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Best Rock Song Intro Ever?

  • Serenity said...

    Pantera - floods or pantera - sandblasted skin

    Funny, I always thought Floods took forever to get interesting (but the solo is mind blowing). For Pantera intros, I like Mouth For War and Cowboys From Hell.

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    Omar Comin19758

  • Zeppelin - Kashmir
    Rolling Stones - Miss You
    Beach Boys - Good Vibrations
    Metallica - Fuel
    Metallica - Fight Fire With Fire
    AC/DC - Back In Black
    Alice In Chains - Them Bones

    What is that, a Titleist? A hole in one...

    Cosmo_Kramer

  • Absolutely Funeral for a Friend.

    Remind yourself. Nobody built like you, you design yourself.

    izzone89

  • Marianas Trench - August Burns Red

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    August Burns Red-Mariana's Trench {FULL SONG}

    *COMMENTS DISABLED BECAUSE APPARENTLY ALOT OF DOUCHEBAGS LIKES ABR AND LIKE TO ARGUE ABOUT THE GENRE SO TOO FUCKING BAD* Mariana's Trench off of Constellations.

    http://www.youtube.com/v/07PBxKbzSFE

    Sp4rt4ns

  • rockon

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    Dragonforce- Through The Fire And Flames (...

    Dragonforce- Through The Fire and Flames (Long Version) 1,000,000 views 10/12/09!!! 2,000,000 views 6/9/10!!!!!!!!!! thanks to everybody who favorite, shared and viewed this video, and please don't flag this if you don't have a video matching this. FAIR USE~ Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use. I don't own any of this artwork.

    http://www.youtube.com/v/kaSYvvfzYaE
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    mriderblue12 said... Your a retard.

    Watch Out Pylon

  • Cherry Pie

    Manhattan Green

  • i think I must be mad.... right bad.. metallica.... but the song I would choose is "enter sandman"...

    voodoo chile is a great shout though.....

    sarcyspice

  • I would agree with Nirvana and AC/DC Back in Black, but some others for your consideration....

    Sister Havana - Urge Overkill

    She Sells Sanctuary - The Cult

    Panama - Van Halen

    Cult of Personality - Living Color

    The Final Countdown - Europe

    Baba O'Riley - the Who

    Welcome to the Jungle - Guns and Roses

    Photograph - Def Leppard

    Supehero - Jane's Addiction

    Beverly Hills -Weezer

    Tick Tick Boom - Hives

    Ride - Vines

    Blitzkrieg Bop - Ramones

    This post has been edited 3 times, most recently by Spartan_MD on 7/5/2012 at 3:41 PM

    Spartan_MD

  • Say What You Will

    by Fastway

    Not really best ever, but pretty solid for a one hit wonder... and funny that it popped into my head for some reason.

    Baldy

  • Jesus rocks!

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    Spirit In The Sky Norman Greenbaum

    this IS the best quality for this song on youtube!

    http://www.youtube.com/v/AZQxH_8raCI
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    mriderblue12 said... Your a retard.

    Watch Out Pylon

  • Is this the thread where we interject our opinion as fact?

    Colonel Forbin

  • Crazy on You--Heart

    Manhattan Green

  • "Under My Wheels"-Alice Cooper
    "Rock and Roll"-Led Zeppelin

    WBill19542

  • Colonel Forbin said...

    Is this the thread where we interject our opinion as fact?

    Isn't that one of the bylaws of tRCMB?

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    mriderblue12 said... Your a retard.

    Watch Out Pylon

  • rabidgiraffe said...

    Solid entry, but if I'm picking a Zeppelin song, I gotta go with "When the Levee Breaks."

    Can't forget the "Immigrant Song"

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    Immigrant Song - Led Zeppelin

    Immigrant Song by Led Zeppelin Lyrics: Ah, ah, We come from the land of the ice and snow, From the midnight sun where the hot springs blow. The hammer of the gods will drive our ships to new lands, To fight the horde, singing and crying: Valhalla, I am coming! On we sweep with threshing oar, Our only goal will be the western shore. Ah, ah, We come from the land of the ice and snow, From the midnight sun where the hot springs blow. How soft your fields so green, can whisper tales of gore, Of how we calmed the tides of war. We are your overlords. On we sweep with threshing oar, Our only goal will be the western shore. So now you'd better stop and rebuild all your ruins, For peace and trust can win the day despite of all your losing.

    http://www.youtube.com/v/nBmueYJ0VhA

    Quone, to quone something. Like a patient gets difficult you quone them.

    harpo_speaks

  • Colonel Forbin said...

    Is this the thread where we interject our opinion as fact?

    Yes.

    So, children, listen up. This YouTube version for the explanation of the intro:

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    The Beatles - I Feel Fine [HD]

    http://www.facebook.com/HDBeatles "I Feel Fine" is a riff-driven rock song written primarily by John Lennon (credited to Lennon/McCartney) and released in 1964 by the Beatles as the A-side of their eighth UK single. The single reached the top of the UK charts on 12 December of that year, displacing The Rolling Stones' "Little Red Rooster," and remained there for five weeks. It also reached the top of the Billboard Hot 100 in late 1964. The B-side was "She's a Woman". "I Feel Fine" was the first of six number one songs in a row on the American charts, a record at the time. The subsequent singles were "Eight Days a Week", "Ticket to Ride", "Help!", "Yesterday", and "We Can Work It Out". Lennon wrote the guitar riff while in the studio recording "Eight Days a Week". "I wrote 'I Feel Fine' around that riff going on in the background," he recalled. "I told them I'd write a song specially for the riff. So they said, 'Yes. You go away and do that,' knowing that we'd almost finished the album Beatles for Sale. Anyway, going into the studio one morning, I said to Ringo, 'I've written this song but it's lousy.' But we tried it, complete with riff, and it sounded like an A side, so we decided to release it just like that." George Harrison said that Lennon's riff was influenced by a riff in "Watch Your Step", a 1961 release written and performed by Bobby Parker and covered by The Beatles in concerts during 1961 and 1962. Paul McCartney said the drums on "I Feel Fine" were inspired by Ray Charles's "What'd I Say". At the time of the song's recording, the Beatles, having mastered the studio basics, had begun to explore new sources of inspiration in noises previously eliminated as mistakes (electronic goofs, twisted tapes, talkback). "I Feel Fine" marks the earliest example of the use of feedback as a recording effect. Artists such as Jimi Hendrix, The Kinks, and The Who used feedback, but Lennon remained proud of the fact that the Beatles were the first group to actually put it on vinyl. The intro to "I Feel Fine" starts with a single, percussive (yet pure-sounding) note (a high "A" harmonic) played on McCartney's Hofner bass guitar that sustains, perhaps beyond any song previously recorded. It is then transformed and distorted via feedback. According to McCartney, "John had a semi-acoustic Gibson guitar. It had a pick-up on it so it could be amplified... We were just about to walk away to listen to a take when John leaned his guitar against the amp. I can still see him doing it... it went, 'Nnnnnnwahhhhh!" And we went, 'What's that? Voodoo!' 'No, it's feedback.' Wow, it's a great sound!' George Martin was there so we said, 'Can we have that on the record?' 'Well, I suppose we could, we could edit it on the front.' It was a found object, an accident caused by leaning the guitar against the amp." While sounding very much like an electric guitar, Lennon played it on an acoustic (a Gibson model J-160E), employing the guitar's onboard pickup and 1960s sound effect devices to make the acoustic guitar sound more electronic. The intro riff around a D major chord progresses to a C, then a G, where the G major vocals begin. Just before the coda, Lennon's intro riff (or ostinato), is repeated with a bright sound by George Harrison on electric guitar (a Gretsch Tennessean), followed by the more electric sound of John on amped acoustic.

    http://www.youtube.com/v/nNTkHWqifXY

    SpartanInNH

  • Born to Run

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    Bruce Springsteen - Born To Run

    Bruce Springsteen - Born To Run 1975 (STUDIO) In the day we sweat it out in the streets of a runaway american dream At night we ride through mansions of glory in suicide machines Sprung from cages out on highway 9, Chrome wheeled, fuel injected and steppin out over the line Baby this town rips the bones from your back Its a death trap, its a suicide rap We gotta get out while were young `cause tramps like us, baby we were born to run Wendy let me in I wanna be your friend I want to guard your dreams and visions Just wrap your legs round these velvet rims And strap your hands across my engines Together we could break this trap Well run till we drop, baby well never go back Will you walk with me out on the wire `cause baby Im just a scared and lonely rider But I gotta find out how it feels I want to know if love is wild, girl I want to know if love is real Beyond the palace hemi-powered drones scream down the boulevard The girls comb their hair in rearview mirrors And the boys try to look so hard The amusement park rises bold and stark Kids are huddled on the beach in a mist I wanna die with you wendy on the streets tonight In an everlasting kiss The highways jammed with broken heroes on a last chance power drive Everybodys out on the run tonight but theres no place left to hide Together wendy well live with the sadness Ill love you with all the madness in my soul Someday girl I dont know when were gonna get to that place Where we really want to go and well walk in the sun But till then tramps like us baby we were born to run

    http://www.youtube.com/v/f3t9SfrfDZM

    lil_dids

  • Although I think the answer is probably Voodoo Chile this is the song that made me a Clutch fan.

    This post has been edited 2 times, most recently by Big John Studd on 7/5/2012 at 4:09 PM

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    Clutch - Big News I

    The first song of the epic self titled... COPYRIGHT CLUTCH AND EASTWEST RECORDS

    http://www.youtube.com/v/im3mIYcyezw

    Big John Studd

  • Zapp Brannigan said...

    Layla - Clapton

    I agree with your choice of this Derek and the Dominos classic. Not only the best opening, but the best closing in rock history as well (Jim Gordon's piano coda remains absolutely timeless).

    Spartexaco

  • "Walk Of Life" - Dire Straits

    CoachedByDuffy

  • Spartexaco said...

    I agree with your choice of this Derek and the Dominos classic. Not only the best opening, but the best closing in rock history as well (Jim Gordon's piano coda remains absolutely timeless).

    Oops - I was actually listening to Clapton's first solo album while typing and it totally slipped my mind that was from his Derek and the Dominos days. Thanks for correcting. thumbsup

    Zapp Brannigan

  • Something a little newer...

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    Wolfmother - New Moon Rising

    The official video for Wolfmother's new single, 'New Moon Rising'. Out now!

    http://www.youtube.com/v/a-0oiPLOD6g
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    mriderblue12 said... Your a retard.

    Watch Out Pylon

  • Jamie's Crying or Atomic Punk by Van Halen also deserve consideration

    Spartan_MD

  • Spartexaco said...

    I agree with your choice of this Derek and the Dominos classic. Not only the best opening, but the best closing in rock history as well (Jim Gordon's piano coda remains absolutely timeless).

    Maybe the most beautiful piano chords ever played

    What is that, a Titleist? A hole in one...

    Cosmo_Kramer

  • Like a lot of the suggestions (e.g., AC/DC, Layla, Van Halen's Runnin' with the Devil?, etc.)

    But I think my personal favorite is Patti Smith's intro to "Gloria." Includes the immortal line, "Jesus died for somebody's sins, but not mine!"

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    Patti Smith Gloria

    patti smith - gloria (Horses Album, 1975)

    http://www.youtube.com/v/xxygqSTO1lQ

    "Look at this. An entire generation of Cinderellas, and there's no glass slipper coming." -- Mother in ALMOST FAMOUS

    GreenMeany