Favorite beginning to a song

[HEyHEY]

Poll question: Favorite beginning to a song

Here's some of mine.

[Spider Jerusalem]

1. Does the choral intro to "O Fortuna" (Carmina Burana) count?

[JohnKleeb]

2. Believe that would be other and I swear I think Ive heard that

Is it a Russian piece?

[Spider Jerusalem]

5. German...

the composer was Carl Orff...and, yeah, you've probably heard it...gets used a LOT in movies, commercials, etc...

[JohnKleeb]

8. Ahh ok

Ive really come to like classical alot. I love the way Barber's Adagio starts too.

[Spider Jerusalem]

14. Yeah, that's a good piece...

if you like classical, you really ought to check out "Carmina Burana". Seriously. It's really "neo-classical" (it was written in the 1930's), but it's still quite good. One of my favourite choral pieces.

[HEyHEY]

3. Yeah, I shoulda had moonlight sonata there too

[JohnKleeb]

4. Sooooo hard but I love

Hendrix's All Along the Watchtower, it just brings back memories man.

[HEyHEY]

Memories? Of what Woodstock? You're only 16

;-)

[JohnKleeb]

10. I should smack you

for lying about my age.

[HEyHEY]

11. SHit I forgot - folks he's 21

[JohnKleeb]

13. Not that

Gah do you know any 16 year old seniors?

[HEyHEY]

15. Don't know, we don't have a system like that here

[JohnKleeb]

17. I cant believe you thought I was 16

I am 17 man and youre getting a poll on how you should be punished.

[HEyHEY]

18. SUre please remember I detest and am scared of naked women

[JohnKleeb]

21. Sure I can do that

[Huckebein the Raven]

9. I second that song

I love the middle of that song too.

[JohnKleeb]

12. Best Cover Ever

I think.

[welshTerrier2]

6. Janis Joplin - Summertime

the first 40 seconds, before the singing starts, is just plain great ... give it a listen ...

[Bok_Tukalo]

7. "Driver 8" by R.E.M.

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[jdj]

32. I'd forgotten about that one, I like the beginning to "Fall on me"

I was also going to put the drums in the beginning of "Dreaming" by Blondie.

God I miss the heyday of R.E.M, and the B-52's and that whole athens music thing that happened in the eighties.

Some other city needs to jump up and put itself on the map, none have since Portland, indy music-wise.

I know Atlanta has with rap, but I mean with alternative.

[Bok_Tukalo]

37. "Green Groves the Rushes" is good too

Reconstruction of the Fables is one of the best albums (showing my age) of all time. Green Grows, Driver 8, Can't Get There, Wendell Gee ... all their best stuff in one place.

[ChoralScholar]

16. Well you shoulda been gone

Knowin' how I made you feel.....



Journey was bubble-gum rock, but gosh.. Steve Perry had some kind of voice....

[Bok_Tukalo]

20. Older sibling music

I rebelled with The Ramones.

[Pool Hall Ace]

19. "Rock of Ages" -- Def Leppard

Gunter Glieben Glauten Globen

But now thanks to this poll, I'm going to have a "Final Countdown" earworm! ;-)

[derby378]

22. "Smells Like Teen Spirit" by Nirvana

ginbarn once told me that when she heard the first four bars of the song for the first time, she knew it was going to be a big, big hit.

[Dukkha]

23. "Ride My See-Saw" The Moody Blues

The long version with "Departure" intro:

Be it sight, sound, the smell, the touch.
There's something,
Inside that we need so much,
The sight of a touch, or the scent of a sound,
Or the strength of an arquebus deep in the ground.
The wonder of flowers, to be covered, and then to burst up,
Thru tarmack, to the sun again,
Or to fly to the sun without burning a wing,
To lie in the meadow and hear the grass sing,
To have all these things in our memories hoard,
And to use them,
To help us,
To find...

AAAAAAH!

[jojo54]

31. NEO, MY MAN!!

Any M.B.'s is my favorite favorite. :yourock:

[pintobean]

24. L.A. Woman

[aeolian]

35. Riders on the Storm.

[Floogeldy]

25. Close To The Edge

by Yes.

B-)

[TryingToWarnYou]

26. Other - "One Way Out" - The Allman Brothers

[General Zod]

27. "I Can See For Miles" By The Who...

It's easily the most ominous opening to any rock song.

I love the way Roger spits out the opening, his voice dripping with venom:

" I know you've deceived me now here's a surprizeee....I know that you have 'cause there's magic in my eyes"

Pete's opening chord still sends chills down my spine and John's bass rumbles like thunder. Moon is his usual amazing self.

[Bullwinkle925]

28. Thank You HEyHEy

for bringing back memories of Duane Eddy. I thought I was the only person on the planet who appreciated that music.

[Floogeldy]

29. Close To The Edge

by Yes.

B-)

[onager]

34. Funky Western Civilization

by Tonio K:

There's a riot in the courthouse, there's a fire in the street
There's a sinner being trampled by a thousand pious feet,
There's a baby every minute being born without a chance,
Now don't that make you want to get right up and start to dance?

Let's do the funky Western civilization...

You just grab your partner by the hair,
Throw her down and leave her there.

They put Jesus on a cross and shot a hole in JFK,
They put Hitler in the driver's seat and looked the other way
Now we got poison in the water and the whole world's in a trance
But just because we're hypnotized, that don't mean we can't dance!

[Steve Nash is god 13]

30. SMOKE ON THE WATER!!!!!

[ironflange]

33. Mahler Symphony #10

Violas alone play the saddest music ever written.

[jojo54]

36. Altho Moody Blues is my very best favorite, the single song

I have to vote for is Moments in Love by Art of Noise. OMG, if that is not the perfect f__king song!! Burned it over & over on a CD, then hub & I listened (and then some) that evening.:blush: