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BEEP: Big time by Peter Gabriel.

This thread is for tracks identifiable by everybody within 0.5 seconds of starting.

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 08:04 (nineteen years ago)

"Chewing Gum," really.

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 08:09 (nineteen years ago)

"Hard Day's Night"

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 08:14 (nineteen years ago)

As I've just been looking at the 60s poll - "I Want You Back"

― hobart paving (hobart paving), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 08:16 (nineteen years ago)

Nice ones, both.

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 08:17 (nineteen years ago)

Smells like teen spirit
Wonderwall
Nightswimming
etc etc.

― Johnny B Was Quizzical (Johnney B), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 08:29 (nineteen years ago)

Nightswimming starts w/piano, right? Could be any Tori Amos track until the vocals...

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 08:31 (nineteen years ago)

As we're discussing Nick Lowe over on the Jilted John thread, I should add that "So It Goes" and "Watching the Detectives" count for me.

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 08:32 (nineteen years ago)

Smells Like Teen Spirit? How do you know it ain't Call It What You Want by... er, Collapsed Lung? (Apparently it never charted so it ain't on everyhit.com)

― ledge (ledge), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 08:53 (nineteen years ago)

"Top Of The World" (the Shonen Knife version)

― hobart paving (hobart paving), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 08:53 (nineteen years ago)

>> Call It What You Want by... er, Collapsed Lung?

Credit To The Nation :)

― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 08:56 (nineteen years ago)

"Blue Monday"

Can't mistake that drum machine!

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 09:10 (nineteen years ago)

Credit To The Nation :)

Ah yes how could I ever have mixed up those two low-rent UK comedy hip-hop one hit wonders?

back to thread topic - Fire, The Crazy World of Arthur Brown, of course.

― ledge (ledge), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 09:19 (nineteen years ago)

"Sledgehammer" too, I guess? Both the album version with the panflute and the single version starting directly with the brass riff.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 09:33 (nineteen years ago)

Heart of Glass

― hobart paving (hobart paving), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 10:24 (nineteen years ago)

Everything used in Osymoso's "Intro-Inspection"

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 11:07 (nineteen years ago)

"The Robots" - Kraftwerk
"Die Liebe" - Laibach (ein Schauspieler!)

― The Vintner's Lipogram (OleM), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 11:08 (nineteen years ago)

Everything?
(xpost)

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 11:10 (nineteen years ago)

Ha ha well everything i can remember right now - if he used unmemorable intros I didn't remember them!

But definitely:

Tainted Love
Come On Eileen
Wannabe
Baby One More Time
The Message

and so on

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 11:13 (nineteen years ago)

It's a clever record; there are things buried so far down in the mix that I've only recently discovered them (e.g. "Baggy Trousers").

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 11:16 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah that's true.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 11:17 (nineteen years ago)

XTC - River Of Orchids

― Scourage (Haberdager), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 11:27 (nineteen years ago)

Anyway:
Jilted John - Jilted John
Jonathan Richman/Modern Lovers - Roadrunner (Twice)
Pulp - Common People

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 11:30 (nineteen years ago)

Re 'Intro Inspection' I remember several people thought Kowkube's 'If It Ain't Country It Ain't Music' was actually The Monkees 'I'm A Believer' and others mistook Bob Marley's 'No Woman No Cry' for Bauhaus 'Bela Lugosi's Dead'!

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 11:31 (nineteen years ago)

"It's The End Of The World As We Know It" (snare roll)

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 11:52 (nineteen years ago)

The Who: "I Can't Explain"

― someteenpartying (someteenpartying), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 11:58 (nineteen years ago)

xtc "making plans for nigel"

― cutty (mcutt), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 12:00 (nineteen years ago)

"One more time" Daft Punk

― Roz (Roz), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 12:01 (nineteen years ago)

Most hit tunes that begin with a distinctive synth sound would qualify, the first one to spring to mind is "The Message" by Flash and The Furious Five.

Judging by my DJ gigs, the most recognizable starting drum break is found in "Rapper's Delight". Folks on the dancefloor usually get excited even before the "Good Times" bass line kicks in.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 12:17 (nineteen years ago)

Pulp - Disco 2000
Pulp - Babies
St Etienne - You're In a bad way
(most St Etienne, but that might just be me. And the 100 other obsessives on this board.)

― hobart paving (hobart paving), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 12:28 (nineteen years ago)

Do you really mean 0.5 seconds? 'Cause that's not a lot of time.

― Josh in Chicago (Josh in Chicago), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 12:46 (nineteen years ago)

someone should YSI .5 seconds of songs and see if we really can guess what they are!

― Whiney G. Weingarten (whineyg), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 13:58 (nineteen years ago)

safety dance

― Alicia Titsovich (sexyDancer), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 14:00 (nineteen years ago)

HANDS UP WHO WANTS TO DIE

― Edward III (edward iii), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 14:14 (nineteen years ago)

XTC - River Of Orchids
-- Scourage (papiermachealamphibia...), August 16th, 2006.

negatory -- I always think it's the notwist, "One Step Inside Doesn't Mean You Understand". but not vice-versa, interestingly.

― bernard snow (sixteen sergeants), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 14:31 (nineteen years ago)

hmm. caught me off-guard, i shall have to reconsider...

The Mars Volta - Cicatriz ESP

― Louis Jagger (Haberdager), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 14:35 (nineteen years ago)

Led Zeppelin - Rock and Roll - in about 1 second I should think.

Probably anyone who knows Blue Monday could get it in 1 beat, no? Although I suppose it could be that Kylie mash-up...

― Ned T.Rifle (nedtrifle), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 14:42 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.vintagegamestore.com/shop/images/09220557.jpg

― Sir Dr. Rev. PappaWheelie Jr. II of The Third Kind (PappaWheelie 2), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 15:15 (nineteen years ago)

Louis, I think you overestimate knowledge of bands like the Mars Volta. I've never heard them. And frankly, don't really want to from what others tell me.

I say:
-When You Were Mine (though whether the Prince or Cyndi version is more
instantly recognizable is debatable)
-Girls Just Want to Have Fun

― trees (treesessplode), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 15:20 (nineteen years ago)

Madonna, "Into the Groove"

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 15:22 (nineteen years ago)

"baby got back"

― M@tt He1geson: Real Name, No Gimmicks (Matt Helgeson), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 15:24 (nineteen years ago)

Well, I only meant those who had heard it. OK, a more widely-known example:

The Byrds - 5D (Fifth Dimension)

"Oh-"

― Louis Jagger (Haberdager), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 15:26 (nineteen years ago)

"Rock Lobster"

― slugbuggy (slugbuggy), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 15:51 (nineteen years ago)

Sweet Leaf
Take A Chance On Me (acapella intros are cheating a bit)

― Matt #2 (Matt #2), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 16:18 (nineteen years ago)

"baby got back"

omg

Me So Horny for that matter too.

― Sir Dr. Rev. PappaWheelie Jr. II of The Third Kind (PappaWheelie 2), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 16:29 (nineteen years ago)

There used to be a fellow round these parts named Aaron Megahertz who was a big Mars Volta fan.

― Ruud Haarvest (Ken L), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 16:30 (nineteen years ago)

Nightswimming starts w/piano, right?

Nope! It starts with strings.

― aaron d.g. (aaron d.g.), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 17:58 (nineteen years ago)

one month passes...

Some of ya'll are oof yer rockers on this thread. Marcello Carlin, not everyone is fucking ENGLISH!

― disappointing goth fest line-up (orion), Friday, 22 September 2006 03:31 (nineteen years ago)

Bowie's "Changes"

REM's "Fall On Me"

What the hell, Gnarls Barkley

― Dave Depper (Dave Depper), Friday, 22 September 2006 04:37 (nineteen years ago)

Most hit tunes that begin with a distinctive synth sound
and that could have its own thread.
"heartbeats"
"running up that hill"

― mox twelve (Mox twleve), Friday, 22 September 2006 04:41 (nineteen years ago)

"My Name Is Larry"

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Friday, 22 September 2006 04:42 (nineteen years ago)

the opposite of what this thread is about: the Stone Roses' "I Wanna Be Adored"

PRINCE - KISS
*guitar riff* UAGHH!!!

― grady (grady), Friday, 22 September 2006 04:46 (nineteen years ago)

The Beatles- "Help"

Nirvana- "Come as you are"

― xgurggleglgllg (xgurggleglgllg), Friday, 22 September 2006 05:05 (nineteen years ago)

Beatles "Sgt. Pepper's..." (strangled guitar sound)
Jefferson Airplane "Somebody To Love" ("When the...")
Kinks "You Really Got Me"
Modern Lovers "I'm Straight" ("I...")
Velvet Underground "Venus In Furs"
Rolling Stones "Brown Sugar"

and far too many other klassik rok tunes for me to think about right now.

― sleeve version 2.0 (sleeve testing), Friday, 22 September 2006 05:44 (nineteen years ago)

undertones - teenage kicks

the opposite of what this thread is about: the Stone Roses' "I Wanna Be Adored"

the real opposite is the first track off second coming because a.) it takes 4 minutes to get going and b.) it's a boring song no one can remember anyway.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Friday, 22 September 2006 07:44 (nineteen years ago)

Yelps! e.g.

The Libertines - Up The Bracket
Prince - Kiss

― ewmy (ewmy), Friday, 22 September 2006 09:26 (nineteen years ago)

how strangely familiar

― ewmy (ewmy), Friday, 22 September 2006 09:31 (nineteen years ago)

Pink Floyd - "Money"

― harvey (harvey1), Friday, 22 September 2006 09:36 (nineteen years ago)

Red Hot Chili Peppers, "Higher Ground"

Art of Noise, "Close (to the Edit)"

"How Soon Is Now?" (presumably not oft mistaken for Soho's "Hippychick")

And for a few despicable moments in the '90s, the flanged intro to "Tubthumping" gave me enough warning to GET THE HELL OFF THE DANCEFLOOR before getting crushed to death

― Myke. (Myke Weiskopf), Friday, 22 September 2006 09:39 (nineteen years ago)

Compare the beginnings of Smashing Pumpkins' "1979" and Sonic Youth's "Jams Run Free."

― M. V. (M.V.), Friday, 22 September 2006 14:38 (nineteen years ago)

"Age of Consent"

― sean gramophone (Sean M), Friday, 22 September 2006 15:00 (nineteen years ago)

Violent Femmes, "Add It Up"

Doors, "Light My Fire"

FYC, "Good Thing"

Monkees, "Daydream Believer"

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Friday, 22 September 2006 17:42 (nineteen years ago)

Dead or Alive - "You Spin Me Round"

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Friday, 22 September 2006 23:09 (nineteen years ago)

Aphex Twin - "Come To Daddy"

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Friday, 22 September 2006 23:11 (nineteen years ago)

Funkadelic - "Can You Get to That"

― King-a-Ling (King-a-Ling), Friday, 22 September 2006 23:16 (nineteen years ago)

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