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Old 21-03-2003, 9:03 PM   #1
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With the imminent release of Dark Side Of The Moon,I was wondering what is your favourite intro of all time.
For me it has to be Time from above album
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Old 21-03-2003, 9:13 PM   #2
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Van Halen - '1984' (stunning use of keyboards on a rock album of that time - sounds immense even today)

Kiss - 'Alive II' - the spoken word intro and sounds of the pyro going off still sends shivers down my spine.
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Intro to a song, or intro to an album?

Song - "Love Spreads" by the Stone Roses. Quality bit of John Squire / Les Paul action.

Album - quite like the way the Stereophonics "Just Enough Education" album starts with the gospel singers humming quietly, so you turn it up to hear them, and then in come the guitars on "Las Vegas 2times" leading to broken windows for miles around...
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Old 21-03-2003, 9:47 PM   #4
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Call Of Ktulu - Metallica

It starts off with acoustic guitar accompanied by 'wind' noises then erupts into what can only be described as Heavy Metal thunder
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accompanied by 'wind' noises then erupts into what can only be described as Heavy Metal thunder
That also describes me waking up every morning
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I like too many intros to pick out just one, but a few good ones are

The Who-Wont get fooled again
David Bowie-Ziggy Stardust
Metallica-one

Thats just off the top of my head, but theres loads

Blur -Song2
Nirvana-smells like teen spirit
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Old 21-03-2003, 11:29 PM   #7
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For an introduction to an album, Tool- Lateralus
and for a song, Incubus- Clean
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Old 22-03-2003, 10:32 PM   #8
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Loved Money for Nothing Intro. Not sure if I still would now though but at the time and for a good few years after.
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Layla: Derrick and the Dominoes
Baker Street: Gerry Rafferty
One of These Nights: Eagles
Papa Was a Rolling Stone: Temptations

Shortens but good ones.

Backstabbers: O’Jays
I Heard It Through The Grapevine: Marvin Gaye
You’re So Vain: Carly Simon



letitbleed I have often thought for a the sheer hell of it when it has gone dark, opening the window taking a speaker over to it turning the volume up and playing the opening to Time then shutting the curtains before anyone knows it was me.
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Old 23-03-2003, 8:31 PM   #10
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Top two have to be

Summer of 69 - Bryan Adams

Sweet Child O' Mine - G'n'R

Loads of others but those two always have me reaching for the volume button
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The soaring organ intro that The Meters used for their cover of STORMY knocks me back every time I hear it.
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best album intros and interludes (rather than an actual part of a song) are on White Zombie's El Sexorcisto: Devil Music Vol 1.

creepy horror film dialogue snippets from David Warner (great voice), explosions and bats. sets a great mood for the rest of the album.
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in no particular order:

fast as a shark accept
revolution calling queensryche
breathe prodigy
hot for teacher van halen
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Oh without a doubt

Hina - Dave Lee Roth. Top geeetarr from Mr Steve Via.

On the other hand i'm a bit partial to

Love Removal machine - The Cult.

I was dead set on DLR when i first started typing but so many have now filled my head I can't think straight. Must be the limited brain capacity
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A couple of my favourites,

Song remains the same - Led Zep. Not so sure about the rest of the song

Desperate People - Living Colour
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Superstition by Stevie Wonder
Voodoo Chile (slight return) by Jimi Hendrix
Sweet Emotion by Aerosmith
Thunderstruck by AC/DC
...oh so many!!
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Highway Star - Deep Purple
Knocking at your Backdoor - Deep Purple
You Fool No One (live - MIE) - Deep Purple

(Could name a dozen other Purple tracks - Child In Time, Smoke on the Water, etc... !)

Enter Sandman - Metallica
Born To Be Wild - SteppenWolf

Wishing (If I had a photograph of you) - Flock of Seagulls
Rio - Duran Duran
Girls on Film - Duran Duran

I'll second the vote for AC/DC Thunderstruck
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Superstition by Stevie Wonder
How did I miss that one? That was one of the best funky tracks ever, was one of the records that would get me up and down on the dance floor. The album that it was from (Talking Book) was probably Steve’s best also. I think around that time Motown were bringing some excellent stuff out, Marvin Gaye’s album What’s Going On, Temptations album All Directions etc and not forgetting Jr Walkers single Walk In The Night.
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Sepultura - Ratamahatta (great tribal style drumming)
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Old 25-03-2003, 4:55 PM   #20
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Blur - Song 2
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Oh, got another....

"Where the Streets Have No Name" - U2

Especially any live version, where the crowd roars when the drums really kick in! Hairs standing up on the back of neck time!!
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Old 26-03-2003, 4:46 PM   #22
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Can't Stop but the Red Hot Chili Peppers great intro to a good song.
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Just a few:

'Jaworski' by Will Haven
'Waffle' by Sevendust
'Mandan' by Raging Speedhorn
'Freedom' by Rage Against The Machine
'1845' by One Minute Silence... it's just a 25 second warning of what's coming, till that kick drum, and the loudest song in existence knocks itself up 5 gears at once.
'Hyper Music' and 'Plug In Baby' both by Muse
'Disposable Heroes' by Metallica
'No Cigar' By Millencolin
'Feuer Frei' by Rammstein (Also the intro to xXx)
Agree with Gambit about 'Clean' by Incubus
'Brain Stew' by Greenday is a whole song intro for 'Jaded'. These songs should be played together to awesome effect. Pre-crap class.
'Shiver' by Coldplay
'Machine Head' by Bush
'My Last Serenade' by Killswitch Engage (It's another crappy boyband pop son.... AAAAAAGHHHH NO IT F'INg AIN'T!)
Plus almost every Slayer song in existence.

But my fave, and the fave of many everywhere:
'Davidian' by Machine Head, an intro to a song, a debut album and a career. You have to hear it . ROAR!
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How could i forget Milencolin- No Cigar is an ace track.

Travel by telephone and Used for Glue by Rival Schools both rock introwise
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Pointon quotes - One Minute Silence - 1845
I forgot about One Minute Silence - they seem to specialise in intros on the "Buy Now Saved Later" album
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Just thought of another one
The Prodigy - Climbatize
This does it for me also - especially when the bass line thunders in at just over 1 and a half minutes into the track
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"futureworld" by helloween from the "live in the UK" albumn

turn it up to "11" and just kick back

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Incubus- Clean
Yes!

Trying not to name more than one per artist...

Cypress Hill - Jump Around
RATM - Bombtrack
Kool & The Gang - Jungle Boogie
Stevie Wonder - I Wish
Lenny Kravitz - Are You Gonna Go My Way
Chili Peppers - Funky Monks
A - If It Ain't Broke Fix It Anyway
2Pac/Bruce Hornsby - Changes/That's Just the Way It Is
Beach Boys - Get Around
Jamiroquai - Travelling Without Moving
Grease - Theme from Grease
Lost Prophets - Shinobi vs. Dragon Ninja
Chemical Brothers - Let Forever Be
Chic - Everybody Dance
Rammstein - Du Hast
Michael Jackson - Billie Jean
Foo Fighters - Have It All
The Verve - Bittersweet Symphony
Herbie Hancock - Chameleon
George Clinton & Parliament Funkadelic - We Want The Funk
Hoobastank - Give It Back (my god what an intro)
Ian Dury & The Blockheads - Reasons To Be Cheerful (Pt III)
Jackson 5 - I Want You Back
Jaco Pastorius/Sam and Dave - Come On, Come Over
James Brown - Sex Machine
Reef - Place Your Hands
Lauryn Hill - Doo Wop (That Thing)
Lynard Skynard - Sweet Home Alabama
The Eagles - Hotel California
Madness - It Must Be Love
Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody
Nirvana - Lithium
Oasis - Live Forever
Ocean Colour Scene - The Day We Caught The Train
Otis Redding - Hard to Handle
The Temptations - My Girl
Paul Simon - 50 Ways To Leave Your Lover
Prodigy - Smack My Bitch Up
Robbie Williams - The Road To Mandalay
Seal - Kiss From A Rose
Sly & The Family Stone - If You Want Me To Stay
Jimmi Hendrix - Purple Haze
Soundgarden - My Wave
Steppenwolf - Magic Carpet Ride
Stiltskin - Inside
System Of A Down - Chop Suey
The Beatles - Come Together
The Brand New Heavies - It's Getting Hectic
The J.B's - More Peas
The Jacksons - Blame It On The Boogie
The Meters - Just Kissed My Baby
The Police - Message In Bottle
Punjabi MC - Mundian To Bach Ke
Tower Of Power - Maybe It'll Rub Off
CJ Lewis - Sweets For My Sweets
Trammps - Disco Inferno
Stovell Sisters - Hang On In There
Mission Impossible - Theme
Weezer - Island In The Sun
Wild Cherry - Play That Funky Music
Wiseguys - Re-Introduction

Hehe... good excuse to listen to some toons.

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Iron Maiden - Brave new world
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