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  1. kiwiqpr

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    The Stone Roses one would be on my list too.
     
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    Fools Gold would be definitely up there.
     
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    Great shout there. Dead Souls is another great Joy Division intro.
     
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    Thinking back to my childhood, I remember hearing Once in a Lifetime by Talking Heads and thinking wow, that's different. What a great intro, shows how powerful and a relatively simple bass line can be and it just repeats throughout the song. I think I was about 13 or 14 at the time.
     
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    A great solo too.
     
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    This one for starters. The live Hell Freezes over version has a longer flamenco style intro that I absolutely love.
     
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    When I saw them in Manchester a few years back they opened with that tune.....it was truly amazing.
     
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    Genius of Love by The Tom Tom club is another great intro that sounds amazing.
     
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    This is a great intro and a good excuse to show this brilliant Wallace & Gromit video, one of the best put together I've seen...

     
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    Try the intro to the extended version of “The Lady Don’t Mind”, Ninesy, quite mad.
     
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    **** off you can’t be that much younger than me. You don’t look it. Pretty sure I was in my twenties* when that was released. Good pick.

    Another Girl Another Planet - The Only Ones. Great intro, great song including one of the all time classic guitar solos.

    *just looked it up, I was 19.
     
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    My old prog covers band used to play "Echoes" amongst other '70s Prog classics. "Siberian Khatru" or "Suppers Ready" anyone?

    I've seen Aussie Floyd a few times, including once headlining a festival in Switzerland (2012) where the second on the bill was Uriah Heep (with my old neighbour Bernie doing the singing). I remember their bass player (the now-deceased Trevor Bolder - once a Spider from Mars) complaining that he didn't understand why they were playing second fiddle to a covers band.

    Then Aussie Floyd started their set....
     
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    Another one for those who agree there's more to life than a pentatonic scale...

    King Crimson, "Red".

     
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    Here are my honourable mentions:

    Sonic Youth - Teenage Riot
    Join Hendrix - pretty much anything he wrote but Machine Gun, House Burning Down and Hey Baby (New Rising Sun) would be the top 3
    Muse - Knights of Cydonia
    Psychedelic Furs - Sister Europe
    Led Zeppelin - Since I've Been Loving You
     
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    Brilliant thread........:emoticon-0148-yes:
     
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    You beat me to it! A Forest is sublime.

    Stone Roses I Wanna be Adored also takes some beating
     
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    Ooops - just had a senior moment and need to edit the post....

    Shake Dog Shake and A Forest - both from the live album "Concert" start beautifully. The first with the riff of doom and the second with, well we all know how that starts, don't we?
     
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    I saw them at Hyde park in July - they were outstanding and Forest was probably the song of the night.
     
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    How about some 90's one hit wonders?
     
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