Most Epic Song Intro?

[ArmsAreLoud]

What intro do you find to be about as awesome as possible? For me, it has to be "Searching With My Good Eye Closed" by Soundgarden. It starts off with some guy saying "This is my good eye", followed by "Do You Here a cow?", followed by a moo. He does this with a few more animals, and then he says "The Devil says..." and Chris Cornell comes in with an iconic scream.

Absolutely epic.

[afterstasis]

i remember when i first heard the beginning of catharsis's "samsara" in high school i knew i was listening to my new favorite album before the end of track 2.

[Julio_Strikes_Back]

I think the opening to Disposable Heroes by Metallica is pretty epic.

[franticfish]

Its not the most epic but when I first heard the intro of Raining Blood back as a teenager it just made me go "wow".

[timmay9]

I believe I made this thread before.

Edit:Here it is. (http://www.rockband.com/forums/showthread.php?t=119310)

[gmarsh]

Led Zeppelin- Nobody's fault but mine
Not a great song in general, but the opening is just awesome

[schmeankman]

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[Lolicat]

Sleater-Kinney- Entertain: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MbxRu7fwR24

Nothing fancy, but it reminds me why I love rock music.

[limelight_rush]

Money for Nothing.

[instantdeath999]

i remember when i first heard the beginning of catharsis's "samsara" in high school i knew i was listening to my new favorite album before the end of track 2.

You've got me interested.

[back_blows]

Listening to Black Sabbath (song) as a teen, really sent shivers down my spine.

[ClassicRockFanatic23]

I love the riff from Passage to Bangkok....

[sonicnerd23]

Heart of the Sunrise. The 3/4 riff going into the 4/4 awesome bass/keyboard section is amazing.

[Zeleii]

Hollow Heart by Kalmah

[MrFruitLord]

What intro do you find to be about as awesome as possible? For me, it has to be "Searching With My Good Eye Closed" by Soundgarden. It starts off with some guy saying "This is my good eye", followed by "Do You Here a cow?", followed by a moo. He does this with a few more animals, and then he says "The Devil says..." and Chris Cornell comes in with an iconic scream.

Absolutely epic.

I was going to post this.
Metallica's best album (in my opinion) Ride The Lightning starts out with Fight Fire With Fire, which is a pleasent acoustic bit. Then it turns into thrash. Nice way to start an album I'd say, and its a trick Metallica would use a couple more times (pleasent intro, heavy song)

[timmay9]

This is what we have search functions for.

[Cubecubed]

Fade to Black by metallica

Welcome Home by Coheed and Cambria

Assassin by Muse

[Lolicat]

This is what we have search functions for.

No-one cares, this thread is being posted in nao.


i remember when i first heard the beginning of catharsis's "samsara" in high school i knew i was listening to my new favorite album before the end of track 2.

I love this feeling, listening to an album and praying to whatever will listen that the next track won't disappoint, the next track will hold up...

[Soror_YZBL]

Bat out of Hell has the best intro EVER!

[Lolicat]

Bat out of Hell has the best intro EVER!

Hmmm, only when drunk or excitable.

[My name is Fez]

STARWAI LOLOLOL.

I can't really think of the "most" epic off the top of my head, but out of stuff that hasn't been mentioned: This Ain't No Picnic by Minutemen has a pretty bad-ass intro.

[zeldazeppelin]

the start of I.V or Kurenai were pretty epic imo.

[classicrockdude]

Baba O' Riley

[MrFruitLord]

The final Countdown.

[MovieFreak921]

Money For Nothing's guitar intro.

[RedBaron45]

Welcome Home (Coheed and Cambria)

[Gowienczyk]

I hate the way epic has been modernized. Augh.

[Cataclysmo]

I personally think Rage Against the Machine's "Bulls on Parade" has a very...powerful intro. When I hear it, I can't help but get mad.

You know a song is good when it puts you in a mood no matter how many times you listen to it.

[RedBaron45]

I personally think Rage Against the Machine's "Bulls on Parade" has a very...powerful intro. When I hear it, I can't help but get mad.

You know a song is good when it puts you in a mood no matter how many times you listen to it.

Meh, not as epic as Killing in the Name's intro.

[Lily_Mu]

Panic Attack.

[Spydas]

The Glass Prison by Dream Theater. The intro is amazing.

[SputnikDX]

Riding on the Wind - Judas Priest
Run to the Hills - Iron Maiden (I just love that intro)
Magic Bus (Live) - The Who
Pictures of Home - Deep Purple
Rust in Peace...Polaris - Megadeth
Thick as a Brick - Jethro Tull (You're words but a whisper, your deafness a shout **BAMP!**)
Peace Sells - Megadeth
Operation: Mindcrime (Album) - Queensryche

All I can think of at the moment.

[Cruithne-Moon]

Layla. The song (the sung part) is fairly ordinary, but the intro, the break, and the outro are great.

[maidener]

hellion/electric eye
just epic

[Bub]

Money for Nothing.

*high five*

[neckermanncj]

all Sigur Rós songs are EPIC, all of them.

[Dalamari]

The intro to Texas Flood, any version (usually the "Live at the El Mocambo" version ) will have me ****ting bricks every time.

[KISSfan84]

"Funeral For A Friend" An instrumental masterpiece that segues into "Love Lies Bleeding" by Elton John.
Truly an epic.

1. noting or pertaining to a long poetic composition, usually centered upon a hero, in which a series of great achievements or events is narrated in elevated style: Homer's Iliad is an epic poem.
2. resembling or suggesting such poetry: an epic novel on the founding of the country.
3. heroic; majestic; impressively great: the epic events of the war.
4. of unusually great size or extent: a crime wave of epic proportions.

:cool:

[sonicnerd23]

Oh, yeah. And Kick Out the Jams.

[Runesmith]

The Clash's Clampdown.

[Cruithne-Moon]

But then, what about A Hard Day's Night? The most recognizable single chord in rock history.

[KISSfan84]

Okay, really, are we going for EPIC?
Or are we going for memorable?
Two different things...

BTW, another song that comes to mind is one of the original Rock & Roll classics:
"Johnny B. Goode" by Chuck Berry...the most recognizable and copied riff in R&R history.
:cool:

[chumsicles]

Gimme Shelter.

[bierfaht]

Black Flag: My War...especially the live version from "Who's got the 10 1/2?"

[Nirvenes]

Would it make me a bad person if I said Smells Like Teen Spirit?

[WhiffleBallTony]

"Funeralopolis" by Electric Wizard.

It's the most ****ing amazing intro to any song ever written. Everything melts together to create just this trippy sonic barrier of sound and every time I listen to the song, I just sit there staring with drool coming out of my mouth.

[KISSfan84]

"Funeralopolis" by Electric Wizard.

It's the most ****ing amazing intro to any song ever written. Everything melts together to create just this trippy sonic barrier of sound and every time I listen to the song, I just sit there staring with drool coming out of my mouth.

Maybe you just need to ease up on your medication.

[WhiffleBallTony]

Maybe you just need to ease up on your medication.

My only medication is Electric Wizard.

[WhiffleBallTony]

i remember when i first heard the beginning of catharsis's "samsara" in high school i knew i was listening to my new favorite album before the end of track 2.

YOB has an album called Catharsis and a song called "Asleep in Samsara" (on Elaborations of Carbon). That's pretty cool.

[Steelerfreak1977]

Slayer- "Hell Awaits"

-end thread

[Quinarvy]

Coma by GNR for me.

Why?

Because, as my friend so eloquently puts it, this is my "if a bear were over me when I woke up and this song was playing, I'd beat the bear with my bare hands" song.

His was Jump.

[kwami42]

The first 3 minutes or so of Explosions in the Sky's "First Breath After Coma" takes my breath away every time.

[onidragon]

Stop!-Jane's Addiction, some spanish spoken word, a little light guitar work, then "here we GO!" over a bombastic riff. Fantastic way to start an album.

Up The Beach-Jane's Addiction, they seem to have the whole "kick ass album intro" thing down, what with a haunting bass line before all the other instruments just burst in out of the blue while Perry whispers "here we go...Home..."

Teen Age Riot-Sonic Youth, must I go on?

Black Dog-Led Zeppelin, this may be the kind of thing that winds up at the top of a Rolling Stone list, but dammit, I still get shivers down my spine when Plant just starts singing at the top of this song after a few quiet seconds.

My name is Jonas-This kinda made the Blue Album for me.

[mjlambert1]

Watcher of the Skies by Genesis gets my vote...

[Soror_YZBL]

Teen Age Riot-Sonic Youth, must I go on?


This.

[Lily_Mu]

This.

SPIRIT DESIRE!

We will FALL!!!!

[King_Nuthin]

I'm gonna go with Aces High - Iron Maiden. With the Churchill Speech.

I remember back in the day when you could still play with all your electronic toys on airplanes during takeoff I'd always cue that up to coincide with the beginning of my flight. Or I'd play Wings of Fury and crank that the whole time. Wrong theatre but who the hell cares.

[Soror_YZBL]

SPIRIT DESIRE!

We will FALL!!!!

It's the only song I FC'd on vox the first time I tried. Oddly enough, until rb2, I had no idea what kim was saying. She's the queen of mumbles.

[ZosoBaron]

Aces High -- Iron Maiden
Radar Love -- Golden Earring
Janie's Got a Gun -- Aerosmith
White Room -- Cream
Love, Reign O'er Me -- The Who
The Hellion -- Judas Priest
Seven Seas of Rhye -- Queen

Just a few favorites.

[Ledgo2]

Orion-Metallica

Epic for me. Cliff Burton was a beast.

[SenorLarry]

The Number of the Beast by Iron Maiden. Definitely the most epic intro EVER.

Woe to You Oh Earth and Sea
for the Devil sends the beast with wrath
because he knows the time is short
Let him who hath understanding
reckon the number of the beast
for it is a human number
its number is six hundred and sixty six.

And then there's something that does have vocals but I think qualifies as part of the intro, because it's nothing like the rest of the song but it can't really be called a bridge because it's still the very beginning of the actual song...

[Cosma]

Stranglehold by Ted Nugent
Mary Had a Little Lamb by SRV
Lock Me Up and Welcome to My Nightmare by Alice Cooper
Sweet Leaf by Black Sabbath
Immigrant Song By Led Zeppelin
Sweet Home Alabama by Lynyrd Skynyrd

edt: Can't believe I forgot Billion Dollar Babies by Alice Cooper

[KurtCobain67]

The Hellion/ Electric Eye- Judas Priest
Holy Wars...the Punishment Due- Megadeth
Battery- Metallica
Welcome Home- Coheed and Cambria
Since I've Been Loving You- Led Zeppelin
Time- Pink Floyd
Negative Creep- Nirvana
AEnema- Tool

[FreakyLuu]

Dont know if anyone has mentioned as I havent read every post but two recent ones come to mind
Cochiese by Audioslave
Blind by KoRn

[maddoggnick96]

the start of I.V or Kurenai were pretty epic imo.

I agree with these.I'm surprised no one's said this:
Symphony X - The Odyssey (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KKFoEI0kss)

Here are a couple others:
Rhapsody (of Fire) - Gargoyles, Angels of Darkness (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0PYhRwiKUBU)
Dir en grey - Vinushka (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-iPQ8pZLNTs)

[Bub]

Dont know if anyone has mentioned as I havent read every post but two recent ones come to mind
Cochiese by Audioslave
Blind by KoRn

Give this guy/gal a Klondike bar better yet a Reese's Klondike bar. Mmm.

[arnold223]

Most epic song intro, no argument:
"Xanadu" by Rush
No one can beat that 7/8 guitar riff with the bass and drums progressing behind it.

[dabears116]

Its not the most epic but when I first heard the intro of Raining Blood back as a teenager it just made me go "wow".
The intro on the original 1986 version (which is not in GH3) is really amazing. I assume you're talking about the mellow part though. (the part I'm talking about is either the beginning of Raining Blood or the end of Postmortem, I've seen some tracks with the intro on Raining Blood, but some with the outro on Postmortem.)

[MdrnDayWarrior]

Heart of the Sunrise - Yes
Cygnus X-1 (Book I - The Voyage) - Rush

[swet07]

Cygnus...Vismond Cygnus(The Mars Volta)-The intro just seems to give you that feeling like holy crap its about to go down, and then it does.

Third Eye(Tool)-Very quiet beginning and the song itself is very intense

[packerfan8675309]

Money for Nothing.

winner!

[My name is Fez]

Third Eye(Tool)-Very quiet beginning and the song itself is very intense

You mean the Bill Hicks comedy bit?

[Gatorguy91]

Act Appalled - Circa Survive

It just kicks right into almost a full on attack; so much energy.

[swet07]

You mean the Bill Hicks comedy bit?
The whole thing

[supernova1324]

My current favorite is Echo/Don't Piece Me. It just starts out with loud, rugged, fast guitar and drum mayhem like a slpa in the face.

[rustinator5]

Well idk bout intro, but the best outro for a song is the phrase...

"Remember that Death is not the end, but only a transition..." - Fatal Tragedy by Dream Theater

[Kingsreich]

"Don't Stop Believing" by Journey
The opening piano riff is the best!!!

[s1yfox]

Burnt Ice by Megadeth is pretty epic(love that tectonic sound at the beginning)
and then Boston's Foreplay/Longtime(love that intro)

[CataclysmicCassidy]

A Gorey Demise - Creature Feature
-or-
This War Is Ours - Escape The Fate

[FatFreeDoritos]

Warriors of Time/The Czar/The Last Baron

I like my Mastodon. And I was so pissed when they took off they intro of Warriors of Time. Stupid radio edits.

[cherokeesam]

and then Boston's Foreplay/Longtime(love that intro)

***^^^THIS THIS THIS ^^^***

I was about to get irate if I had to be the first to mention "Foreplay."
Most epic intro evarrrr. Although the aforementioned "Funeral for A Friend" and "Bat Out of Hell" are pretty close.

One of my favorite intros is "In the Flesh?" off The Wall. A teeny-tiny little ditty that's so low you can barely hear it....so you have to crank up the volume reaaaaaal loud and then y---

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOM





....and now that you're officially deaf in one ear: are there any quars in the theatre tonight....? Get 'em up against the wall.

[ryan12147]

not sure about best opening but i know the best ending has to go to aqualung

[swet07]

the frail intro to the wretched for nin is good too...

[ROCKBANDFANATIC7526]

Sunshine Of Your Love, Enough Said

[tigeruppercut]

Not the most epic, but one of my faves is "Tell Me What You Want" by Zebra.

[BettyBassist]

I really love the intro to A Certain Romance by the Arctic Monkeys. It's not extraordinarily epic by any stretch of the imagination and probably doesn't belong on the list, but I likes it. =)

[pbam2112]

fight fire with fire by metallica awesome acoustic intro to totally heavy verse

[Slashboi]

probably One by Metallica or When I come Around by Green Day.