El Ultimo Mecanografiar De La Noche
by FTTW Staff

Editors Note: This is what used to be Group Late Night Typing. We've changed it to the more appropriate title of Trainwreck of Thought because, well, that's usually what these things are. They appear here every Friday, and it's basically all of the writers of FTTW talking about one topic.

It must be Friday. The day that most people ether re-examine their career choice or maybe what kind of beer will get them the most drunk for $4.73 (Pabst Blue Ribbon). Either way, it is Friday.

So with that like minded thinking, we decided to kick out the jammy jams for this week's topic and march into the weekend like shit runs down your leg on Sunday after a hard night of drinking:

The starting of the song that makes your nipples hard and your pubic hair salute when that first note hits.

Best opening to a song.

This can be the opening riff, or opening notes of any other kind or opening line, whatever. Has to be the very start of the song. An example would be the opening drum thing on VH's Hot For Teacher which has already been taken by one of the writers.

Ready?

Here we go...

Ian

I'm going to jump in immediately and steal an easy one: ACDC's Thunderstruck. The guitar riff itself is worth of adulation, and then the slow build with "thunder"..."thunder!"..."THUNDER!" is just the very soul of classic rock.

If you've never played that drinking game where you drink every time they say "thunder" in that song, I'll go ahead and tell you - I had a friend who died while trying to drink fast enough to keep up.

Ok, not really. It would make a cool story, though, eh?... Hey, Travis, do you want to play a drinking game?

vanhahft5007868424199660.jpgDave in Texas

Ritchie Blackmore on Smoke on the Water.

Ernie

Turbonegro - Locked Down. I like it when he goes, "Kick it Mr. Summers!"

I don't know why I like that part so much. I just do...

Pril

the intro to Faeries Wear Boots (yeah you gotta believe me). It gets called its own track and has its own name, but its an intro. If not that, then the intro to Pink Floyd's Money

Branden

I was going to go with the opening to Dark Side of the Moon, but I'll throw out a weird one: The People United will Never be Defeated! (36 variations on ¡El Pueblo Unido Jamas Sera Vencido! by Sergio Ortega) by Rzewski, especially the version by Marc Andre Hamelin. Just a beautiful piano piece with strength and thunder. Really gets you going and makes you want to start a peasant uprising.

Turtle

well, really for Turbonegro it would be the Age Of Pamparuis so it is not really an intro...more of a song.....but fuck you, I'll do it anyways

cause i am Turbojugend USA

After some soul-searching, I decided that while Turbonegro is ... OK, I've decided that the greatest opening song riff in history is the beginning of "Hit Me Baby One More Time" by the artiste, Britney Spears.

suck it, turtle. that's what you get for fucking with my post :) -bh


Bonnie

The first line of "Crazy" (I think that is the title) by Aerosmith...."come here baby"...makes me want to rip off my clothes and dance around a pole.

Kristine

The opening notes to Stompin' at the Savoyikilledsuperman.jpg


kali

bad brains intro on i against i

still winds me up

makes me look around the room for something tall to climb on and jump off of when i against i starts. seriously. it kicks off the fight or flight palpitations...

Pirate

I would have to go with the intro to Shine On You Crazy Diamond off of Delicate Sound Of Thunder. Doesn't get any better than that.

Michele

One of my choices would be Black Flag, No More...the slow, steady build up of the drum beats before the song kicks in is like your blood slowly pumping up for an adrenaline rush.

Several others:

Iron Man - Black Sabbath
How Soon is Now - The Smiths
Heartbreaker - Led Zeppelin
The River - NoMeansNo
Davidian - Machine Head

I should stop now.

(ed. note: We did ask for just one goddamn song)

Travis

"Rock n Roll Mcdonalds" by Wesley Willis

Any song written on a casio keyboard performed by a 400 pound black man who is an ex-inmate and mental patient with scitsophrenia is tops in my book

Paul

"Walk This Way" by Aerosmith. I don't know how you can get any better than that. In the animal world, when an aggressive male is ready to mate, he will often stomp the ground and make deep, throaty noises to prove his prowess. Unfortunately, humans lack distinctive plumage or giant horns, and if we were to run around a hot chick waving a tree branch and stamping the ground with our hand , we would be arrested or given pocket change by entertained passers-by. Fortunately, the opening of "Walk This Way" solves the evolutionary problem and provides man with the ability to effectively communicate that he is bad, and indeed, ready to fuck.

Johnny St. Clair

Ministry w/ Gibby - jesus built my hotrod

who wants to ding a ding dang my dang a long ling long?

hello?

Cullen

Fire by The Crazy World of Arthur Brown. Not the best song, but who can forget:

"I am the god of hell fire! And I bring you ... Fire!"

My second pick would be Dream Theater's Overture 1928 which is a 3 minute, 37 second intro to the entire album.

DFactor

Great choices! Fire! Overture 90218! Thunderstruck! All good ones.

My choices:

200px-ArthurBrownFire.jpg- Replacements - Bastards of Young - that opening guitar lick just makes me want to rip off my clothes and dance around a pole.

- Gary Glitter - Rock and Roll Part II - the drums....THE DRUMS...the shouts....THE SHOUTS!

- G & R - Welcome to the Jungle....that Slash...THAT GUITAR!

Philbrick

The opening drum beat and screechy guitar in Bela Lugosi Is Dead by Bauhaus. Shut up. I'm not goth.

Timmer

I'm with Ian on Thunderstruck. I get the freaking chills ever time I hear it.

The opening of Skateaway by Dire Straits. That backbeat and funky guitar build up makes me want to put on roller skates and chase that chick.

Michele, don't read further, I know you're going to hate this:

I think the opening of Hot Summer Nights off Bat Out of Hell by Meatloaf is absolutely brilliant and makes me giggle my fool ass off.

On a hot summer's night, would you offer your throat to the wolf with the red rose?
Yes.
I bet you tell that to all the boys.

Then BAM!! Pure teenage testosterone.

Baby Huey

ok, i thought of more songs i wanted to talk about.

(ed. note: You talked about one already?)

Slayer - Killing Fields. When Dave Lombardo starts in on that drum solo, you know someone's gonna get effed up by the end of the song.
Metallica - Battery. Not only is the guitar riff haunting and an eerie calm before the storm of the song, it's also a great intro to one of the greatest metal albums of all time.
Lamb of God - Now You've Got Something to Die For. What a killer riff. It stays with you for DAYS the first time you hear it.
In Flames - Dead God in Me. It's a great opening riff into a song with babies crying and women screaming. IT'S PERFECT.
Arch Enemy - Ravenous. I knew the first time I heard Angela Gossow make the sounds she makes with her voice that I wanted to be the one making her make them. And the beginning riff is awesome too.

(ed. note. You already talked about one)

Well, after digging through the email link that I was given, these are the choices that I pulled out. If I missed you, please forgive me cause there was a lot of jibber jabber going on in there and it is too early to decipher if you guys are fucking around or if those are your serious choices.

Either way...too much thinking this early in the morning make Turtle confused.

Anyways, those are our choices!

I think.

So what about you?

Any idea what song has the best opening?

Tell us.

Kick it Mr. Summers.....

Comments

I WILL TALK ABOUT AS MANY SONGS AS I WANT. I DRIVE A DODGE STRATUS. I AM A REGIONAL MANAGER.

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Well this by itself should be interesting, to watch the FTTW editors battle it out by continually modifying this post... Kickit MR SUMMERS. Ba na-na NA!

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Hmmm...I somehow fell off the thread. I call it the Vast Anti-Meatloaf Conspiracy.

Hot Summer Night - Meatloaf
On a hot summer night would you offer your throat to the wolf with the red rose?
Yes.
I bet you tell that to all the boys.
Crash of pure musical testosterone.

I'm with Ian on Thunderstruck.

There were others, but I haven't finished my second cup of coffee yet...brain...still...foggy.

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That's what you get for picking a Meatloaf song.

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...nevermind...My eyes jumped right to Baby Huey's lined out post.

...don't post until you've had your coffee, don't post until you've had alllll of your coffee, don't post until you've had enough coffee.

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Someday you will acknowledge the Steinman/Meatloaf genius...oh yes, yes you will.

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The opening to the live version of Folsom Prison Blues is pretty damn awesome. Not sure what exactly is so great about something as simple as, 'Hello, I'm Johnny Cash', but it's great.

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I woke up in a Soho doorway a policeman knew my name. He said, "You can go on sleep at home tonight if you can get up and walk away".

That and the beginning of Running with the Devil.

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Dammit, I forgot my old favorite opening line.
When I was back there in seminary school, a person put forth the proposition that you can petition The Lord with prayer. Petition The Lord with prayer........
YOU CAN NOT PETITION THE LORD WITH PRAYER!!

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I almost forgot-one of the best intros ever is the dobro intro by Jerry douglas to The Boy Who Wouldn't Hoe Corn off of Alison Krauss and Union Station Live.

"Squeal like a pig"

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I got lost in the thread, too, but that may be because I backed Timmer on Hot Summer Nights, and made the mistake of mentioning how well it goes with a seduction... and then Michele's head blew up.

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I always forget to mention my undying blissness that is caused by the opening to Squeeze's, Annie Get Your Gun.

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Pinball Wizard from Woodstock. John comes in like a thunderous trumpet to pete's eternal suspened chords

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War Ensemble by Slayer too

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