For some reason I've always wondered why the Beatles had so many songs without a musical introduction (cry Baby Cry, Happiness is a Warm Gun, Help!, Can't Buy Me Love, All My Loving, Blackbird, just to name a few). In comparison, it seems that the Stones have had very few (Dear Doctor, Ruby Tuesday, Dandelion, are the only ones that come to mind right now) that simply jumped right into the verse. This has left me wondering if the Beatles couldn't come up with an intro to some of their songs or if this was intentional. The Stones have, without a doubt, the biggest catalog of incredible and memorable intros in music history. Can anyone add to the list of Stones songs without musical intros?



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Mother's Little Helper



(BTW... Beatles' Blackbird does have a short instrumental intro.)

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schillid

(BTW... Beatles' Blackbird does have a short instrumental intro.)

Thanks schillid - messed up on that one!

You Cant Always Get What you Want - a choral intro, which is quite unusual.

Nieghbours

This is quite an interesting thread, and one I've never thought about before.

"Honest I Do" is another one.

"You Can Make It If You Try"

"If You Need Me"

Cant think of any others.

Theres a few that start with music and backing vocals at the same - Thief In the Night, Biggest Mistake etc

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schillid
Mother's Little Helper



(BTW... Beatles' Blackbird does have a short instrumental intro.)

Mother's Little Helper actually had an instrumental intro before it was edited.

There's an unedited instrumental outtake version of it circulating. It's really a interesting listen, it starts out almost exactly like Sittin' On A Fence.

Cockysucker Blues .... one slight strum ain't it



ROCKMAN

A count-in does or doesn't count?
"Sway"


These also probably "don't count":

We Love You
(footsteps and chains)


She's A Rainbow
(Rugby Match)

SMU

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mickscarey
SMU

not quite

Why?

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mickscarey
Why?

"Start Me Up" starts up with a guitar intro...
The OP means songs that don't have an instrumental intro

<< A count-in does or doesn't count?
"Sway" >>

Sway has a couple of bars of guitar intro after the count-in

We Love You has piano after the sound effects.



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Some very interesting observations you all have made. I never even thought about the Stones songs that had sound effects as the intro (Rainbow, We Love You). I don't have my copy of Satanic Majesties at hand, but wasn't there some kind of talk or cheering prior to the start of On With the Show?



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George Martin may have something to do with the intros
to those Beatles songs. Can't Buy Me Love is a good example.
He changed it to where it started on the chorus rather than the verse.
It's a great songwriting idea, actually; you need a good intro.
The song Help! wouldn't have worked if it started with the verse.
With that chorus, it pulls you in,

Interesting thread!

Bending the rules just slightly What To Do,All Sold Out and Tie You Up start with very brief drum parts(are drums strictly musical?) and Shine a Light sounds like it came straight in before that brief effects intro was tacked on

Can't think of anymore

Dylan's Idiot Wind. Love that song.

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Sorry for my english ; I'm a french little boy (but I like it)

Wanna Hold You.

Keith sings right from the start on the studio version (ooh...)

How could you forget GIMME SHELTER ?



I am a Frenchie ,as Mick affectionately called them in the Old Grey Whistle Test in 1977 .

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SwayStones
How could you forget GIMME SHELTER ?

Gimmie Shelter has a guitar intro

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DandelionPowderman

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SwayStones
How could you forget GIMME SHELTER ?

Gimmie Shelter has a guitar intro

For an non English native speaker as I am ,musical = instrumental for me ....
So ,what does mean musical ? Voices only ?



I am a Frenchie ,as Mick affectionately called them in the Old Grey Whistle Test in 1977 .

I think the keyword here is "without"

Ruby Tuesday

I don't see why "We Love You" would qualify here. It has a long piano intro

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tomk
George Martin may have something to do with the intros
to those Beatles songs. Can't Buy Me Love is a good example.
He changed it to where it started on the chorus rather than the verse.
It's a great songwriting idea, actually; you need a good intro.
The song Help! wouldn't have worked if it started with the verse.
With that chorus, it pulls you in,

Not only does 'Help!' start with the vocal, but it's b-side ("I'm Down") does as well.

I'm Down. That's a great one! Also good with Aerosmith, in fact.

RUN RUDOLPH RUN is a great one. Love Keith`s singing here.

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Ruby Tuesday

I don't see why "We Love You" would qualify here. It has a long piano intro

Right, it doesn't really qualify... Only if you consider the sound efx before the piano as part of the song. Same with She's a Rainbow.

You can consider "Something Happened To Me Yesterday" as well... True, it has a short instrumental theme at the beginning. But the rest of the song starts right in with vocals.

"Accidents Will Happen " Elvis Costello

"You've Lost that Lovin' Feeling" Righteous Brothers

Not only Stones?

"Christmas" by The Who