Best Opening Guitar Riffs
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DK-Holiday in Cambodia
Pistols -GSTQ
The Jam-In the city
Slayer-Piece by piece0 -
Metallica - One
ACDC- Whole Lotta Rosie, Who Made Who, Highway to Hell (well everything really)
Ozzy - Suicide Solution. Crazy Train.“New York has the haircuts, London has the trousers, but Belfast has the reason!0 -
That's entertainment. The Jam.“Give a man a fish and feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and feed him for a lifetime. Teach a man to cycle and he will realize fishing is stupid and boring”
Desmond Tutu0 -
The Skids - Into The Valley http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXVhh7TKgcA
The Stranglers - Something Better Change http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohRbJJohv6Y0 -
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"I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]0
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Waterfall - Stone Roses0
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Lots but I can't remember many :
Ten Years After - Going Home
Rear Earth - Get Ready
Chris Rea - Road to Hell Pt 20 -
ThomThom wrote:Always love this by Franz.. 0:43 in.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laRKuwz4BpI
Funnily enough, Franz Ferdinand are guilty of putting the most disappointing song on the end of a truly awesome intro with Take Me Out.
Truly brilliant intro builds up so much promise of what's to come....
and then just kind of fizzles out into indie landfill.
Somebody should write the song that the intro deserves!0 -
^thisAchillesLeftKnee wrote:
If there's one thing that's guaranteed to put a smile on my face, it's hearing that on the radio. No matter how sh*te the day, that intro just fires me up every time. Brilliant piece of music, and 100% idiotproof to play as well.thegreatdivide wrote:The Cult - She Sells Sanctuary http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pieI3ctfMfM"Get a bicycle. You won't regret it if you live"
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Ohhh so many!!
While my guitar gently sleeps - Jeff Healy
Life's Been Good - Joe Walsh
Poison - Alice Cooper
Bullet the Blue Sky - U2
And anything by Robert Cray!!
......'Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana'.....0 -
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Chi-lites - Power To The People
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEwMaeN2x-c0 -
Always be yourself, unless you can be Aaron Rodgers....Then always be Aaron Rodgers.0
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British Sea Power - Rememer Me
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ua4BiBV6i6o
or BSP - Lights out for darker skies (not a single, so not surprised if fairly unknown)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flqZQGZDFt4
Manic Street Preachers - Motorcycle Emptiness
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gavcjNniIvk
But yeah, She Sells Sanctuary still makes the hairs on the back of my neck stand up. Awesome.0 -
The Seahorses, Love is the law.
John Squires shredding it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18w84rpaqlg
Rotten copy, but love the song.I don't mean to brag, I don't mean to boast, but I'm intercontinental when I eat French toast...0 -
Some great songs so far!
Mine is Velvet Revolver - Slither
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKz2U4fvA4UBikes are OK, I guess... :-)
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I was going to say Alternative Ulster - Stiff Little Fingers, then I saw it was on the first page. Anyway it shaped my young life in '79 and it is worth a watch in '13
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5vCgtpY0Kg
best drum intro too:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Up9ssJ0p__c
I saw SLF on a school trip (3 times) when school trips were school trips. I also saw The Clash and The Jam with the school. Happy days.0 -
Just thought of Tie Your Mother Down (Queen, A Day At The Races) but better than that, the old Buzzcocks hit 'Ever Fallen In Love With Someone You Shouldn't Have Fallen In Love With'.
All Night Long by Rainbow in their pop period is good.
Going For The One - Yes. That'll do too.
And on that theme - Won't Get Fooled Again, by The 'Ooo. Top stuff.0 -
Trying not to, but can't help but nominate Brassneck by The Wedding Present.
Problem with that one is it's tricky to call it an amazing opening riff, but the aggression and harsh, driving brutality of it just fits the song so superbly that I can't say a bad word against it. It also happens to be the only song I'd ever consider doing as karaoke, and that's only on the assumption that I had pretty decent quantities furniture to kick over at the same time. How the hell David Gedge manages the whole stand-still-juxtaposition thing I have no idea.Mangeur0 -
How about the blues classic "Dust my Broom"?
Covered by loads of people (the Elmore James version is great) but my favourite is by Fleetwood Mac. Jeremy Spencer's opening slide is flippin' awesome.Ecrasez l’infame0 -
There's just some many great ones Smoke on the Water, Black Night, Paranoid, most stuff by The Kinks, Maiden's Phantom of the Opera etc. etc.. I would say Seven Nation Army but is that the guitar riff or the base line that sounds good??
Not an opening riff but the Knights of Cydonia riff is great.0 -
Rory Gallagher's "Pistol Slapper Blues"
Black Sabbath "Supernaut"
Carcass "Incarnated Solvent Abuse"0 -
The Kinks - Powerman
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SlYzdie-gVU"Let your life rule your job, not your job rule your life"
Born to ride, forced to work.0 -
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John Kline wrote:
Thought it was going to be this one! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkTdZBwuXAE
Not a "Quo" fan by any means, but that has to be one of the best intro's yet!
shame the rest of the songs a load of shoite.0 -
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ANDY F wrote:The Kinks - Powerman
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SlYzdie-gVU
Dave Davies lives a stone's throw from me. Great guitarist.0
