Best Intros

[andy-xr]

Killing Joke, Pandemonium - the differences in volume gets me every time!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LL_U5GSUBpw

Always liked the intro to Just Looking by The Stereophonics
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6_40dGcmYQ

Motorcycle Emptiness
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gavcjNniIvk

And strangely, Chris Isaak, Wicked Game. Starting off on a bent note was a cool idea

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAOxCqSxRD0

[ArsE92]

QOTSA - Song For The Dead

Also one of the best Outro's!

47 days to go!

[TheDoggingFather]

ArsE92 said:

QOTSA - Song For The Dead

Also one of the best Outro's!

47 days to go!

If you start going on about Download here as well, I'm gonna kick your ass boi!

[ArsE92]

TheDoggingFather said:

ArsE92 said:

QOTSA - Song For The Dead

Also one of the best Outro's!

47 days to go!

If you start going on about Download here as well, I'm gonna kick your ass boi!

Sorry, I won't mention it again.

I better crack on with downloading these files.

[dinkel]

elbandito1980 said:

Gimme Shelter - Rolling Stones

Saw 'Departed' yesterday . . . where GM is used twice. Epic song and my Stones favourite.

[dinkel]

prelude4ws said:

So many to choose from, (...) But my favorite has to be:

ZZ Top "La Grange"

Oh yes. Not much to beat when a tasty guitar riff is used. ZZ Top = masters of boogie.

[Rouleur]

Hendrix - Crosstown Traffic http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lP2xcjtgcIc

The Kinks - You Really Got Me http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dk3Ei_yoI4c

Have we had Love Will Tear Us Apart? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHYOXyy1ToI

How could we forget Teenage Kicks <slaps forehead> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVrP6JaPUv0

Buzzcocks - Ever Fallen In Love http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPG6Ak5FASk

Jump! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlq0lYB3iSM

[onomatopoeia]

Time - Pink Floyd http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkTmPN50u80
As far as I'm concerned, they could have developed the intro for the remaining five minutes and omitted the song part entirely...

If you tolerate this, then your children will be next - Manic street preachers http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cX8szNPgrEs

Locomotive breath - Jethro Tull http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KR2H16Mr5g

Maid of Orleans - OMD http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmwMhjbThKg

and despite the fact it's only about three bars, Jerusalem by Charles Hubert Hastings Parry. No need for a yt link, I'm sure all PHers know it already.

[AlleyCat]

I've always loved the intro to Blink 182 - Always

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvtJVku_mJw

[Crackie]

We have a new contender

Lannoy Point - Ride https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wf2_GwDcGas

[anonymous-user]

1, 2, 3, Turn It Up

[teecee]

Fond memories of Joe https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmwgGyfA7jU

[Roofless Toothless]

The first intros I thought of all seem about a lifetime before most of the ones suggested on this thread. Part of the problem of reaching my advanced age, I suppose. But here are three.

Not the best, as such, not even much of a favourite, but for me the most celebrated introduction must be the single snare drum stroke that begins Bob Dylan's Like A Rolling Stone. Instantly recognisable.

The greatest, and if it has been mentioned above apologies, has to be Chuck Berry's trademark guitar riff that opens so many of his songs. Johnny B Goode and Roll Over Beethoven would be good examples.

But my favourite. Well this is always a personal choice but The Beach Boys, God Only Knows is mine. The whole track is a marvel. There is hardly an instrument on it that is immediately recognisable, it is a totally imagined soundscape, counterpointing a beautiful song immaculately sung.

[Vocal Minority]

Go All the Way by the Raspberries

Fantastic intro tacked on to the start of a really very disappointing and anonymous warbly first couple of verses.

[suthol]

Can't believe Rory Gallagher hasn't been given a gurnsey for this little gem from the Irish Tour

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Z_drl3luuE

[toon10]

Good thread with some good choices so far.

Ones that came to mind...

Then by The Charlatans
Love Spreads by The Stone Roses
Unfinished Sympathy by Massive Attack (someone got this one in before me)
Fade to Grey by Visage
Tainted Love by Soft Cell.

[Fastchas]

Blur - Girls & Boys
The Smiths - The Queen Is Dead
AC/DC - Thunderstruck

[TheChampers]

These two tracks (and the intros) from the Mission's latest album Another Fall From Grace have been entertaining me greatly lately.

After a longish gap, Wayne Hussey resurrected his 12 string guitar, and so we have the return of the jangles

Met Amor Phoses (if you get past the intro there's a Bowie tribute "there's a new black star in the heaven's tonight".

https://youtu.be/f3LVWnHhzNA

The title track

https://youtu.be/C7uIH_aOfe4

[mike80]

Slayer - Hell Awaits https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0O6IqJAsW0g (live version)
Slayer - South of Heaven https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtLvlaGJJEU

[interloper]

My favourite intros are all a bit predictable old school rock....

Black Sabbath's Black Sabbath, a near perfect intro for the band, rain thunder church bells then those three sinister notes.

Deep purples Speed king...... A really storming jam with guitar, Hammond and drums, that lead into a slightly disappointing song!

Got to agree on Floyd's shine on, a truly great slow build, real atmosphere. Great song too.