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Post by jk on Mar 20, 2023 13:34:36 GMT
Plenty of these around. Some manage to keep up the momentum, others struggle and others still swiftly descend into mediocrity. I was prompted to launch this thread on hearing this sitar-fulled cover of "Jumping Jack Flash". The opening is a thing of wonder but the rest sags from time to time: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ananda_Shankar_(album)
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Post by Sheriff John Stone on Mar 20, 2023 17:55:17 GMT
My first thought was Ray Manzarek's intro to The Doors' "Light My Fire". Here he explains:
EDIT: Ray only gets into the intro, which is also used later in the song, around the 2:00 mark.
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Post by Sheriff John Stone on Mar 21, 2023 19:43:50 GMT
How about three great Iggy Pop tracks:
1. Search And Destroy 2. Raw Power 3. Lust For Life - the popular sports talk show host, Jim Rome, uses this song's intro to open and close his show.
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Post by Kapitan on Mar 21, 2023 19:49:13 GMT
If you want immediately identifiable and much beloved intros, I mean...
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Post by jk on Mar 21, 2023 20:04:50 GMT
Some great responses there. I think the track that best typifies for me a song that fails to live up to its amazing start is Engelbert Humperdinck's "From Here To Eternity”, whose wonderfully evocative intro is at odds with the mediocre ditty that follows:
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Post by kds on Mar 21, 2023 20:21:10 GMT
Here's an example for me where the rest of the song doesn't live up to the intro. It's Air Dance from the final album featuring the original Black Sabbath. The intro just kicks in the door, but then the song does into a ballad, with a somewhat jazzy coda.
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Post by jk on Mar 21, 2023 20:35:32 GMT
Here's an example for me where the rest of the song doesn't live up to the intro. It's Air Dance from the final album featuring the original Black Sabbath. The intro just kicks in the door, but then the song does into a ballad, with a somewhat jazzy coda. kds, your video doesn't work for me, so I've posted this one for others in my position: I see what you mean. After that powerhouse intro, it just sort of withers away...
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Post by kds on Mar 21, 2023 20:50:01 GMT
Here's an example for me where the rest of the song doesn't live up to the intro. It's Air Dance from the final album featuring the original Black Sabbath. The intro just kicks in the door, but then the song does into a ballad, with a somewhat jazzy coda. kds , your video doesn't work for me, so I've posted this one for others in my position: I see what you mean. After that powerhouse intro, it just sort of withers away... There are a couple power chords later in the song, just before the coda, but nothing quite like the intro.
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Post by jk on Mar 22, 2023 9:25:07 GMT
My favourite in the "amazing start" category is probably U.S. Bonds' 1961 US #1 "Quarter To Three". And this one is great all the way through. It's very hard to decide what key it's in until the band arrives! You could only do this in an age when atmosphere counted more than musical accuracy:
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Post by Sheriff John Stone on Mar 25, 2023 1:25:38 GMT
How about Eric Clapton and Duane Allman on "Layla"?
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Post by jk on Mar 25, 2023 9:58:20 GMT
This must be the most technically outrageous start to any track! This is probably what Fripp meant when he described side two of Three of a Perfect Pair as "excessive":
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Post by Sheriff John Stone on Mar 26, 2023 13:01:48 GMT
Starts from John, Paul, George, and Ringo:
John - "Imagine" (it doesn't have to be bombastic ) Paul - "Jet" George - "What Is Life" Ringo - "It Don't Come Easy"
...OK, one from the collective:
The Beatles - "I Feel Fine"
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Post by jk on Mar 29, 2023 20:14:07 GMT
Digging Frank Bonarrigo's spoken introduction, lewd laugh and all, to The Lafayettes' 1962 scorcher "Nobody But You":
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Post by jk on Mar 30, 2023 17:16:04 GMT
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Post by Kapitan on Apr 10, 2023 13:44:04 GMT
One of many from an ensemble that really knew how to construct a song. This may not be among their greatest hits, but I have always thought it was a strong opening to not just a song, but an album, with its insistent synthesizer part of Asus resolving to A for eight bars ... only to keep it up (literally and figuratively), keeping the pattern going but skipping up a fourth to Dsus to D.
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