Best Song Opening?
 

So I was listening to Meat Loaf's "Bat Out of Hell" #'s I and III, and I realized: "You Took The Words Right Out Of My Mouth" has quite possibly the best opening for a song, ever. It's just so theatrical that it tickles my fancy, I suppose.

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Opinions?

This would probably be better suited to Tilted Music.

You Took the Words Right Out Of My Mouth has a great spoken-word intro, yes. Best ever? Well, that depends on your criteria. For example, the stop/start riff that opens Curve's Hell Above Water is great for getting your blood pumping, whereas Ozzy-era Sabbath had some of the greatest classic rock/metal intros ever written (Iron Man, Paranoid, The Wizard).

Even when we're talking spoken-word, I actually prefer Cake's The Distance. Shorter, but so much more intense.

i'm such a damned raver. seriously I need to just go to the netherlands and get it out of my system

The guitar intro to "shook me all night long" would have to rate highly, for me. (ACDC)

Being a KINKS fan..... gotta go with the guitar songs.... You Really Got Me, Satisfaction by the Stones...

But as far as visual...... LIPS at the start of ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW

NOTHING BEATS THE LIPS MAN...... NOTHING.

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Boston - Foreplay/longtime



To name just one song..

I always liked the King's Switchin' to Glide, for which "the Beat Goes On" seves as 3 and a half minute intro:



Also, I liked Cheap Trick's drum solo intro to Ain't That a Shame:

Can't left out Guns And Roses's November Rain, Pink Floyd's the wall 1 (in the flesh) and Led Zeppelin's Stairway to heaven. True classics.

This never got radio play, but the a cappella group The Bobs had a great opening to the song "Johnny's Room":

http://www.themadmusicarchive.com/sa...y%27s_Room.mp3

"There are two things I can't stand
One of them is your mom"

The 'Hot Rod' and the harmonica solo in the opening of Steve Miller's " Livin in the U.S.A."



Am I right?

umm this is an easy one.. for pure music and it's time frame..

The Who-- Baba O'Riley

Baba O'Riley is pretty wicked. I also love the intro to Under Pressure; great bass line. I love the intro to Rooney's "Shakin'".

I love the reinterpretation by Blue Man Group, the intro sounds great with two Tubulums and a Piano Smasher:

Yeah I like that version, but still pales in comparison to me.

I always dig the intro to <i>I'm Shipping Up To Boston</i> by Dropkick Murphys



EDIT: oh.. and Tessie, merely because they reference the Bo'Sox in the video :D :D

Front Line Assembly - Plasticity

It starts atmospheric, futuristic, industrial...
It begins to build up with beats...
The beats stop and the synths jerk you around until the lyrics kick in.

I love it to death.

My vote:

Jimi Hendrix, "Purple Haze"
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I would use this if someone were ever to ask me, "What is rock music?"

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The Beatles are exempt from this consideration due to my Beatlemaniac status. I would go out of my mind choosing a "best" of anything.

You'll have to wait through the clapping. Classical music is VERY self-congratulatory.

Rachmaninov's Second Piano Concerto:

Oh, dude, no.

If you're going to nominate a Hendrix tune for this thread, it has to be Voodoo Chile (Slight Return).

Wah pedal wakka-wakka and killer riffs? I'm so there.

You make a good point. But as an introduction to "rock music," there is no need to smack :splat: the uninitiated upside the head. You've got to ease them in, my friend.

The opening to Fat Bottomed Girls by Queen always gets me going. And pretty much the rest of the song.

This is true. I stopped going to concerts because I always get bored around the 5th encore.

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Fat bottom girls, you make the rockin' world go 'round!

AWWW, they always play Philip Glass after the 5th encore! Who doesn't like Glass?!

Ha ha! Thanks, Martian. Love that song. :)

I'm going to see We Will Rock You tonight.

I'm not all that into listening to a lot of music, but I LOVE good guitar playing. I pretty much cream whenever I hear this song come on.

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Ignore the anime. I couldn't find the actual music video and was too lazy to look on other sites. =P

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Just off the top of my head...gets me every time.

Also by Muse:
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I really could go on.

The Verve's "History" gets me not only because of the drama of the strings, but also because of the source material of Richard Ashcroft's lyrics (nerd points if you know it): <embed src="http://www.seeqpod.net/cache/seeqpodSlimlineEmbed.swf" wmode="transparent" width="300" height="80" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" flashvars="domain=http://www.seeqpod.com&playlistXMLPath=http://www.seeqpod.com/api/music/getPlaylist?playlist_id=03c2448f55"></embed>

I think what amuses me most about this is the idea that a lot of people will assume we're joking.

For Rangerjoe, good guitar playing:

Easy.
for me it would be Bad Brains-Big take over.

it starts off with just the bass drum kicking. "thump thump thump thump thump."
A pickslide down the guitar neck comes into earshot and you hear guitar taps and random but fitting notes.

It goes on and on, building and building. the energy gathers as you anticipate the the start of this rather fast song. still, the bass drum kicks and the guitar gets tapped. you wait, still building energy, then, when you think you couldnt possible stand it anymore

"Boom!" energy explosion!

yeah, its great.

just for kicks:


Edit: this is why i love punk. do you see that energy? oh, i know you do.

another edit: i posted this in the wrong thread before. damn booze!

I had no idea this was done...so how was it??

It was good. It was actually pretty funny and it had a lot of Queen songs. It's hard to pull off Queen songs, but they did a fine job.

And the costumes were awesome.

Cool. :)

I love Queen.

Some of my favorites:

666- Dance With The Devil (my favorite part starts at 3:00):



Infected Mushroom - The Messenger:

You stole the words right out of my mouth on this one. By far the most intense opening to a song I can think of.

All hail Bad Brains!