Best Intro in Music History

[ruffers]

Guns and Roses - Sweet Child Of Mine

[Townleygreen]

I feel fine, Beatles, that feedback....

[Otta]

Perhaps the Squeeze one is Up the junction?

Sweet Child O Mine, for classic guitar riff.

Jenny was a friend of mine - Killers, is a fantastic opening to an album, powerful and intense.

[Dee Woffaz]

Radar Love - Golden Earing. Reaching for my air guitar just thinking about it.

[pablogrande]

Revolution - Beatles

The theme from grange hill

[siousxiesue]

She sells Sanctuary-the Cult

White Wedding-Billy Idol

[granadaland]

bob dylan - desire

pink floyd - dark side

the doors - LA Woman

They were the 3 from my old mans collection that turned me from pop to discovery at the age of 13.

though i guess they were pop in their time.

[maxxi]

Two obvious ones that are missing:

1. Whole Lotta Love - Led Zep (Perhaps the best known rock intro of all for anyone of the TOTP generation)

2. Smoke On The Water - Deep Purple (Particularly when the bass riff kicks in)

ETA : propper spwe3lling

[red devil]

''Is she really going out with him?''

 

[Otta]

A classic 80s one would be Jump by Van Halen.

[Salsaboy]

Most recognizable is Dancing Queen by Abba. A floor filler every time.

[flapjackdavey]

Townleygreen Wrote:

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> I feel fine, Beatles, that feedback....

that was the first one that came to my mind :))

[steveb]

The Who

Won't get fooled again

[flapjackdavey]

susanana's still alive - the kinks

[HonaloochieB]

All The Young Dudes - Mott The Hoople - perfect build up to a class vocal - the coda's not too shabby neither.

Sweet Jane - The Velvet Underground - the guitar fiddling then the loping crunch of the opening chords - Mott The Hoople's version's not too shabby neither.

Layla - Derek & The Domonos - 39 notes takes you into a heart rending vocal, someone mentioned Bell Bottomed Blues earlier, that was the B-side of the single and was utterly perfect.

Once Bitten Twice Shy - Ian Hunter - the single opened with a wide-mouthed 'Allo' followed by a lazy Chuck Berryish guitar intro - then there's the introduction to the song by Hunter, the guitar riff soothing you along - then - drum roll - THEN - Mick Ronson smashes in with that thing he used to do with his guitar and it takes off and up and it don't stop until it ain't got nowhere else to go. Casual genius.

[LadyTaTa]

But the lyrics to Papa Was a Rolling Stone... surely the best intro lyrics ever.

[Jah Lush]

Keith Richards is the absolute king of the intro. Check for the Rolling Stones' Jumping Jack Flash the way the opening chords draw you into the song straight away. Pure genius. Then there's Brown Sugar, Get Off My Cloud, Can't You Hear Me Knocking, Bitch, Satisfaction etc etc. I could list more but we'd be here all day.

[Otta]

Funnily enough, I was going to mention Brown Sugar.

[SimonM]

....and The Last Time

and The Who's Substitute

and Percy Sledge's "When A Man Loves a Woman"

[HonaloochieB]

The snare drum smack at the beginning of Like A Rolling Stone. Diggity.

[mockney piers]

the little arabesque canoodle followed by bass line intro and a quarter turn of a football rattle(?) on Killing an Arab, marvellous.

[Otta]

Nice energetic one from my youth.

Very good album opener.

And another good drum intro would be Mr Brownstone by GNR.

[mockney piers]

'let it happen base player', Time Flies By - Half Man Half Biscuit.

[Jah Lush]

"1-2-3-4" - The Ramones.

[jaybee82]

'L'estaci dell'oro' or 'The theme to The Good, The Bad and The Ugly' by Ennio Morricone. Just what I need to face a day at work.