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What's the best intro to a song?

I think it's got to be Gangsta Gangsta by N.W.A

:D  8)

and then there's the bit after


Other contenders for me are smells like teen spirit, insomnia by faithless (the version which goes straight into the dums), Voodoo Chile by Hendrix, Stockholm Syndrome by Muse, One armed scissor by At the Drive-in, Fight for your Right to Party, Rappers Delight, Delivery Driver by glc, The Message by Grandmaster Flash, Snowcats by Bad Company, Lovecats by the cure, Sunshine of your love by Cream, and Firestarter.

This is a mix of intros by Osymyso, download it it's great and has lots of classic intros.

http://bitter.cream.org/audio/mp3/osymyso/osymysointroinspection.mp3  8)  8)

Asthenia by Blink 182

i just like the screaming in the background: "give me back ma pants, give me back ma pants!" l.ol

Easy......got to be The Intro and the Outro, by the Bonzo Dog DooDah Band.


 And looking very relaxed, Adolf Hitler on vibes!"

phi life cypher - the racists

'I wanna be adored' The Stone Roses.

most of the stone roses intro's are excellent,     try  i am the resurrection

MC5 - Kick out the jams

Silverchair - Freak

Rage against the Machine - Killing in the name of

The bass intro's the best.

introduction to a song?

I think that mine may be Joy Divisions love will tear us apart

Blue Monday by New Order

Dub be good to me by Beats International

  Do we really need another thread on this  :)

  http://thetownend.com/index.php/topic,1293.0.html

Shine on You Crazy Diamond - Pink Floyd.  7 or 8 minutes of perfect guitar intro.

Dire Straits - Money for Nothing

And as a Prog House lover, which is all about buildups, I have to mention a few classics. Van Bellen's remix of John Johnson's Impact is something of a classic and Narcotik's Blue also has a crazy good intro.

 :zzz:

How did this escape from 2005?

Prodigy - Smack My Bitch Up

Korn - Blind

Republica - Ready To Go (just joking  :soapy tit wank:, it will always reminds me of Town games tho)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuNubPUbs0I

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTPqPZzH-LA

Oasis - Rock N Roll star

Status Quo - Whatever You Want

Stone Roses - Waterfall

"A man is warming his hands over the ashes of a man who has just set fire to himself"

Stop this City by David J

Meatloaf - Bat out of hell

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jonFSTMrHhs

My brother knows Karl Marx....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxmZZBJQAKM

Magick by the klaxons. gets me bare lairy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zIB9VC3lI8&feature=related

Not my favourite band..but my favourite entro with a great guitar rift mid song.
Good video this also.

Into the Valley by The Skids

Won't get fooled again - The Who.... (amongst many others)

Junglist massive!

Can you point me in the direction of some decent prog house please? Ive only ever really listened to Sasha, Diggers and James Zabiela...

Peaches - The Stranglers
NMH - The Stranglers
Ace of Spades - Motorhead
Special Brew - Bad Manners
Happy House - Siouxsie & The Banshees

Start at the beginning with some early prog house, pretty much anything on the Guerilla label and especially their Dub House Disco compilations. Never liked much of the later stuff myself, most of it is just wishy washy bollocks.

Always makes me think of the Young Ones when they head to Temple Meads to be on Uni Challenge  :)

If you wanna talk decent DnB/Jungle intros here's a few...

Bad Company - The Nine
Krust - Warhead
Fugees - Ready Or Not (Zinc Remix)
Raiden - Fallin
Rawthang feat. Kari Rueslatten - Scorned
Dom & Optical - Quadrant 6
Concord Dawn - Morning Light
Counterstrike - Can't Let Go
Manifest - O.G Returns
Current Value feat. Snow - Edge of Dreams
Dillinja - Nasty Ways
Dillinja - It Ain't Too Loud
Dom & Roland - Can't Punish Me
Evil Intent - Middle of the Night
Fibre Optix - Sin
Muffler - Heaven
Loxy & Ink - Straight Up Menace
Calibre - Fire and Water
Netsky - I Refuse
STA & Paul B - Come Closer
The Baby Namboos - Ancoats 2 Zambia (Dillinja Remix)

Deliberately didn't mention any DnB in this thread before cos most people don't know these tunes but there you are. I fucking love it.

Also, does anyone else think the start of Nirvana - Negative Creep is really good?

Compilations? Or labels? Beatport is a good place to browse. And much to Jonny's joy I had a thing for Hope Recordings. :)

Let me add:

DJ Zinc - Ska
Calibre - Drop it Down
Origin Unknown - Valley of the Shadows
Subfocus - X-Ray

Nice to see im not the only one on here...was going through all my vinyl today, trying to get rid of it

Both

Yeah Valley of Shadows is an absolute classic. Great intro. Did you know that sample of the woman talking is from a documentary on near death experiences?

I only buy records super sporadically now, so my finger is not on the pulse.

As I said above Beatport is good. And I have also found some great tunes listening to http://protonradio.com which can be superb.

Good compilations are most of the Global Underground series', Nick Warren, Hernan Cataneo, Bedrock compilations, Jimmy Van M, Pole Folder, Sander Kleinenburg, Danny Howells, Satoshi Tomiie, Luke Fair, Tom Middleton, Desyn Masiello, Jason Jollins, The WHOLE Northern Exposure Series and others.

I also like to include Sven Vath, Dave Clark, Richie Hawtin and a few more from the techno end of the scale as obviously prog isn't always "progressive house," but a mixture of proper prog, deep, minimal, tech, tribal tech, breaks and some of the more mild techno. There's also a fair portion of trance, although less from the acid and psy end of the scale and more the easy listening sort, but I think that sort of goes without saying.

Producers and labels of note would be many of those mentioned above, Sasha, obviously, Bedrock Records, Hope Recordings, Saw Recordings, Slacker, Guy Gerber, anything buy Van Bellen as he's godly, Automatic always did some good tunes, Hooj (sometimes ropey as hell), Steve Porter (some of his shit is fucking amazing, see Amber - Anyway (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vp0QfqJ797g)), Fade Records, Additive (some ropey tunes, but some classics, check this for sexiness (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_m8r6uqjEMQ)), heard alot of good stuff on Morrison Recordings (mp3 only I think) and others.

I could probably go on, but in all honesty I haven't actively kept abreast of what is great for ages, but tunes like those linked to above and, like most prog, are almost timeless.

Some classics for you. (in my opinion.)

Bedrock - Forge (Tom Middleton Remix) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tASSU5_2jvc)
La Forge - Second Contact (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6blDQAY9u0)
Pole Folder - Protected (One of the sexiest tunes ever) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxXpJ7siAQ4)
Blendbrank - Synthetic Symphony (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_OvvBPjyyk)
Breeder - New York FM (formerly Sputnik) - Van Bellen rmx (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39NHR7CvJuM)
Sasha - Arkham Asylum (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ec-4tUIgqIc)
2 Amazing tracks of Jimmy Van M's Berock Compilation (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ht39QMgARfM)

I'll stop there. :)

Fuck I nearly forgot Way out West are the shit. Get their albums on Amazon. Their first, even now is fucking amazing, timeless and incredible.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Way-Out-West/dp/B0000087X4/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1282693204&sr=8-1

I know fuck all about prog house but you mentioning Way Out West reminded me of this tune which is the only one of theirs I know. It deserves to be in this thread as the intro is amazing - very peaceful and euphoric (great to listen to on mdma).

It's a very long track, altho that's prob normal for the genre? Even the intro doesn't get going til about 1.10.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CglSWgEli8U

Typical of both the genre and Way out West. Which reminds me of some of the more main stream artists I forgot. Hybrid, Chemical Brothers and Underworld!

What have you got?? I may know someone who'd buy some...

Born slippy- underworld :)

Gridlok - Break the System

 :nod:

Do you mean the spoken word bit at the start of the album?

With some substances this is insane..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3aDaCpxKUo

Yes Crispy! Taking it old school!!

Never expected you to be into that.

Haaha, i like most things music wise.

Interesting fact time. That song is actually called "Born Slippy .NUXX", provided you're talking about the "lager, lager" one. It was the b-side to "Born Slippy" and there is little (ie nothing) in common between the two.

this is the first one that springs to mind, torture motherfucker! sew your asshole closed, and keep feedin you, and feedin you, and feedin you!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWXpG266ybM

and to continue the drums and bass section, its completely unnecessary, wonderfully aggressive jump up mind

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PcMlGHj5uE

and one more

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W99aBRrK1Js

Tupac Shakur modern poet... Hit 'em Up

"So I fucked your bitch you fat motherfucker..."

Quite.

Top tune that is Rich

this tune is a bit beautiful. nice for lazy summer days. good intro.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cj7F0KU367s

(sorry the video is shite)

Oxford Fan. both very good tunes. DLed them both. First one is fun and a bit rude, like it. Second is just a really nice tune. cheers.

Oh hell yes.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_WA74AWpoc&ob=av2n

No need to thank me.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aT5S4vA58Mg&ob=av3n