What song has the best intro (30 seconds or less)?

[UnionRider475]

Heart's cover of stairway at Kennedy center!

Yeah - saw that when it was on - awesome

 

[Bike N Gear]

Best use of a talk box ever. Frampton did not invent this effect but he did make it famous on his live album.
At only 26 he produced one of the best live rock albums in history. Some of the best material ever played is from young performers, they come on the scene with a different way of doing things and have the ability to blow an audience away. Frampton was able to capture the drug induced feel good persona of the 70's which makes it an iconic ablum. Also the sound engineers did an incredible job recording it, the quality of most live ablums blows.

Used to sound great on my Eight Track player.

 

[wonderturtle]

Unless I missed it I don't think I've seen anything by The Smiths. I'm going with queen is dead. Opens the album as well. Great stuff....

 

[rottin']

This only takes 1 bar and you know it...

 

[mwlikesbikes]

Can't forget NY thrash pioneers Anthrax

 

[mwlikesbikes]

Or these pioneers, I dare you not to bang your head after the intro

 

[mwlikesbikes]

Then here's the greatest band you never heard of straight outta Wayne, NJ

 

[mwlikesbikes]

This one is both brilliant & disturbing at the same time. (& possibly nsfw)

 

[Patrick]

Then here's the greatest band you never heard of straight outta Wayne, NJ

grew up in boonton, so knew them from there, but they did get some airplay. kinda like last cigarette better tho.


and in other local bands (solid '80s!)


they shot a scene in Sopranos from there. (srry, ne embed)

 

[The Kalmyk]

My favorite genre....

 

[ilnadi]

IB,
I'll see your Sweet and raise one:

didn't think anybody here was old enough to remember Sweet.

Anyway, slightly more than 30sec

 

[ilnadi]

the ladies need more representation in here:

ladies!

 

[mwlikesbikes]

didn't think anybody here was old enough to remember Sweet[/MEDIA]

not much of an intro but this is a great one too

 

[qclabrat]

classical


jazz


hip hop


soul/funk/pr0n


house


new wave


industrial rock


down tempo


drum n bass


ragga

ahh BLT, good stuff

 

[wonderturtle]

the ladies need more representation in here:

Heart's Barracuda

the intro to Crazy on You is pretty epic



the intro to Joe Walsh's "lifes been good to me" (first 1:10 or so) is pretty great

 

[qclabrat]

a bit all over the place
pre-teen days:
Kraftwerk and Devo



really liked early rap, then the gangsta stuff didn't do it for me
Soul Sonic Force


jazz has so many
Brubeck


Django


Stanley Clarke
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFKlezPu3xg

 

[rottin']

Surprised I haven't seen this one up...sets the tone nicely right from the start

 

[Johnny Utah]

Choices choices....

 

[mwlikesbikes]

Great intro, 2 chords never sounded so good

 

[mwlikesbikes]

Intro is about 1:20. Sonic Youth gets labeled as "art rock" but they're certainly second generation NYC punks.