Best Intros

[spyder dryver]

Steve Gadd doing what Steve Gadd does...

Fifty Ways To Leave Your Lover.

[Moonhawk]

The Raspberries - Go all the way.

[shaunsmith]

Solsbury Hill - Peter Gabriel

[K12beano]

All wrong!

Obviously it's The Intro And The Outro by Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band!!!

[anonymous-user]

The flugelhorn at the start of Springsteen's Meeting Across The River.

[Spanglepants]

20h Century Boy - T Rex
Rose Garden - Lynn Anderson
Buddy Holly - Rave On

[silverfoxcc]

Baker Street....... GerryRafferty

All right Now ....Free and i still cant get that drumming right on the biscuit tins!!! after all these years

[Pickled]

Jeff Beck - Gets us all in the end

Van Halen - Hot for teacher, Eruption

Yes - Owner of a lonely heart

Another vote for Gimme shelter, lots of the earlier Stones stuff have great intros

ACDC - Whole lotta Rosie

Sweet - Ballroom Blitz

Eminem - Lose yourself

Blur - Song 2

White Stripes - Seven nation army

[mp3manager]

Propaganda - Duel (BitterSuite Mix)

All 2 minutes and 1 second of it.

https://youtu.be/CAix55PbNrk

[don logan]

Weirdo - Charlatans

Fortunate Son - Creedence

Peaches - The Stranglers

Richard the 3rd - Supergrass

Gimme Some Lovin - Spencer Davis Grp

Connection - Elastica

Phantom Of The Opera - Iron Maiden

[Eddie Strohacker]

don logan said:

Weirdo - Charlatans

Fortunate Son - Creedence

Peaches - The Stranglers

Richard the 3rd - Supergrass

Gimme Some Lovin - Spencer Davis Grp

Connection - Elastica

Phantom Of The Opera - Iron Maiden

The Elastica one is a sample of Stockhausen. It's at 5:38 on this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1Psx24n3rM

And the main riff is a rip off of a 1977 Wire tune.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75-0qIgZjXs

[don logan]

Eddie Strohacker said:

don logan said:

Weirdo - Charlatans

Fortunate Son - Creedence

Peaches - The Stranglers

Richard the 3rd - Supergrass

Gimme Some Lovin - Spencer Davis Grp

Connection - Elastica

Phantom Of The Opera - Iron Maiden

The Elastica one is a sample of Stockhausen. It's at 5:38 on this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1Psx24n3rM

And the main riff is a rip off of a 1977 Wire tune.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75-0qIgZjXs

Good one!

I hope that isn't something EVERYONE knows, I didn't!

[Eddie Strohacker]

I knew about Wire, someone much more cultured than I am pointed out the Stockhausen bit!

[brickwall]

The Who - Pinball wizard (as has been mentioned before)

Fleetwood Mac - Sara

Queen - One Vision

And for the highbrows amongst you:
Brahms - Ein Deutsches Requiem mvt 2
Parry - I Was Glad
Elgar - Prelude to Dream of Gerontius (the whole piece is just magical; but the prelude is a masterpiece, dropping little snippets of all the tunes you'll hear in over the next hour)

[droopsnoot]

Eddie Strohacker said:

I knew about Wire, someone much more cultured than I am pointed out the Stockhausen bit!

And their hit "Waking Up" has a melody line very similar to "No More Heroes", which itself has a cracking intro, especially in recent live shows. Sticking with The Stranglers and good intros, I'd probably nominate "Toiler on the Sea" and "Midnight Summer Dream", though there are many.

[Salamura]

Genesis - Firth of Fifth

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SD5engyVXe0

This is perfection!

[K12beano]

Salamura said:

Genesis - Firth of Fifth

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SD5engyVXe0

This is perfection!

Good call

Up there with Ray Manzarek on Light My Fire and Rick Wakeman on Awaken.....

[gareth_r]

I Heard It Through The Grapevine... the riff, the drums, the horns, then Marvin Gaye's voice hitting that note.

I don't know how many times I've heard it over the last (nearly) 50 years, but it still gives me goosebumps.

[siovey]

Sacred Worlds by Blind Guardian

A simply epic opening!

[jbudgie]

K12beano said:

All wrong!

Obviously it's The Intro And The Outro by Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band!!!

A classic, got it on a 45.