Off Topic The Greatest Intro of All Time

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Thinking back to my childhood, I remember hearing Once in a Lifetime by Talking Heads and thinking wow, that's different. What a great intro, shows how powerful and a relatively simple bass line can be and it just repeats throughout the song. I think I was about 13 or 14 at the time.
 
QPR999 said:
Thinking back to my childhood, I remember hearing Once in a Lifetime by Talking Heads and thinking wow, that's different. What a great intro, shows how powerful and a relatively simple bass line can be and it just repeats throughout the song. I think I was about 13 or 14 at the time.
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Try the intro to the extended version of “The Lady Don’t Mind”, Ninesy, quite mad.
 
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QPR999 said:
Thinking back to my childhood, I remember hearing Once in a Lifetime by Talking Heads and thinking wow, that's different. What a great intro, shows how powerful and a relatively simple bass line can be and it just repeats throughout the song. I think I was about 13 or 14 at the time.
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**** off you can’t be that much younger than me. You don’t look it. Pretty sure I was in my twenties* when that was released. Good pick.

Another Girl Another Planet - The Only Ones. Great intro, great song including one of the all time classic guitar solos.

*just looked it up, I was 19.
 
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KooPeeArr said:
I've seen the Aussie Floyd band too - so good they played at Dave Gilmore's wedding (if I remember that one right). I will, playfully, say it's a bit self indulgent having your own music played though.

Echoes would be my favourite Pink Floyd intro but not my choice for this thread...
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My old prog covers band used to play "Echoes" amongst other '70s Prog classics. "Siberian Khatru" or "Suppers Ready" anyone?

I've seen Aussie Floyd a few times, including once headlining a festival in Switzerland (2012) where the second on the bill was Uriah Heep (with my old neighbour Bernie doing the singing). I remember their bass player (the now-deceased Trevor Bolder - once a Spider from Mars) complaining that he didn't understand why they were playing second fiddle to a covers band.

Then Aussie Floyd started their set....
 
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Here are my honourable mentions:

Sonic Youth - Teenage Riot
Join Hendrix - pretty much anything he wrote but Machine Gun, House Burning Down and Hey Baby (New Rising Sun) would be the top 3
Muse - Knights of Cydonia
Psychedelic Furs - Sister Europe
Led Zeppelin - Since I've Been Loving You
 
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Dan Starkey 2 said:
You beat me to it! A Forest is sublime.

Stone Roses I Wanna be Adored also takes some beating
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Ooops - just had a senior moment and need to edit the post....

Shake Dog Shake and A Forest - both from the live album "Concert" start beautifully. The first with the riff of doom and the second with, well we all know how that starts, don't we?
 
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TheBigDipper said:
Ooops - just had a senior moment and need to edit the post....

Shake Dog Shake and A Forest - both from the live album "Concert" start beautifully. The first with the riff of doom and the second with, well we all know how that starts, don't we?
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I saw them at Hyde park in July - they were outstanding and Forest was probably the song of the night.
 
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