# Favourite song fade ins **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 18, 2019, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-song-fade-ins/834149 "2019-05-18T12:49:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Treppenwitz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treppenwitz/32/3445_2.png) [@Treppenwitz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Treppenwitz)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2019, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-song-fade-ins/834149/1 "2019-05-18T12:49:09Z")
Inspired by [**this thread**](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=875602) of fade outs - what are your favourite song fade ins? I have always been a sucker for a song that fades in. For best fade out I went with [2HB](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMdkoAUjPa0) by Roxy Music, and I’m gonna be controversial and nominate it as favourite fade in as well. j ---
**Author:** ![road\_lobo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d78d45/32.png) [@road\_lobo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/road_lobo)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2019, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-song-fade-ins/834149/2 "2019-05-18T13:53:58Z")
The Smiths - Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/C906lbkcYug/maxresdefault.jpg "Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others (2011 Remaster)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C906lbkcYug) ---
**Author:** ![P-man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/p-man/32/3606_2.png) [@P-man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/P-man)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2019, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-song-fade-ins/834149/3 "2019-05-18T14:12:01Z")
Velvet Underground- “Sweet Jane”. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2019, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-song-fade-ins/834149/4 "2019-05-18T14:33:58Z")
[ELO - Tightrope](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rpLTRiJyRA) ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2019, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-song-fade-ins/834149/5 "2019-05-18T14:36:06Z")
[Bolt Thrower - The Killchain](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJ_R1gnOpSg) - perfection! ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2019, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-song-fade-ins/834149/6 "2019-05-18T14:39:50Z")
[Wishbone Ash - The King Will Come](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tna0Mmu1XlI) ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2019, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-song-fade-ins/834149/7 "2019-05-18T14:49:35Z")
[Metallica - To Live is to Die](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7_hwgD1ugg) [Orion](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8qrwON1-zE) ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2019, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-song-fade-ins/834149/8 "2019-05-18T14:56:20Z")
> [@Shoeless](#): > > [Wishbone Ash - The King Will Come](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tna0Mmu1XlI) This is one of those bands that I’d heard _of_ but never actually heard before. I must check them out. But as I listen to it now, the long instrumental intro on this song reminds me of the long instrumental intros on “[God Sends Quails](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77Wcx2R87eQ)” and “[Don’t, This Way](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9k8D79euvs),” both by the 77s (though the latter doesn’t really have a fade in). ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2019, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-song-fade-ins/834149/9 "2019-05-18T16:00:43Z")
> [@Thudlow\_Boink](#): > > This is one of those bands that I’d heard _of_ but never actually heard before. I must check them out. But as I listen to it now, the long instrumental intro on this song reminds me of the long instrumental intros on “[God Sends Quails](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77Wcx2R87eQ)” and “[Don’t, This Way](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9k8D79euvs),” both by the 77s (though the latter doesn’t really have a fade in). Here is another one from the same Wishbone Ash album: [Throw Down The Sword](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LByiVlc6czA). I especially like the way the guitar riff slowly fades in over the snare drum roll, and then the drums kick in right as the guitar riff hits full volume. (I also love the twin guitar lead outro on this song, which I believe I have posted before in a “favorite outros” thread.) ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2019, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-song-fade-ins/834149/10 "2019-05-18T16:10:25Z")
The [guitar](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=La0RIrgBApI) in Hate Eternal’s “I, Monarch”. King Crimson’s “Night Watch” [gradually building to a shimmering crescendo](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwFYy_Th7BA). ---
**Author:** ![Treppenwitz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treppenwitz/32/3445_2.png) [@Treppenwitz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Treppenwitz)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2019, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-song-fade-ins/834149/11 "2019-05-18T16:33:21Z")
I just thought of another doozy. [This Town Ain’t Big Enough For The Both Of Us](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYUQ5kykfRk) by Sparks. j ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2019, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-song-fade-ins/834149/12 "2019-05-18T17:43:19Z")
Stevie Wonder’s Sir Duke. That horn makes me feel like dancing. ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2019, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-song-fade-ins/834149/13 "2019-05-18T18:24:58Z")
First one that came to my mind is Elvis Costello’s [Man Out of Time](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAOaTYnWluI). A scream followed by a short guitar riff that has nothing at all to do with the rest of the song. It’s perfect. mmm ---
**Author:** ![cormac262](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f14d63/32.png) [@cormac262](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cormac262)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2019, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-song-fade-ins/834149/14 "2019-05-18T18:40:22Z")
Pink Floyd “One of These Days” ---
**Author:** ![Stephe96](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Stephe96](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stephe96)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2019, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-song-fade-ins/834149/15 "2019-05-18T20:11:24Z")
Beatles - “Eight Days a Week” ---
**Author:** ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2019, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-song-fade-ins/834149/16 "2019-05-18T23:12:04Z")
[“Pretty Vacant”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2sQaJNtbSzI) - Sex Pistols ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2019, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-song-fade-ins/834149/17 "2019-05-18T23:36:56Z")
Traffic - The Low Spark of High-Heeled Boys. ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2019, 10:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-song-fade-ins/834149/18 "2019-05-25T10:20:50Z")
The Police, “Invisible Sun” ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2019, 11:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-song-fade-ins/834149/19 "2019-05-25T11:40:41Z")
The Beatles, [“Dig It”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUUOX6kAIxI) ---
**Author:** ![The\_Stafford\_Cripps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_stafford_cripps/32/7167_2.png) [@The\_Stafford\_Cripps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Stafford_Cripps)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2019, 12:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-song-fade-ins/834149/20 "2019-05-25T12:04:59Z")
> [@Stephe96](#): > > Beatles - “Eight Days a Week” Was also my instant response. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-song-fade-ins/834149.md?page=2)