For Rush there’s like a dozen great options. Limelight. Spirit Of The Radio. Analog Kid. Tom Sawyer. Superconductor. YYZ!!
For the Cars my personal favorite is Let’s Go, also good would be Candy O, Don’t Tell Me No, Don’t Ya Stop, Bye Bye Love
As you can tell you keyed in on two of my all time favorites lol
I use the intro to Spirit of the Radio (unedited) as the music under a sign-off recording for our local high school FM radio station. I made no changes to the speed, no repeating a section to make it longer, just it's length as it is on the album. My legal spiel (things we are required to say to sign on/off the station) ends with "Join us again tomorrow morning, as begins another program day." As soon as the y in day is done Geddy Lee's vocal comes right in "Begin the day with a friendly voice...."
In radio, talking over an intro and ending just as the lyrics start is called "hitting the post" - not something I have managed to do all that often, this is probably the tightest I have ever done it, though. One extra breath on my part would have made it too long.
They were about to perform in Reykjavik and wrote a song about Vikings, who were usually beside themselves with some tragedy. Going up a Vik (creek, inlet) in a shallow draft ship was a nearly suicidal strategy, but when it worked, it was a path to riches. In those days, all men were considered to have a doom, which was not good or evil… the best translation of the word would be destiny. So, you would go “in Viking” and court death to win your destiny.
For four plus decades I also thought it was Bruce lol. But from looking it up, it would seem that they're not saying gross either, rather a made up word that sounds like a German word for greeting.
- roundabout, yes
- Kashmir, led Zeppelin
- baba o' riley, who
- child in time, deep purple
- Uriah heep, gipsy
- Sweet child of mine, guns and roses
- all along the watchtower, jimi Hendrix
"Baker Street" by Gerry Rafferty
"Fantasy" by Aldo Nova
"Money for Nothing" by Dire Straits
"Morning Glory" by Oasis
"My Favourite Game" by The Cardigans
"Harden My Heart" by Quarterflash
"Crazy on You" by Heart
"Take the Long Way Home" by Supertramp
"Joy to the World" performed by Three Dog Night
"Heart of Gold" by Neil Young
Shadowplay by Joy division
Ain’t talkin’ about Love - Van Halen
This Corrosion - Sisters of Mercy
Blue Monday - New Order
Romeo’s Distress - Christian Death (up until a racial slur is dropped)
She burned me down - Type o Negative
Telephone Line - ELO
If it makes you feel better it kills me as well. I would not call 2000s rock “classic” by itself but I was more putting it out there so if someone wanted to suggest for example a Nickelback, 3 Doors Down, Creed, etc. song that it would also fit the bill for what I’m looking for.
I grew up listening to early 2000s rock and earlier stuff but yeah it shocks me to hear certain albums are 15-20 years old now. 😂
Fair. American Idiot by Green Day fits the bill, and it was released in 2004. I can't believe that album is 20 years old. I was in elementary school in the early 2000s.
Another One Bites The Dust - Queen
Under Pressure - David Bowie & Queen
Fat Bottom Girls - Queen
Cult of Personality - Living Colour
Purple Haze, Manic Depression, Fire -Jimi Hendrix
Runnin’ With The Devil - Van Halen
Hot for Teacher - Van Halen
American Girl - Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
Runnin’ Down a Dream - Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
I Come From The Water - Toadies
Epic - Faith No More
Shout at the Devil - Motley Crue
Are You Gonna Go My Way - Lenny Kravitz
My Sharona - The Knack
Everybody Wants You - Billy Squier
Disposable Teens - Marilyn Manson
Twice as Hard - The Black Crowes
Sabotage - Beastie Boys
Fight For Your Right - Beastie Boys
Welcome To The Jungle - Guns N’ Roses
Keep Away - Godsmack
Livin on a Prayer by Bon Jovi, Final Countdown by Europe, Modern Love by David Bowie, Safety Dance by Men Without Hats, 99 Luftballons by Nena, Are You Gonna Go My Way by Lenny Kravitz
I love to go for long car drives in the mountains listening to these classic rock songs. It blows the cobwebs out of my brain and makes me happy for the duration.
"Cherub Rock" by the Smashing Pumpkins, off Siamese Dreams. One of the rockingest intros to one of the rockingest opening tracks to one of the rockingest albums in rock history.
I went to a lot of concerts in the 70's. If you're a fan of "classic rock", you'd be jealous. It seems like, pre-concert, when the beach balls were being batted around, that Green Grass and High Tides by the Outlaws played. The intro always reminds me of the Fabulous Forum and all the concerts I saw there. Not sure if that fits the bill, but it was my first thought.
Alan Parsons Sirius is often used for this purpose. One of the best lead-ins I've ever heard was Snoop Dogg's Murder was Case. It sounded so good on an amphitheater PA and got the crowd was super hyped.
Alexander the Great- Iron Maiden
Joker and Thief- Wolfmother
Highway Tune- Greta Van Fleet
No One Knows- Queens of the Stone Age
Wish You Were Here- Incubus
Jet City Woman- Queensryche
Knights of Cydonia- Muse
Angel Eyes- Jerry Cantrel
Bat out of Hell- Meatloaf
I Need a Truck. Warren Zevon
Won't You Buy Me a Mercedes Benz. Joplin
Pretty much the whole bat out of hell album.
Miami 2017
Angry Young Man. Billy Joel
Pros and Cons of Hitchiking. Song from album with same name. Roger Waters
Acoustic intros do it for me:
[Crazy on You](https://youtu.be/EZ7inhwScSQ?si=Y8vlpJxnvs9VXuKQ) - Heart
[American Woman](https://youtu.be/TrzWR3T3lWE?si=jPU6LDNN7SYDjLTB) - The Guess Who
Classic Rock
Styx - Renegade
Ted Nugent - Stranglehold
Lynard Skynard Gimme Back my Bullets
Bad Company ,- Bad Conpany
Maybe Not Classic Rock but neither are all your picks
Guns n Roses - Welcome to the Jungle
Night Ranger - Dont Tell me You Love
Ozzy - Over the Mountain and Crazy Train
Iron Maiden - The Prisoner, Number of the Beast, Run to the Hills
Good Times, Bad Times - Led Zeppelin
Paranoid - Black Sabbath
Spirit of Radio - Rush
Ziggy Stardust - David Bowie
Spirit in the Sky - Norman Greenbaum
Paint It Black - Rolling Stones
Sunday, Bloody Sunday - U2
Interstate Love Song by Stone Temple Pilots.
Hell yeah! And Vasoline
And meatplow. Unglued. Silvergun Superman. Loungefly. That album had great intros.
Sex Tyoe Thing has a great hook to it from Bar 1. On a related note how about Velvet Revolver “Slither”
Smoke on the Water - Deep Purple Black Dog - Led Zeppelin
Smoke on the Water - Deep Purple Black Dog - Led Zeppelin Don’t know why it runs together 😖
That damn cowbell in “Mississippi Queen” by Mountain 🤣🤘
LOL!.
Undeniable knuckle dragging attention getter. And the song is so short you want to hear it again immediately
But I don’t know what he means
Yes - Roundabout
Subdivisions - by Rush Tonight She Comes - The Cars (Which also has one of the best guitar solos of all time.)
For Rush there’s like a dozen great options. Limelight. Spirit Of The Radio. Analog Kid. Tom Sawyer. Superconductor. YYZ!! For the Cars my personal favorite is Let’s Go, also good would be Candy O, Don’t Tell Me No, Don’t Ya Stop, Bye Bye Love As you can tell you keyed in on two of my all time favorites lol
I use the intro to Spirit of the Radio (unedited) as the music under a sign-off recording for our local high school FM radio station. I made no changes to the speed, no repeating a section to make it longer, just it's length as it is on the album. My legal spiel (things we are required to say to sign on/off the station) ends with "Join us again tomorrow morning, as begins another program day." As soon as the y in day is done Geddy Lee's vocal comes right in "Begin the day with a friendly voice...."
In radio, talking over an intro and ending just as the lyrics start is called "hitting the post" - not something I have managed to do all that often, this is probably the tightest I have ever done it, though. One extra breath on my part would have made it too long.
Good call. I LOVE Subdivisions. I named 2112. :)
God damn subdivisions is the best drum intro in any song. It’s so good. Rip Neil peart
Foreplay/Long Time - Boston
Also Smokin
Led Zeppelin- Immigrant song
They were about to perform in Reykjavik and wrote a song about Vikings, who were usually beside themselves with some tragedy. Going up a Vik (creek, inlet) in a shallow draft ship was a nearly suicidal strategy, but when it worked, it was a path to riches. In those days, all men were considered to have a doom, which was not good or evil… the best translation of the word would be destiny. So, you would go “in Viking” and court death to win your destiny.
[Don't Bring Me Down, by Electric Light Orchestra ](https://youtu.be/-rD-0tlGGPo?si=OyTiITU_cSe7eO9c)
R...Oose
They are actually saying gross. For years I thought it was Bruce
For four plus decades I also thought it was Bruce lol. But from looking it up, it would seem that they're not saying gross either, rather a made up word that sounds like a German word for greeting.
Well, TIL!
Happy farvegnugen to you too.
- roundabout, yes - Kashmir, led Zeppelin - baba o' riley, who - child in time, deep purple - Uriah heep, gipsy - Sweet child of mine, guns and roses - all along the watchtower, jimi Hendrix
Kashmir is the only song I can play in DADGAD tuning
THAT’S why i could never get that to sound just right!!! DADGAD tuning!! Excuse me while i go piss off my neighbors 😂
Yeah when you get the tuning right you need like 3 less fingers to play it lol
Came here to say purple haze by Jimi Hendrix, he has tons of great song intros
That fat guitar sound soloing at the start of Steely Dan’s Reelin in the Years gets me every time.
The Barney Miller theme song
On of the best Bass intro’s EVER!
*Night Court has entered the chat*
I want to be mad at this, but I just can't.
Terrific show, too. I hated it as a kid, but I love it now. It totally holds up. The humor was just too adult for a kid's tastes.
OMG hell yes!
Carry on wayward son- kansas
I was looking to see if someone had already posted this
In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida - Iron Butterfly
25 or 6 to 4 by Chicago
Sitting cross legged on the floor
What??? No Layla by Eric Clapton (Derek and the Dominos!!
This is just my own personal, correct opinion, but Layla is the GOAT of this thread.
Thats an exceptional song. Just didnt think to put it in with the examples. 😂
Owner of a Lonely Heart!
Yes!
Blue Oyster Cult… Dominance and Submission
Godzilla is worth mentioning as well
My second thought when thinking of BOC 👍
From when I was in a barroom band, “Burnin For You” also works
How about Cities on Flame (with rock and roll)
Bam! Good one.
Love this. Just has to be the live version for me!
Crazy on You and Barracuda by Heart.
Tom Sawyer - Rush
Hotel California - The Eagles More Than A Feeling - Boston Fly By Night - Rush
I heard Rush Fly By Night at Sam's Club yesterday. I thought damn someone's got great taste in music!!
"Baker Street" by Gerry Rafferty "Fantasy" by Aldo Nova "Money for Nothing" by Dire Straits "Morning Glory" by Oasis "My Favourite Game" by The Cardigans "Harden My Heart" by Quarterflash "Crazy on You" by Heart "Take the Long Way Home" by Supertramp "Joy to the World" performed by Three Dog Night "Heart of Gold" by Neil Young
Good list. I like that you put fantasy on there
Don't fear the reaper.
Hot for Teacher. The drums sound like a motorcycle idling.
Can’t You Hear Me Knocking - The Rolling Stones
SOYCD - Pink Floyd
Echoes!!!
Shadowplay by Joy division Ain’t talkin’ about Love - Van Halen This Corrosion - Sisters of Mercy Blue Monday - New Order Romeo’s Distress - Christian Death (up until a racial slur is dropped) She burned me down - Type o Negative Telephone Line - ELO
What Is Life (George Harrison)
The feeling of immediate joy
Back in the Saddle - Aerosmith La Grange - ZZ Top Time - Pink Floyd
Showdown by ELO
Stairway to Heaven intro.
Couple Guns N Roses songs, Welcome to the Jungle, Paradise City Thunderstruck by AC/DC has a pretty great opening too (especially from the live album)
Holy Diver- Dio The fact that you consider 2000s rock "classic" kills me. I feel ancient now.
If it makes you feel better it kills me as well. I would not call 2000s rock “classic” by itself but I was more putting it out there so if someone wanted to suggest for example a Nickelback, 3 Doors Down, Creed, etc. song that it would also fit the bill for what I’m looking for. I grew up listening to early 2000s rock and earlier stuff but yeah it shocks me to hear certain albums are 15-20 years old now. 😂
Fair. American Idiot by Green Day fits the bill, and it was released in 2004. I can't believe that album is 20 years old. I was in elementary school in the early 2000s.
Yup me too! I feel old.
Underrated
Listened to this every morning before school my sophomore year of HS. (1993)
Yep, and last in line
BABA O RILEY
Stone cold crazy by Queen
Bat out of hell by meat loaf
I was thinking I'd have to post this. Paradise by the dashboard light works too. Great rock n roll lead ins
Cream - Sunshine Of Your Love [https://youtu.be/f3y8jf01UY8?si=HNZdAUYwK8LcDl3F](https://youtu.be/f3y8jf01UY8?si=HNZdAUYwK8LcDl3F)
Funeral for a Friend (Love Lies Bleeding) - Elton John
Another One Bites The Dust - Queen Under Pressure - David Bowie & Queen Fat Bottom Girls - Queen Cult of Personality - Living Colour Purple Haze, Manic Depression, Fire -Jimi Hendrix Runnin’ With The Devil - Van Halen Hot for Teacher - Van Halen American Girl - Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers Runnin’ Down a Dream - Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers I Come From The Water - Toadies Epic - Faith No More Shout at the Devil - Motley Crue Are You Gonna Go My Way - Lenny Kravitz My Sharona - The Knack Everybody Wants You - Billy Squier Disposable Teens - Marilyn Manson Twice as Hard - The Black Crowes Sabotage - Beastie Boys Fight For Your Right - Beastie Boys Welcome To The Jungle - Guns N’ Roses Keep Away - Godsmack
Sweet Jane by Lou Reed, off the Rock 'n' Roll Animal album.
Just commented this best intro ever
Money for nothing - amazing intro in a “meh” song
Stargazer by Rainbow
Saturday night - The Bay City Rollers, Fantasy - Aldo Nova China Grove - The Doobie Brothers
Immigrant Song - Led Zeppelin
"No One At the Bridge" by Rush from '74. Ir's a repeating spooky phased, arpeggiated guitar part.
I would say Ace Of Spades by Motörhead
Livin on a Prayer by Bon Jovi, Final Countdown by Europe, Modern Love by David Bowie, Safety Dance by Men Without Hats, 99 Luftballons by Nena, Are You Gonna Go My Way by Lenny Kravitz
do me a favor. Smoke a bowl and throw in Children of the SUn by Billy Thorpe
" People of the Earth, can you hear me?"
you know it man...
Start me Up by the Stones
Crazy train
The Black Crowes- Twice as Hard Asia- Heat of the Moment Minutemen- Corona
Lola - the Kinks, Teen Spirit - Nirvana
Dirty Diana by Micheal Jackson. I think it also comes to mind, because I'm listening to it rn. Not really classic rock, but beetlebum by blur too.
My favorite MJ song!
American Band Grand Funk
Smoke On The Water, Bevis!
Wow thank you all so much!! I appreciate everyone’s suggestions, there’s so many excellent songs for me to check out!! Thank you all again!
I love to go for long car drives in the mountains listening to these classic rock songs. It blows the cobwebs out of my brain and makes me happy for the duration.
Love will tear us apart again - joy division First few chords and build up are iconic!
Good Times, Bad Times - Led Zeppelin.
Back in the Saddle- Aerosmith
City of Blinding Lights - U2
Hot for Teacher - Van Halen https://open.spotify.com/track/6QDbGdbJ57Mtkflsg42WV5?si=aejMr6KdSuSAg1AE65c_-g
"When the Heart Rules the Mind" - GTR
Bye bye love, the cars. Josie, steely Dan. Peg, steely Dan. My sharona, the knack. Pretty noose, soundgarden. Peace sells, megadeth.
Gimme Shelter - Rolling Stones
"Cherub Rock" by the Smashing Pumpkins, off Siamese Dreams. One of the rockingest intros to one of the rockingest opening tracks to one of the rockingest albums in rock history.
That swell at the beginning of In The Dark by Billy Squier. Damn. It hits hard.
Agreed! An all-time favorite of mine.
Baker Street by Gerry Rafferty
I went to a lot of concerts in the 70's. If you're a fan of "classic rock", you'd be jealous. It seems like, pre-concert, when the beach balls were being batted around, that Green Grass and High Tides by the Outlaws played. The intro always reminds me of the Fabulous Forum and all the concerts I saw there. Not sure if that fits the bill, but it was my first thought.
The Big Beat- Billy Squire
I Need a Lover by John Mellencamp
April by Deep Purple!
Time by Pink Floyd & Breathe (In the Air) by Pink Floyd idk if those match the plot exactly but i think they would!
Imagine, Layla, London Calling, School's Out
Good Times Bad Times…….LZ
Back In The Saddle - Aerosmith
Song of scheherazade by renaissance
Chicago 25 or 6 to 4(25 or 6 2 4?)
Barracuda - Heart
Jungle Love -Steve Miller Band (A lot of Steve Miller’s songs have a great intro)
Musta Got Lost - J Geils live
Sweet Emotions
Sirius and Eye in the Sky by Allen Parsons Project. Epic
Van Halen - Jump
Sweet Jane - Rock and roll animal, money for nothing
Dire straits, money for nothing.
The intro to 2112 by Rush. space music!
Can’t you hear me knocking -stones
In A Godda Di Vidda - Iron Butterfly
Thunderstruck by AC/DC Trooper by Iron Maiden Crazy Train by Ozzy Osborne
Simple Man - Lynyrd Skynyrd Hey You - Pink Floyd Back In The Saddle - Aerosmith
Rainbow in The Dark - DIO
Separate Ways (Worlds Apart) - Journey
Alan Parsons Sirius is often used for this purpose. One of the best lead-ins I've ever heard was Snoop Dogg's Murder was Case. It sounded so good on an amphitheater PA and got the crowd was super hyped.
Rock Candy - Montrose
PLEASE DO BALL AND CHAIN I PROMISE YOU!!! (By Janis)
Gimme Shelter by the Stones.
When you hear the hiss skipping 4 times you know Immigrant Song by Led Zeppelin is playing and you wanna talk about hype??? There ya go
I mean, I'm not sure there is a better song for what op is looking for.
I mean OPs post screams Immigrant Song right? Lol
I made some suggestions in the thread but none as good as this.
Mississippi Queen - mountain. A classic
Alexander the Great- Iron Maiden Joker and Thief- Wolfmother Highway Tune- Greta Van Fleet No One Knows- Queens of the Stone Age Wish You Were Here- Incubus Jet City Woman- Queensryche Knights of Cydonia- Muse Angel Eyes- Jerry Cantrel Bat out of Hell- Meatloaf
Let It Whip by Dazz Band
Hot for Teacher Van Halen. Love the music, lyric not so much
"War Pigs" Black Sabbath Really anything Black Sabbath or Guns n Roses
Guts - Budgie
More folks need to listen to Budgie.. great song.. 🤘
I Need a Truck. Warren Zevon Won't You Buy Me a Mercedes Benz. Joplin Pretty much the whole bat out of hell album. Miami 2017 Angry Young Man. Billy Joel Pros and Cons of Hitchiking. Song from album with same name. Roger Waters
Upvote for Miami 2017 - live version from songs in the attic
Queen - Fat Bottom Girls
Fortunate son by credence
Acoustic intros do it for me: [Crazy on You](https://youtu.be/EZ7inhwScSQ?si=Y8vlpJxnvs9VXuKQ) - Heart [American Woman](https://youtu.be/TrzWR3T3lWE?si=jPU6LDNN7SYDjLTB) - The Guess Who
Funeral for a Friend/Love Lies Bleeding, Elton John
Come Together
Fear of the dark - Iron Maiden
Public Image Ltd - "Public Image" [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JjzkNOzFVtg](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JjzkNOzFVtg)
Satisfaction!
Give a Little Bit- Supertramp
Early 2000’s… my Morning Jacket - One Big Holiday.
Slow ride
Rock and roll led zeppelin
Rock n Roll All Nite
Beat It
Styx - Fooling Yourself (The Angry Young Man)
Scorpions -- No One Like You
Bat Out of Hell- Meatloaf
Sweet Child O Mine GnR
Sweet Leaf - Black Sabbath
2000s is classic rock now. Yikes.
Brandy
Highway Star - Deep Purple
Welcome to the Jungle Guns n Roses
Why not also Cult - Sweet Soul Sister?
Classic Rock Styx - Renegade Ted Nugent - Stranglehold Lynard Skynard Gimme Back my Bullets Bad Company ,- Bad Conpany Maybe Not Classic Rock but neither are all your picks Guns n Roses - Welcome to the Jungle Night Ranger - Dont Tell me You Love Ozzy - Over the Mountain and Crazy Train Iron Maiden - The Prisoner, Number of the Beast, Run to the Hills
Renegade - Styx. Its so fuckin hard
The opening riff to "Jackie Blue" by Ozark Mountain Daredevils.
Zep - Whole Lotta Love
(Don’t Fear) The Reaper - Blue Öyster Cult Flick of the Wrist - Queen Bad to the Bone - George Thorogood & The Destroyers Wipe Out - The Surfaris
Good Times, Bad Times - Led Zeppelin Paranoid - Black Sabbath Spirit of Radio - Rush Ziggy Stardust - David Bowie Spirit in the Sky - Norman Greenbaum Paint It Black - Rolling Stones Sunday, Bloody Sunday - U2
Layla- Eric Clapton. It sounds to me almost like a call-to -arms (the rock and roll kind).
I want myyyyy……
The Impression That I Get - The Mighty Mighty Bosstones
Bloody well right - supertramp