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Which opening riff is the most iconic?

Posted: Mon Apr 07, 2008 10:46 am
by choppy_Archive
madlee wrote:teen spirit opens with the drums


It does? You must have a different mix than I do.

Which opening riff is the most iconic?

Posted: Mon Apr 07, 2008 12:03 pm
by FuzzBob_Archive
"Fortunate Son."

Which opening riff is the most iconic?

Posted: Mon Apr 07, 2008 12:08 pm
by sunlore_Archive
No mention of "Eye of the Tiger" yet?

Which opening riff is the most iconic?

Posted: Mon Apr 07, 2008 12:12 pm
by Rimbaud III_Archive
Welcome to the Jungle - Guns'n'Poses

Which opening riff is the most iconic?

Posted: Mon Apr 07, 2008 1:44 pm
by RMW_Archive
I'd go with:

"Marquee Moon"Television
"Rock Lobster" The B-52's
"Paranoid" Black Sabbath
"Walk on the Wild Side" Lou Reed
"Ace Of Spades" Motorhead

Which opening riff is the most iconic?

Posted: Mon Apr 07, 2008 1:59 pm
by AnthonyVillalobos_Archive
Mark Hansen wrote:
AnthonyVillalobos wrote:I know everyone's gonna talk shit but the opening for these two albums are pretty epic:

The Mars Volta - Deloused in the Comatorium
THe Mars Volta - Amputechture

burun wrote:Nope. I'm talking about stuff that more than, say, 10,000 people have heard.



They've sold just about 500,000 copies of Amputechture alone. I'm sure more than 10,000 people have heard them.

Which opening riff is the most iconic?

Posted: Mon Apr 07, 2008 4:48 pm
by Colonel Panic_Archive
"Johnny B. Goode"

"Paint It Black"

"You Really Got Me"

"Blank Generation"

"Alternative Ulster"

"Rise Above"

Which opening riff is the most iconic?

Posted: Mon Apr 07, 2008 5:06 pm
by burun_Archive
AnthonyVillalobos wrote:
Mark Hansen wrote:
AnthonyVillalobos wrote:I know everyone's gonna talk shit but the opening for these two albums are pretty epic:

The Mars Volta - Deloused in the Comatorium
THe Mars Volta - Amputechture

burun wrote:Nope. I'm talking about stuff that more than, say, 10,000 people have heard.



They've sold just about 500,000 copies of Amputechture alone. I'm sure more than 10,000 people have heard them.

But I am pretty sure that my mother doesn't know Mars Volta from fucking...I dunno, Master Musicians of Joujouka - and she knows what "Smoke On The Water" is.

See my point?

Which opening riff is the most iconic?

Posted: Mon Apr 07, 2008 5:12 pm
by scott_Archive
I am not aware of ever having heard a single Mars Volta song.

:(

Which opening riff is the most iconic?

Posted: Mon Apr 07, 2008 5:54 pm
by scott_Archive
Yes "Roundabout"