best song intro

[Dominic]

i don't remember if we've done this yet, and it didn't turn up in a search, so...

What's your favorite opening thirty-forty seconds of a song? A song where as soon as it comes on it's instantly identifiable?

My picks:

Ticket To Ride - The Beatles

Perhaps the first use of feedback as an intentional piece of the song in popular music.

Just Like Heaven - The Cure

The most deleriously infectious opening in pop music history, IMO. It just builds and builds and builds until Robert Smith's vocals finally, breathlessly, joins in.

Just What I Needed - The Cars

duh duh duh duh DAAA duh duh duh duh DAAA duh duh duh duh DAAA DAAA...! Greatest bass line opening ever.



yours?

[CheckRaise]

N.I.B. - Black Sabbath

The Les Claypool version has a better intro bass riff than the original.

[CIncyHR]

baba o'riley

[DemonDeac]

Metallica-Enter Sandman

[miajag]

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baba o'riley

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any other answer is wrong.

[kipin]

Let me help you out with your self-imposed OOT exile.

[moondogg]

I think the clear answer is Boston's "Foreplay".

Other than that, offhand I'd say the drum solo in "American Band", and the guitars at the beginning of "That Smell".

[El Diablo]

Dom,

A few AC/DC songs come to mind. Boston's Foreplay was a great pick. Def Leppard's Rock of Ages too.

But I think I'll go w/ GnR Sweet Child O' Mine.

[Dominic]

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Let me help you out with your self-imposed OOT exile.

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I never exiled myself, Sparky...but hey...thanks for caring so much!

[prohornblower]

This thread has been done and the answer is "Money for Nothing" by Dire Straits.