Nice intro! Shame about the song......

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmbw8OycJrE

Nice idea! Shame about the post...

Bon Jovi's "Living On a Prayer" used to always trick me into thinking it was some synth-pop hit I didn't already know.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUa5Shv1JmA

Though it definitely is: Nice Intro! Nice Song! Jump On It never fails to trick me into thing it's going to be an electro banger closer to Afrika Bambaataa than Bar-Mitzvah party rap.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_9MI2ymN6s

"Long Cool Woman In A Black Dress" just came on & this is a god paraphrase of what I thought.

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

This is a great thread idea.

definitely no shame about the song here, but very high (and disappointed) expectations after the intro

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

Not a shame about... but

The start of Nancy Sinatra's 'These Boots...' is killer, then just kind of a generic song.

it's probably a sample, in which case would like to know what

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHvtcdnb2W4

... what of

"Long Cool Woman In A Black Dress" just came on & this is a god paraphrase of what I thought.

abbott, this is where our musical tastes part ways. I love that song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzHo8dZ5v84

i agree re: "livin on a prayer" though apparently people think that song is actually good or something.

i was going to say "from this moment on" by shania twain... but my opinions on the intro and the actual song both fluctuate constantly. sometimes i think one is amazing and the other is terrible. sometimes i think they're both amazing. sometimes i think they're both terrible. which is it?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3jBFhBhU3w

"Long Cool Woman in a Black Dress" starts out as a Byrds songs and winds up a Creedence song.

John's Children "Smashed Blocked"

Radio Song by R.E.M.

the opening to Van Halen's "Right Here, Right Now" overshadows the verses and chorus by a long shot

I used to hear this song a lot where I worked and always thought it had a really interesting intro but then after 15 seconds it just turns into the same old shit he puts out time after time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5etCbMTNCk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUPrnu3BEU8

I always think this was "One More Chance" up until Ashanti starts mewling

btw can I just say lol at Terrence Howard in the video

Radio Song by R.E.M.

― Kitchen Person, Monday, August 9, 2010 8:59 PM (11 minutes ago) Bookmark

good thing you have "strange currencies" five years later

I like Swing Out Sister's "Breakout" but the first couple seconds would have you thinking you're going to hear some pensive, moody Pet Shop Boys-type song of heartbreak.

i don't dislike the song or anything, but the piano intro here should really be used as a sample, by someone very rich.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNY8eYmzdH4

jay-z i am looking in your direction

mhz used it del :)

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

Bullet with Butterfly Wings..."Despite all my rage I'm still just a rat in a cage" is probably the closest a chorus of a song has ever come to resembling the auditory equivalent of a dog-turd...(still not quite as bad as "Let Down" though...)

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

Del, Young Black Teenagers and Mr. Lif also used it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6eXJ67LOYPM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uE7YcKqtxY

And supposedly "Codefendants" by Kanser

sweet jane

Flaming Lips - the Gash

BEatles - You Know My Name..

Stones - Monkey Man (in a relative sense)

what's the del one, markop?

think that might be a dad joke

sweet jane

― plax (ico), Monday, August 9, 2010 7:26 PM (41 minutes ago) Bookmark

yeah

pleased to see so many rappers have taken my advice, and so quickly too!

hows that for a dad joke.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y01mMhsccko

"This Love" by Maroon 5 is IMO OK, and way better than anything else they've done, but it still doesn't quite hold the same standard as the brilliant intro:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPpTgCho5ZA&ob=av2n

styx mr roboto

sweet theme idea stretched into 6 minutes background for travel videos (which i like)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPeWk0Jzj6Q

Les Milady's - a cause de toi

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

Akiko Yano - only love

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebEjV0lJEUU

April March - zero zero

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8OsEgjISmlA

Gimme Shelter

Grant Green - grenada

reo speedwagon - can't fight this feeling

Ghost obviously agreed with Geir's opening post

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0I0hweJ45so

player - "baby come back"

Barry McGuire - Light of the World

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXTpUxiFId4

I should have known from the start that Barry couldn't sustain a funk-metal groove for an entire track, but I'm still slightly heartbroken 😔

These old threads full of broken YouTube links are kinda a bummer

true

for the record, the song in the OP was 'My Heart Will Go On' (which is melodic af from start to finish, so I have no idea what Geir was complaining about)

samantha fox "i wanna have some fun"

Bon Jovi's "Living On a Prayer" used to always trick me into thinking it was some synth-pop hit I didn't already know.

― Janet Privacy Control (corey), Sunday, August 8, 2010 12:16 PM (eight years ago)

i still get misled in exactly the same manner every once in a while

Lots of singles by Sleeper

yep - came here to say Sleeper

Actually, I'm listening to snatches of Sleeper's top spotify songs and every single one starts like it's going to be awesome, then goes straight into chirpy Britpop

"Bandits" by Midlake

Surprised I've never used this thread to whinge about Van Halen's 'Jump'. I love that synth intro, absolutely hate the song.

at least the synth line continues indefinitely (i love the song too tho)

"Sweet Jane" by The Velvet Underground

"Sympathy for the Devil." I think it's a good song overall, it just has dumb lyrics. But the intro with all the screaming is so cool that I'm always a bit let down when Jagger starts singing and it's like, "Oh, right, Mick read a book."