Favorite Song Openings

[JohnnyPHX]

A few from the ladies.

 

[JohnnyPHX]

Van Halen ROCKS!!!!

 

[Montecfo]

Hah! I totally forgot the "Ogga-Chukka" part of that! It's such a "pop song" vibe, that seems totally out of place. And then they bring it back later in the tune. Crazy, but it worked! I never would have had the nerve to try to put that into a song for general release.

Let's see AI come up with something that far out of left field, and make it work!

Intriguing that the campy Blue Swede cover charted higher than BJ Thomas' original 1968 release.

 

[Sorcerer]

There's too many of the well known ones that are great. I always enjoyed this one...although it was released in the 60s, it holds up. I hope someone here has heard of this ..

 

[38Chevy454]

Green Onions by Booker T and the MGs. It's also a great instrumental song.

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[Qs Laptop]

A lot of good ones here. I'm going to change it up a bit. This song has special memories for me. Whenever I hear it start up the volume gets cranked.

 

[jollystomper]

As a former radio/party DJ in college and a few years afterwards, The song intros that instantly brought people onto the dance floor from that time are embedded in my mind. For me, the top five ten that come quickly come to mind, in no particular order:

Stevie Wonder - I Wish
Parliament - Flashlight
Wild Cherry - Play That Funky Music
Earth Wind & Fire - Shining Star
The Clash - Rock the Casbah
Chic - Good Times
Sister Sledge - We Are Family
KC & The Sunshine Band - (That's The Way) I Like It
Michael Jackson - Billie Jean
Prince - 1999

 

[COcheesehead]

Steely Dan, Reelin in the Years.

 

[marko]

The opening harmonica riff on Church of the Poison Mind. Culture Club.

And More than a feeling, Boston

 

[GenXguy]

Rolling Stones - Gimme Shelter

 

[FI_RElater]

Did someone call for The Who ?

 

[wyecrabber1]

Rush, The Spirit of Radio

 

[socca]

Wipe Out - The Surfaris

Chantilly Lace - Big Bopper

Splish Splash - Bobby Darin

What’s New Pussycat? Tom Jones

 

[thenameiwish]

Beethoven's 5th
Vivaldi's Spring
Bach - Toccata & Fugue in D Minor ( On a huge pipe organ. No, I mean a huge pipe organ. )
Lynyrd Skynyrd - Gimme Three Steps
Zeppelin - Ten Years Gone
Zeppelin - Rock and Roll
Too many others to list.

 

[finnski1]

Green Grass and High Tides

This was big when Skynyrd was huge with Free Bird . Always liked this better than Free Bird, great song.

 

[JohnnyPHX]

Neil Diamond Hot August Nights......The way these two songs flow into each other in the album. Kudos to dear dad for sharing this with us when we were kids.

 

[Stormy Kromer]

In 1975-1976 our small town high school pep band had a guy who had an electric guitar.

When our basketball team charged out of the locker room before home games the pep band would play "Smoke on the Water" They gave the guitar player a 30 second solo at the start before the rest of the pep and kicked in.. and he was good. You could feel the electricity from his guitar when you were a kid in the bleachers. The other team didn't know what to do.

It was so loud that the asbetos ceiling tiles would start to crack and dust would fall on your head.

Whenever I hear "Smoke on the water" I go back to being a 4th grader in the bleachers in that old gymnasium. Our team went 18-0 that season.

 

[dunkelblau]

Sing,Sing,Sing (With a Swing)

 

[GoBirds]

I’ll go with some randoms I don’t think were mentioned and my fav bands are Pearl Jam and Live, but growing up in the 80’s/90’s my music taste was the 50’s 60’s and 70’s, for perspective.

Guns n Roses:
Welcome to the jungle
November rain

Pink Floyd:
Shine on You Crazy Diamond

Live:
Beauty of gray

Pearl Jam
Release
Indifference

 

[Stormy Kromer]

I was born the year it was released so I didn't hear it right away, but the opening of the Rolling Stones "Satisfaction" deserves a mention. It came to Keith Richards in a dream, he says.

 

[YellowSubmarine]

The Ocean...Led Zeppelin

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[finnski1]

Okay, since somebody else did. Here are ten that popped into my head.
Thick as a Brick. Tull
You and Me. Moody Blues
Heart of The Sunrise. Yes
Carry on My Wayward Son. Kansas.
Love Reign o'er Me. The Who.
The Royal Scam. Steely Dan
I Cheat the Hangman. Doobie Brothers.
Can't You Hear Me Knocking. Rolling Stones
Over The Hills and Far Away. Led Zeppelin
Shine On You Crazy Diamond. Pink Floyd

 

[doneat54]

Rush: Spirit of Radio
Cheap Trick: Ain't that a Shame, live at Buddakan
Heart: Barracuda
Aerosmith: Draw the Line (live)
(the best) Nirvana: Smells Like Teen Spirit

 

[mystang52]

my top 3:

 

[1242Vintage]

Cheap Trick … Ain’t that a shame.