50 best rock intro's (Who at #34)

[Tom]

www.palmbeachpost.com/ae/content/auto/epaper/editions/sunday/arts_entertainment_044e277375a2504f00cd.html


By Larry Aydlette, Rachel Sauer, Leslie Gray Streeter, Jon Glass and Mark Buzek, Palm Beach Post Staff Writers
Sunday, July 4, 2004


You're in your car. Top down. Radio on. And on comes the magic riff, the golden opening moments of a favorite rock, soul or pop song that make you hit the volume switch and start the mandatory head-bob, followed closely by the mandatory air guitar-ing. That's what we call a great intro.


34. I Can See for Miles, The Who. Ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Keith Moon: The only man who played his drums like Hendrix played the lead guitar. A tour-de-force display of raw percussive power kicks off the Who's best song.

But *this*is ridiculous:


9-3: Honky Tonk Women, Sympathy For The Devil, Start Me Up, Gimme Shelter, Paint It Black, Monkey Man, Satisfaction, The Rolling Stones. The greatest openers in the history of rock. Why do Stones songs last? Because those lead-off guitar riffs, courtesy of Keith Richards and the great Bill Wyman-Charlie Watts rhythm section, hook deep, deep into your brain. They kick a--. Let's face it: This whole list could be Stones songs.

And..

1. A Hard Day's Night, The Beatles. The guitar chord heard 'round the world. Musicologists still debate what the chord is, where exactly George Harrison fingered the frets on his 12-string guitar. Whatever. That "Bwwwaaaaang" rocks.

[Lickster]

Credit for "Hard Days Night" though - few songs are identifiable with one strum of the chord ...
Looks typically American though - where's the Quo ? And I would surely include "My Generation" and WGFA in there somewhere between 9 and 3 !!

[granth]

I really don't think that the stones belong there quite as much- where's Baba O'Riley?

[Terence]

And "Pinball Wizard" for goodness sake!

[balloony]

What about Smoke on the water?..................................................................................................I'll get me coat!

[Papillon]

To be fair; at the start of the article it does say "Here's our totally subjective list...".

[balloony]

Now I'm A Farmer isn't the best song they've ever done,but the intro is pretty damn good!

[Tom]

balloony said:

What about Smoke on the water

12. Smoke On The Water, Deep Purple. Duh-duh-duh, duh-duh-da-da. Chapter 1 in the Air Guitar for Beginners manual.

[JillKristen]

My 7 year old son got a guitar for his birthday and figured out the intro to Smoke on the Water on his own. A rock star in the making?

JK