What songs do you love the beginning of, could listen to for hours and hours on end perhaps, but which is ultimately let down by the fact that the rest of the song is boring and/or terrible?

Little Green Bag-George Baker Select

Or, the song they all walk in slow-motion to in Reservoir Dogs. That intro, with its loping bass and sinister vocals, is superb. Then it all gets ruined by the switch into what sounds like a Joe Dolce B-side.

Funkytown-Lipps Inc

Maybe my view of this song has been shaped by this episode of Malcolm in the middle (sorry for it being in Spanish), but this is such a crushingly disappointing song. The intro features some great rising synth sounds and electronic vocals, then shifts into the least funky song ever.

babylon zoo - spaceman...remember getting quite hyped to hear it after the levi's (?) ad and thinking it would be some mental jungle/happy hardcore track, then the disappointment of buying it and hearing 10 secs of the advert track on the intro, then it slows down to a snail's pace and becomes a horrible futuristic goth-rock dirge.

I think that you will like this then.

On a similar Levi related note (and because it was mentioned earlier), I'm not sure I'd be as harsh as to say the rest of the song is plop, but it really did rely quite heavily on that initial guitar work repeated during the song.

Stiltskin - Inside

I've been trying to remember and actively searching for a Muse/Radiohead track that fit the topic perfectly for me, but I still haven't found the bloody thing. I thought it began with a C, but having looked at track lists for both bands back catalogues I've ruled most of those out now (it's not Creep).

lol, nice find...even at the speeded up pace that's a lot slower that I remember it for some reason. that sounds like it could be a chemical bros remix or something.
Jaz Mann is a bit of a nob as well, TBH, it has to be said. I like the Brass Eye interview clip. "Do you think you were born talented?" "I think so, yes"....

Can you remember any lyrics for it? Even just a few words?

No I'm rubbish, it was a rather fast paced single guitar (or maybe piano), and then completely slowed down for the remainder of the song.

If I had even a word or two the wonderful world of the internet would allow me to find it, but alas I have nothing. I may resort to skipping through a friends music collection until I find it because it's driving me crazy.

The first thing that springs to mind doesn't exactly fit the thing that's being asked. That was Enter Sandman by Metallica which was a great song but just has a bloody pathetic ending, like they just all kinda got bored and couldn't figure out how to end it, and just kinda played some shit until they all fell asleep and someone faded the volume off.

That only works if you consider "most of the song" as the intro though.

I can see what you mean, though. The rest of the song is really great, then the end fizzles out into nothingness.

Can't think of any that really go down hill that much

Can think of three intros that are so good the rest of the, albeit great track, can't compare

The Damned - New Rose
Motorhead - Ace Of Spades
Guns'n'Roses - Welcome To The Jungle

Another really big one for me would be Heartbreaker by Dionne Warwick. I love the mounrful synth at the start of the song and which punctuates the first verse, then it shifts into a fairly dull ballad.

I would also put Voodoo Child by Hendrix in that list. But that's only because it has what is quite possibly the single greatest intro of any song ever and while the rest of the song is great, it's just not quite as great.

Picking on Metallica a bit here but they're the only ones I can think of.

One. Great clean guitar intro... Then along comes Lars with his awful drumming and ruins it a bit... then the chorus kicks in which is just absolutely dreadful.

Abba - Gimme a man after midnight... you have this really dark guitar intro and then it goes all Barry Wong from there!

One by Metallica
She Sells Sanctuary 12" version - The Cult
Citizen Erased - Muse
Cant Stop - RHCP
American Idiot - Green Day
Number of the Beast - Iron Maiden
Unfinihsed Sympathy - Massive Attack
The Four Horsemen - Metallica
Hysteria - Muse
Assassin (Grand Omega Mix) - Muse
Space Dementia - Muse
Watcher of the Skies - Genesis
Sweet Child o'Mine - GnR

Ah hell I could go on forever lol

the intro to "...And Justice For All" with the mandolins or whatever is nice. I like the track but I think they a should have made the intro a lot longer IMO

Orpheus- Ash.

Has an amazing powerful riff to start with, then the singing starts and it becomes exactly the same as every other Ash song. What a shame.

Puff Daddy's "Come With Me," if only because, when it comes on (which, fortunately, is never), you're all 'All right, "Kashmir"!' and then a second or two later, reality comes crashing down on you.

It's very disappointing.

Same with "Ice Ice Baby." 'All right, "Under Pressure"! Aww, Vanilla Ice...'

While it's good from start to finish, it's a bit of a disappointment when Blessings Upon The Throne of Tyranny by Dimmu Borgir slows down after the first bit. The album's opening track Fear and Wonder is a superb grand orchestral intro which builds up and leads perfectly into Blessings with absolutely ferocious lightning fast blast beats... then shortly after it just slows down to a more sedate pace which feels out of place.

You're Not Alone by Olive. Shit song. Nice intro. Well that chord progression thingy bit.

Nelly Furtado's new single falls very sqaurely into this category. It starts off with a nice, atmospheric intro that sounds like it's going to be the start of a mellow electronica track, then it becomes abit of dull ballad.

razorlite - america...

no...on second thoughts, that entire song is shit

I hate songs that sound like the beginning of other good songs but then turn out to be some crap sound-a-like and then you end up all pissed off and then.........

Well. Thats it really. Dammit, I'm interesting. Damn Straight.


AMY XXX