How Soon Is Now? The Smiths - to combat the geezer factor. (via younger geezers) also sampled in "Hippie Chick"

That Don Henley song they play at basketball games (the bubble headed bleach blond comes on a 5 to tell you bout the plane crash with the gleam in her eye) Dirty Laundry?

Queen we are the champions

and that's all



- tom moody 12-11-2004 6:37 am [add a comment]

my choices :

that sonic bOo0oinggggggggg at the beginning of magic carpet ride / steppenwolf
do ya / elo
johnny b goode / berry or winter (with winter he yells "ROCK AND ROOOOOLLLLLLL" first.
steve hunters "intro" to lou reeds rock and roll (animal)
young man blues / the who


looks like theres something glittery in an intro

and i have to ditto :


ziggy stardust / bowie
you really got me / kinks
open my eyes / nazz
stay with me / wood
all counting songs / all ramones songs


- bill 12-11-2004 9:27 pm [add a comment]

I’m a geezer, but time was adolescent stoners swore by Smoke on the Water by Deep Purple and Black Sabbath’s Iron Man, songs that launched a million basement bands.
The opening of the Byrd’s Mr. Tambourine Man is right at the beginning of Psychedelia, and echoes in the Beatles’ And Your Bird Can Sing, which doesn’t have an opening riff so much as it just seems to start in the middle all at once out of nowhere. I concur on Do Ya by the Move/ELO, and Siberian Khatru by Yes is an idiosyncratic favorite.
Slightly more recently, the Buttholes had a bunch of good ones; the first chords of Psychedelic Jam (PSY) always sent shivers up my spine…

- alex 12-11-2004 10:10 pm [add a comment]