Ranking the Intros to Each Album Options

[LiveForNow]

Rank your favorite intros to each Live album. Intro has a loose definition, but I'll attempt to define it anyway but providing specifics for each album.

Mental Jewelry - The opening music/"aaahhh" on the Pain Lies on the Riverside before the lyrics. (First 25 seconds)
Throwing Copper - The music before the lyrics on The Damn at Otter Creek (The first 40 seconds)
Secret Samadhi - The music before the lyrics on Rattlesnake (The first 22 seconds)
The Distance to Here - The first verse of The Dolphin's Cry (The first 40 seconds)
V - The track "Intro"
Birds of Pray - The first verse of Heaven (The first 31 seconds).
Songs From Black Mountain. - The La da da da/music of The River (First 18 seconds)
The Turn - The music before the lyrics on Siren's Call (First 32 seconds).

Here's my order:

TC
SS
TT
MJ
TDTH
V
BOP
SFBM

I really hope with the new album the first track has a long musical intro before the lyrics come in. Nothing beats that in my opinion. Every time I listen to TC, SS, TT, and MJ I really feel like I'm about to go on a journey. Same can be said for V, but I'm less crazy about that specific journey.

[alexou]

TC
TT
SS
MJ

TDAOC is a very good song. Glad I heard it in concert once with Shinn. It was one he had very well. It is a perfect song to know how can Ed sing nowadays. They need to make a statement and scream the hell out of that song again.

Rattlesnake is one of my favorite from the band, but as an intro I will take Siren's call riff over it.

This post has been edited by alexou: Apr 25 2017, 3:10 pm

[Voodoo Lady]

TDAOC is a very good song. Glad I heard it in concert once with Shinn. It was one he had very well. It is a perfect song to know how can Ed sing nowadays. They need to make a statement and scream the hell out of that song again.

Ed sounded pretty darn good 3 years ago in Australia singing it. I don't see him getting any worse.
Ed TDOAC

[LiveForNow]

Ed sounded pretty darn good 3 years ago in Australia singing it. I don't see him getting any worse.
Ed TDOAC

Wow you're right, Ed sounds great in that video.

That was also the best version of Ed's band. Zak Loy, Christopher Heerlein, and Ramy Antoun (even if Ramy did look like a cartoon character the way he smiled when he played the drums). Chris especially was light years better than any other bassist Ed toured with.