Best slow-burning intro

[Crusoe]

Just based on listening to this, and thinking it's a superb build-up of an intro.

Devotchka, How It Ends

[erwin]

Best slow-burning intro

Very nice.

Some serious competition.

[evilC]

Best slow-burning intro

Oooh, good thread idea! I love things like this, because it appeals to the geeky side of me (which is most of it!).

I haven't listened to that suggestion of yours, Crusoe, but the songs that have barged their way to the front of my mental queue are ones which are almost all intro, even though that isn't part of the criteria. Thus, 'The Spangle Maker' by Cocteau Twins and 'King Is White And In The Crowd' by Simple Minds spring to mind.

Really, they're just drawn-out, though. I'll have to get my thinking cap on!

[Crusoe]

Best slow-burning intro

Oh, good call, Erwin.

Clive, why do I suspect you'll be posting a superlative list shortly?

[evilC]

Best slow-burning intro

Crusoe wrote:

Oh, good call, Erwin.

Clive, why do I suspect you'll be posting a superlative list shortly?

Heh! No, I think I'll restrain myself to video postings this time out. :-)

Actually - I could commit my other sin of ranting on about Richard H. Kirk, who is a master of the drawn-out intro. I could devote an entire compilation on this topic to him, no trouble. Possibly the most extreme example is 'Datacrime' (under the moniker Electronic Eye) - 14'05'' and it only really gets going in the last minute! However, I can't find a video for that online, so this'll just have to do (and it is properly funky, too) : 'False Kings Of The Earth' by Biochemical Dread. 6'30''+ and it only really gets going over halfway through.

[Stumpy Pepys]

Best slow-burning intro

Shine On You Crazy Diamond, I would imagine. Or did I miss the point?

[Outside Agent]

Best slow-burning intro

Feeling Called Love by Pulp.

[dalliance]

Best slow-burning intro

Souvenir by OMD is an answer for so many of these type of threads.

[historyman]

Best slow-burning intro

dalliance wrote:

Souvenir by OMD is an answer for so many of these type of threads.

You could also throw Maid of Orleans and Joan of Arc into the mix.

The Storm by Big Country is worthy of a place in the list.

[G-Man]

Best slow-burning intro

The Beatles - She's So Heavy
The Animals - House Of The Rising Sun

[Commodore]

Best slow-burning intro

Talk Talk - The Rainbow

If it was possible to make a road movie in the UK this would be my choice of soundtrack.

Great thread btw...

[Crusoe]

Best slow-burning intro

Another:

The Only Ones, "Another Girl, Another Planet"

[wearebees]

Best slow-burning intro

I Will Possess Your Heart by Death Cab For Cutie has a 4 min 40 second intro along with creepy lyrics about stalking if that's any help to y'all.

[Lucia Lanigan]

Best slow-burning intro

Fripp & Eno rule at this. Although it's debatable whether they're intros to anything.

Wind on Water

Swastika Girls

Also:

Can - Future Days

[Jah Womble]

Best slow-burning intro

'Hanging Around' by The Stranglers?

A couple of eighties number ones that had 'brooding' intros were 'Don't Stand So Close To Me' (The Police) and 'West End Girls' (Pet Shop Boys).

(Observations, rather than personal favourites.)

[MsD]

Best slow-burning intro

I can think of loads; Bela Lugosi's Dead, A Forest by The Cure, SOYCD as already mentioned, White Car in Germany by Associates, loads that layer on the guitar e.g Cartrouble by AATA (single version), Sylvia by Focus, Don't Fear the Reaper by the Blue Oyster Cult, Shake Some Action by the Flaming Groovies.

Some Roxy Music tracks too, Out of the Blue.

[linus]

Best slow-burning intro

Nice try Jah, but you just outed yourself as a Sting lover (nice hat btw)

[Jah Womble]

Best slow-burning intro

(Jeez, just when you thought you couldn't dislike the guy any more than you do, a photo like that comes along...)

[Furtho]

Best slow-burning intro

Fucking hell, what a cunt.

[Crusoe]

Best slow-burning intro

Oh, another one: Devo, Gut Feeling

[Sam]

Best slow-burning intro

The Temptations: 'Papa Was A Rollin' Stone'

I'm thinking of the full 11-and-a-bit minute version, but can't find it on YouTube. It's got maybe 30 or 40 seconds of buildup before this clip starts.

[George]

Best slow-burning intro

The version of Bizarre Love Triangle on Substance. In fact there's several tracks off Substance that could be mentioned.

[Wyatt Earp]

Best slow-burning intro

erwin wrote:

Very nice.

Some serious competition.

Yeah, the winner.

[Jon]

Best slow-burning intro

Isaac Hayes has done loads of them.

Here's my favourite.

[Jon]

Best slow-burning intro

Sam, G Man and other might be interested in El Michels Affair doing Walk on By - essentially a cover of a cover. However, as it's an instrumental it has no business being on this thread.