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.
This one for starters. The live Hell Freezes over version has a longer flamenco style intro that I absolutely love.
This is a great intro and a good excuse to show this brilliant Wallace & Gromit video, one of the best put together I've seen...
**** 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.
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....
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
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?
I saw them at Hyde park in July - they were outstanding and Forest was probably the song of the night.
