Off Topic The Greatest Intro of All Time

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Of course there isn't one, like most things in the art world it's all subjective. Me and my wife were discussing this the other day and there are hundreds of great intro's. In the end I went for She Sells Sanctuary by The Cult and she opted for Frankie Knuckles - Your Love.

What say you? No need to post the video unless you really want to as we already have the music thread for that. I thought it would be interesting to discuss great intro's and what makes for a great intro. And please don't post a list of songs as this tends to dilute the polyphony of a great piece of music.

I'm a bit late to this thread but sorry 9's I think I am in love with your wife even though I have never met here.
You might want to point her in the direction of this epic thread on LFW

https://www.fansnetwork.co.uk/footb...the-frankie-friday-music-thread.....rip/#4613

Oh and the album version of Papa Was a Rollin Stone takes some beating as an intro.

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I'm a bit late to this thread but sorry 9's I think I am in love with your wife even though I have never met here.
You might want to point her in the direction of this epic thread on LFW

https://www.fansnetwork.co.uk/footb...the-frankie-friday-music-thread.....rip/#4613

Oh and the album version of Papa Was a Rollin Stone takes some beating as an intro.

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Good one CCJ.

The first song is absent in the link, I take it that it was Your Love by Frankie Knuckles?
 
I saw them at Heaton Park when they reformed. Brilliant. Don't have a clue what they played where but after you mention it, I do half wonder if that was the opener. Were we at the same gig?

I've seen them four times - Spike Island back in 1990 in their heyday, which was superb, T in the Park 2012 torrential downpour and mud that Glastonbury would be proud of, Glasgow Green in 2013, brilliant if it wasn't for all the NEDs trying to fight everyone, and finally last year at Hampden...oh dear, Ian Browns voice was dreadful thankfully the crowd knew all the words and covered over his vocals. They announced they were splitting up (again) just before they walked off stage so I'm glad I took my son with me that day.
 
I've seen them four times - Spike Island back in 1990 in their heyday, which was superb, T in the Park 2012 torrential downpour and mud that Glastonbury would be proud of, Glasgow Green in 2013, brilliant if it wasn't for all the NEDs trying to fight everyone, and finally last year at Hampden...oh dear, Ian Browns voice was dreadful thankfully the crowd knew all the words and covered over his vocals. They announced they were splitting up (again) just before they walked off stage so I'm glad I took my son with me that day.

You were at Spike Island ?
I salute you sir. Was it as good as legend says it was ?
 
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Good one CCJ.

The first song is absent in the link, I take it that it was Your Love by Frankie Knuckles?

Yes mate, I didn't intend to link it but that was the song. There was a link to a great thread on LFW for any dance music afficionados (not many reading through this thread though!)
 
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So many to choose from but this was the first one that popped into my head when I read this thread title, although not a huge fan of the band:

Tears for Fears - Head Over Heels
 
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Some great tunes on here re intros
Here’s a curved ball on a genre that works on the intro in fact in some cases is a collection of intros throughout

Layered Music
Imo although pioneered by PF, TD Mike Ofield it’s not hard nowadays to pick a track that pisses all over some of the great tracks we have come up with

I picked the SP pretty vacant because of what it meant at the time .. a radical change

Today it’s flooded with great intros in trance music

Example

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You were at Spike Island ?
I salute you sir. Was it as good as legend says it was ?

Yes mate, I was there - got a bus from Kings Cross up there with loads of other Roses fans, was there early so saw the whole gig, from opening acts right through to the main event....still have the ticket somewhere, my son looks at it in awe <laugh> it was a great day, weather was good if I remember, bit windy, loads of lovely ladies around (I would've been about 19, so right up for it!) - a pity that there's no decent footage of it anywhere....
 
In the factory where i was working today they have the local radio station playing and it's usually crap, but this afternoon this gem was aired and the intro is up there with the best of them........

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