What's the best intro to a song?

[Funky_Gibbon 42]

Not as well known as many of the others here but this is my favourite.

[Neutral body 10]

Sweet child o' mine-Guns'n'Roses

 

Completely agree. Now that somebody has come up with it the thread can be closed as there is no better.

[Cols 10]

Stay With Me - The Faces

[JenC 10]

I've always loved the intro to Cygnet Committe by Bowie - the bass is great. Also by Bowie, that dramatic and beautiful piano at the beginning of Lady Grinning Soul (and throughout actually - what a sultry song).

 

Sabbath's Black Sabbath.

 

I Feel Fine, The Inner Light and Sun King (love the under water sounding guitar) by The Beatles.

 

There are tonnes more but those were the first ones that came to mind.

[Solomon1 10]

axel f

 

[horribleblob 212]

Stay With Me - The Faces

 

To quote Churchill... "Oh yes!"

 

I'd also propose these contenders:

"Water down the drain" - Jeff Beck Group, and

"Thunderbuck ram" - Mott the Hoople

[HeadingNorth 11]

In the Flesh - Pink Floyd. But only the first time you play it.

 

 

"I can barely hear it, turn it up. No, turn it up higher, that's really, really faint. It's just a quiet little whistling tune..."

 

BOOM

 

I nearly blew out my apartment window the first time I played that record.

[leviathan13 348]

Just a few off the top of my head by a few artists:

 

AC/DC:

Thunderstruck

Highway To Hell

Whole Lotta Rosie

Back In Black

 

 

Metallica:

Battery

Blackened

One

Holier Than Thou

 

Led Zep:

Rock N Roll

Battle Of Evermore

What Is And What Should Never Be

Immigrant Song

 

 

To name but a few for now. I like the balance between high impact, all out aggression of some and the brooding slow-build of others.

[Bloomdido 10]

Led Zep:

Rock N Roll

Battle Of Evermore

What Is And What Should Never Be

Immigrant Song

 

Mmmm. Took me a long, long time to nail the intro to Rock and Roll. I actually prefer the outros to Zep songs. What Is And What Should Never Be, where the guitar bounces across to each speaker, Galows Pole where Plant starts singing allsorts of nursery rhyme rubbish and Whole Lotta Love where they start shifting the emphasis in the riff.

 

I like the intro to Good times Bad Times and the drum intro on When the Levee Breaks is just perfect.

[lobster 54]

faith healer -----the sensational alex harvey band

[hurstyowl 10]

man with a hex is a good intro, the rest of the song isnt to good though check it out.

[mort 10]

Floyd - Wish you were here

Shine on you Crazy Diamond.

Zep - Dazed and Confused

When the Levee Breaks