Agree - its not an intro, but an integrated part of the track, whithout it, the next part wouldn't have the same impact.Originally Posted by Scrotum Scissor
Agree - its not an intro, but an integrated part of the track, whithout it, the next part wouldn't have the same impact.
"Vera Gemini" by Blue Oyster Cult comes to mind, only because I was just listening it. Not much of an intro, though.
Hendrix "EXP" from "Axis: Bold as Love."
I also like the Moodies intros.
"The White Zone is for loading and unloading only. If you got to load or unload go to the White Zone!"
I think Richard ad-libbed that.
The same DJ schtick from Tony Peluso is all over the 2nd side of their Now And Then album, as it's framed conceptually as an 'oldies station'...it works better there IMHO. The 'Calling Occupants...' one long outstayed its welcome for me.
I tend not to like spoken word sections generally, particularly not in progressive rock. The Moody Blues' ones are invariably cringeworthy.
Hate 'I've Never Been To Me', particularly that long 'moral majority' speech in the middle. But I love Diana Ross' 'Ain't No Mountain High Enough', an example of how you can take two hugely different approaches to the same song.
Manowar - Defender. Orson Welles nails it. Big time.
Cherry Blossom Clinic Revisited by the Move - leads perfectly into the song.
Can't say I'm a fan of the intro to Jethro Tull's Left Right.
I also like the restored Wells' spoken intro to "Tales of Mystery and Imagination" by Alan Parsons
"The White Zone is for loading and unloading only. If you got to load or unload go to the White Zone!"
"Rocky Raccoon" has a spoken intro that's not annoying. I do see how some might be bugged by it. Although, it's not something to be taken too seriously.
"The White Zone is for loading and unloading only. If you got to load or unload go to the White Zone!"
Well, that whole track is a throwaway, though.
I've Seen All Good People
I'm with you; I find it hard to imagine the song without that intro!
John Kelman
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I'd not say that. Given I've been listening to the new White Album mix a lot, if there are songs I could do without?
Revolution 9
Don't Pass Me By
Honey Pie
Rocky Racoon may be a bit of a trifling song, but it's got a decent hook, is well sung and fits very well where it is, after Blackbird and Piggies.
John Kelman
Senior Contributor, All About Jazz since 2004
Freelance writer/photographer
Don't Pass Me By? With the immortal lyric: "You were in a car crash and you lost your hair"?
I always thought the spoken word intro to Meatloaf's "You Took the Words Right Out of My Mouth" was annoying. You know, the one that starts:
"On a hot summer night
Would you offer your throat to the wolf with the red roses?"
"And your little sister's immaculate virginity wings away on the bony shoulders of a young horse named George who stole surreptitiously into her geography revision."
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Iron Maiden - The Final Frontier. It's a decent song but a total WTF intro. Luckily, I can edit that shit out.
But those are really separate tracks, they are entire poems that do lead into a track. But they stand on their own. I like them too...
Songs I don't like on the white album- 'Piggies' (the 'damn good whacking' bridge in particular I absolutely loathe), 'Don't Pass Me By', 'Savoy Truffle' and 'Honey Pie'. That's it.
I'm tempted to nominate' Genesis' 'Another Record' because that instrumental intro is effective and deceptive- the rest of the song is very bland.
I'm not over-fond of Man's 'Prelude'- a bit pompous for them. I absolutely adore 'The Storm' itself though...there's a slower live version on the anthology Keep On Crinting which is even better than the studio one, and it ditches the 'Prelude'. Wish it was on YouTube or something so people could hear it as I don't think it's ever been on anything else.
Agreed. Must be something about Wells' voice and cadence.
Music isn't about chops, or even about talent - it's about sound and the way that sound communicates to people. Mike Keneally
Yep.
Many around here bitched about it, though.
"The White Zone is for loading and unloading only. If you got to load or unload go to the White Zone!"
Is it 'restored'? I was under the impression that the Welles vocals were added years after the original release.
"We will sell no wine
Before it's time"
Yeah, great voice, great cadence.
There's a great recording of outtakes from a commercial session that he did, where he's complaining about the copy they want him to read. Something to do with how you can't emphasize the word "in" in the phrase, "In spring" or something like that. He tells the director of the session he has no idea what he's doing, and that he wouldn't direct actors the way this guy was doing it. It's hilarious.
If I'm not mistaken, I thought it was originally supposed to be on it. It wasn't until the later release that they restored it. I could be mistaken.
EDIT: It turns out that you are correct. I clearly misremembered it.
"The White Zone is for loading and unloading only. If you got to load or unload go to the White Zone!"
Does an outro count? If so, the end of "Birthright" on the ABWH album, where Jon channels his inner Hispanic child while playing that stupid wood block thing. Maybe that's Bruford on the wood block, in which case it's awesome.
I love that song more each time I hear it - there's nothing wrong with it.
Spill the Wine with Eric B
Alice Cooper's Black Widow
APP's A Dream Within a Dream
my music collection increased tenfolds when I switched from drug-addicts to complete nutcases.
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