Best intro to a song?

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17 Feb 2013, 8:52 am

Do you have a favorite intro to a song?

I am going back in time a bit but I think the intro to U2 - Where The Streets Have No Name is the best. When I hear it I get a feeling in my gut and shivers down my neck.

What is your best intro?

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17 Feb 2013, 11:23 am

I have an abundance of favourite intros, and it's quite a long list!

My Last Serenade - Killswitch Engage
Battery - Metallica
Would? - Alice in Chains
Old - Machine Head
Dark are the Veils of Death - Candlemass
Face of Melinda - Opeth
When by Opeth
HK (Hunter Killer) - Fear Factory

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17 Feb 2013, 12:50 pm

A few here:
Neighborhood #1; No Cars Go- Arcade Fire
Smells Like Teen Spirit- Nirvana
I Feel Fine; A Hard Day's Night; Taxman; While My Guitar Gently Weeps- The Beatles
Like Eating Glass- Bloc Party
Diamond Dogs; Teenage Wildlife- David Bowie
Paranoid Android- Radiohead
Plug-in Baby- Muse
No Church In The Wild- Kanye West, Jay-Z, Frank Ocean
Hoppípola- Sigur Ros
Turn You Inside Out- R.E.M.
Seven Nation Army- The White Stripes
Last Nite- The Strokes

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17 Feb 2013, 3:31 pm

I am partial to the intros to:

- 'Instinction', by Spandau Ballet

- 'Some Like It Hot', by Power Station

- 'You Could Be Mine', by Guns N' Roses

- 'Too Shy', by Kajagoogoo

- 'Love Games', by Level 42

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17 Feb 2013, 11:07 pm

I don't know if this counts but I like two intro tracks;
The XX - Intro and Above & Beyond - Filmic
The beginning of Frou Frou - Let Go is also good

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18 Feb 2013, 1:56 am

Two standout intros to me are: 1. INXS - What You Need and 2. P-Funk - Flashlight. To wit:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdE0KnoA1Ow[/youtube]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u74QMFgKPFA[/youtube]

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19 Feb 2013, 6:42 pm

Robdemanc wrote:

My top two would be Foo Fighers - Everlong and New Order - Dreams Never End

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrh5kaWfyMQ[/youtube]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBG7P-K-r1Y[/youtube]

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19 Feb 2013, 8:15 pm

Queen
Ogre Battle

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-SMOsXCc0c[/youtube]

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20 Feb 2013, 9:32 am

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5jaRipA5_M[/youtube]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-rv2BQa2OU[/youtube]

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22 Feb 2013, 11:24 pm

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGPD0ZBiMs0[/youtube]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxfMB8WlmX0[/youtube]

Most emotionally powerful intro ever...

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RByvzmmEFiQ[/youtube]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XR8LFNUr3vw[/youtube]

This whole song is one big long introduction... but it's still awesome...

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=duYqlrgC17Q[/youtube]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhzzWd5ym0o[/youtube]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYi6aVSLpQE[/youtube]

An underrated Radiohead song I like for some reason...

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BopLWdixRkM[/youtube]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4913gaj0_4w[/youtube]

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23 Feb 2013, 12:31 am

My personal favorite is the intro to Welcome to the Jungle.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kr8-E8may2Y[/youtube]

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23 Feb 2013, 3:20 am

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6yZ1ranMATg[/youtube]

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23 Feb 2013, 8:11 pm

I like piano intros

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSZmQdvJA6A[/youtube]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_VCbnqbwwA[/youtube]

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23 Feb 2013, 11:22 pm

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9NOL3BDlRA[/youtube]
The rest of the song isn't that great, but good god what an intro

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24 Feb 2013, 12:54 am

Honestly meny of the intros from Meat Loaf's Bat out of Hell record including the title track, those guys had it down to a science, long, catchy, dramatic and unforgetable! This is were I learned what an intro was!

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzc3mSbna1U[/youtube]

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24 Feb 2013, 3:25 am

Almaz by Randy Crawford, it's very poetic, beautiful...

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