Greatest Intro Songs

[BBboy20]

Name one that you thought that truely showcased how to start off an album (maybe even a career).

Untitled/Interpol

[Guy Incognito]

Great first songs on albums:

ogdens nut gone flake (title track)- small faces
i wanna be adored - stone roses
jimmy james - beastie boys
leave them all behind - ride
galvanize - chemical brothers

[gbsuey]

take a bow-muse

[gbsuey]

drop the phone-shy child

[BBboy20]

Good Luck / Basement Jaxx

[gbsuey]

Good Luck / Basement Jaxx

...and what a tune!!

smells like teen spirit-nirvana

release the pressure-leftfield

[Guy Incognito]

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(y)(y)(y)

forgot about that one

[gbsuey]

just finished listening to the album-always amazes me how bloody great it is-and makes me feel like i'm 21 again and trashed in a field somewhere!!

[Lex Diamonds]

i wanna be adored - stone roses
First one that came to mind. (y)

Also, on a similar theme:

Movin' On Up - Primal Scream
Kinky Afro - Happy Mondays

[Calimero jr.]

King Crimson - 21st Century Schizoid Man; best intro to an album and a career by any band (y):)

[mickill]

Shine On You Crazy Diamond from Wish You Were Here. All 5 parts.

I like the way Illmatic starts. Everything from The Genesis to how it leads into NY State Of Mind.

Amerikkka's Most Wanted offers a good intro/first song combo, too.

[mickill]

Zeppelin always started their albums off with a strong lead track (not so much with Houses Of The Holy).

When The Lights Go Out from The Black Keys' Rubber Factory sets the bar so high that the rest of the album seems almost disappointing by comparison.

You Think I Ain't Worth A Dollar.... from QOTSA's Songs for the Deaf is another good one.

Hell Hath No Fury probably had my favorite 3 song opening combo of recent memory.

[adam_f]

I think my favorite is the Intro to Common's Be, but the rest of the album is quite gay.

[abcdefz]

The Who - Who's Next "Baba O'Reily"

Can - Tago Mago "Paper House"

Beastie Boys - Hello Nasty "Super Disco Breakin'"

Beatles - Abbey Road "Come Together"

Parliament - Funkentelechy Vs. the Placebo Syndrome "Bop Gun"

Beck - Odelay "Devil's Haircut"

Wilco - Summerteeth "I Can't Stand It"

Lou Reed - The Blue Mask "My House"

Mott the Hoople - Mott "All the Way from Memphis"

Sugar - Copper Blue "The Act We Act"

The Cars - The Cars "Let the Good Times Roll"

Lyle Lovett - Pontiac "If I Had a Boat"

Prince - 1999 "1999"

Prince - Purple Rain - "Let's Go Crazy"

Little Feat - Dixie Chicken "Dixie Chicken"

Aerosmith - Toys in the Attic "Toys in the Attic"

[mate_spawn_die]

to all the girls/shake your rump

amazing way to start an amazing album.

i remember when i first heard that album... ahh... sigh

i must have listened to it everyday at home or school for 3 weeks straight.

i'm sure there are more albums with great intros but thats what came to my mind first.

[Guy Incognito]

the intro skit then the magic number from "3ft High and rising" is a good un.

sgt peppers

smack my bitch up

[abcdefz]

to all the girls/shake your rump

amazing way to start an amazing album.

i remember when i first heard that album... ahh... sigh

i must have listened to it everyday at home or school for 3 weeks straight.

i'm sure there are more albums with great intros but thats what came to my mind first.


I thought about that, but my legalism made me think that you gotta just count "To All the Girls" as the first song. So it didn't make my
cut because of that.

[AceFace]

i've thought about this for awhile.

Hell's Bells on AC/DCs Back in Black

Canned Heat on Jamiroquai's Synkronized.

[mickill]

The Stones tend to start with great intro songs. Especially:

Gimme Shelter - Let It Bleed
Sympathy For The Devil - Exile On Main St.


Also, Holidays In The Sun off Never Mind The Bollocks...

[paul jones]

'Shaolin Buddha Finger' - Depth Charge (Nine Deadly Venoms)

[EN[i]GMA]

Neighborhood #1 off of Arcade Fire's Funeral.

Sets things off right.

Roxy Music always had great opening tracks:

Remake/Remodel off of Roxy Music
Do the Strand off of For Your Pleasure
Love is the Drug off of Siren
More Than This off of Avalon

All great opening tracks.

[DipDipDive]

Radiohead - OK Computer - Airbag

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[Deep_Sea_Rain]

Cherub Rock from Siamese Dream....Smashing Pumpkins. Period. (y)

Also the first track off 36 Chambers....Ghost's first verse is incredible. Full of energy...

"Ghostface, catch the blast of a hype verse, my glock bursts leavin' a hearse I did worse."

[paul jones]

GMA;1565028']
Roxy Music always had great opening tracks:

Remake/Remodel off of Roxy Music
Do the Strand off of For Your Pleasure
Love is the Drug off of Siren
More Than This off of Avalon

All great opening tracks.
(y)

[Tzar]

yeah, smack my bitch up is a good intro song.

-battery - MoP <-- the 3 acoustics right at the start is legendary
-angel of death - RiB
i wish 'a new level' started off Vulgar Display of Power...
-'war pigs' is quite epic

-liquid swords <-- i love the samurai story that leads into the beat.
-iron maiden - ironman <-- 'if it ain't smokey it ain't your motherfuckin message.... MOTHERFUCKER, I SAID GIMME THE MESSAGE'

i could think of these all day

[Guy Incognito]

'Shaolin Buddha Finger' - Depth Charge (Nine Deadly Venoms)

(y)(y)(y)



enter sandman - metallica

protection - massive attack

[BangkokB]

I hope to shift this towards a Greatest Into to the Song
To All the Girls
Detroit Rock City
Black Sabbath
For Those About to Rock
Into the Lungs of Hell
Professor Nutbutter's House of Treats
Pleasures of the Flesh
Mean Streets though Dirty Movies is the Better Song with a Helluva an Intro
and the Greatest of the Great is Hell Awaits ~ Welcome Back slowly volumed up backwards followed by WEHRMACHT!!! Greatest Into Ever

[BBboy20]

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