Songs With Great Intros

[Louis MacNeice]

I'd go with the brief but telling approach:


Cheers - Louis MacNeice

If you're after loud and stupid than try either Iggy's Pop's live "Sweet Sixteen" off TV Eye (includes an echoing PA annoucing ''ladies and gentlemen Iggy Pop!", followed by the worlds loudest cowbell) or The Dictators "Twin Tub Man" off Go Girl Crazy (OTT volume 11 bragging by Handsome Dick Manitoba followed by some wonderful rock guitar).

 

[purplex]

how soon is now - the smiths

 

[Metal Malcolm]

Blackened - Metallica
Black eye, purple sky - Therapy? (Just that little squeal of feedback, then - BOOM)
Up All Night (Epic rmx) - John B

 

[zenie]

The river - Ocean Colour Scene

 

[atitlan]

Bitter Sweet Symphony - The Verve

 

[big eejit]

Paranoid - Black Sabbath

 

[lyra_k]

For anyone that likes naff folksy prog wank (me), I LOVE this intro, although the song deteriorates pretty quickly.

 

[Yetman]

The river - Ocean Colour Scene

Boat song?

 

[ChrisFilter]

Jane's Addiction - Just Because

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

pixes - debaser

 

[atitlan]

OMD: Enola Gay

OMD are pretty good for intros - how about Joan of Arc (Maid of Orleans) or Genetic Engineering

 

[MightyAphrodite]

Sonic Youth - Bull in the Heather

 

[Biffo]

She Sells Sanctuary - Cult
Killing Moon - Bunnymen
Transmission - Joy Divison
Born Slippy - Underworld
Suspect Device - SLF
Everyday Is Like Sunday - Morrissey
Public Image -PIL
Sympathy For The Devil - Rolling Stones
Gay Bar - Electric Six
Made of Stone - Stone Roses
On The Ropes - Wonder Stuff
Smells Like Teen Spirt & Come As You Are - Nirvana
Northern Lites - SFA

 

[sojourner]

Smoke on the Water

everyone and their dog knows and loves it - it's global, man

 

[MightyAphrodite]

thin lizzy - whiskey in the jar is pretty great too

 

[MightyAphrodite]

Ram Jam - Black Betty too!!!

theres fuckin loads!!!

 

[sojourner]

Ram Jam - Black Betty too!!!

theres fuckin loads!!!

I have a little moment to do with Pieeye about that song. Put it this way, for the fiance of urban's walking musical encyclopedia, she shamed herself

 

[MightyAphrodite]

I have a little moment to do with Pieeye about that song. Put it this way, for the fiance of urban's walking musical encyclopedia, she shamed herself

go on


oh i just thought of one i love....

i love the intro to gypsy by fleetwood mac

 

[bhamgeezer]

The Fall Of Troy - F.C.P.R.E.M.I.X



best intro mediocre song

 

[top_biller]

Adam F - Brand New Funk



Tearing. The drops not bad either.

 

[sojourner]

go on

ah fuck it, she won't see this

when we were dancing like twats to it, at the Welsh PROD, she shouted in my ear 'this is led zep innit?' - and I looked at her with a deeply scornful (and quite frankly, shocked) look on my face, and shouted back 'NOOO - IT'S RAM JAM '

 

[matt m]

Prime Mover by Zodiac Mindwarp And The Love Reaction

 

[rikwakefield]

Smoke on the Water

everyone and their dog knows and loves it - it's global, man

I can't read the title of that song without singing it in my head.

Smoooooooke on the waaaaaaater

 

[MightyAphrodite]

ah fuck it, she won't see this

when we were dancing like twats to it, at the Welsh PROD, she shouted in my ear 'this is led zep innit?' - and I looked at her with a deeply scornful (and quite frankly, shocked) look on my face, and shouted back 'NOOO - IT'S RAM JAM '

excellllllllent

 

[sojourner]

I can't read the title of that song without singing it in my head.

Smoooooooke on the waaaaaaater

i went to Montreux once, on a business trip...went down to the water, and couldn't hear owt else in my head but that Had a big daft grin on my face for hours

 

[paolo]

No1 Song in Heaven-Sparks

ooh yeah. Almost in two halves. First half is just intro. Second half is main song, with it's own separate intro.

 

[the button]

Big Black -- Cables
The Pixies -- Bone machine
Husker Du -- Celebrated summer

 

[atitlan]

Stevie Wonder - Superstition

 

[david dissadent]

Radiohead No Suprises

 

[Detroit City]

Which song's intros really stand out to you as being great?

The Floyd - "Have A Cigar" (Waters, 5:08)