What songs really blow you away in the first 10 seconds ?
I nominate
Communication Breakdown Led Zeppelin
Sunshine of your love Cream
Hey Willie The hollies
I’ve always been kinda partial to the riff on Men at Work’s “Land Down Under”, myself.
Chuck Berry–Roll Over Bethoven
Derrick and the Dominos–Layla
The Doors – Light My Fire
So many. . .
Folsom Prison Blues, Johnny Cash
Brown Sugar, Rolling Stones
Just about anything by Chuck Berry
Just about anything by the Ramones
I Fought The Law, Bobby Fuller Four
Lola, Kinks
Rock This Town, Stray Cats
Beatles:
I Feel Fine
In My Life
Get Back
Sgt. Pepper
Help
No Van Halen? How soon they forget…
Van Halen-Panama and Jump
Also…
AC/DC-Thunderstruck
Zep-Stairway
Skynrd-Sweet Home Alabama! “Turn it Up!”
The Stones Honky Tonk Woman and Cream’s Badge have got to rank as well.
Ahhh…So very many to choose from. Let’s see:
Horn-Phish
Pride and Joy-Stevie Ray Vaughn
Take no Prisioners-Megadeth
American Woman- Guess Who
Whipping Post- Allman Brothers
Raining Blood- Slayer
Caught in a Mosh- Anthrax
Sweet Child O’ Mine- Guns and Roses
Mr. Brownstone- Guns and Roses
Monkey Man- Rolling Stones
Rocky Mountain Way- Joe Walsh
Crazy Train- Ozzy Osbourne
Put you Down- Alice in Chains
Thunderstruck- AC/DC
For Those About to Rock- AC/DC
I Know A Little- Lynyrd Skynyrd
Black Betty- Ram Jam
Dead or Alive- Bon Jovi
Just to name a few…
Durn hamsters. I’ll add “She Is My Sin” and “Wishmaster” by Nightwish.
What, no Smoke on the Water?
dahm dahm dahmmm…
Kashmir and Whole Lotta Love
American Woman - Guess Who (thats a second)
And your Bird Can Sing - The Beatles
Plenty of the other choices aswell.
Blue Oyster Cult - Don’t Fear the Reaper
Also “Eruption”, “Ain’t Talkin’ 'Bout Love”, and their cover of “You Really Got Me” (the last is one of the Kinks’ all-time riffs).
Strongly second Honey on “Don’t Fear the Reaper”.
Others:
“School’s Out” - Alice Cooper
“Mississippi Queen” - Mountain
“Love is Like Oxygen” - Sweet
“Dr. Feelgood” - Motley Crue
“Walk Away” - James Gang
“The Breakup Song” - Greg Kihn
“Rockin’ into the Night” - .38 Special
“Master of Puppets” and “Sad But True” by Metallica
“I’m Broken”, “Walk”, and scores of others by Pantera
“Dirty Deeds”, “Highway to Hell”, “Back in Black”, eh, f*** it, anything by AC/DC
ditto on “Miss. Queen”
I’d pick “Crossfire” by SRV (i’m a bass player so I’m a bit biased towards rhythm section solos at the opening)
Sweet Child O’ Mine-Guns N Roses
I’m gonna spend my time at work thinking about this. As an aside, I heard on the radio that Iggy/Duff/Slash may be getting back together and touring with Sebastin Bach on vocals. The hell?
“All Along The Watchtower” by Jimi Hendrix
Possibly the greatest riff ever.
Anyone remember Living Colour’s Cult of Personality? That’s a great riff.
What the hell ever happened to them, anyway? That song kicked about forty kinds of ass, but I don’t remember hearing anything else by them.
Sheesh…what are you all thinking?
Satisfaction by The Rolling Stones
The absolute #1 catchy, driving rock intro riff.
First thing I thought of was…
Peace Frog by the Doors
That is all.