Best Beginning/Opening To A Song - Ever!

tm2204 · 05-10-2009 11:19pm #1

My choice would be 'In Between Days' by the Cure. Pure class.....

masseyferguson · 05-10-2009 11:22pm

oasis,champange supernova:cool:

Heisenberg. · 05-10-2009 11:32pm

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Dublin_Gunner · 06-10-2009 12:02am

Prob not the best ever, but pretty good ones IMO:

Lizzy - Cowboy Song (especially L&D version)
Velvet Revolver - Slither
Under the Bridge - Chilli Peppers
Van Halen - Humans Being

whatawaster · 06-10-2009 10:47am

Smells like Teen Spirit

Twin-go · 06-10-2009 10:52am

Baba O'Reily - The Who:D

Flimbos · 06-10-2009 2:46pm

A few that spring to mind...

Let's Dance - David Bowie.
I Wanna Be Adored - Stone Roses.
Just - Radiohead.

daveyboy_1ie · 06-10-2009 2:51pm

Karma Police - Radiohead
Paradise City or Sweet Child o' Mine - Guns n' Roses
Waterfall - Stone Roses

How Soon Is Now · 06-10-2009 2:58pm

Baba O'Reily - The Who

Deffo have the start as me ringtone and all lol

partyguinness · 06-10-2009 3:01pm

Back in Black- AcDC
Whole Lotta Rosie- Acdc

Billie Jean - MJ

Nozebleed · 06-10-2009 3:04pm

THE CULT> KING COUNTRY MAN

washiskin · 06-10-2009 3:13pm

Welcome To The Jungle - Guns 'n' Roses

Show Me - ABC (Track 1 on Lexicon of Love)

Cars and Are Friends Electric - Gary Numan (Tubeway Army)

Heaven in my Hands - Level 42

On The Beach (Remix Version) - Chris Rea

Autobahn - Kraftwerk

Loves Great Adventure - Ultravox

A bit MOTR granted, but they do it for me!

rednik · 06-10-2009 5:03pm

Gerry Rafferty Baker Street
Pink Floyd Money Time
Rainbow Stargazer
Van Halen It's about time
Peter Gabriel Mercy Street
Saxon Wheels of Steel
Don Henley The boys of summer
Glenn Frey The heat is on
The Cure A Forest
Iron Maiden Phantom of the Opera

G-Money · 06-10-2009 10:11pm

For me:

The acoustic intro to Whatever by Oasis

The intro to Aint it Fun by Gun's N Roses - from the Spaghetti Incident album. Thank me later, it's such a great chord sequence. Just the first 10 seconds or so.

Also check out Coma by Guns N Roses from 6mins 10 seconds to 6min 30 seconds. Love that solo.

tailgunner · 07-10-2009 12:17pm

This Charming Man - The Smiths

fillmore jive · 07-10-2009 12:41pm

Fook that police- NWA.

Burning Eclipse · 07-10-2009 1:46pm

Depends on the mood largely, but some ideas...

Baba O'Riley - The Who

Paradise City - Guns 'N' Roses

Brothers in Arms - Dire Straits

humberklog · 07-10-2009 2:54pm

Prodigy- No Good.
Abba- Voulez Vouz.
Donna Summer- I feel love.
Death in Vegas- Aisha.

Not best ever but tickle my fancy at the moment.

beng128 · 07-10-2009 4:19pm

Funky Monks-Red Hot Chili Peppers

The title says it all... f*ckin funkiest intro for any song from the past 20 years.

And +1 to Waterfall and I Wanna be Adored by Stone roses

davylee · 07-10-2009 4:25pm

agree with all the lads who say baba o reily
dancin in the moonlight would also be in there
and radioheads street spirit has to be one of the best

slipss · 07-10-2009 10:01pm

grandmaster wrote: »

For me:

The intro to Aint it Fun by Gun's N Roses - from the Spaghetti Incident album. Thank me later, it's such a great chord sequence. Just the first 10 seconds or so.

I'll second that. The intro runs far longer than 10 seconds though? Maybe different versions.

tech77 · 07-10-2009 10:08pm

Stone Roses- I wanna be adored
GNR- Sweet child of mine
The Cure- Just like heaven
are pretty good.

crisco10 · 08-10-2009 7:10am

Come together - The Beatles
All you need is love - the beatles
Ash - Girl from Mars

Bluebirdstudios · 08-10-2009 10:21am

1. Sir duke / Stevie wonder

2. Skin Deep / The Stranglers ( One of the best and groovy intros)

tampopo · 08-10-2009 10:30am

Paranoia Art of Noise,
Boys of Summer Don Henley Drum solo only.
Billie Jean MJ
Golden Brown Stranglers
Voulez Vous, is good, by ABBA

feckin djs speak over a lot of decent intros, that's the only problem

scargill · 08-10-2009 10:41am

The Smiths - London

JP Liz · 08-10-2009 11:04am

My Sharona - The Knack

chachabinx · 08-10-2009 11:08am

When the sun goes down - Arctic Monkeys

Dudess · 08-10-2009 3:30pm

The Stone Roses - I Wanna Be Adored
Morrissey - Suedehead
Lloyd Cole & The Commotions - Rattlesnakes
The Rolling Stones - Gimme Shelter

DUBACC · 08-10-2009 3:38pm

Paradise City by Guns n Roses

The more i see by Metallica - unbelievable start

gustavo · 08-10-2009 4:49pm

Smells like teen spirit0Nirvana
I wanna be Adored - Stone Roses
Enter Sandman - Metallica
Some girls are bigger than others - Smiths
I Bet you look good on the dancefloor - Arctic Monkeys
All my Friends - LCD Soundsystem
Stay Positive - Hold Steady
Last Nite - Strokes

laoisforliam · 08-10-2009 4:49pm

Buffalo Springfield - For What its Worth
Oasis - The Masterplan
MArvin Gaye - Sexual Healing

and the winner is:
Talking Heads - This Must be the Place Naive Melody

liah · 08-10-2009 4:54pm

Cowboy Junkies - Sweet Jane
Cake - Shadow Stabbing

Not the best of all time but they've just got something easy and sexy about them.

I'll have to think of other ones, they're just stuck in my head.

Taz86 · 08-10-2009 8:26pm

It's gotta be David Bowie's Station to Station. Genius.

Kirnsy · 08-10-2009 9:29pm

michael jackson... man in the mirror

bullpost · 09-10-2009 1:34pm

Gimme Shelter - The rolling Stones
Shake some action - The flamin' Groovies
Don't go back to Rockville - REM
Pretty Vacant - The Sex Pistols

James T Kirk · 10-10-2009 3:59am

I have so many, OP.

Airbag (track 1, OK Computer), by Radiohead springs to mind.

EDIT: Gimme Shelter, Smells Like Teen Spirit, I Wanna Be Adored and Baba O Reilly are just a few of the previously mentioned that I love too. :cool:

EDIT EDIT:

Taz86 wrote: »

It's gotta be David Bowie's Station to Station. Genius.

+1000,000,000,000...

The whole album too...

DrumSteve · 10-10-2009 11:28am

The sun always shines on tv - A-ha

Bubs101 · 10-10-2009 12:41pm

Cochise - Audioslave

Also insane in the brain by Cyprus hill

neeshboy · 11-10-2009 8:57pm

loopz/lost weekend by films. beautiful

bmw316 · 12-10-2009 10:45am

the helicoptor song by the wolf tones

Any key? · 12-10-2009 11:55am

The Ocean - Led Zeppelin

The Prodigy - No Good

fillmore jive · 12-10-2009 12:11pm

Does anyone remember Surf Rider by the Lively Ones. Its the song at the end of Pulp Fiction:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXi3mCfv15k

lordgoat · 12-10-2009 12:23pm

New Order - Blue Monday
Burnin' Down The House - Talking Heads

And i love this one...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zo4Y0TxW41g

SwearImNotPaul · 12-10-2009 1:12pm

Rolling Stones - Satisfaction has the perfect opening. It's brilliant.

cson · 15-10-2009 12:06am

The View From The Afternoon by Arctic Monkeys has some start to it. The video is class too, love the way they stop in the middle of it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_AFilMn3fA

RandolphEsq · 19-10-2009 2:11am

Love Hotel California random intros by The Eagles. Though in fairnest, any untro to that song would necessaarily be awesome. Even the sound of a toilet flushing would be a good intro if it preceeded Hotel California. Epic!