Posted on 10/31/2018 10:26:26 PM PDT by A Navy Vet
What are the best intros to Rock n Roll and Pop music?
After looking thru this thread’s entire list—lots and lots of great songs!
Maybe I’ll make a playlist from them. It’s supposed to rain all day...
If you like a drum intro and zydeco, you might like Cannibals from Mark Knopfler..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBB6usGXWHA
we still doing this? LOL. Rod Stewart- “I know I’m losing you” and Hot Legs”
John Mellencamp I need a lover. I can never remember this is his. Probably the longest intro at 2:30 minutes of a 5:36 minute long song.
I have tens of thousands of songs on my hard drives, but not that one!
I meant a local playlist in media player, not youtube. Songs on youtube disappear too easily.
I love Fortunate Son. Don’t forget Born on the Bayou.
“I Know A Little has a great intro.”
A Steve Gaines song. In one of the recent Skynyrd documentaries Gary Rossington said that Street Survivors was and easy album to make as “Steve had a bunch of songs and we just ‘Skynyrdized” them.
Born to be Wild !!!!
1 intro always like what Chicago’s version of I’m a man. And by the way all the Layla slide guitar intro was done by Duane Allman.
Rock you Like a Hurricane - Scorpions
Spirit of the Radio - Rush
I don’t like the song, but I like the intro. I’ll listen then change the station.
“California Girls,” The Beach Boys.
Yes, great melodic intro that is a fake out from the body of the song.
Interesting choice.
While not necessarily my favorite R&R tune, I have always felt it was the perfect R&R song. It has all the elements.
Great list although I could argue some weren’t power ballads.
<pThe 80’s if my favorite music era. It had it all from New Wave to Big Hair to one-hit wonders to everything in between.
Very close, but no cigar. The song was so good that it over-shadowed the intro. Factoid: I lost my virginity to that then current song in a garage. "Oh What a Night..."
Not crazy about the rest of the song - it's always a disappointment when that intro isn't followed by Rush.
All of the above were plucked from my iPhone. Yeah, I know...I never advanced musically beyond the 80s. lol
There was far more declining than advancing beyond the 80s.
Doesn't even qualify with its 2 chord intro and same chords throughout the song until the bridge, which was one chord. Still, had a nice grove.
It had a better into than "Born to be Wild". Although I could have it reversed.
If I didn't know that my friend Paul Revere had died, I would think that's him posting under your handle. He was a big Steppenwolf fan. Factoid. Paul and I owned half of Dick Clarks's American Bandstand in Reno, NV in the 90's.
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