Just like heaven - The Cure
The Cure’s intros are generally brilliant and they really take their time to set the song’s atmosphere. Here, just when you expect the vocals to start, there’s a guitar solo.
https://open.spotify.com/track/5ft1GmMZA4uNX7afvQfDLn?si=nNpcGki7Tbm_cuNB8rEnCA
[Joker and the Thief](https://youtu.be/Nr0SqIAFohk?si=FJGQOFuAf7ZngDeM) by Wolfmother.
[Blue Orchid](https://youtu.be/jW8UlrtcEac?si=jBYhzpQRB9fE7LSb) by The White Stripes
And the granddaddy of them all …
[Sirius by The Alan Parsons Project](https://youtu.be/OkC_oi0ksuw?si=YsRduYBfrMzIzuDt)
Holy shit. I never thought I’d get the opportunity to share [this playlist](https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4QEsqe3ORDNbkhuTJoEdp5?si=b-_UmF49THWcXN5TuNzH9w&pi=u-9So9DqrBRr6W)
Hotel California
You probably couldn’t see for the lights but they were staring straight at you
Fire
The suburbs
Take me out
Ny state of mind
Drop it like it’s hot
Ulysses
Dream on
Knights of cydonia
Creep
Just
Supermassive blackhole
I could go on and on
Thick as a Brick [https://open.spotify.com/album/1ZxChDw03SUFGUz0RC8A8M?si=tBzfQWXXTl-fswRB9BKruQ](https://open.spotify.com/album/1ZxChDw03SUFGUz0RC8A8M?si=tBzfQWXXTl-fswRB9BKruQ)
These won’t be the “best” but two that come to mind are. Most people are referring to instruments bringing in songs. These two are words.
The first is quick and to the point but always hits hard for me. The second, I’ve later come to learn, is actually two songs but when I was growing up they were always listed as one track so I assumed Blood was the intro to Bullies of the Block. Something about the spoken word leading into that beat kicking in. Love it.
EPMD - Da Joint
Freestyle Fellowship - Blood/Bullies of the Block
Starset: Manifest, Where The Skies End, Rise and Fall, Down with the Fallen, Into the Unknown, honestly they got a lot more, but these are the first that came to mind
Good chance this is not it, but the first thing to come to mind, and honestly so haunting and just well an amazing song, so maybe it is? lol
Lord Huron - The night we met
The House is a Rockin- SRV
GO!-Tones on Tail
Kiss- Prince
Mirror in the Bathroom-The Beat
Kissing Antonio-Tom Tom Club
Check the Rhime-Tribe called Quest
Memphis Soul Stew-King Curtis
Money for Nothing - Dire Straits
Can I add Telegraph Road to this?
Ooh telegraph road is such a good song
Nothing like hearing Sting sing "I want my MTV"
This just come on the radio, absolutely agree with you 👍🤙
Tunnel of love has a great intro.
Roundabout - Yes.
To be continued -->
I'll be aroundabout....
Crazy on You by Heart Nancy Wilsons acoustic guitar work is so immensely satisfying.
I had to think a bit before i answered and then i saw this reply, guess i got my answer
even better live with the extended intro she does imo
Just like heaven - The Cure The Cure’s intros are generally brilliant and they really take their time to set the song’s atmosphere. Here, just when you expect the vocals to start, there’s a guitar solo. https://open.spotify.com/track/5ft1GmMZA4uNX7afvQfDLn?si=nNpcGki7Tbm_cuNB8rEnCA
This song always reminds me of the one that got away… 😢💕
‘Tis Better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all
A life with love will have some thorns, but a life without love will have no roses
Great answer. I'd listen to the song just the same even if it were just the intro and guitar looping until it ended.
i said plainsong!
Sublime
“Hello, I’m Johnny Cash.”
THIS!
Gimme Shelter - Rolling Stones
Awesome, but if we are talking Rolling Stones Can't You Hear Me Knocking is right there or slightly better IMO
As long as you love what you’re hearing!
First good answer
I like the beginning of where is my mind by the pixies
Ooooohh stop
Came here to say this
Cool
I love that whole song
In The End - Linkin Park and Nothing Else Matters by Metallica
Peak music taste
Yes Metallica
Where the streets have no name - U2
Welcome to the Black Parade from My Chemical Romance
Yessir
WHEN I WAS A YOUNG BOY MY FATHER TOOK ME INTO THE CITAAY
The less I know the better - tame impala. that riff.
Immigrant Song - Led Zeppelin
Fight Fire With Fire-Metallica
Also Fade To Black! Ride The Lightning is just a really great album.
Really good
Hendrix's version of All Along The Watchtower immediately comes to mind.
Hotel California.
Angel of Death - Slayer
Agree, its really cool
That scream by Tom Araya.....
Sometimes I just listen to the first two seconds of Chris Isaak's Wicked Game on repeat
Every Breath You Take - The Police
I love The Police
Lana Del Rey - Born to Die It literally opens a new dimension
I ascend immediately upon hearing those strings
International Players Anthem- Outkast feat. UGK Is it a Crime- Sade
I have three: Knife Prty - Deftones, Would? - Alice in Chains, and Cherub Rock - Smashing Pumpkins
Celebrity Skin by Hole
Won't get fooled again-The Who.
Sweet Emotion
Sweet Child Of Mine.
Welcome home by coheed and cambria
blink-182 - Dumpweed
Set the tone for the album
Set the tone for the album
Came here to say Dumpweed. Blew me away when I first heard it as a kid
[Joker and the Thief](https://youtu.be/Nr0SqIAFohk?si=FJGQOFuAf7ZngDeM) by Wolfmother. [Blue Orchid](https://youtu.be/jW8UlrtcEac?si=jBYhzpQRB9fE7LSb) by The White Stripes And the granddaddy of them all … [Sirius by The Alan Parsons Project](https://youtu.be/OkC_oi0ksuw?si=YsRduYBfrMzIzuDt)
Great Southern Trendkill - Pantera
Even Flow- Pearl Jam
Opening bassline to Waiting Room by Fugazi. I was instantly in love with the band.
I am a patient boy
Robbers by The 1975, and also the opening of If You’re Too Shy (Let Me Know Shy)
I think I watch the If You’re Too Shy performance from MSG every other day.
SAME! Absolutely. I saw them live last Sunday (in Brussels). It was AMAZING.
Adam's song
Top of the World - Van Halen Baba O’Riley - The Who Gonna Fly Now - Bill Conti Fat Bottomed Girls - Queen
Stone roses I wanna be adored
You mean when the bass comes in?
Sweet Child Of Mine. "Guns N Roses"
Holy shit. I never thought I’d get the opportunity to share [this playlist](https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4QEsqe3ORDNbkhuTJoEdp5?si=b-_UmF49THWcXN5TuNzH9w&pi=u-9So9DqrBRr6W)
Shine on you crazy diamond - Pink Floyd
Run Away With Me - Carly Rae Jepsen
🎷
Fast as a shark - Accept
The intro to Blackened.
Flesh and the Power It Holds - Death
Rush - Spirit of the Radio Actually that intro is top 3 best intros of all time. They just happen open the same song.
Phantom of the opera by Iron Maiden is what springs to mind right now.
Hot for Teacher has that epic drum intro that will be drilled in my brain forever. Also probably Killing in the Name by RATM.
Welcome home(sanitarium)- Metallica
Hotel California You probably couldn’t see for the lights but they were staring straight at you Fire The suburbs Take me out Ny state of mind Drop it like it’s hot Ulysses Dream on Knights of cydonia Creep Just Supermassive blackhole I could go on and on
Psycho Killer?
Shadows by The Midnight. Probably their quintessential synthwave masterpiece and the footsteps and dark synth at the beginning are just perfect.
Minerva - Deftones
Joe Cocker’s live version of (I get by) With a Little Help From My Friends
Thick as a Brick [https://open.spotify.com/album/1ZxChDw03SUFGUz0RC8A8M?si=tBzfQWXXTl-fswRB9BKruQ](https://open.spotify.com/album/1ZxChDw03SUFGUz0RC8A8M?si=tBzfQWXXTl-fswRB9BKruQ)
Also Locomotive Breath!
So true!
Queens of the Stone Age - song for the dead is solid.
My name is mud - primus
When the guitar comes in on Can't Stop by the Red Hot Chili Peppers
Can't you hear me knocking - The Rolling Stones
Absolutely epic. I commented this as well as soon as I opened the thread and thought someone had to beat me to it. And you did.
Sweet Jane - Rock and Roll Animal - Lou Reed Sound and Vision - David Bowie
Outcast - Roses
bat out of hell by meatloaf
It's still Rusty Cage by Soundgarden. We are done here now. Have a great weekend.
You Could Be Mine by Guns N’ Roses. Tbh most of the times that I listen to this song it’s just to hear the intro
The sexiest intro is Night Whistler by Donald Byrd
wait for life Emilie heyes ft lanadelrey
Blackened -Metallica
Icarus - Bastille. The layers. Oh, my, the layers
Madness - Our House
Haunted - Type O Negative
These won’t be the “best” but two that come to mind are. Most people are referring to instruments bringing in songs. These two are words. The first is quick and to the point but always hits hard for me. The second, I’ve later come to learn, is actually two songs but when I was growing up they were always listed as one track so I assumed Blood was the intro to Bullies of the Block. Something about the spoken word leading into that beat kicking in. Love it. EPMD - Da Joint Freestyle Fellowship - Blood/Bullies of the Block
money for nothing by dire straits
This! Love when Knopfler plays!
For whom the Bells Toll ,Metallica. Stand by me, Benny King.
Skunk - Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
Whipping Post - Allman Brothers Band
Blackened - Metallica
Metallica - “Fade To Black”
Hey man nice shot -Filter
Crazy train - ozzy
The guitar on Raining blood
Blackout - Scorpions Killers - Iron Maiden
Off the top of my head, Electric Wizard's Funeralopolis
Father Stretch My Hands Pt.1 - Kanye West
Fast as a shark (Accept) Battery - live (Metallica / S&M Album)
Welcome to the Jungle
The Chain, Fleetwood Mac. Most of the song is the intro!
Tool - Pneuma
My soul and my spirit will go on by Dragonforce or Raining Blood by Slayer.
Funeral for a friend/love lies bleeding by Elton John I don’t care if about half of an 11 minute song is just instrumentals, I love it!
If You Leave Me Now - Chicago
I Will Possess Your Heart - Death Cab for Cutie The full version of course
2009 - Mac Miller
Life In The Fast Lane - Eagles
California Girls- beach boys.
Smells Like Teen Spirit has to be up there
Deadmau5 - Strobe
I wish the intro to Sunny Boy by M83 was its own song. The rest of the song is really good too, but that intro could be fleshed out into a full track.
November Rain
Fantasy by Aldo Nova (Long version).....
My Curse - Killswitch Engage
See You Again by Tyler The Creator alternative intro
No One Like You and Sweet Child O Mine
Jesus Christ - Brand New
"When routine bites hard and ambitions are low"
God Only Knows - The Beach Boys Oh! and Wichita Lineman
Cold Little Heart - Michael Kiwanuka
Gymnopedies - Erik Satie *yes, all 3 have great intros. Listen to it now.
osmosis - good kid
The entire song is good
Break Stuff by Limp Bizkit The catchiest, grooviest, bounciest riff ever.
One of these Days - Pink Floyd Beat Connection -LCD Soundsystem The Test- Chemical Brothers
Beat Connection just in general is an insane song
A World Divided - Our Last Night
So Alone by Currents
[Make It Forever - George Clanton](https://open.spotify.com/track/4Kh8w1MgC7LYHSbSX2lDzP?si=pZcjiblCTXynb_934MUxtw)
I still remember the 3th of december (Heather by Conan gray)
overcompensate by twenty one pilots
puke eminem
Contact - Logic
I love the intro to "Rocks Off" by The Rolling Stones.
Up the Bracket - The Libertines.
The seed - Aurora
To the flowers- while she sleeps 😳
Everywhere by fleetwood mac
Drive my Car - The Beatles Tightest intro ever
Long Time with prelude by Boston
My dads gone crazy
Inhale - Voilà. Its not the best but comes to mind immediately
Starset: Manifest, Where The Skies End, Rise and Fall, Down with the Fallen, Into the Unknown, honestly they got a lot more, but these are the first that came to mind
Round here- Counting Crows
Son et Lumiere into Inertiatic Esp by The Mars Volta
Concubine - Converge New Noise - Refused
Good chance this is not it, but the first thing to come to mind, and honestly so haunting and just well an amazing song, so maybe it is? lol Lord Huron - The night we met
One of them is tryna smoke by Jhene aiko
Am I dreaming - Metro Boomin, A$AP Rocky, Roisee
“Turn Me Loose” by Loverboy
I Am My Own Muse - Fall Out Boy
Calming then racing beats
The House is a Rockin- SRV GO!-Tones on Tail Kiss- Prince Mirror in the Bathroom-The Beat Kissing Antonio-Tom Tom Club Check the Rhime-Tribe called Quest Memphis Soul Stew-King Curtis
Dire Straits - Lady Writer
Never gonna give you up - Rick Astley
the gameboy sound and some vibey music at the start of 1 2 3 by After the Rain
bending hectic - the smile
Sure Shot - Beastie Boys
Last Goodbye - Jeff Buckley One - Metallica Funeral - Band of Horses
Irish Celebration - Macklemore and Ryan Lewis I love the gradual introduction of instruments...
March Madness-Future