Best Opening Riff's

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metalrulesall
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these are what i think to be the top 10 best opening riff's of all time

1.accept-balls to the wall
2.ozzy ozbourne-crazy train
3.ozzy ozbourne-suicide solution
4.scorpions-tease me please me
5.alice cooper-poison
6.poison-talk dirty to me
7.white snake-still of the night
8.scorpions-dont believe her
9.wasp-love machine
10.motley crue-live wire

" into the flood again same old trip it was back then "

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Syndrome477
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Aerosmith - Kings and Queens

"I even had a little mini skirt and waistcoat made for Wig Wam Bam. The skirt was so short, my undercart hung beneath the hem. I thought it best to keep my underwear on"-Steve Priest

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Hellraiser- Sweet or Kickstart My Heart- Motley Crue...they're both the same anyway.

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Wig Wam Bam- Sweet....i would know that opening riff anywhere.

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Warrant - sometimes she cries

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1. Lay It Down-Ratt
2. Bark At The Moon-Ozzy Osbourne
3. Mr. Scary-Dokken
4. Walk-PanterA
5. Live Wire-Motley Crue

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Yeah! This guy right before me had 3 or my top ten!

In no specific order!

1. Lay it Down - Ratt
2. Bark at The Moon - Ozzy
3. I'll See the Light Tonight - Yngwie Malmsteen
4. Livewire - Motley Crue
5. Queen of the Reich - Queensryche
6. Crazy Nights - Loudness
7. Armored Saint - Can You Deliver
8. Wasted Years - Iron Maiden
9. Its a Long Way To the Top - AC/DC
10. Bad Boys - Whitesnake

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Ceased Emotions - Vains of Jenna

"I even had a little mini skirt and waistcoat made for Wig Wam Bam. The skirt was so short, my undercart hung beneath the hem. I thought it best to keep my underwear on"-Steve Priest

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Guns N Roses - Sweet Child of mine
Guns N Roses - Welcome to the Jungle
Motley Crue - Kickstart My Heart
Same old song and dance - Aerosmith
Foghat - Slow Ride

Thats all I can think of at the moment.

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Wig-Wam Bam from Sweet or Run Runaway from Slade

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Syndrome477
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I like Wig Wam Bam for this too....I'm also a huge Sweet fan!

"I even had a little mini skirt and waistcoat made for Wig Wam Bam. The skirt was so short, my undercart hung beneath the hem. I thought it best to keep my underwear on"-Steve Priest

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Wayhey!!! More Bammers!...lol.

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It's gotta be "Look What the Cat Dragged In" Poison!

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The biggest of them all is Sweet Child O'Mine

Rock & roll over babe

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A few off the top of my head:

Lady Red Light - Great White
Lack of Communication - Ratt
Panama - Van Halen
Pornograffitti - Extreme
Seventeen - Winger
Midnight Maniac - Krokus
Crazy Babies - Ozzy
I Believe in a Thing Called Love - The Darkness
Intuition - TNT
Don't Tell Me You Love Me - Night Ranger
Fantasy - Aldo Nova
Let it Go - Loudness
Nothin' but a Good Time - Poison
Photograph - Def Leppard

I could go on and on I think, so I'll stop there for now!

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Hey Aniseed,
that is a good ear you have to pick up the simialrities of the Hellraiser and Kickstat riffs. Motley Crue did it like that on purpose as a tribute to Sweet, whom they all love. In the early days they also opened some of their concerts with the same recorded theme music (I think it's called 'The Stripper') that Sweet used to open their shows with before ripping into the Hellraiser riff!!

I'm also a fan of the Wig Wam Bam opening riff - so yes, I'm another Bammer!

All the choices so far are good! I'm gonna add some more to the mix:

KISS - Detroit Rock City
KISS - Deuce
KISS - I Stole Your Love
KISS - Love Gun
KISS - Cold Gin
KISS - Got To Choose
KISS - C'mon And Love Me
KISS - She
KISS - Shout It Out Loud
KISS - .....

Sorry, i'd better stop - I've only gotten past the first 6 studio albums!!

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AniseedRock22350
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lol...another Bammer...yeah i knew that...and it is The Stripper...it's by a guy called David Rose.

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1. Ozzy-Crazy Train
2. Ratt-lay it down
3. Motley Crue-Kickstart my Heart
4. Ozzy-Bark at the Moon
5. Ozzy-Crazy Babies

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btw...Stanley...when you say i have a good ear...i have a teensy confession, my ear was listening to a Sweet interview before it listened to Kickstart for verification...lol...but it's possible i would have noticwed eventually anyway, as i have started to pick things up on my own now anyway with other songs.

"I Want Some Glam RockingZ in My StockingZ!!!"

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Kittens Got Claws-Whitesnake
Yankee Rose-David Lee Roth

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Stanley
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Hey Starr76, that's the most mainstream comment I 've seen from you!

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In no particular order:

Alice Cooper-(I wanna Be) Elected

KISS-Parasite

KISS -I ( from Music From the Elder)

BulletBoys -For The Love of Money

The O-Jays- For The Love of Money (just to fuck with ya but this is the ORIGINAL)

BulletBoys-Shoot That Preacher Down

Aerosmith-Sheila

Motley Crue-Too Fast For Love (The Crue made the BEST stripper music IMO)

KISS-Within

"Sacrifice before Compromise" "Live the rock n roll dream"

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here is mine

1.poison-talk dirty to me
2.the scorpions-no one like you
3.ozzy-crazy train
4.the scorpions-rock you like a hurricane
5.Megadeth-hangar 18

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wow i dont see any van halen or dokken on here.
dokken -kiss of death.
van halen-unchained.
van halen-5150.what i like the riff!

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sleeze beez - dance
poison - talk dirty to me
dokken - mr scary
trixter - always the victem
ratt - lay it down
motley crue - wild side
slaughter - spend my life
warrant - mr rainmaker
white lion - hungrey
whitesnake - still of the night
xyz - inside out

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metalrulesall
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Damn...you guys ALL have very good opinions!....i very much respect what you all have to say

" into the flood again same old trip it was back then "

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action, hellraiser,teenage rampage-sweet on fire,romeo delight,atomic punk-van halen live wire,shout at the devil,-motley crue communication breakdown,heartbreaker,how many more times,dazed and confused,whole lotta love-led zeppelin skweeze me,pleeze me,do we still do it-slade suffragette city,cracked actor,ziggy stardust,moonage daydream-david bowie

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Dr. Feelgood - Motley Crue
Gypsy Road - Cinderella
Kickstart My Heart - Motley Crue
Talk Dirty to Me - Poison
Seventeen - Winger
Sweet Child O' Mine - GN'R
Mr. Brownstone - GN'R
Love's Got Me Doin' Time - Cinderella
Somebody Save Me - Cinderella
Nothin' But a Good Time - Poison
Youth Gone Wild - SKiD ROW
Here I Am - SKiD ROW

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1. Slave To The Grind-Skid Row
2. Sweet Child O Mine-Guns N' Roses
3. Lack Of Communication-Ratt
4. Wild Side-Motley Crue
5. Enter Sandman-Metallica

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It would have to be "Mr. Scary" as played by George Lynch of Dokken... They would use that song to open their concert, or as a brutal segway into any killer tune. Every time I hear that to this day, it makes me want to slam a shot, do a line, scream at the top of my lungs, and jump off a building!! Mr. Scary for sure.

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The Sweet always did have great intro's, whether it was a siren like on Blockbuster or a "YAHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA" followed by a bomb going off like in Hell Raiser, or a great drum solo like Ballroom Blitz, but I always liked Andys guitar riff, accompanied by Steves Bass line of course, following on from the kids shouting "We want Sweet" in Teenage Rampage.

I also like Sweet Child Of Mine by G
R, Action by The Sweet (Both album and single versions which are different), Roll Away The Stone by Mott The Hoople and Poison by Alice.

BTW, talking of Blockbuster, the siren on the intro was banned in the USA when they released the single over there so it was removed. Has anyone ever heard or got a copy of the alternative version without the siren?

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