[Music] Possibly the best intro ever. Released 44 years ago today.

[Sid in the Sharknado]

New Order have some great intros - saw them live 2019 with my daughter who’s also a big Joy Division fan.



https://youtu.be/KVMyXDsadLQ

Has nobody posted Blue Monday yet?

What a bunch of f'ing hipsters.

 

[El Presidente]

The badass’s badass. Stoke’s finest.

https://youtu.be/3mbvWn1EY6g

 

[BN9 BHA]

Has nobody posted Blue Monday yet?

What a bunch of f'ing hipsters.

https://youtu.be/eHAL9khxKwg

This is good

 

[Sid in the Sharknado]

https://youtu.be/eHAL9khxKwg

This is good

Not as good though.

 

[Nitram]

 

[BN9 BHA]

The badass’s badass. Stoke’s finest.

https://youtu.be/3mbvWn1EY6g

To the station!!

 

[Sid in the Sharknado]

I can't believe nobody has mentioned this yet...

Not the best intro on the album:

 

[El Presidente]

Not just a great intro but a debut single too.

https://youtu.be/ZijpXlFy18Q

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

Wasn't this something like the longest intro at the time?

This has a superlong introduction, and is also well worth the investment of time. The transtion is majestic. Privilaged to have seen them live. In a sold out gig in London. Obscure is a relative concept.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xe-mRgnbxm4

 

[Sid in the Sharknado]

Here's something radical for you



The intro so good, it literally helps people stay alive.

 

[Nitram]

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

Short and elegant intro. Who wrote the intro, Bowie or Luther James Grosvenor?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNHdPPJGowY

Edit I guess it was Mick Ronson (and this version is shit):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_A_DgUIMis

 

[Weststander]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpL_TF_GPng

Is a stunning song, so atmospheric.

 

[Weststander]

One of the great songs ever made, right from the off, created by some young lads.

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

A startling and shocking intro. And it got to number 1 in the hit parade

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tWNZUfS5uM

 

[Weststander]

Helped to wake up the world.

 

[GT49er]

Bit of bass intro, and drum...and sax. That's jazz.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wk_Ub1Xx8ig

Good bit of foraging! They did quite a few Peel sessions like this, and I found them, err, interesting - yes, but interesting in a good way.

I went out and bought an album (the album, first album? - whatever) and they'd added loads of stuff. Can't remember what - guitar? Keyboards? Maybe a real vocalist too. It was pants - very disappointing! Noce to hear the real thing again after the best part of fifty years!

 

[El Presidente]

Cult heroes in Manchester. They’ll be playing two gigs there the week before Christmas and I’ll be there.

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

Here's another old one to blow your face off. A false introduction. My favourite kind. And....the voice

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCgNVx99_VI

 

[Nitram]