Song With Best Beginning

I'll nominate Like a Rolling Stone, Thunder Road, and New York City Serenade.

jfz08-22-2013 12:10pm

mapman Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 21,825 posts 08-22-2013 at 03:06pm Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete Higher and Higher by The Moody Blues. In addition to the rocket launch at the beginning of the song, Higher and Higher also features one of my favorite lead guitar riffs performed by Justin Hayward. It is also the lead song on the the album "To Our Children's Children's Children", which is a classic Moody's theme album about space and children inspired by the events of its time (1969).
mapman Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 21,825 posts 08-23-2013 at 01:39pm Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete On a similar theme, song with best ending is "I'm Just A Singer in a Rock and Roll Band". Ends the song, the album and the classic 7 period of the Moody Blues most fittingly similar to how "The End" on Abbey Road provided a fitting ending to The Beatles.
mapman Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 21,825 posts 08-30-2013 at 05:38pm Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete " I need a lover" and "Sweet jane" are maybe the longest, and quantity counts, so why not? Hey, teh mellotron created rocket taking off in "Higher And Higher"! What can beat that? Maybe a modern digital recording of the real thing? Remake anyone?