Song with a Killer Intro and Then Goes Crap?

ClovenHoof

Tin Soldier by The Small Faces.

The build up is stunning and then it turns to shyte.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vWTtx_PxPo

The_Valeyard

Baauer, ‘Harlem Shake’

Super-Rush

Babylon Zoo - Spaceman.

Sweetemotion

Sweet Emotion

Cortina_MK_IV

I like the opening to Lullaby by The Cure till Robert Smith opens his gob.

The_Valeyard

Anything Bob Dylan sings live these days?

humberklog

Almost anything by Neil Young.

Stigura

humberklog wrote: »

Almost anything by Neil Young.

:eek: Ooooohh! Boo! Hiss! :pac:

(Just out of interest; Which of his do ye consider 'best'?)


Forgive me, OP. I'd love to offer a suggestion. But, I honestly don't listen to that much music, these days. The old memories not what it was either .....

randy hickey

+1 for Spaceman by Babylon Zoo - the hook was catchy as fcuk, and then he had to go and **** all over it with the slow verse.

humberklog

Stigura wrote: »

:eek: Ooooohh! Boo! Hiss! :pac:

(Just out of interest; Which of his do ye consider 'best'?)

It changes depending on my mood.

Lucy8080

Whatever you want- Status Qou.

Basically sums up Status Quo.

This is interesting...oh feck I could write the rest of this-who is it-don't bother -I know- It's Status Quo -again.

1878_

Ghost of a Chance by The Blades.

Very good intro and then turns into a completely different, terrible song.

Lucy8080

1878_ wrote: »

Ghost of a Chance by The Blades.

Very good intro and then turns into a completely different, terrible song.

Agreed. A part of me loves this song and the other part hates it for what it could have been.

FortySeven

Leftfield. Original.

Outlaw Pete

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66HhbZc9MXU

511

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Call Me Jimmy

Maggot brain, 10 minutes of fire... then it just ends in silence

K.Flyer

I imagine I'm in a minority on this, but I always felt Phantom of the Opera (Iron Maiden) fell on its face after its iconic intro and first verse.

machiavellianme

511 wrote: »

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I think you've gotten this the wrong way round. A dull but pretty intro but the song gets better after that. The solos are fantastic, especially on the s&m version with full symphonic accompaniment.

Another +1 on babylon zoo. Came into this thread specifically to curse it. What's worse is that thousands of albums were sold on the back of that intro.

Mint Aero

The theme tune song used for pure mule

jacksie66

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Andrewf20

Too shy by kajagoogoo.

EagererBeaver

Land of Hope and Dreams by Bruce Springsteen.

nullzero

Not a bad song, but it simply doesn't live up to its intro... My little empire by the manic street preachers.

hidinginthebush

511 wrote: »

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AllGunsBlazing

Almost every Smiths song I've ever heard starts off with a brilliant guitar intro by Johnny Marr, and then Morrissey starts to "sing".

boobar

Call Me Jimmy wrote: »

Maggot brain, 10 minutes of fire... then it just ends in silence

Is that a Whitney Houston track?

boobar

AllGunsBlazing wrote: »

Almost every Smiths song I've ever heard starts off with a brilliant guitar intro by Johnny Marr, and then Morrissey starts to "sing".

And it just gets better when you think it couldn't.

Squall Leonhart

+1 for whoever mentioned "Whatever You Want" by Status Quo, gorgeous chorus effect of an intro, hopeful guitars... then descends into tack right where the guitars play the "whatever you want" riff.

chopperbyrne

Pretty much every AC/DC song.

Squall Leonhart

chopperbyrne wrote: »

Pretty much every AC/DC song.

I can think of a few ACthunderboltDC songs that I'd agree with, but love them or loathe them, they've got some cracking songs.

Some of their songs can't be accused of having an epic intro then failing because in some cases, like Back in Black, the intro chord progression is what you hear all throughout the song

Then you've got newer songs like "War Machine" which has a stomper of an intro and the song lives up to it.

fryup

Poison - Alice Cooper

RandomName2

Justice Vs Simian - We Are Your Friends

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0TvnWRSyr4

purplepanda

ClovenHoof wrote: »

Tin Soldier by The Small Faces.

The build up is stunning and then it turns to shyte.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vWTtx_PxPo

Try The Solarflares / ex Prisoners, same riff different song :pac:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yc-595RrU64

Mickeroo

Straight to Hell by The Clash, I think Paper Planes by MIA makes better use of it.

Keane2baMused

Whiskey in the Jar.

Bugs the hell out of me after the intro riff. Might be just me though

ClashCityRocker

Franz Ferdinand - Take me out. The "So if you're lonely.." verse is epic and sounds like it's really building into something special, then it just sort of plods along afterward.

Shipping up to Boston - Dropkick Murphys i think? Exciting intro (and one they must have made of fortune from given it's featured at every Irish sports event ever) but a nothing song.

jake_boy_men

no doubt - hella good

Duggy747

machiavellianme wrote: »

Another +1 on babylon zoo. Came into this thread specifically to curse it. What's worse is that thousands of albums were sold on the back of that intro.

If I remember right, they (the record label or Levis, since it was in their ad) released a remix of the song which was just the intro and outro of the song, cutting the dodgy bits out :pac:

chakotha

Baker Street by Gerry Rafferty.

The song is good too mind but just not as good as the intro.

chakotha

Eric Clapton Layla

Dyr

1878_ wrote: »

Ghost of a Chance by The Blades.

Very good intro and then turns into a completely different, terrible song.

The Blades had a habit of writing catchy songs that were also very forgettable


The sisters of mercy..great intros but the song usually did nothing else but rinse-repeat after it, doctor jeep, vision thing etc

cherryghost

chakotha wrote: »

Eric Clapton Layla

Ah here

RDM_83 again

Crazy Train - Ozzy Osbourne

Not a terrible song but the intro is much more meaty than the rest of the tune

fryup

ClovenHoof wrote: »

Tin Soldier by The Small Faces.

The build up is stunning and then it turns to shyte.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vWTtx_PxPo

what are you on about

that song is great from start to finish and another thing steve marriot is the greatest rock singer of all time, and bear in mind he was only 20 when he recorded that record

Ted111

chakotha wrote: »

Eric Clapton Layla

The outros where its at

Ronald Wilson Reagan

chakotha wrote: »

Eric Clapton Layla

The ending is one of the greatest ever and used exactly in Goodfellas.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Z6MJIjCJ20