Your favorite song lead-in

a couple from my favourite album (hope Sam Mills agrees):

The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway (the opening track)

Anyway

 

Johnny B. Goode - Chuck Berry This would move even the staunchest guitar hater's soul. (Hi, IJAG!)

 

I'd be willing to put together a tournament so we can settle the debate. Instead of posting 15 songs you like, send me your top five. I'll seed them by the most submissions and then randomly seed those with only one entry.

We could make the submission deadline noon on Tuesday. Everyone can simply quote and bold their winners, and I'll handle the tally.

Just a thought.

 

I'm up for that...

 

I'll keep bumping this to determine interest.

 

"Will you count me in?"

[/removingfingerfromthroat]

 

Gimme Shelter - The Stones
La Grange - ZZ Top
Locomotive Breath - Jetro Tull
House of The Rising Sun - The Animals
Crazy On You - Heart
One Way Out - The Allman Brothers
Tunnel of Love - Dire Straits
Radar Love - Golden Earing

 

Hard to argue either. On the former, given the subtle opening notes, I would add "Watcher of the Skies" and "The Fountain of Salmacis" to my list.

 

Life in the Fast Lane - Eagles
Breakdown - Tom Petty
Co-Dependant - Adema
Dancing Days - Led Zeppelin
D'yer Mak'er - Led Zeppelin
Cemetery Gates - Pantera
Nowhere Fast - Incubus
Mama Kin - Aerosmith
Just Like You - Three Days Grace
All Along the Watchtower - Jimi Hendrix
Never There - Cake
Wide Eyes Open - Adema
Runnin Down A Dream - Tom Petty
On My Own - Three Days Grace
Good Friends and a Bottle of Pill - Pantera (But I'm not a big fan of the actual song)
I'm Broken - Pantera
I Ain't Goin' Out Like That - Cypress Hill
Them Bones - Alice in Chains
It's So Easy - GNR
Whale & Wasp _ Alice in Chains
The Patient - Tool
Hotel California - Eagles
Right Now - Van Halen
The Soldier's Song - Demon Hunter
Nightrain - GNR
Kashmir - Led Zeppelin
Shattered - Pantera
Into the Great Wide Open - Tom Petty (I didn't realize I had so much Petty on my Ipod right now)
Man in the Box - Alice in Chains
Angry Chair - Alice in Chains

 

The Deep End - Crossfade
Janie's Got a Gun - Aerosmith
Don't Fake This - Chevelle
Papercut - Linkin Park
Animal I Have Become - Three Days Grace
Bare Bones - Dark New Day
Aeon - Lacuna Coil
Under - Filter
Lying From You - Linkin Park
You Give Love a Bad Name - Bon Jovi
Don't Stop Believing - Journey
Rooster - Alice in Chains
Let You Down - Three Days Grace
Little Wing - Jimi Hendrix
Smile - AFI
Mr. Brownstone - GNR (I love the scratchiness of it)
Snap Your Fingers, Snap Your Neck - Demon Hunter
The Red - Chevelle
Witchy Woman - Eagles
Welcome To Machine - Pink Floyd
Cowboys From Hell - Pantera (that one is up there with all-time favs)
Colors - Crossfade
Come As You Are - Nirvana
Give It - Helmet
Coma - GNR
I'm So Sick - Flyleaf (I love how she goes from sweet to scary)
Grind - Alice in Chains
Jump - Van Halen
The Frayed Ends of Sanity - Metallica
One Step Closer - Linkin Park
Rocket Queen - GNR
Closure - Chevelle
My Michelle - GNR
The Star Spangled Banner - Jimi Hendrix
Bones + Joints - Finger Eleven
Cold Brains - Beck

Other than I'm So Sick, I like all these intros because of the first few notes. Some of the songs I picked because they get me going, some I picked because I can actually play the intro. These are just my favs of what's currently on my nano. Actually, I got tired of scrolling through the shuffle, so there's more songs that I really like the intro and really love hearing it when it starts.

I could never narrow it to just one or two. As for favorite song....I could never narrow it below 100 songs. I just like too much music to even try. I have to have different music for different moods. First there's the genre mood, then there's a whole host of categories within for moods. Then again, I prefer to work out to angry rock and heavy metal for motivation.

 

Thinking if there are any rock songs left to mention after the last two posts.

Oh, OK...

--Why Can't This Be Love, Van Halen
--Chevy Van, Sammy Johns
--Alice's Restaurant, Arlo Guthrie
--Betterman, Pearl Jam
--Synchronicity II, the Police

 

The top five:

Where the Streets Have No Name, U2
Sweet Child O' Mine, GNR
Gimme Shelter, Rolling Stones
Baba O'Riley, Who
Hells Bells, AC/DC

Others:

Smoke On the Water, Deep Purple
Free Fallin', Tom Petty
Crash, Primitives
Black Gold, Soul Asylum