‘A Hard Day’s Night’ by The Beatles is good but ‘I Feel Fine’ is even better - it must have sounded so different from anything that came before.
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‘A Hard Day’s Night’ by The Beatles is good …
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Hard Day’s Night doesn’t have much of an intro: a single chord.
There’s, of course, Foreplay by Boston.
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Hard Day’s Night doesn’t have much of an intro: a single chord.
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Yeah, but what a chord!
Renegade - *Styx * How can you NOT sing along to that?
Train Train - Blackfoot
Lots of good ones. But three new ones
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Tubular Bells by Mike Oldfield. Very recognizable thanks to that devil movie.
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Like a Rolling Stone. Just a crash, but what a crash.
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NSU by Cream.
Not a favorite, but interesting, is the intro to Love Like a Man by Ten Years After. It’s one long organ chord. I once won a record from a radio station by identifying the song from this. The chord is so long that I was able to identify it, dial the station (on a rotary phone) and have the deejay pick up while the chord was still playing.
Bittersweet Symphony - The Verve
Hero of the Day - Metallica
Fanfare for the Common Man by Aaron Copeland
Hey Nineteen - Steely Dan
Shimmer - Fuel
Learning to Fly - Pink Floyd
In My Life - The Beatles
Badge - Cream
Pilgrim for Your Love (?) - Cream
Pets - Porno for Pyros
Rollercoaster - Red Hot Chili Peppers
Interstate Love Song - Black Crows
"Carnival of Sorts (Boxcars)" - R.E.M. (The calliope music fading in and out adds a nice mysterious undertone.)
Stand - REM
A lot of already mentioned songs, and…
Long Cool Woman in a Black Dress, by The Hollies
Wipeout
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Pilgrim for Your Love (?) - Cream
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I assume you mean Sunshine of Your Love? That’s a good one also. I chose NSU because it is more obscure and it’s not repeated so explicitly within the song.
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Time - Pink Floyd
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If you can get your mitts on a copy of the Easy Star All-Stars reggae cover of Dark Side of the Moon, called Dub Side of the Moon, you might appreciate their intro to Time. I’d recommend the album to any Floyd fan - it’s done with invention and a nice sense of humour, and Frankie Paul’s version of Us and Them is genuinely great.
“Voodoo Chile” - either Stevie Ray Vaughn or Jimi
“FM” - Steely Dan
“I Need a Lover” - John Cougar (Mellencamp)
(also agree with “Sweet Jan” (live) - Lou Reed)
Not a very well-known track, but I’ll throw in Tony Banks’ piano intro on Genesis’ “Firth of Fifth”.
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I assume you mean Sunshine of Your Love? That’s a good one also. I chose NSU because it is more obscure and it’s not repeated so explicitly within the song.
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Actually, it was just Clapton on his own and I’m not sure of the title, but it contained the lyrics, “I’m a pilgrim for your love…” or something like that. I can never remember the title.
I think the title is Pilgrim.
There’s a video here which plays for 5 min 52 sec, of which the intro occupies 45 sec.
I liked it, but it could be longer with some bass guitar & keyboards. 