Best Song Intros

[RedStar]

I like making different playlist on my iPhone and I thought I'd get you guys in on the act.

Rules:
1. Intro's must last at least 30 seconds before a lyric has been sung.
2. Genre doesn't matter.
3. Era doesn't matter.
4. Quantity doesn't matter. Could be 10 songs or 1,000.


So far I've got:
Baba O'Riley - The Who (so obvious)
Can't Stop - Red Hot Chili Peppers (probably my favorite intro of all time.)
Hotel California - The Eagles
Heretics - Andrew Bird
Coldplay - Sparks
Eels - Fresh Feeling


Songs that didn't fit the criteria but I wanted them to:
Maps - The Yeah Yeah Yeahs (Intro last 29 seconds!)
Time to Pretend - MGMT (Intro was 18 seconds)


Whatcha got?

 

[Bamaro]

Eddie Van Halen - Eruption (intro to You Really Got Me)

 

[cbi1972]

Songs that didn't fit the criteria but I wanted them to:
Maps - The Yeah Yeah Yeahs (Intro last 29 seconds!)Time to Pretend - MGMT (Intro was 18 seconds)


Whatcha got?

Change criterion to 29 seconds. Problem solved.

Dance Hall Crashers - Othello. The original is >30 sec, but the much better live version with guitar playing the horn part is played faster, and cuts the intro to 26 seconds

Tom Petty - American Girl. Iconic intro "borrowed" by The Strokes for Last Nite. Dance Hall Crashers also do a good live version with a sub-30 sec intro.

Pink Floyd - Money

Pink Floyd - Goodbye Blue Sky ("Look, mummy, there's an airplane up in the sky")

Pink Floyd - Run Like Hell

Mazzy Star - Blue Flower

Reverend Horton Heat - Marijuana ("Marijuana" is the ONLY lyric, and is spoken intermittently as punctuation to an instrumental song)

Rush - The Spirit of Radio

Rush - Red Barchetta

Rush - 2112 Overture (intro overkill)

The Prodigy - Smack My [female dog] Up

The Prodigy - Firestarter

Drive-By Truckers - Zip City

Drive-By Truckers - 18 Wheels of Love (30+ sec of instrumental intro, and possibly the best spoken word intro of all time for the live version on Alabama ...-Whuppin'

Beck - Where It's At

 

[RedStar]

For Martha - The Smashing Pumpkins

 

[rizolltizide]

Rush, Overture into The Temples of Syrinx.

You're welcome.

 

[ValuJet]

Whu? No one's mentioned "Safety Dance?

The intro is not that long, but knowing what's coming just makes it irresistible.

 

[RVTIDER]

Whu? No one's mentioned "Safety Dance?

The intro is not that long, but knowing what's coming just makes it irresistible.

Plus it has a midget in it.

 

[ValuJet]

Plus it has a midget in it.

That is the perfect song video for this board.

 

[RVTIDER]

Our theme song

 

[Rasputin]

I like making different playlist on my iPhone and I thought I'd get you guys in on the act.

Rules:
1. Intro's must last at least 30 seconds before a lyric has been sung.
2. Genre doesn't matter.
3. Era doesn't matter.
4. Quantity doesn't matter. Could be 10 songs or 1,000.


So far I've got:
Baba O'Riley - The Who (so obvious)
Can't Stop - Red Hot Chili Peppers (probably my favorite intro of all time.)
Hotel California - The Eagles
Heretics - Andrew Bird
Coldplay - Sparks
Eels - Fresh Feeling


Songs that didn't fit the criteria but I wanted them to:
Maps - The Yeah Yeah Yeahs (Intro last 29 seconds!)
Time to Pretend - MGMT (Intro was 18 seconds)


Whatcha got?

[video=youtube;BfOdWSiyWoc]http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=BfOdWSiyWoc[/video]

 

[Rasputin]

MGMT-Electric Feel

[video=youtube;MmZexg8sxyk]http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=MmZexg8sxyk[/video][/video]

 

[rizolltizide]

Fascination Street -- The Cure

 

[Rasputin]

Jimi Hendrix-Purple Haze

[video=youtube;iaWmsSqD2Bg]http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=iaWmsSqD2Bg[/video]

 

[Bamaro]

ELP - Fanfare for the Common Man

 

[Rasputin]

Lynyrd Skynyrd-Tuesday's Gone

[video=youtube;QT9_tEzjtIU]http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=QT9_tEzjtIU[/video]

 

[Rasputin]

Led Zeppelin-Stairway to Heaven

[video=youtube;w9TGj2jrJk8]http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=w9TGj2jrJk8[/video]

The calm before the storm :wink:

 

[rizolltizide]

Pigs
Wish You Were Here
Have a Cigar
---Pink Floyd

 

[gmart74]

iron man
enter sandman

 

[ValuJet]

Our theme song

You just like the part where he sings "and act like an imbacile."

 

[Rasputin]

Our theme song

Did you even read the qualifications...:biggrin: