Weird Song Intros?

[Vdrummer]

Benrand,
Good suggestion, unfortunately I already transcribed Song For America in the Progressive Rock feature I did for Drum! a couple of years ago. I have a Cars intro already selected. Are you clairvoyant?

[got_a_matchgrip]

Yeah, as Rudy said, I've given ya just about every other genre except 'relatively recent rock!' [img]redface.gif[/img] [img]wink.gif[/img] Oh well, durn drummaz, what're ya gonna do.

Eh, here's another obvious one...i don't know if anyone has mentioned it here; it was mentioned at some point recently in some thread, but Steve Winwood's "Higher Love" off "Back in the High Life" has that great JR [or Mickey Curry? from Bryan Adams] intro, that if you're thinking it starts on the one, it throws you when the tune comes in. Great & classic intro!

Any of you 'slightly older' 80s holdouts [img]wink.gif[/img] have a clue as to the title of that [the-] Firm rock tune that had lots of radioplay w the 'off-beat' drum intro? I thought it was Radioactive, but now I don't think that's the right tune...Anyway...ramblin' topic side-road...

<font color="#a62a2a" size="1">[ September 02, 2005 12:26 PM: Message edited by: got_a_match_grip? ]</font>

[numeroUnoHODfan]

Okay, okay... it took eons to sift thru the suggestions for this way kewl topic, so here goes my Fitty Sent song-o-da-day:

The group - The Police
The album - Synchronicity
The drummer - Stewart Copeland
The track - Murder By Numbers

It's not 'til Gordon Sumner starts his vocal that I can actually "find" One.

...either that, or I'm need to go back to Kindergarten...

[Vdrummer]

There are lots of great ideas coming in. I'd rather have more ideas to sift through than not enough, so if you just know a song, regardless of style where your sense of "oneness" is tripped up in the intro - suggest it. It may not suit the article's needs, but it'll make the thread better. I need about 15 tunes, and already had 40 or so before I posted anything here. You guys have helped me already find some more songs to make the article more balanced and representative of more than just a single style. Again...thanks!

[Rhythmatist]

Robben Ford and the Blue Line "Handful of Blues" has a tune called "Tired of Talkin'" that will definately throw you on first listening. After you hear the lick again leading into the other verses you can easily find 1 but the intro is one of those "trick your ear" things. It merely starts on the third partial of the triplet on beat one but your ear will catch it as a downbeat.

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[ladanny]

First track of the first Toto record, Child's Anthem. I'm sure CBrady transribed it...what does it start on? 2nd 8th note triplet of one?

Danny

[benrand]

Are you clairvoyant?

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">No, but I can see things before they happen. j/k

Actually, I pulled a Cars DVD from DaD and was watching it, and thinking, that intro threw me to "You're all I've got tonight". They could write some really interesting songs, plus great drumming.

BTW, when is the drummers weekend thing at your shop?

[CLWarunki]

I'm on a roll here tonight, so I'll add some magic to this thread too...

OK, cool and weird intros or whatever...

-First song on the debut John Mayer album (listen to how the drummer comes in!)

-"Ladybug" by the most unsung band on earth: SEED. The most musical drum intro I have EVER HEARD on a pop/rock album. So good, it's HAUNTING!

-"Sickening" by MESHUGGAH.

-"Flattening of Emotions" by DEATH.

-"Lack of Comprehension" by DEATH.

-"Sentiment" by CYNIC. Crazy 5/something.

-"Uroboric Forms" by CYNIC.

-"Seven Days" by Sting, of course.

ummm... there's many more...

[Clintuplet]

Got another one, one that has always thrown me until I count it, and I can never make it sound like Tony.
Proto-Cosmos. Wierd tune...wierd.

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Yes! The fills he plays in the 3/4 bars throw me every time. That's one thing that I love about that tune. Chambers, Wackerman and Husband play it with a more concrete sense of where the time is IMO.

[benrand]

A friend programmed that song into his sequencer and we traded solos over that chorus (if that's what it is) for an hour or so.

it was a blast. I think he purposely left "one" out of his fills. VERY difficult to get back to the phrase.