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Hi all, you're efforts are appreciated!  Now let's present the winner of the "Best Intro" contest:

 

9 hours ago, Hank Kingsley said:

Easy excuse to extend the Surly tradition of appreciating this song. 

 

One of my all-time favorites.  Robert Quine's guitar work on it is amazing.  I just love that he always feels like a runaway train just about to jump the tracks.  Especially in the careening solo.  

I'm shocked this has not been mentioned: (I'm pretty sure it hasn't been posted)

 

  • 1 month later...

The cowbell draws you right in

 

 

Some good 90s examples above but this one is an honorable mention. The intro usually doesn’t make airplay

 

 

2 hours ago, HiggyBaby said:

Some good 90s examples above but this one is an honorable mention. The intro usually doesn’t make airplay

Great song and a GREAT band.  I met them at their SXSW showcase when they had just gotten signed, and we hung out awhile upstairs at the club (somewhere on 6th, maybe Jelly Club?) and played foosball.  Michael Ward (RIP, F diabetes) was a terrific guitar player and a super nice guy.  I would run into him often over the years when The Wallflowers would come to Austin and he always remembered my name.  Half the time I couldn't remember his.

I really dig that main guitar hook.  Nice rhythmic turn over the beat.

On 7/14/2025 at 9:32 PM, jimmyjazz said:

I don't get the pervasive disdain for U2.  Those guys could turn "Wheels On The Bus" into a fucking anthem.  They just have something, some "IT", and yeah, it's in Bono's ego and Edge's guitar.

I only saw them once, on the Joshua Tree tour in Houston.  I had floor seats, which might have been great but everyone stood on their chairs the whole show so I could barely see anything but the top of Edge's hat.  I should have brough some phone books.  Regardless, that show kicked ass.

Probably the best concert I’ve been to, or damn near the top.

And two of my all time favorite intros.

One wasted on a drum solo.


And one, wasted on a slow blues song.

 

On 7/10/2025 at 11:23 PM, Vanilla Strange Gato said:

As someone else stated, there are many.  I could do a whole page just on Rush and Van Halen.  

There is something special about this one.  Plus, it’s fun to play. 
 

 

Agreed.  I love tons of songs but this is my favorite intro by far.

i guess there could be a wide variety of criteria for this one.. but how about a song that starts with one instrument, then adds another instrument, then another, then another, revealing the whole of song right before the vocals come in.

 

been ripped off about a hundred thousand times..

 

and I cant believe I forgot this one.. iconic intro.

 

Imma say this not only because it is cool but because my friend's daddy wrote and played it.  Fred Carter CMHOF member

 

Since THX thought this would be the best demonstration of their speaker technology, I think it can be included.

 

On 7/15/2025 at 10:21 PM, jimmyjazz said:

I swear, I will figure out how to count that song before I die, but it will probably be a horse race.

So, I am not the only one...

  • 2 weeks later...

this thread loads like shit so nsiap:

 

 

I scrolled through this thread and didn't see this posted yet, which seems impossible given the subject. 

Submissions for Sweet Child O' Mine and Paradise City from the same album will also be considered. 

^ this.. If it has the intro looped on Youtube, it's likely a winner.

 

Edited by yoladu

On 7/11/2025 at 7:13 PM, locodos said:

 

No man. The best Depeche Mode intro song was Personal Jesus. That was the song you strutted into with a hot girlfriend in the 90s.

 

 

 

  • 3 weeks later...
On 7/11/2025 at 3:43 PM, UTCzech III said:

 

 

 

Billy Joel: as cheesy as McCartney and still able to string together in his heyday brilliant pop songs with movements and tell a story.

 

How does this thread have so many Van Halen songs, but not this one?

 

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