best intro ever

[mitchell]

what is the worlds greatest song intro?

I'm trying to come up with the worlds greatest intro ever with my friends, what do you all think? its hard to come up with, there are thousands of great intros and all for different reasons. We are defining intros as ending when the singing begins, however, there are obviously many songs that start with a vocal - these nominations have to be put forward to the panel for consideration! I've come up with many that might make it into the top 50 but the number one spot is still there.

maybe you could tell me your top ten

get thinking!


ps. i bought the cat power record yesterday, been waiting ages for it, what a wonderful album.

[c. leo]

Gimmie Shelter — Rolling Stones

[Ladt]

Baba o' Riley- The Who.

[bitterfruit]

Recent song intro and not necessarily all time:

GBV - Skills Like This

Sounds like some of Bob's intro vocals are recorded on two separate tracks.

[earl grey]

Joy Division - Love Will Tear Us Apart

Built to Spill - Stop the Show is also great, through probably not an all-time best...

[gygax]

"texas never whispers" by pavement

[dola]

Stop the Show gets my vote!

[johansen smith]

the opening of "Steve Albini Blues" by Songs: Ohia gives me excited chills.

[tinobeat]

but my current favorite is that "Holy Night..." song on the last Deerhoof record.

sick sick guitar sound, so loose...

[maroonwalrus]

Sonic Youth - Teenage Riot

The Stooges - Search and Destroy

[RockAction]

Weezer - My Name Is Jonas

[Strong Bad]

Body Count - Body Count's in the House

[Ladt]

As for songs that start with a vocal- it has to be About You by Teenage Fanclub

[blanca]

First line of Lost Cause.

[Miss Tasty Princess]

Black Sabbath "Children of the Grave"

[Che]

Lee Hazlewood "ugly brown"

[bitterfruit]

Originally posted by Ladt
As for songs that start with a vocal- it has to be About You by Teenage Fanclub

Speaking of Teenage Fanclub, their track on the DGC Rarities compilation about "Getting drunk for free" has a rather dope intro.

[tinobeat]

do you mean the spoken intro or the actual start of the music? If the spoken intro starts, then just about every song from Trouble Is A Lonesome Town and Requiem for an Almost Lady would be strong contenders for this thread.

Cowboy In Sweden's still my fave Hazlewood record though.

Another awesome intro I just heard recently is one of the songs off the new Acid Mothers Temple 7" that a friend of mine has (damn Newbury Comics charging $10.99 for a 7" or I'd own it too) where it starts off with this really simple bass part that sounds almost like a pop song and just as you're getting ready to tap your foot and snap along, they get really fucking SCARY all at once. The bassman holds that groove down through the whole ordeal though, which is pretty impressive considering the shit flying around in that song. but yeah, wonderfully deceptive intro...

[D.A.R.Y.L.]

needs formula to be determined. i havent the time to construct one @ the office, but here are some noteworthy entries...

boys you wont remember > the Wrens
Tour de France > the kraftwerk
Gone in Three > the Am/Fm
Venus > the Television
downey, CA. > the Saint Etienne
being sucked in again > the wire
Riding To Work In The Year 2025 (Your Invisible Now) > the Flips
i really should've gone out last nite > the dirty 3

worst intro of '02:
heavy metal drummer > the wilco

[pabost]

yeah, "heavy metal drummer" is a really sub-par intro.

I love the intro to "The Concept" by Teenage Fanclub.

[Ladt]

Wilco- heavy metal drummer- I liked that intro.

[earl grey]

yeah i need to step up for "heavy metal drummer" as well, though i probably vote for "war on war" as the best intro on that album.

[Ladt]

I think the best intro of that album is my favourite song, ashes of american flags.

[earl grey]

let's not forget some other matador classics:

JSBX - bellbottoms
YLT - blue line swinger
pavement - fillmore jive

[johansen smith]

Originally posted by earl grey

JSBX - bellbottoms


YES!

[johansen smith]

that reminded me, the intro to JSBX's "Skunk" is made of awesome.

[onedeadjet]

Hmm... here's a fiver...

Sebadoh - Ocean

June of 44 - Anisette

the Dismemberment Plan - Spider in the Snow

Fugazi - Blueprint

the Beatles - just about everything

[Paul]

d00d, if you're referencing a Sebadoh song, it's obvious you need to go record shopping...all fast-like!

[juicemaster]

Avril Lavigne - 'Sk8ter Boi'

Ah ha ha. er.

[onedeadjet]

Ocean's a great song (and a better video...)
And just because Lou's been off lately doesn't mean they didn't have their day. Anybody who would cover 'Pink Moon' the way they did way back when has gotta be worthy of sooome old-school props...

[onedeadjet]

Since you picked up some Magic Pacer recently, how about the intro to 'Alien Communication' off of Bobby's 'The White Room?'

[abevigoda]

silence kit

[Paul]

Originally posted by onedeadjet
Since you picked up some Magic Pacer recently, how about the intro to 'Alien Communication' off of Bobby's 'The White Room?'

I'm still waiting for it to arrive in the mail, although I think you're talking about a different album than the one I bought. I remember ages ago hearing a Magic Pacer track on a CMJ sampler and liking it. When I found out it was Bobby from the Warlocks, I decided to go back and check it out further.

[onedeadjet]

Actually, that's precisely the song you liked off the CMJ. But yeah, White Room is the first album. Dig thThis/That came out a couple years later. Still, big gooey synths that make your body vibrate weird. If you want to blend kinda Warlocks-y (minus about six members)rock with 'hey, we got keyboards (minus ones with really cool effects) of the Pacer, follow Hecksher back to the Charles Brown Superstar, ca. Sweet Piece of Ass. It's all over the place, but parts of it are friggin' brilliant.

[onedeadjet]

Poster Kids - 6x6... Rose, the pogo-bass goddess... ahh

[Longsleeve]

Originally posted by abevigoda
silence kit

[Salman]

in 'n' out of grace by mudhoney.

[Noah]

i was just thinking of another song off of CR, CR... cut your hair... where malkmus (at least i think its malkmus, i dont have the cd with me to check) says "stop it..." in low whisper type voice. i guess that qualifies as an intro albeit a very short one. i cant think of any others right now.

[earl grey]

since we're talking pavement, i always thought "grounded" and "in the mouth a desert" had pretty great intros...

[Ladt]

I'm not very good with pavement titles, but what's the one off wowee zowee with the guitar part with the two or three repetitive notes, think SM plays it with his guitar behind his haid on "slow Century". anyway, that song has a cool intro.

[earl grey]

can't remember the slow century bit, but that sounds like "grounded"....

[onedeadjet]

's grounded, innit? That part of the DVD prompted a friend of mine to ask when exactly Malk became a cocky guitar god...

[onedeadjet]

...and on the radio was effin' 'We Got The Beat.' That stupid bass intro is so goddam addictive, bonus 80's props for launching Ridgemont High...

[Alex]

"This Charming Man" - The Smiths

I always get a kick out of how everybody sprints to the dancefloor when this intro hits at a club. "Aaaaaihhh!"

[onedeadjet]

For some reason, I read 'Charmless Man,' and I thought, no way, 'On Your Own' is the best of an admittedly strong crop of Blur intros.

Then I looked again.

Oops.

But the intros to almost anything in Blur's catalog are tasty as hell.

[Ladt]

True- Song 2 and End of the century especially.

[specialguest]

Originally posted by johansen smith
the opening of "Steve Albini Blues" by Songs: Ohia gives me excited chills.


yes, yes: one-hundred percent!



(cold hands on kettle steam is the best thing after this intro. mmhmmm.)

[cradleburns]

Great Deciever & Easy Money- King Crimson

Watcher of the Skies-Genesis

Roundabout-Yes

Lick My Decals-Captain Beefheart

Piss Bottle Man-Mike Watt

Temptation(original recording)-New Order

Sudden Organ-YLT

Full Moon/Blam! & Lets Build a Car-Swell Maps

[onedeadjet]

Faith No More - Epic

the Cure - Harold and Joe

Devo - Gut Feeling

Men Without Hats - the Safety Dance

Kraftwerk (also Big Black) - the Model

Six Finger Satellite - Coke and Mirrors

Not really the original intent of this thread, but the intro to YLT's 'Sugarcube' video...

[Salman]

"Mass Romantic" by the New Pornographers is pretty cool.

[Noah]

's grounded, innit? That part of the DVD prompted a friend of mine to ask when exactly Malk became a cocky guitar god...

actually playin guitar behind ones head is decidedly easy. but yeah i dont know when he became all about the cockiness... sometime around zowee-twilight maybe.


another good into i just heard. "motherless bastard" by the books

intro:

little girl: mommy, daddy? mommy... daddy? mom, dad?

creepy dude: you have no moder or fader...

LG: Yeah, I do!

CD: No, they left, they went somewhere else...

LG: No, they didnt! You know me too!

CD (in an uncomfortable voice): I.. I dont know you.

[sound of embracement between the two]

LG: Dad....

CD: Dont touch me... dont call me that in public.

Well, weird stuff.

[Che]

Another good opening,
Air Liquides "If there was no gravity"
spooky stuff indeed.

[gygax]

Originally posted by onedeadjet
Ocean's a great song (and a better video...)
And just because Lou's been off lately doesn't mean they didn't have their day. Anybody who would cover 'Pink Moon' the way they did way back when has gotta be worthy of sooome old-school props...

*tries to forget about Walt Mink*

[dthomas]

it has to be the spoken intro the 'stone henge'. "fawsands of years ago...."!!!! that is caw blimey guv'nor good!

[t.d.]

Man am I ever a sucker for "Debaser". It is true.

[TheSadDebaser]

:D