10 Awesome Openings In Terrible Songs

10. Layla - Derek And The Dominos

The best thing about Layla is the outro. The second best thing about Layla is the intro. The worst thing about Layla is the rest of the song.

In fact, even the tune's history is better than the song. For instance, Layla was said to have been inspired by a love story hailing from 7th century Arabia. The tale tells the story of a young man who goes crazy after being unable to marry the girl of his dreams. At the time, Clapton was also hopelessly in love with his best friend (and most underrated Beatle) George Harrison's wife, Pattie Boyd. Clapton was so infatuated with Boyd that he wrote Layla as a response to his unrequited love, that is until she gave in and married him years later.

Unfortunately, Clapton's lyrics don't really express the emotions that he felt, but thankfully the intro and the riff do that for him instead. Even better, we are then treated to one of the greatest musical outros of all time, what is now known as the Piano Exit. The song outro was so well received that Martin Scorsese used it prominently in arguably his most famous work, Goodfellas.