🎵 MTftSB: Best intro 🎵

I’m giving links cause surely you’d rather listen to it then have it explained

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oh also The Damned - Smash It Up Parts 1 & 2 (Official Audio) - YouTube

Arab Strap - Packs Of Three

Syncopated rhythm guitar
Then the horns
Then the drums and the bass and the dancing

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Somewhere in space this could all be happening… right… now…

Ba-Ba-da Ba-Ba-da Ba-Ba-da Ba-Ba-da Ba-Ba-da Ba-Ba-da TSCH!

[totally far out album commences]

bit cheesey but fucking cool nonetheless

The single drum beat kicking off Like A Rolling Stone

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Kind of an intro to the whole album, but I love it.

Drums.
Drums and vocals.
Drums, guitar, bass.
Drums.
Drums, bass and vocals.
Drums, guitar, bass.
Drums.
Everything.

Any of the

Doof da-doof TSCHH
Doof da-doof TSCHH

intros

e.g. Just Like Honey, Be My Baby

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Hard like for Plagues. When Converge played the Peel in Kingston in 2007 (?) that was their opener, and you could cut the tension with a knife. A sweaty knife.

Is this Wig’s Fallen Off?

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Oh I like this too! Other favourite uses of this beat (to name a few):

The Shangri-Las - Leader of the Pack
Bat for Lashes - What’s a Girl to do
Elvis Costello - Hand in Hand
Deerhunter - Vox Humana
Jay Reatard - An Ugly Death
Jens Lekman - A Higher Power
Owen Pallet - Lewis Takes Action

Kenickie - Millionaire Sweeper

there are more, undoubtably

It’s a bit of cheat to make your track sound somewhat iconic and instantly recognisable, isn’t it?

But when it works, it works:

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That cannot be denied!

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