Favourite Song Intro

pavb2

That instrumental first notes of a song, the first notes play it takes mili-seconds for you to recognise the tune. The more I think about it the more I find, there are so many but I'll keep it to three:

Alternative Ulster - SLF

You Know You're Right - Nirvana

Streams of Whiskey - Pogues

The Sopranos theme Woke Up This Morning by Alabama 3, great intro and best tv theme I can think of.

Ger Roe

Teenage Kicks - The Undertones.

Layla - Derek and The Dominos

Lola - The Kinks

I'm a believer - The Monkees

EmmetSpiceland

‘Sultans of Swing’ - Dire Straits

tritriagain

Alternative Ulster - slf
Gimme shelter - rolling stones
Where the streets have no name - u2

SnowyMay

Bat Out Of Hell - Meatloaf

EmmetSpiceland wrote: »

‘Sultans of Swing’ - Dire Straits

That is such a great song!

ThunderCat

The Riverboat Song by Ocean Colour Scene

rednik

You could be mine - Guns N Roses

bmorrissey

Mayonnaise - Smashing Pumpkins

Ironman76

Metallica - For Whom The Bell Tolls

retro:electro

Real Gone Kid by Deacon Blue

Toto Africa

gailforecast

Welcome to the Jungle - GnR
Crazy Train - Ozzy Osbourne
Ain’t talkin about love - Van Halen

El Weirdo

This Must be the Place by Talking Heads.

dennyire

Sunny Afternoon....The Kinks
Wild Thing.....The Troggs

Rodney Bathgate

Glastonbury Song, The Waterboys

Ger Roe

Freebird - Lynyrd Skynyrd

Not only do you know what song it is from the first millisecond, you also know you are in for nine minutes of pure head banging and air guitar playing joy.

Sorry about that

Take the Long Road and Walk it, The Music.

Ipso

EmmetSpiceland wrote: »

‘Sultans of Swing’ - Dire Straits

And Tunnel of Love has one of the greatest outros.

PowerToWait

10:15 Saturday Night, The Cure
Alternative Ulster, SLF
Should I Stay or Should I Go, The Clash
Canary in a Coal Mine, The Police
Where is my Mind, Pixies

Ipso

Ger Roe wrote: »

Freebird - Lynyrd Skynyrd

Not only do you know what song it is from the first millisecond, you also know you are in for nine minutes of pure head banging and air guitar playing joy.

What I was going to say.
Also:
Here Comes the Sun by The Beatles
Waterfall - The Stone Roses
Romeo and Juliet - Dire Straits
Roadhouse Blues - The Doors

RayCon

Love this opening riff ....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RX7iHsAIw9o

Rabbit Redux

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJRdDhnTRoo

Shine on you crazy diamond..


Actually, just listened to it there.. The guitar riff I was thinking of isn't until like 4 minutes in.. ah, Floyd were epic all the same...

pavb2

PowerToWait wrote: »

10:15 Saturday Night, The Cure

Should I Stay or Should I Go, The

Tommy Gun by the Clash is distinctive.

I also like the intro to Straight to Hell by the Clash For a time The Pogues used to come out to it at the beginning of their concerts can’t remember if Joe Strummer was playing with them or Shane Macgowan at the time.

Eduard Khil

Purple Haze rift is pretty sweet

No Surprises Radiohead great intro

Yazoo Only You a memorable one from when I was a kid

Love the intro to Coma White by Marilyn Manson

Dravokivich

Ah, it can be vary easy to put up a list of a wide range of Rock and Blues songs. And it's something that's often been on my mind. But if I ever think of a starting point for a song, that pulls you through the rest of it, it's very hard for me to think of anything other than "Safari Duo - Played a Live."

Anesthetize

The intro to Teen Age Riot by Sonic Youth is iconic at this stage

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10rLJjBLQZ8

Those of you who remember MTV's Jackass will know the intro to this song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOWu4-cTV1I

UrbanSprawl

KungPao

Scentless Apprentice by Nirvana. Right from the start it means business.

Turn it up.

UrbanSprawl

KungPao wrote: »

Scentless Apprentice by Nirvana. Right from the start it means business.

Turn it up.

Its a great song but its soo old to me nirvana dont rate them much butchers who struck lucky

pavb2

Whiskey in the jar - Thin Lizzy

Don’t fear the reaper - Blue Oyster Cult

The Princess Bride

Rainbow, Since You've Been Gone.

U2, Bad.

The Pretenders, Brass In Pocket

So many, I could be here all day.

Anesthetize

UrbanSprawl wrote: »

Speaking of Anathema and spoken-word intros, the intro to this song is magnificent

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmLp_u8_luc

wonderboysam

PsychoPete

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwPg8gJq_Kw

Rothko

California Girls - The Beach Boys

laguacamaya

The Smiths- Girl Afraid

Blondie- Hanging On The Telephone

Money for nothing - Dire Straits

Cuttlefish

Squalor Victoria by The National

The Queen is dead by The Smiths

And

Cold little heart by Michael Kinawanka (spelling may be wrong apologies)

Pretenders - Middle of the road

PurplePrincess

Woman in chains - Tears for Fears

Purple Rain - Prince

Icaras

Cop shoot cop - spiritualised
Looser -beck

Emptur.

Ger Roe wrote: »

I'm a believer - The Monkees

Until supervalu started using it lately

Zaph

Once in a Lifetime - Talking Heads

Little Green Bag - George Baker Selection

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kipjrg5O0A4

Cuttlefish

Gonna have to make a playlist of these songs!!!

Icaras

Cuttlefish wrote: »

Gonna have to make a playlist of these songs!!!

On Spotify and make it public??????

the purple tin

Deep Purple - Lazy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNZPNv0Df9c

Cuttlefish

Icaras wrote: »

On Spotify and make it public??????

Though I have a spotify account (free one) I rarely use it I have most of these songs on my iTune library!

So would compile privately HOWEVER if I were to make it public what you suggesting??

Compiling it in this thread or otherwise?

Cuttlefish

the purple tin wrote: »

Deep Purple - Lazy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNZPNv0Df9c

Am loving this song!!! Thanks

Cuttlefish

Who is?

HBC08

My top 3 have already been mentioned on here
Gimme Shelter - The Stones
Where The Streets Have No Name - U2
This Must Be The Place - Talking Heads

About 20 years ago Dave Fanning asked the same question and asked people to ring in to chat on air,I rang in and gave the above 3 songs to the researcher. She said Dave's favourite intro is Gimme Shelter and would I go on and chat about it,I did go on had a great chat and was buzzing afterwards!