What's the most exciting intro evah?

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I luv River Deep Mountain High and Transmission

― Paul Evans, Friday, 12 September 2003 12:11 (twenty-two years ago)

"I Wanna Be Adored" does it for me.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Friday, 12 September 2003 12:23 (twenty-two years ago)

Public Enemy - Rebel Without a Pause
Wu-Tang Clan - Wu-Tang Clan Ain't Nuttin T'F*** Wit
Emperor - I am the Black Wizards

― M Carty (mj_c), Friday, 12 September 2003 12:24 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh, and Slayer - Raining Blood

― M Carty (mj_c), Friday, 12 September 2003 12:26 (twenty-two years ago)

"Gimme Shelter"
"Teenage Riot"

― southern lights (southern lights), Friday, 12 September 2003 12:30 (twenty-two years ago)

"La Femme D'Argent"

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Friday, 12 September 2003 12:31 (twenty-two years ago)

Gza "Shadowboxing"
Outkast "Bombs Over Baghdad"
Fishbone "Party at Ground Zero"

(x-post Mr. Snrub wins)

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 12 September 2003 12:32 (twenty-two years ago)

"Over the Neptune/Mesh Gear Fox" - GBV! GBV! GBV!

― BrianB, Friday, 12 September 2003 12:35 (twenty-two years ago)

Subtle intros that fill me with excitement -- "Hell's Bells" by AC/DC and "Crazy Train" by Ozzy.

― Jeanne Fury (Jeanne Fury), Friday, 12 September 2003 12:37 (twenty-two years ago)

'I Fought The Law'

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 12 September 2003 12:39 (twenty-two years ago)

"Schizophrenia"

― willem (willem), Friday, 12 September 2003 12:43 (twenty-two years ago)

Breaking the Law by the PRIEST

― M Carty (mj_c), Friday, 12 September 2003 12:45 (twenty-two years ago)

Felix Da Housecat-Silver Screen Shower Scene (LRD Remix)

(every great dance song ever, when played in a good dj set and a drum or bleep lets you know it's coming in)

― Ronan (Ronan), Friday, 12 September 2003 12:49 (twenty-two years ago)

Although 'Good Luck' by Basement Jaxx has already to be a contender - I've never heard a song take off *quite* like that before.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 12 September 2003 12:51 (twenty-two years ago)

The Mekons' "Dan Dare"--huge crescendo, little drop-off, then BOOM it's in your face.

― Douglas (Douglas), Friday, 12 September 2003 13:04 (twenty-two years ago)

Good Luck is such a smart record, those soul type strings get swept along by the almost drum and bass backing track, it's such a clever marriage of sounds.

― Ronan (Ronan), Friday, 12 September 2003 13:05 (twenty-two years ago)

Refused - New Noise
Clipse - When the Last Time

― Tom Breihan (Tom Breihan), Friday, 12 September 2003 13:07 (twenty-two years ago)

Bowie 'Let's Dance'
Guns n' Roses 'Welcome To The Jungle'
LCD Soundsystem 'Losing My Edge'
Prince 'When Doves Cry'
The Damned 'New Rose'
808 State 'Cubik'
Public Enemy 'Fight The Power'
Prodigy 'Firestarter'
Basement Jaxx 'Where's Your Head At'
Beyonce ft Jay-Z 'Crazy In Love (Pojmasta mix)'

― stevem (blueski), Friday, 12 September 2003 13:16 (twenty-two years ago)

"London Calling"
"Sex Machine"
"Brooklyn Zoo"
"Baba O'Reilly" (or is it "Riley"? I can never remember)

― Ess, Friday, 12 September 2003 13:24 (twenty-two years ago)

A few more:

"White Lines (Don't Do It)"
"Going Underground"
"Magic Stick"
"I Don't Wanna Hear It"
"Gimme Shelter"

― Ess, Friday, 12 September 2003 13:25 (twenty-two years ago)

Op Ivy "Room Without a Window"
Phish "You Enjoy Myself"

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 12 September 2003 13:30 (twenty-two years ago)

Gong - "Master Builder"

― James Larcombe, Friday, 12 September 2003 13:56 (twenty-two years ago)

Stooges - TV Eye - "Laaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaawwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwd!"

― NA (Nick A.), Friday, 12 September 2003 14:03 (twenty-two years ago)

The Only Ones - 'Another Girl, Another Planet'

― Mooro (Mooro), Friday, 12 September 2003 14:04 (twenty-two years ago)

The opening to the live version of Sweet Jane from Rock n Roll Animal, although overplayed, is still pretty awesome.

― Moss Feaster (Moss Feaster), Friday, 12 September 2003 14:06 (twenty-two years ago)

Killing Joke "Requiem"
Cee-Lo's live intro to "Crooked Booty" on the Dungeon Family CD
And also, for some strange reason the goofy satire at the beginning of Dead Kennedys' "MTV Get Off The Air" gets me adrenaline pumping; maybe it's the anticipation.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 12 September 2003 14:09 (twenty-two years ago)

The MC5 at the start of KLF - What Time Is Love?

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Friday, 12 September 2003 14:18 (twenty-two years ago)

How Soon Is Now?

― Jeremy (Jeremy), Friday, 12 September 2003 14:24 (twenty-two years ago)

Halcyon+on+on

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Friday, 12 September 2003 14:31 (twenty-two years ago)

"Jump Around" - "Baaaaaah . . . Bah bah baaaaaaaaah"

Mind you, you can't go far wrong with Johnney Rotton laughing like an evil dictator at the start of "Anarchy in the UK

― Johnney B (Johnney B), Friday, 12 September 2003 14:37 (twenty-two years ago)

Beethoven's 9th

― phil jones (interstar), Friday, 12 September 2003 15:13 (twenty-two years ago)

'Rock'n'Roll' by Led Zeppein. Next question.

― laticsmon, Friday, 12 September 2003 15:18 (twenty-two years ago)

The beats that function as the intro to Blue Monday did a pretty good job at this party I was at last Wednesday...

― JoB (JoB), Friday, 12 September 2003 16:07 (twenty-two years ago)

The Skids "into the valley" has thee most exciting intro ever! The rest of the song isn't so great i think, but that intro! wow! r0x0r!!

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Friday, 12 September 2003 16:15 (twenty-two years ago)

The classical guitar/spoken word intro to "Demon In Here" by Fishbone.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 12 September 2003 16:23 (twenty-two years ago)

Also the organ/guitar epic buildup of their "Black Flowers" ain't nuthin' to shake a stick at neither.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 12 September 2003 16:23 (twenty-two years ago)

plainsong by the cure

― will g. (will g.), Friday, 12 September 2003 17:15 (twenty-two years ago)

(hey nickalicious: don't forget the horns at the start of question of life!)

(especially live)

― will g. (will g.), Friday, 12 September 2003 17:23 (twenty-two years ago)

public enemy - prophets of rage
PiL - Public Image
ditto "transmission"

― ghte, Friday, 12 September 2003 17:24 (twenty-two years ago)

Will, totally OTM on both counts (Plainsong and Question of Life).

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 12 September 2003 17:39 (twenty-two years ago)

rolling stones - get off my cloud
smiths - the queen is dead

― fact checking cuz, Friday, 12 September 2003 17:47 (twenty-two years ago)

corny high school one:
madness, "one step beyond" got
those parties started

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Friday, 12 September 2003 18:12 (twenty-two years ago)

The Smashing Pumpkins - "Starla"

I totally second "Crazy Train."

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Friday, 12 September 2003 18:18 (twenty-two years ago)

i second "Blue Monday"

also "Debaser"

"Cannonball" has a great intro - it sounds like a whole album distilled into thirty seconds.

― Neil FC, Friday, 12 September 2003 18:27 (twenty-two years ago)

"blank generation"

― monkeyman (monkey man), Friday, 12 September 2003 18:28 (twenty-two years ago)

Elastica, "Connection"

― Sam J. (samjeff), Friday, 12 September 2003 18:30 (twenty-two years ago)

I always forget about "Starla", which fucks with me cuz that was my favorite Punkins song for like 4 years straight. I always thought the intro to that sounded like currents of wack energy beaming down from space and then slowly manifesting into physical form/guitar riffery.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 12 September 2003 18:35 (twenty-two years ago)

JSBX "Bellbottoms"

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 12 September 2003 18:38 (twenty-two years ago)

beethoven's 5th is also pretty good.

the first track of fushitsusha's double live alb: Its an incredible riff.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Friday, 12 September 2003 18:58 (twenty-two years ago)

Diana Ross, "Love Hangover"... I've played out the rest of what was once my second or third favorite song, pretty much, but that electric-piano-and-strings, descending-chords opening (that ten or so seconds before she starts moaning) captures the sleek, urban ennui side of disco as good as anything ever, in my book.

Prince, "Pop Life"... the bending-saw effect, up the scale instead of down (sense the pattern?), with a piano string shooting-star, with a snare announcing a most ephemeral, varispeed riff. I like the whole song, but the opening really makes it all work.

Gap Band, "You Dropped a Bomb on Me"... drops Taz on the dance floor. Actually, since they're in complimentary keys it would awesome to have the first ten seconds of "Love Hangover" lull everyone into the full-on shock of "You Dropped a Bomb." That would be sweet.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Friday, 12 September 2003 19:03 (twenty-two years ago)

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MC5 - "Ramblin' Rose"

(the whole JC Crawford "brothers and sisters, 5 seconds, problem or solution, testimonial" thing)...

― henry s, Monday, 20 August 2007 14:12 (eighteen years ago)

For my money, "Jock Jams"-type songs rule this question. I'll go with "Get Ready for This" by 2 Unlimited, but "What Is Love?" by Haddaway is a close second. It helps to hear these things pumped at a sold-out Spurs game etc.

― Euler, Monday, 20 August 2007 14:37 (eighteen years ago)

The track by LL that starts with "This beat is my recital"

-- Barima (Barima), Sunday, September 14, 2003 9:53 AM (3 years ago) Bookmark Link

― and what, Monday, 20 August 2007 14:56 (eighteen years ago)

Napalm Death "You Suffer"

― rockapads, Monday, 20 August 2007 15:29 (eighteen years ago)

but why?

― Mark G, Monday, 20 August 2007 15:34 (eighteen years ago)

the cure - fascination street
jimi hendrix - voodoo chile
jane's addiction - three days
the cult - she sells sanctuary
kent - bianca
radiohead - planet telex
radiohead - everything in its right place
megadeth - holy wars... the punishment due
fugazi - cashout
isis - the beginning and the end
helmet - i know
in flames - biosphere
the doors - i can't see your face in my mind
daft punk - harder, better, faster, stronger

some of those tracks have me enthralled from the very first note, while others are more about the calculated build-up.

also, 'new noise' seconded.

― Charlie Howard, Monday, 20 August 2007 16:30 (eighteen years ago)

i look forward to your future posts

― and what, Monday, 20 August 2007 16:34 (eighteen years ago)

what the fuck?

― Charlie Howard, Monday, 20 August 2007 16:35 (eighteen years ago)

Disorder - Unknown Pleasures - Joy Division ... that opening track shakes me to my core ...

― BlackIronPrison, Monday, 20 August 2007 16:50 (eighteen years ago)

Even after all these years, "I Feel Love" and "She Sells Sanctuary" can still thrill me: Drones that fade in from utter nothingness, build for 10 seconds or so, then explode.

― Myonga Vön Bontee, Monday, 20 August 2007 16:57 (eighteen years ago)

for real, though:

GZA - 4th Chamber
M83 "Birds" into "Unrecorded" as an intro to the whole album.
Van Halen "Hot for Teacher"

Agree with many others on this thread, too..

― rockapads, Monday, 20 August 2007 17:10 (eighteen years ago)

I'm surprised no one has mentioned "Be My Baby", surely the most influential intro ever!

― daavid, Monday, 20 August 2007 17:48 (eighteen years ago)

Can't forget 2 from Motorhead:

Ace Of Spades
No Voices In The Sky

― kornrulez6969, Monday, 20 August 2007 17:50 (eighteen years ago)

Disorder - Unknown Pleasures - Joy Division ... that opening track shakes me to my core ...
-- BlackIronPrison, Monday, August 20, 2007 4:50 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Link

Soon as I saw the thread, this was my immediate thought.

― stephen, Monday, 20 August 2007 19:04 (eighteen years ago)

Not to mention the cymbals in Shadowplay.

― Ismael Klata, Monday, 20 August 2007 20:47 (eighteen years ago)

To give a rather more contemporary example, 65DOS' "The Distant And Mechanised Glow of European Dance Parties" has an intro so exciting, so utterly energising, that it doesn't need to last for more than 5 seconds. Alone it stands as a quite brilliant piece of rapid build-up. In context of its album (after one of the better, if slower songs), it's like watching the sun rising in fast-motion to reveal everyone fucking each other.

― Just got offed, Monday, 20 August 2007 20:53 (eighteen years ago)

Queen: "One Vision". The album track in particular.

Also, "Tightrope", the opening track on ELO's "A New World Record".

― Geir Hongro, Monday, 20 August 2007 21:54 (eighteen years ago)

queen - 'death on 2 legs'

― 6335, Monday, 20 August 2007 22:15 (eighteen years ago)

has anyone mentioned sonic youth - teenage riot?

the damned - smash it up parts 1 and 2
prince - let's go crazy
le tigre - deceptacon (this song always packs a dance floor)
dj shadow - building steam with a grain of salt
three dog night - one
devo - gut feeling

― Emily Bjurnhjam, Monday, 20 August 2007 22:25 (eighteen years ago)

'sweet emotion'

― mookieproof, Monday, 20 August 2007 23:12 (eighteen years ago)

Wax: Bridge To Your Heart
OMD: Souvenir

― Geir Hongro, Monday, 20 August 2007 23:28 (eighteen years ago)

i really like those initial, ominous opening seconds of 'hey joni' too, i might add

also 'stay don't go' by spoon!

― Charlie Howard, Tuesday, 21 August 2007 03:54 (eighteen years ago)

Swamp Thing

― Curt1s Stephens, Tuesday, 21 August 2007 04:18 (eighteen years ago)

also I second "How Soon Is Now?"

― Curt1s Stephens, Tuesday, 21 August 2007 04:19 (eighteen years ago)

Prior to discovering FruityLoops, I freaked out at (Ludacris/Pharrell's) Moneymaker's introduction. Then the song started, and CHRIST, WHAT A LETDOWN!

― Tape Store, Tuesday, 21 August 2007 04:28 (eighteen years ago)

do you wear socks on your hands and gloves on your feet in backwards world???

― Curt1s Stephens, Tuesday, 21 August 2007 04:36 (eighteen years ago)

I love the intro to "Paranoia" by Apoptygma Bezerk, the way it slowly winds up in speed/pitch like someone's turned on the turntable with the record on it, then it goes BLAM into the first verse.

― Trayce, Tuesday, 21 August 2007 04:39 (eighteen years ago)

"It's a Sin" as well. Great intro on that one too.

― Geir Hongro, Tuesday, 21 August 2007 07:46 (eighteen years ago)

The beginning of Iron Maiden's Killers, when "Ides of March" segues into "Wrathchild"

― Bill Magill, Tuesday, 21 August 2007 14:22 (eighteen years ago)

fourteen years pass...

Gap Mangione - boys with toys

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

― meisenfek, Monday, 23 August 2021 08:13 (four years ago)

I just had to mention this one: Shuki Levy & Haim Saban's theme song to the 1980's M.A.S.K. cartoon has a mightily impressive intro.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1K7WYAC4H8g

And on that note, Thundercats, obviously:

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

― Valentijn, Monday, 23 August 2021 09:29 (four years ago)

Heart - crazy on you

― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Monday, 23 August 2021 13:57 (four years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_RCNItPguA

― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Monday, 23 August 2021 14:10 (four years ago)

MONEY FOR NOTHING

― brimstead, Monday, 23 August 2021 17:49 (four years ago)

Where the Streets Have No Name

― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Monday, 23 August 2021 19:19 (four years ago)

might be a cliche to say "helter skelter," but that's a good one

― grove street (party) direction (voodoo chili), Monday, 23 August 2021 19:29 (four years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vlaw5C_4O4E

― xzanfar, Monday, 23 August 2021 19:39 (four years ago)

the opening to patti smith’s “horses” gives me chills every time: “the boy looked at johnny…”

― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Monday, 23 August 2021 19:51 (four years ago)

Horses is a great call, one of my faves.

I'll also rep for the air-horn guitars at the beginning of "I'm the Man that Loves You" by Wilco. Has a real "call to arms" feel, especially in a live setting.

― henry s, Monday, 23 August 2021 20:11 (four years ago)

Boredoms - ◌ (Circle)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6f9BV-8yAw

― Linda and Jodie Rocco (map), Monday, 23 August 2021 20:17 (four years ago)

"It's Time to Party" and "Party Hard" rip it pretty fuckin hard in the first few seconds

― frogbs, Tuesday, 24 August 2021 01:07 (four years ago)

"Turn It On Again"

― jmm, Tuesday, 24 August 2021 01:58 (four years ago)

julie christie — the rumors are true!

― mookieproof, Tuesday, 24 August 2021 02:00 (four years ago)

Birthday Party Sonnys Burning

― Stevolende, Tuesday, 24 August 2021 02:06 (four years ago)

I always forget how long the intro to "Delirious" by Susanne Sundfør is but it's quite effective

― Vinnie, Tuesday, 24 August 2021 04:59 (four years ago)

Gang of Four - "Damaged Goods" !

― keen reverberations of twee (collardio gelatinous), Wednesday, 25 August 2021 02:01 (four years ago)

I mean c'mon

― keen reverberations of twee (collardio gelatinous), Wednesday, 25 August 2021 02:02 (four years ago)

I often think this about Hawkwind - Assault And Battery tbh

― he ain't perfect but fuck me he's a rheillee (imago), Wednesday, 25 August 2021 19:19 (four years ago)

...because you expect them to go into "Out of the Blue" by Roxy Music!

― Halfway there but for you, Wednesday, 25 August 2021 19:54 (four years ago)

Slayer's "Hell Awaits" (live version)

at the time, I had maybe 15 metal albums, and I had just put on Decade of Aggression, which I'd just bought (I didn't have the Hell Awaits album yet). seemed like such a sinister recorded intro, and then when the live instruments joined in, such an evil, pounding introduction, more sinister than anything I"d ever heard. then the final notes of the intro finished up and the crowd audibly and loudly roars as the main riff kicks in, and I remember being 16 and having a rush like no other. without that intro that song easily goes down to a B+.

― Duke Detain (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 25 August 2021 20:09 (four years ago)

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