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Best Song Intro (yeah, I know...)

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Seth

03:12 / 06.08.01

Because you’re my special friend, come closer for a special treat. I’m going to touch you in a special place.

It is never OK to touch someone else’s private parts. Your Mum and Dad will tell you so.

[ 06-08-2001: Message edited by: expressionless ]

Jack Fear

11:57 / 06.08.01

Early Nick Cave's got some greaqt openings:

"Ahhhh'm gunna tell yuh 'bout a giiirl--"

WHOMP whomp whomp whomp WHOMP whomp whomp whomp WHOMP! WHOMP! WHOMP! WHOMP!

et cetera. And on the version of "Tupelo" from Live Seeds, you hear a drunk in the crowd howling "Tuuu-pe-looooooooo!!!!", then Blixa lifts up one corner of his amp and then lets it fall, so the spring reverb crashes and twangs in the most gawdawful appalling apocalyptic din you've ever heard on a concert record, and the dust clears with that distorto heartbeat bass and the flanged guitar making the sound of the howling wind and you start to shiver cos you know that something bad is about to happen.

Not Here Still

17:33 / 06.08.01

Hell, it's blindingly obvious, which is why I'm a bit suprised no one's mentioned it before - four bass notes, each played three times, but the most recognisable intro ever -the Pixies' Debaser, anybody?

Also obvious, but still great for all that - Isaac Hayes' Shaft; Glen Campbell's Witchita Lineman; and the Sex Pistols' Anarchy in the UK.

Less so; Grandaddy's AM 180, which sounds like it's being played on a kid's keyboard;
Keith Hudson's Black Heart - one of many dub tunes which have great intros, but this one will blow your speakers (get it on Blood and Fire's Heavyweight Sound compilation for a fiver in the UK);

and about a million other songs depending on what I'm feeling like any particular day...

Graham the Happy Scum

12:25 / 07.08.01

Oooh! Got another one! Massive Attack's "Angel" when that subterranean bass starts rattling the floorboards in the intro, and then Horace Andy opens up... Oh yes.

grant

12:29 / 08.08.01

Pixies: Gigantic. That Kim Deal yowl over the creepy bass.

Beatles: Helter Skelter. Guitars make me jump still.

Bauhaus: live version, Man with X-ray Eyes. Crowd noises, then Peter Murphy saying something like "Watch your cameras, my people eat them for dinner." Then this unearthly bass thud and the song lurches forward.

Sonic Youth: Dirty Boots.

Man or AstroMan?: Goldfinger. They just play a sample of whichever nefarious villain (Blofeld?) making a great speech about how Man has achieved greatness in every field of endeavour - EXCEPT CRIME! and then immediately launches into surf guitar nuttiness.

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