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Because everyone has a favorite.


There are, of course a lot to choose from, the ones that jump to my mind are:
Whole Lot of Love- Zeppelin
Spanish Caravan- The Doors
Lucifer Sam- Pink Floyd
Brain Damage- Pink Floyd


There's about a million of em (Shit, from Zeppelin alone?). It's a tough choice, but if I had to bring it down to ONE, I'd have to go with:

Wish You Were Here- Pink Floyd (album of the same name)

When that first notes enter your ears, you totally know what you're listening to right off the bat. It's a nice slow intro, that builds in to a fantastic song.

I can't imagine how hard it'll be for some of you music buffs to bring it to one, because I'm not even that huge in to music, and *I* had a hard time.

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If you've been mod-o-fied,
It's an illusion, and you're in-between.
Don't you be tarot-fied,
It's just alot of nothing, so what can it mean?
~Frank Zappa

Sins exist only for people who are on the Way or approaching the Way

Van Halen - You Really Got Me.

Regardless of the rest of the song (I'm not too partial with their rendition), the intro is tops in my book for pure guitar wankery.

This post has been edited by Narratorway on 9th March 2007 06:43

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Arts

Farts

Twarts

It's nigh impossible for me to pick just one. Lynyrd Skynyrd's Free Bird, most everything from Pink Floyd, Ozzy Osbourne/Black Sabbath's Iron Man, Ted Nugent's Stranglehold, and David Bowie's No Control I'd list as top 5-10.

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"Thought I was dead, eh? Not until I fulfill my dream!"
Seifer Almasy


"The most important part of the story is the ending."
Secret Window


"Peace is but a shadow of death."
Kuja

I'd have to go with HSM - Van Halen makes awesome guitar-based stuff. Humans Being is another really awesome one (and that rising series of notes halfway through the song? Wow, that one always sends shivers down my spine!!)

Couple of other great ones would be Danzig's "Mother" (though it has such a terribly simple structure as a whole, it's still a good song), Maiden's "Brave New World," "Face in the Sand," and "Ghost of the Navigator" (how can Runey post about music without talking about Maiden? It's just not morally right.) and Rammstein's "Mein Teil" (I STILL listen to that one with the volume through the roof sometimes. )

Admittedly some of these aren't purely guitar intros (like Rammstein.) Bite me.

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"Judge not a man by his thoughts and words, but by
the quality and quantity of liquor in his possession
and the likelyhood of him sharing."

One word

Battery, off of the greatest metal disc of all time Master of Puppets

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he who makes a beast out of himself takes away the pain of being a man. Raoul Duke (Hunter S Thompson)

I've seen the Rockies, ive seen Saskatoon - Comin Home - City and Colour

Radiohead - Airbag comes straight to mind. It's such a menacing opening, to the track and the album, really grabs your attention right off the bat.

Some personal favourites include Kings of Leon - The Bucket, which just makes me grin every time I hear it, and the Bloc Party B-side 'Cain Said To Abel,' which is just a great riff.

Jethro Tull - Aqualung is another classic, for sure, too.

That's all I got right now.

Electric Six - High Voltage

Deep down you'll agree.

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Scepticism, that dry rot of the intellect, had not left one entire idea in his mind.

Me on the Starcraft.

Every Fall Of Troy song has a masterful display of guitar-rock intro. This is probably most apparent on "F.C.P.R.E.M.I.X." and "I Just Got This Symphony Goin' ". They mix a ridiculous amount of delay and chorus effects with mind-blowing pull-offs to make these high energy riffs you can't help but get stoked about.

If you want to talk Led Zeppelin, "Since I Been Lovin' You" basically says everything you could ever want in a band within the first 30 seconds.

Of course, if you want to talk classic guitar intros, why not look at the one that's probably made the most impact in the history of rock? It's nothing more than a simple big bend on the big E string with heavy distortion on followed by perhaps the most well known power-chord progression in all of rock-dom. I mean, of course, Black Sabbath's Iron Man.

There are plenty of greats. Thunderstruck from AC/DC? The Wasted Years or The Trooper by Iron Maiden? Guns N Roses' have some pretty infamous guitar intros in their more popular songs, like Welcome To The Jungle or Sweet Child O' Mine.

I can probably go on forever, and there's no way I can just choose one, so just take the one's I've listed so far as my personal favorites.



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Okay, but there was a goat!

It's a tossup between "Electioneering" by Radiohead and "I'm Gonna Leave" by Queens of the Stone Age. Rainbow's "Man on the Silver Mountain" has a killer riff, too.

PS - My fave Zep intro is in "Bron-Y-Aur Stomp".

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It's gonna be a glorious day
I feel my luck can change

Quote (Dragon_Fire @ 9th March 2007 12:46)

Guns N Roses' have some pretty infamous guitar intros in their more popular songs, like Welcome To The Jungle or Sweet Child O' Mine.

Yes. Yes yes yes yes. I love Sweet Child O' Mine. My guitar-slinging friend taught me how to play it the other day, too. Makes me feel so bad. Good stuff.

Also see:
Snow (Hey Oh) - Red Hot Chili Peppers
Lateralus - Tool
Mosquito Song - Queens of the Stone Age
Hey You - Pink Floyd

Edit

Ohhhmigawd, I totally forgot Wish You Were Here. Thanks for reminding me MG

This post has been edited by FallingHeart on 12th March 2007 03:09

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"We're not tools of the government or anyone else. Fighting... fighting was the only thing I was ever good at, but at least I always fought for what I believed in." - Frank Yeager (a.k.a. Grey Fox)

All time greats for memorable guitar intros:

Crawl Away - Tool
Beast and the Harlot - Avenged Sevenfold
Sweet Child O' Mine - Guns 'N Roses
Mary Jane's Last Dance - Tom Petty

And honestly, the most memorable of all of the songs that you can recognize from the very first 3 notes, in my opinion, would be:

Free Bird - Lynyrd Skynyrd

How can you possibly forget the badassin'est intro to any song of any kind ever in the history of everything?

"Back in Black" - AC/DC

You can't tell me you don't feel like flipping the horns and banging your head when you hear that first rocking set of chords. I mean, if ears could orgasm...

This post has been edited by Sabin on 12th March 2007 20:12

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"When I turn the page
The corner bends into the perfect dog ear
As if the words knew I'd need them again
But at the time, I didn't see it."

~"This Ain't a Surfin' Movie" - Minus the Bear

Van Halen- Hot for Teacher,
great drum intro followed by a splash of shear enjoyment.

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"Have you ever seen a baby do that before?"

phantom of the opera - Iron Maiden

one word: godlike!

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