Off Topic The Greatest Intro of All Time

Watch out storing vinyl records in the loft mate.
We did that and when we moved recently the heat had warped some of them quite badly.

 

****......I better find mine out then.
An eclectic mix of early Skrewdriver, Eek-a-Mouse and Sham 69 stuff is wrapped up in my loft that’s pribably ruined by now.

 

I left my vinyl double album of 1969: Velvet Underground Live on a windowsill over 40 years ago, a few hours in the sun and it was warped like a boomerang. A seriously stupid thing to do, it’s a brilliant album, the versions of the songs are totally different to the studio songs (and better I think) and it was recorded on very primitive equipment, a house 4 track and some songs from acetates. On the original record this gives it charm and character, but as all subsequent versions - new vinyl, CD and streams/ downloads are just re recordings from the original vinyl as the tapes have been lost, they sound crap by comparison, like they’ve been recorded on a handed held cassette.

 

So many digitally remastered CDs that have been 'cleaned up' to remove impurities from original recordings have lost their 'edge'. The old equipment they were recorded on had much better frequency range and I've bought some 'Best Of' CDs over the years and was really pissed off with some of the 'new versions'. Anyone who still has original vinyl records from that era should treasure them, they really are irreplaceable...

 

When I got all mine down last year after twenty years I was relieved to see only a couple warped. It seemed if they were packed tightly together they seemed OK. The ones warped were just loose.

 

Except my wife’s vinyl original of Supertramp’s Breakfast in America, which I have been quietly wishing harm to for some time.

 

I quite liked early Supertramp, but the songs on this really get on my tits for some reason.

 

I know Morrisey is a proper miserable bastard but :

The Smiths - This Charming Man

When I hear the intro always seems to brighten my mood.

 

I used to love the Smiths and Morrisey, Johnny Marr is a genius, and I always assumed that Morrisey’s lyrics were ironic/tongue in cheek and rather funny. But I think I was wrong about that, he really does seem very self absorbed and self important.

A Smiths intro for the Gods is How Soon is Now.

 

The Obvious Child - Paul Simon
Wind of change - scorpions
Brithers in arms -Dire Straits
A Whiter shade of pale- Annie Lennox
On the border- Al stewart
Always the sun - stranglers.

 

Both versions got fantastic intros in their own ways.
Prefer the Communards for dancing and party, Melvin And the Blue Notes for listening and as one of my driving tracks.

 

Have to be one of, if not the most recognisable intros out there.

 

Vanilla Ice - Ice, Ice Baby

 

Yeah I think it was a bit **** by Queen and Bowie to plagiarise the poor sod