Top Five Records: Great Song Intros
A few weeks ago my friend Beth Mann, ask me me to list my favorite great song intros and closers. It took me a while to come up with my list because there were so many to choose from. At the same time I'm finishing reading Nick Hornby's High Fidelity. A book featuring many Top Five lists. So, between Beth's question and the book I decided to start including my favorite Top Five lists to my blog. I'm doing this because 1) I believe it will be fun to come up with Top Five lists and 2) they're easy to write. So, with a nod to Beth, I give you my Top Five Great Song Intros. Please feel free to comment and give me your Top Five.- Hell's Bells - AC/DC - Can you think of any other song intro that is as cool as this one? Really. Even today, almost thirty years later, this song intro still gives me goosebumps.
- Baba O'Riley - The Who - One of the great all-time song intros. I think I like the intro more that the song.
- Voodoo Child (Slight Return) - Jimi Hendrix - For me, this song (more so than Purple Haze) defines the essence of Hendrix's soul. It combines rock and blues and throws in the Wah Wah intro for extra spice.
- Money, Time - Pink Floyd - These two intros were actually assembled and engineered by Alan Parsons. Yes, that Alan Parsons.
- Eruption into You Really Got Me - Van Halen - These two songs - and especially the transition from Eruption into You Really Got Me - have probably accounted for more kids picking up the guitar than any others in the history of rock.
- What I'd Say - Ray Charles
- Am Trying to Break Your Heart - Wilco
- Welcome to the Jungle" Guns'n'Roses
- Tomorrow Never Knows - Beatles
- Monkey Man - Rolling Stones
I think Al Green is great. I love his music. Many of his songs, however, start wimpy and end incredibly strong including: Love And Happiness and Beware.
Labels: Beth Mann, mp3, Top Five Records
3 Comments:
1. First note of Lynard Skynard-Call me the Breeze.
2. The Who-Emminance Front
Hass, I almost added the Skynyrd tune! I love that opening guitar. And your second choice - I particularly like the live video of the Eminence Front. This was one of the first videos I searched for on YouTube.
1. Hendrix - Foxy Lady
2. ZZ Top - Tush
3. Rolling Stones - Gimme Shelter
4. Sheryl Crow - Maybe That's Something
5. Bad Company - Rock and Roll Fantasy
Skynyrd had so many great opening riffs it would be hard not to be on the list - I agree - large.
As for my Sheryl pick - her second and third cd's really spoke to me. I used to listen to them over and over at work (8 hours at a stretch). Most don't seem to see tham as I have.
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