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Best instrumental intro's to songs?

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Tommy_B

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Was listening to a couple songs today that start out with long instrumental parts (i.e., before vocals kick in) and I was thinking this might make a semi-interesting topic of discussion. Anybody else got some favorite tunes that start out with fairly long (90 seconds or more) instrumental parts?
Here's a few of mine:

Lazy - Deep Purple
Monkey Island - J. Geils
Locomotive Breath - Jethro Tull
Song for Juli - Jesse Colin Young
 
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Not the same song .. but they go together :

On the run/Time - Pink Floyd
Eruption/You really got me - Van Halen
Foreplay/Longtime - Boston
Funeral for a friend/Love lies bleeding - Elton John
 
I can't think of any 90 second intros off hand (Lazy is a good one), but I just dropped in from the Roxy Music thread and flipped over For Your Pleasure. The Bogus Man has about 70 seconds of intro that is pretty good.
 
Eric Johnson, the album Tones: The intro to "Trail of Tears". Also, the way "Soulful Terrain" sets up "Bristol Shore". This is such a great album. Worth a listen if you are not familiar with it. Texas mind blowing guitarist he is...
 
Most recently... "Mercury" by Clutch and "Sea To Sea" by Matisyahu. But how about good ol' "Welcome To The Jungle" by GNR??

Metallica were once the masters of the song intro... "One" anybody?!?! "Blackened" and "Master Of Puppets" are still two songs which get me revved up, just from their openings - let alone once the chorus drops.
 
on Van Morrison's - No Guru, No Method, No Teacher album -
the 2nd track "Oh The warm Feeling" - an amazing intro to the song - plays through the melody once with a nice jazz combo, beautifully recorded.

' Course the whole album is good, if you like that kind of thing (grin)
 
poppachubby said:
Most recently... "Mercury" by Clutch and "Sea To Sea" by Matisyahu. But how about good ol' "Welcome To The Jungle" by GNR??

Metallica were once the masters of the song intro... "One" anybody?!?! "Blackened" and "Master Of Puppets" are still two songs which get me revved up, just from their openings - let alone once the chorus drops.
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I'm not a big fan of bass solos, but Pulling Teeth always gets me going.

I don't think it's 90 seconds, but the intro of Govt Mule's Gonna Send You Back to Georgia rocks.
 
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