Best Intros to songs from other bands

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Blackbeered wrote:
villainblack wrote:The Cult, She Sells sanctuary, Ext version pure class "boogie"
Agreed ViB 8)

Here's another I know you'll agree on...........

The Sisters of Mercy - Temple of Love

Mk1 sisters version is the better of the two, tho both good in own right

Another clasic sisters intro Gimme shelter, its a long intro tho :lol:
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XTC - Respectable Street. The lo-fi intro into the cranky guitar forms the blueprint for all Blur songs.

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London Calling - The Clash
Hugh - "We had gangs of skinheads coming along trying to cause problems and stuff"
Rick Wakeman - "How did you deal with it?"
Hugh - "Our bass player used to jump off the stage and beat the shit out of them!"
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Levellers What you know
Problems Sex Pistols
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Skids-Scared To Dance (Not often you get a classic guitar solo before the vocals kick in)
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'Jinx' - Peter And Test Tube Babies
'The Passenger' - Iggy Pop
'Bodies' - Sex Pistols
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Jello and DOA - Full Metal Jackoff
Hawkwind - Psychedelic Warlords
Killing Joke - The Wait
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Rude Girl the Rough Kutz
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Jigsaw Feeling--siouxsie & the Banshees
Waterfront--Simple Minds
Holiday in Cambodia--Dead Kennedys
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Here's some from John Mcgeoch--one of the best imho
The Light Pours Out Of Me--Magazine--after hearing his work Sioux and Severin decided he was the one they wanted
Israel--Banshees
Spellbound--Banshees
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There's so many isn't there--here's one I don't think's been mentioned
Transmission--Joy Division
Totally agree with --New Rose--Love Song--Holidays in The Sun--Pretty Vacant--She Sells Sanctuary--Munich
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Lust for life - Iggy Pop.

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