The Mirror
Rush - 2112
Muse - Knights of Cydonia
Genesis - Firth of Fifth
Van Halen - I'll Wait
Porcupine Tree - Buying New Soul
Tears for Fears - Everybody Wants to Rule the World
The Doobie Brothers - Long Train Runnin'
Prince - When Doves Cry
 

 
Ghost Rider said:
Let me guess: you hate any song over 3 minutes, right? 
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No, i'm a prog/jazz/classical guy so that aint the case, but i am one for full integration of material into the body of the song. As long as soloing builds something, bridges to something or, as in jazz, extends the premise i'm down but i've never been much for axenoodling since i was 15.

All hair metal is either a call to the 15yo in everyone or some Pavlovian jizzbubble of enthusiasm and extended bleedleedles are part of that, but i was already grown up when hair metal came along and dont like it any more than i do Back to the Future or Karate Kid.

 
Uruk-Hai said:
"A Hard Day's Night" has to be up there for being both efficient and iconic, no?

Also, this one 
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George F with a G on the top and bottom on his 12 string

Paul D on the bass

John Dsus4

 
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fightingillini said:
Great song and it is a nice intro, but a better choice from Tears for Fears is "The Working Hour".  Incredible 2 minute intro.
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Yep, that is a great one as well. :yes:  

fightingillini said:
YYZ and 2112 have great intros, but for Rush songs, I love the opening for Jacob's Ladder.
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Too many great Rush intros to list them all, but as someone who has Jacob's Ladder in his personal Rush top 5, I like your post.  :thumbup:   :thumbup:

 
Going to go 180 on this one, and toss out my least favorite intro to a song I really liked.

Now I'm going to tell you young millennials a story about the creation of what you would now call 'playlists that us oldies had to go thru back in the day. We had to 'tape' the song onto a cassette tape from one of several sources, a record, another tape, or if you were cool enough, a Compact Disc (CD for you youngin's) or even THE RADIO!. So if you were making a 'mix-tape' you had to start the song from one source and then start the mix-tape to receive the song. (For those of us who did this, there were tons of various swear-words screamed if the songs didn't just line-up perfectly.) Math was a huge thing, because you needed to figure out how long the songs were and sort them to fit properly on the tape (This was before everyone had nice calculators that could calculate values in time).

The song is question is from a hard rock trio from the Great White North, no not THAT group :excited: , that had several great albums in the early 80s. Triumph. They had two guys that could sing, and a great guitarist. One song that I liked was from the second side of their album Allied Forces, Ordinary Man. I love the song except for the operatic opening. So what you did in that case was start the tape after the opening and Ta-Da! song is as how you liked it!

 
Mr. Ected said:
Going to go 180 on this one, and toss out my least favorite intro to a song I really liked.

Now I'm going to tell you young millennials a story about the creation of what you would now call 'playlists that us oldies had to go thru back in the day. We had to 'tape' the song onto a cassette tape from one of several sources, a record, another tape, or if you were cool enough, a Compact Disc (CD for you youngin's) or even THE RADIO!. So if you were making a 'mix-tape' you had to start the song from one source and then start the mix-tape to receive the song. (For those of us who did this, there were tons of various swear-words screamed if the songs didn't just line-up perfectly.) Math was a huge thing, because you needed to figure out how long the songs were and sort them to fit properly on the tape (This was before everyone had nice calculators that could calculate values in time).

The song is question is from a hard rock trio from the Great White North, no not THAT group :excited: , that had several great albums in the early 80s. Triumph. They had two guys that could sing, and a great guitarist. One song that I liked was from the second side of their album Allied Forces, Ordinary Man. I love the song except for the operatic opening. So what you did in that case was start the tape after the opening and Ta-Da! song is as how you liked it!
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I also used to chop beginnings or endings to create what I considered a better song. Like you said, trick was to mesh it well with the other songs on the mix tape.

 
Mr. Ected said:
Going to go 180 on this one, and toss out my least favorite intro to a song I really liked.

Now I'm going to tell you young millennials a story about the creation of what you would now call 'playlists that us oldies had to go thru back in the day. We had to 'tape' the song onto a cassette tape from one of several sources, a record, another tape, or if you were cool enough, a Compact Disc (CD for you youngin's) or even THE RADIO!. So if you were making a 'mix-tape' you had to start the song from one source and then start the mix-tape to receive the song. (For those of us who did this, there were tons of various swear-words screamed if the songs didn't just line-up perfectly.) Math was a huge thing, because you needed to figure out how long the songs were and sort them to fit properly on the tape (This was before everyone had nice calculators that could calculate values in time).

The song is question is from a hard rock trio from the Great White North, no not THAT group :excited: , that had several great albums in the early 80s. Triumph. They had two guys that could sing, and a great guitarist. One song that I liked was from the second side of their album Allied Forces, Ordinary Man. I love the song except for the operatic opening. So what you did in that case was start the tape after the opening and Ta-Da! song is as how you liked it!
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Ha, I have a buddy who did the same thing with Ordinary Man back in the day, but he has come around to liking that intro. 

For me, Ordinary Man has long been my favorite song by Triumph, one of the great underrated rock bands of the late 70s/early 80s. 

 
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