POLL RESULTS |
Week: |
860 |
Date: |
1/2/2023 |
Question: |
What is the greatest all time intro to a Rock Song? (Part 1 of 3) |
Your Vote |
Option |
Votes |
Percent |
|
Come Together - The Beatles - McCartney's heavy bass mixed with Lennon & Harrison's guitars, Lennon's handclaps w/ echo & Ringo's perfect drum breaks played on tom toms, starts this one off
|
292 |
8.9% |
|
Time - Pink Floyd - The gongs and alarms heard going off by many different clocks at the beginning of the song were all recorded in an antique clock store
|
291 |
8.8% |
|
Voodoo Child (Slight Return) - Jimi Hendrix - Jimi's guitar riff says it all on this one
|
291 |
8.8% |
|
2000 Light Years From Home - Rolling Stones - Mellotron, Piano, Electric Dulcimer & Oscillator by Brian Jones, with Fuzz Bass by Bill Wyman & 12-string fuzz guitar by Keith Richards
|
290 |
8.8% |
|
Baker Street - Gerry Rafferty - A synthesizer sounding like a flute by Tommy Eyre, drum cymbals by Henry Spinetti & then a saxophone by Raphael Ravenscroft kicks off this one
|
290 |
8.8% |
|
Smoke on the Water - Deep Purple - Ritchie Blackmore's timeless and rock's most known and most ever played guitar riff, was born on this song's opening notes
|
290 |
8.8% |
|
Stairway to Heaven - Led Zeppelin - Jimmy Page's acoustic guitar and moreso John Paul Jones' four recorders sets the mood
|
290 |
8.8% |
|
Funeral for a Friend - Elton John - A ringing bell followed by David Hentschel's eerie synthesizer makes this opening special indeed
|
249 |
7.5% |
|
Let it Be - The Beatles - Piano by Paul
|
165 |
5% |
|
Back in Black - AC/DC - Guitar riffs by the Young brothers
|
164 |
5% |
|
Sweet Home Alabama - Lynyrd Skynyrd - Gary Rossington & Ed King's guitar riffs and Van Zant's spoken words:'Turn it up!', gets this one rolling
|
164 |
5% |
|
You Really Got Me’ – The Kinks - Opening Guitar riff by Dave Davies (and not Jimmy Page), followed by the drums & then the rest of the band joins in
|
121 |
3.7% |
|
Bohemian Rhapsody - Queen - Vocal harmony sung by Mercury, May and Taylor is then followed by Mercury's piano
|
84 |
2.5% |
|
Should I Stay or Should I Go - The Clash - Mick Jones' interesting opening guitar intro
|
82 |
2.5% |
|
Superstition - Stevie Wonder - Drums, clavinet, synthesizer and Moog bass all played by Stevie Wonder
|
82 |
2.5% |
|
Jump - Van Halen - Eddie Van Halen's opening synth line tells you this one isn't your normal Van Halen song
|
62 |
1.9% |
|
Threshold/Jet Airliner - Steve Miller Band - The synthesizer played throughout the instrumental song 'Threshold' is what opens the song 'Jet Airliner'
|
37 |
1.1% |
|
Crazy Train - Ozzy Osbourne - Ozzy's opening half spoken lyrics with Lee Kerslake's vibraslap followd by Randy Rhoads' metal guitar get this one going just right
|
24 |
0.7% |
|
Bad to the Bone - George Thorogood - Guitar lick by Thorogood
|
21 |
0.6% |
|
Billie Jean - Michael Jackson - Simple drum beat by Leon 'Ndugu' Chancler with an iconic synth line to boot
|
6 |
0.2% |
|
Down Under - Men at Work - The drum and pipes intro w/ drums by Jerry Speiser and with Greg Ham playing the flute and other 'fiddly things'
|
3 |
0.1% |
|
Eye of the Tiger - Survivor - Frankie Sullivan 's guitar riff starts off this number
|
1 |
0% |
Totals: |
3299 |
100% |