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| | Top 10 Favourite Intros | | 11 |  | Metallica
Reload
Honorable Mentions:
Dead Kennedys - Holiday In Cambodia
Falco - No Time For Revolution
Joy Division - Decades
The Knife - Like A Pen (thanks Doof)
Manu Chao - Luna Y Sol
Metallica - just way too many
New Order - Blue Monday
Nirvana - Come As You Are
The Offspring - Dirty Magic / Come Out And Play
Pendulum - Watercolour
Radiohead - Everything In Its Right Place / Idioteque / Where I End And You Begin
Rammstein - Sehnsucht / Mein Herz Brennt
Sum 41 - Blood In My Eyes
The Who - Baba O'Riley | | 10 |  | Tool
Lateralus
Eon Blue Apocalypse / The Patient
In a way this is really nothing special. It's just a slow guitar build up. But with those light picking fading in out of sonical nothingness and somehow lonely and coldly filling out all that space there is, it just makes for a brilliant way to start a song in a chilling way, actually it would be even better, would it have been the album opener. | | 9 |  | The Cure
Disintegration
The Same Deep Water As You
Probably not the intro easiest to recognize on the record, that one goes to the iconic chords of Lullaby. But with the pouring rain in the background, its gloomy, spheric keys and the gentle plucking it encapsulates everything Disintegration is about and marks maybe even the most depressing and mesmerizing moment on here. | | 8 |  | Radiohead
Kid A
Kid A
Such an amazing track people always forget when talking about the album. I don't know, what exactly it is about its intro, but its electronic manipulations and pulsating beat manage to create an own, secluded environment (for the lack of a better word) this song exists in from the very beginning. The only other Radiohead track that accomplishes that for me is Idioteque, but this ones intro is just the slightest bit better. | | 7 |  | Metallica
Ride The Lightning
Fade To Black
Given that a lot of you dig metal a lot, I could probably get hundreds of songs in that genre that have, in your eyes, better intros than this one. Some of you would even take about a dozen Metallica tracks alone over this. Doesn't matter though, cause a) I listen to hardly any metal, b) I didn't really choose Fade To Black for its technical brilliance or some kick-ass riff. It's just that this is one of very few Metallica tracks that get to me on an emotional level and those perfectly intertwined acoustic chords and bluesy riffs make for an ideal introduction to that. | | 6 |  | Jeff Buckley
Grace
Hallelujah
This is almost painfully emotional from the very beginning. The first chords carry already something lonely and deeply melancholic with them that just gets to me every time. Saying the song gets worse after the intro would be ridiculous, but in all honesty, him singing can't really top it. | | 5 |  | System Of A Down
System Of A Down
Know
Finally something that's a little bit more aggressive. As some of you might know already, I'm not a big fan of the SOAD debut, but Know is just amazing. And it's slightly chaotic intro that sounds like they want to do everything at once might be the most energetic moment on the whole album, maybe even in their whole discography. They just got everything right there, in a weird way, but still. | | 4 |  | Gorillaz
D-Sides
Hong Kong
Gotta love that song and especially its intro. The guzheng sounds so beautiful. Crystal clear with some brilliant tempo changes and just an overall amazing flow. Shouldn't forget the piano though. It adds quite a bit to the first minute flairing up sporadically and it might be my overall favourite instrument anyway, so can't do no wrong with that. | | 3 |  | Box Car Racer
Box Car Racer
I Feel So
Unusual choice maybe, but apart from the fact that Tom DeLonge's voice actually reached its very short-lived peak at the time he worked on BCR, he was obviously way better at channelizing and controlling his ambitious ideas on this than on most A&A records. The intro to its opener already sums up most of them, blending a dissonant piano part with some folky elements and quite heavy power chords. Not sure why, but he makes it work in a pretty awesome way. | | 2 |  | Soap and Skin
Sugarbread
Sugarbread
I like to call it musical terror. Maybe the most atmospheric intro I've heard so far. Its desperate cries give me the creeps and in combination with its stomping, echoing beat it definitely has the ability to suck you into the song. And to top it off, it has an absolutely perfect transition from the intro to its epic main part. | | 1 |  | Hugh Laurie
Let Them Talk
St. James Infirmary
Weirdest choice ever? Probably. But as I said the piano is my favourite instrument (maybe tied with drums), so providing me with a quite multifaceted two and a half minute intro with Hugh Laurie playing it and almost nothing else will in all likelihood appeal to me. And it sure as hell does, I think it's pretty much perfect. | |
KrazyKris
11.03.15 | Three cheers for amazing intros, if only for the fact that they offer something even for people with a really short attention span. | romulanrancor
11.04.15 | 6 and 7 intros bring hard feels | Avagantamos
11.04.15 | autechre - surripere
converge - the saddest day
death - flesh and the power it holds
fredrik thordendal's special defects - The Beginning Of The End Of Extraction (Evolutional Slow Down)
genghis tron - board up the house
gy!be - storm, rockets fall on rocket falls
gorguts - colored sands
isis - grinning mouths
killer mike - big beast
knut - el niño
meshuggah - dancers to a discordant system
neurosis - times ov grace
the ocean - neoarchean
off minor - practice absence
pepe deluxe - a night and a day
pink floyd - pigs
ratm - bulls on parade
sweet trip - pro : lov : ad
ulver - lost in moments
| demigod!
11.04.15 | 43% burnt | Artuma
11.04.15 | off minor - cadaveric. best way to open up an album | Artuma
11.04.15 | also lol converge don't have a song called petitioning the empty sky | Avagantamos
11.04.15 | whoops I meant to type the saddest day | KrazyKris
11.04.15 | @rom
they sure as hell do
@Avangantamos
That's more than 10, doesn't count! Listened to some of them though, quite a few cool pieces, but the only thing that comes close to my top 10 for me would be Surripere. | DoofusWainwright
11.04.15 | The Knife - like a pen
Mastodon - sleeping giant
Modest Mouse - the ground walks
Nirvana - milk it
Radiohead - everything in its right place
Smashing Pumpkins - where boys fear to tread
King Crimson - starless
Metallica - the unforgiven
Pantera - Cowboys from hell
Sepultura - manifest
Fear Factory - self bias resistor is another that wakes you up straight away lol | KrazyKris
11.04.15 | Cool picks. Like Milk It, like Everything In Its Right Place, like The Ground Walks and the Knife track starts out amazing. Also it somehow reminded me that I could have included Blue Monday.
Not a big fan of The Unforgiven though, that's the one that wouldn't make my Metallica intro top 10. Maybe just cause I don't like the song all that much in general. | bagof4grapes
11.04.15 | Love the beginning of the same deep water as you. It's just so calming, yet dark. Though that's basically the feel for the entire disintegration album | DoofusWainwright
11.04.15 | Thanks Kris - that's what I came up with off the top of my head, sure there are loads more.
The Metallica tune is a nostalgic one I guess, they have better intros but it's the one I remember | PortraitsOfDecay
11.04.15 | "we become buried" has probably the best first 20 seconds of a song ever | KrazyKris
11.04.15 | Don't think I can agree with that.
Can't add another album to the list for whatever reason, just wanted to list some honorable mentions. So many great intros I had to leave out. | zakalwe
11.04.15 | I dunno why but one that's always stuck with me is These Animal Men - Flawed is Beautiful.
It's total shite but I just love it. | KrazyKris
11.04.15 | Wouldn't have expected something like that from you. It's not bad, but it could be on any pop punk record. Should I be worried about you now? | YoYoMancuso
11.04.15 | Smashing Pumpkins - Mayonaise
Slint - Washer
Brand New - Jesus
Modest Mouse - Dramamine
Pink Floyd - Speak To Me/Breathe | zakalwe
11.04.15 | Pop punk? No way dude, just run of the mill early 90s britpop band wagon jumpers with a glam rock edge. Like I said, shite but I hold it dear.
Cherub Rock.
| KrazyKris
11.04.15 | The song and band on the whole might not sound like pop punk, the intro does though. Could be SR-71, Motion City Soundtrack or something like that. | CalculatingInfinity
11.04.15 | Jesus there's just too many to list, but if I had to pick a number 1 it would be without a doubt Buck Tick - Speed (album version). Iconic. | KrazyKris
11.04.15 | Nothing wrong with the intro Calc, but the video for that song is cringe-worthy. | CalculatingInfinity
11.05.15 | That's the single version so the intro is worse IMO, not a fan of the vid but eh song's so good I don't care. |
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